My father was a humble mechanic who only asked two things of me. One was to become an Eagle Scout. I did, and that continues to be one of the proudest accomplishments of my life. The other was to become the first person in our family to go to college. I did that too. But that turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments of my life. I never told my father because it would have crushed him, but about 90% of what I learned in college was useless in the real world – even though I earned a degree in management from a highly rated state university. None of those textbooks or professors ever mentioned one word about real world issues like how to find good employees, how to get people to come to work on time, etc. And that’s how Glenn Shepard Seminars was founded. Real-world training, with real-world solutions, for real-world managers who work in front line supervisory positions.