Here are some typical answers(ranked in ascending order of corniness) I get from managers/bosses whenever I bring up the importance of having unit tests and code coverage as
For me, the best advantage to adopt the unit test is that I can change my coding behavior to make it more testable, in another word, in more loose coupled way.
if you cannot practice unit test in your real project due to the management issues, I would choose to practice on some small toy project, just to force yourself to get a way to write testable code even there is NO unit test.
My own 2 cents.