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Ethics 4 Everyone - DVD

This course is also available for online training, see details below.

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Ethics 4 Everyone beautifully illustrates the cause-and-effect of corporate and individual responsibility, offering do-able solutions, including how to make decisions that ensure a greater ethical response to business issues.

Discover what some of the world's most respected public and private sector concerns have learned about long-term organizational viability.

Ethics 4 Everyone teaches viewers: 

  • The Three Rs of ethics: respect, responsibility and results
  • How to say 'no' with tact
  • How to manage conflicting rights
  • How to 'walk the (ethics) talk'

Program Contents: A 15 minute DVD or video, Leader's guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Copies of the book "Ethics 4 Everyone" and 10 Reminder Cards

Online Training Option:

This program is also available for online training - click here for details 

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The AMA DISC Survey (10 Pack)

The AMA DISC Survey is designed and intended to be used for individual, group, and organizational development. The survey is equally suitable for managers, work group or team members, and individual contributors. The personal styles measured by the survey are relevant to programs focusing on personal development, problem solving and decision making, time management, interpersonal relations, conflict management, team building, and organizational change.

The AMA DISC Survey has several unique features that provide distinct advantages over alternative personal style assessments. These include:

  • The Survey is explicitly oriented toward work-related behaviors.
  • The Survey is designed to enhance reliability and validity.
  • The Survey is printed on NCR (no carbon required) paper (easy to score).
  • The Survey provides an efficient way for people to learnabout their styles.

The AMA DISC Survey comes with a Debriefing Guide that includes seven modules, each of which take approximately 5 to 10 minutes to complete. The Debriefing Guide provides facilitators and respondents with a variety of options for understanding and applying The AMA DISC Survey:

  • The Guide provides interpretations of dominant styles, as well as style combinations.
  • The Guide encourages participants to apply the information presented.
  • The Guide enables participants to examine the positive and negative aspects of their styles.
  • The Guide is oriented toward self-development.
  • The Guide can be used in a number of ways.

The AMA DISC Survey takes approximately 30 to 40 minutes to administer, score, and debrief.

The AMA DISC Survey can be used as an introduction to personal styles, or it can be used as the basis for a half-day session on personal, interpersonal, team, or organizational development. Appendix B presents a number of suggested program designs for using The AMA DISC Survey to accomplish different objectives. A set of transparency masters is contained in Appendix C.

 

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How to Deal with Cultural Diversity in the Workplace - DVD

We all come from diverse backgrounds and we all view things from our own vantage point. Just because people do things differently doesn't mean they're wrong. They may just be looking at things in a totally different way.

In the DVD training program "How to Deal with Cultural Diversity in the Work Place" you will learn to see the value of these differences in people and learn to put cultural diversity to work to benefit you and your organization.

We no longer live and work in an insular market-place. We are now part of a worldwide economy with competition coming from nearly every continent. For this reason we need every bit of diversity that will make us more creative and open to change. Cultural diversity brings fresh ideas and differing insights to each and every company.

In this DVD training program you will learn how to:

  • Communicate effectively with individuals from diverse cultures
  • Mentor individuals from different backgrounds
  • Be sensitive to older employees within your organization
  • Build foundations for teamwork
  • Deal with the varying perspectives of individuals from diverse cultures
  • Resolve conflicts by focusing on the common goal
  • And, more
This JWA/Video training program comes complete with a DVD, CD audio and copy of the book "Cultural Diversity in the Work Place" by Sally J. Walton, which is part of the Business Skills Express Series Published by The McGraw-Hill Companies.

30 minutes.
Additional books and CD audios available

  • How to Deal with Cultural Diversity in the Workplace - DVD $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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From No to Yes (John Cleese) - DVD

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This program gives managers the skills of persuasion, vital in running meetings or trying to influence others.

Persuasion is an art that must be learned if the road to agreement is not to be strewn with acrimony or conflict. It's not about being domineering or dismissive, but following a three-stage approach that accounts for everybody's needs: listening actively, explaining your own feelings, and inviting other ideas and building on them. Then agreement follows naturally.

The benefits

  • A vital skill for managers conducting meetings or negotiations
  • Supports courses on management and leadership skills
  • A clear three-stage structure that's memorable and simple to put into practice

Programme includes: DVD or video (27 mins), Briefcase booklet and Discussion guide

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Communication: The Nonverbal Agenda, 2nd Edition - DVD

This is a provocative video program that examines the role that nonverbal messages play in our lives at work. We learn that ignoring nonverbal language can have costly consequences.

As we see in the training program, it is especially troublesome when we send or receive mixed messages -- when the words say one thing and the facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language say something else. Confused messages greatly impair our ability to communicate effectively. They have an adverse impact on morale, performance and productivity.

Fortunately, however, we can all improve our abilities in this area. Nonverbal language is something we cannot afford to ignore. It is a powerful and fascinating aspect of communication. This video offers concrete guidance in becoming more alert to this "silent language."

