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Release - 1996 Solid communication skills are keys to a smooth transition from school to work. Using engaging scenarios to dramatize real-world communication breakdowns and demonstrate how employees overcome them, this four-part series addresses the cornerstones of communication: listening, speaking, writing, and reading. A 4-part series, 18-23 minutes each.
![]() Career Development Toolkit to Develop and Motivate Your Employees This toolkit gives employees the framework, assessments, and practical tools to take charge of their development and learning in sync with the needs of your organization.
![]() Releasesed - 2001<)>This program shows employees and supervisors what it really takes to fit in and succeed in an organization. It gives them the "inside scoop" in a clear and friendly manner - covering the unspoken truths we all wish we had known from day one. As successful employees have learned -- sometimes the hard way - career success often depends on "where your head's at and how you act," rather than what you know. It's our attitude, our approach, and our interactions with others that can matter most and set us apart as extraordinary employees. Using a comfortable "between you and me" approach, this video encourages employees to adopt four straightforward strategies (see below) and promotes the idea that if they really give their best effort daily -- rather than worrying about how to get ahead -- they will see results right away. Others will take notice of their professionalism, their personal behavior, and their continual efforts to make a positive impact on the organization. Key Learning Point:
Program includes: Includes: DVD, video, Facilitator's guide, reproducible participant's materials and reproducible self-study materials
![]() People beautifully illustrates the potential of universal human traits of kindness, generosity, and respect in our workplaces. This powerful, 4-minute DVD gets to the heart of the one thing that unites all people on earth. This one thing is the key to success in all our relationships. Find out what this one thing is! You've never seen anything quite like it. It is NOT a meeting opener. It is a session anchor, an essential tool for every program you conduct. People Training Package Includes:
![]() The way you handle yourself in a business and social environment can reveal a lot about you, and your position within an organization. From meetings with the boss to meetings with clients and customers, knowing the right things to do and say can make a tremendous difference in helping you and your company reach its goals. With the new Basics of Business Etiquette how-to video training program you'll learn:
The Basics of Business Etiquette training program comes complete with a DVD, audio CD and copy of the book The Basics of Business Etiquette by Majorie Brody and Barbara Pachter, which is part of the Business Skills Express Series. Length: 45 minutes A preview is available in both high-quality and quick-download
![]() Complete Package This seminar is about creating success for oneself in the new economy. It offers you best practices that come directly from the real strategies of real people who are really succeeding on their own terms. These practices are among the most important findings of ongoing workplace-interview research conducted by RainmakerThinking since the mid 1990's. The underlying assumption of Career Skills for the New Economy is that, in the new economy, individuals will have to be extremely good at fending for themselves if they are to survive and succeed. The most successful people will position themselves as free agents and sell their skills and abilities on the open market. Even those who work for the same employer for years on end will have to take responsibility for their own success and security. Seminar Includes:
![]() Get Hired! How to Ace the Interview will teach interviewees how to be confident and prepared with the knowledge of key interviewing skills presented in this program. The key learning topics focus on teaching job applicants how to develop a profile of their personal characteristics and career skills to help them be better communicators during an interview. Applicants will also learn how to develop skill/benefit statements and SHARE examples, which are both key elements of a successful interview. Basically, it's the interviewee who applies these techniques the best... who will Get Hired! How-To Training Points:
Includes: 28 minute DVD or VHS video and leader's guide
![]() Specifically designed for School-To-Work and Tech Prep programs, this software allows the user to make solid career decisions based on the latest in career education decision making. For most young adults, their exposure to different professions is limited. No more! With the School-To-Work Career Center, users can investigate a full range of professions requiring vocational education through two-year degree programs. Employs photographs, audio, and live-action video clips to introduce users to the twelve work areas. In addition, descriptions of over 500 careers are included allowing users to explore the educational requirements, interests, aptitudes, work activities, and physical requirements specific to each career. Take the user on a visual- and audio-filled career search without leaving the school. The users begin their career exploration journey by viewing a video detailing important factors to consider in making career choices. Building on this introduction, users watch video clips describing each of the twelve work areas and indicate those of interest. Next, by answering a series of on-screen questions, users develop personal profiles of their interests, abilities, and work preferences. Using the profiles, the program determines a list of specific careers matching the user’s defined characteristics. Users can then embark upon a multimedia exploration of their identified careers, or any career in the Career Center database. One Windows CD-ROM and documentation. Macintosh version also available.
![]() Released - 1993 Where prestige as well as income are the goals, women are not only denied equal pay for equal work, but are, much more often than not, denied the opportunity to show what they can do; or, having the opportunity, are unable to perform adequately because of the clubhouse mentality of their male colleagues. The solution for a growing number of women executives: start their own businesses. (21 minutes)
![]() Nearly all companies and individuals say goals are important. Whether they are sales goals, production goals, personal finance goals, or weight loss goals they are deemed important. Yet many times we set our goals without much real thought. "Our new sales goal is to increase last year's sales by 10%." Why? Maybe it should be 20%. But without any real thought no one is really sure. In this new DVD training program you'll learn:
"Decide upon your goals and then set your mind, body and world into motion. As a worthwhile being, you deserve success. Demand it. Require it. Insist upon it," says Blackman. Divided into segments, this DVD is perfect for group training or may be used for individual instruction. This how-to training program comes with a DVD, CD audio and goals-setting booklet. It is a must for any individual and organization. (Length: 35 minutes)
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![]() Produced - 2008 Cindy dreams of being a gourmet chef. Over the course of this program, these students learn how to write functional, chronological, combination, and newsletter-style resumes using information on their skills and experience that they identify through two exercises: Personal Inventory (to capture the “what”) and Showing Your COLORS (to uncover the “how”). Ways to get a resume in front of a decision-maker’s eyes are also addressed, and insightful snippets of commentary by a career counselor and an HR professional are interspersed throughout. Engaging and informative, Resumes: A How-To Guide is an excellent introduction to resume-writing for students with little or no job experience—yet. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act. Recommended for grades 10-college. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. (22 minutes) Available June 2008.
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