Most pointless course.

[wobbegong]

Many years ago, colleagues and myself were booked on a time management course along with our boss; he cancelled the booking saying he didn't have time!

Another pointless one was an in-house course on how to lift boxes (even forced on the sales guys who rarely lifted a pen let alone a box).

[Alf W]

These sorts of courses are designed as management tests. Anyone without the nous to find some reason not to have to attend or who actually exhibits some sort of enthusiasm for them is quietly marked down as "not for progression".

[NotAllThere]

When I was a permie manager, I went on a great in-house course about how to be an effective manager. It was over four days and very intensive. Attendees were from all over Europe.

It was a total waste of time as "managers of managers" were excluded, and those tossers were so dinosauric, that they made it totally impossible to apply any of what we'd learned.

[d000hg]

...Conflict Management course...

...staying positive and enthusiastic...

These both sound far from pointless for you. Can you take SY01 as a guest?