Viewers will learn:

  • That nonverbal messages are equally or even more important than the words we use
  • What happens when verbal and nonverbal messages conflict
  • What types of messages are conveyed by nonverbal language
  • What to listen to and look for in a nonverbal message
  • To understand cultural differences in nonverbal language
  • To become aware of one's own nonverbal language
  • The importance of sending consistent messages

 

Program includes: A 20 minute DVD or video and leader's guide.

 

  • Communication: The Nonverbal Agenda, 2nd Edition - DVD $795.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Communication: The Nonverbal Agenda, 2nd Edition - Video $795.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Communication: The Nonverbal Agenda, 2nd Edition - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Communication: The Nonverbal Agenda, 2nd Edition - Video Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Communication: The Nonverbal Agenda, 2nd Edition - Video Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Insight Inventory Training Manual

In just 20 minutes participants can complete the INSIGHT Inventory and begin bridging communication gaps that are costing your company a fortune.

Key Benefits

  • Irreconcilable differences suddenly seem understandable and productively bridged.
  • Teach participants the ability to "flex" or adapt their style to the situation.
  • Unlike DISC or MBTI, INSIGHT does not force a label or type designation on you.
  • INSIGHT can facilitate virtually any training initiative by exposing root behavioral influences at the most basic level in only 20 minutes!

Key Features

  • Participants can complete and self score the questionnaire in just 20 minutes.
  • Provides both work style and personal style profiles to highlight ones ability to flex their styles according to the environment.
  • Skill building focuses on learning to adapt your own communication style to others with different styles
  • Comprehensive Trainers Guide details the instrument's psychometric properties and provides extensive training application outlines for use in conflict management, stress management, customer service, and leadership.

Description

INSIGHT Inventory has a fast paced approach in an uncomplicated format which can make it the centerpiece of a training program or easy to integrate into an existing curriculum. Easy to use, participants will see results quickly. INSIGHT moves quickly from developing a profile to applying the learning. INSIGHT allows participants to develop a profile and apply what they have learned.

Consultants and trainers alike appreciate the INSIGHT Inventory's ease of use and skill building designed to produce results in a quality psychometric instrument.

INSIGHT can be used for:

  • Team building
  • Conflict and stress management
  • Leadership Training
  • Interpersonal skills, sales and customer service
  • Negotiation skills training.

  • Insight Inventory Form B: Understanding Yourself & Others- 5 Pack $69.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Insight Inventory Training Manual $299.99 [Add to Cart]
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Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism - DVD

Hosted by John Cleese

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To enable managers to employ criticism as a means of preventing the recurrence of mistakes and improving staff performance.

Nobody enjoys being criticized, which is why few managers relish the prospect of criticizing their staff-yet is has to be done. Everyone makes mistakes, but no-one can be allowed to go on making the same mistake-and people shouldn’t have to wait until an appraisal to discover they have done something wrong.

The program is set in the offices of a district council, where an oversight in preparing for a meeting leads to the rejection of a sensitive planning application. The planning officer concerned shrinks from confronting an otherwise efficient assistant until a stern memo from the chief executive forces a rethink.

But rather than establishing what had happened and taking action to put it right, the officer makes a series of clumsy attempts to discipline the assistant-including a telling off in front of junior colleagues, failing to agree what had gone wrong and criticizing them personally rather than what they had done.

Learning how to handle the situation correctly means understanding how the problem arose, and the assistant is able to suggest a means of avoiding such mistakes in the future.

Features and applications:

  • Helps managers understand that criticism is an essential part of a manager’s responsibilities
  • Shows why people should only be criticized for what they’ve done, not what they are
  • Emphasizes how criticism done badly can make things worse
  • Lays down seven rules for ensuring that criticism is conducted effectively and without acrimony

Program includes: 24 minute VHS or DVD video

  • Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism - DVD $999.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism - CD-ROM $999.00 [Add to Cart]
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Opening the Right Doors - For all employees - DVD

Teaches employees skills for dispute resolution and defusing hostility. We learn to take responsibility for eliminating intimidation, bullying and harassment from our workplace culture.

  • Relationships within an organization
  • Issues of individual responsibility
  • Dispute-resolution skills

Includes: 24 minute DVD & Leader's Guide

  • Opening the Right Doors - For all employees - DVD $625.00 [Add to Cart]
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Power of Listening - DVD

Listening is a crucial component of communication, but few people do it well. In organizations, a significant number of errors are caused by information that does not get properly conveyed or understood due to poor listening. This comprehensive program explains how people get distracted and offers tips on developing active listening skills.

Programs covers the following topics:

  • Why most people are not good listeners
  • Major impediments to effective listening
  • Listening as an active skill
  • Why listening is a powerful tool
  • How listening differs from reading
  • Eliminating costly mistakes through effective listening

Includes: A 23 minute DVD or VHS and Leader's Guide

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Frontline Library - (10 DVD Set)

Learn the basic skills necessary to compete in today's complex marketplace with the new Frontline Library. Complete with 10 DVDs, 2 videocassettes, 10 books and 7 audio CDs.

These programs provide the fast-paced material needed to improve the performance of the new employee or the long-time veteran.

Your cost $1,115! If you were to buy these programs individually, the total would be $1,417.50. Buy the complete library and save $302.50!

The Frontline Library includes the following titles:

  • Succeed by Listening
  • How to Handle Difficult People (3 Volumes)
  • How to Make Winning Presentations
  • Communicate and Win
  • Writing for Business Results
  • Effective Teamwork
  • Telephone Skills at Work
  • Time Management: Ideas that Work
  • How to Set and Really and Really Achieve your goals
  • The Basics of Business Etiquette

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A Real World Guide to Diversity in the Workplace - DVD

Released - 2004

This DVD program is also available for online training - learn more.

Educate your new and existing employees on the basics of today's more pressing human resource topics with the Positive Prevention Series. The secret is in capturing each employee's attention with these engaging videos/DVDs that provide easy to grasp content and Q&A scenarios that assure employee understanding.

Topics covered in this new program include:

 

  • Defining Workplace Diversity
  • Primary Dimensions, Secondary and Functional Dimensions
  • Appreciating Workplace Diversity
  • Improve Perspectives, Reflect Reality, Enhance
  • Deploying Workplace Diversity
  • Meet Business and Societal Goals
  • Comply with Legal Expectations
  • Overcome stereotypes

After each section a Pop Quiz is presented, to further strengthen the learning.

Program Includes: A 15 minute Video or DVD and Leader's Guide with Survey

 

  • A Real World Guide to Diversity in the Workplace - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • A Real World Guide to Diversity in the Workplace- 7-Day Rental $250.00 [Add to Cart]
  • A Real World Guide to Diversity in the Workplace - Preview Only $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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As Simple As Respect - DVD

Best-Seller 

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This easy-to-follow program that features a series of workplace vignettes that illustrate disrespectful behavior and how to correct it. Both employees and managers will be able to use the seven commonsense "Guidelines" to discuss issues of respect in a diverse workplace as it relates to their own experience and behavior. The "Guidelines" are further broken down into "Simple Steps," which makes this an especially effective and user-friendly program. The vignettes include healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and office settings.

Key Learning Points: 

  • Turn uncomfortable situations into learning opportunities
  • Religious or cultural beliefs don't justify disrespectful behavior toward coworkers
  • Just because expressions or words are commonly used, doesn’t mean they are acceptable
  • Be careful not to display or send potentially offensive materials on your computer
  • Judging people's abilities by their appearance can lead to discrimination
  • Cultural or ethnic stereotypes are offensive Speak up against disrespect

Program Includes: A 25 Minute DVD, Meeting Opener video on DVD, Vignettes only version, Leader’s Guide, Reproducible Participants Materials, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM, Self-Study Overview CD-ROM and 50 “Simple Steps” Reminder Cards

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Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - DVD

This course is also available for online training, see details below.

Cure bad attitudes to increase productivity in your organization! Bad attitudes can threaten the essential functions of your workplace. They spread like viruses from individual employees through departments and infect entire organizations. Once an attitude virus begins to spread, it can become an epidemic in no time. Productivity suffers and so do individual workers. There's no doubt that today's workforce is especially susceptible.

With this popular training video program, you will learn how to vaccinate your organization against this potentially devastating threat.

Participants will benefit by learning to take responsibility for their own attitudes and success, plus, underlying causes for unproductive attitudes will be resolved and fewer personal problems will affect work. These better attitudes will positively impact team results and the bottom line.

After viewing this video, participants will:

  • Be aware of the different types of negative attitudes
  • Know how to diagnose an attitude problem in themselves or their colleagues
  • Recognize the need to take responsibility for a negative attitude and its consequences
  • Learn how to replace old, ineffective reactions with adaptable, productive responses
  • Know how to follow through in order to reinforce new, positive behavior

Program Includes: A 20 minute VHS or DVD of Main Program and Discussion Segments, Leader's Guide, sample Participant Workbook.

Online Training Option

  • Pricing - $9.95 per user
  • Minimum order - $500
  • Users receive a post-test and certificate of completion. You set the test’s passing grade.
  • You get an Administrator’s Page that shows who has logged on to take the training and the test score of each viewer.

Please contact us by email if you have more than 1000 users for special pricing options.

Note: When you order the online training version of this program, our shopping cart will show 50 items listed (minimum number of participants) for $500, each additional participant/item added is $9.95

  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - Online Course $9.95 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace (Government Version) DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
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Dialogue - Now You're Talking! Series - DVD

This program is also available for online training. See details below.

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Through a series of short dramatizations this unique series explores the rules and techniques that distinguish a Dialogue from other forms of communication, such as debate or negotiation. The series examines how we can surface the often unspoken assumptions, in ourselves and in others, that can stand in the way of effective organizational communication. In so doing we build mutual trust and respect.

Each program in the series can stand alone and may be licensed separately. There are volume discounts if you license the entire series or multiple copies of any program.

Program Contents:

Communicating in a Diverse World. Overview. What is dialogue - contrasting debate and dialogue. Initiating Dialogue - how to do it, where to do it. The skills of Dialogue - Suspension (of judgment, decision making and status); Listening (with empathy, for understanding, showing you care); Discovery (uncovering and sharing hidden assumptions in yourself and others). Includes a dramatization of how Dialogue helps us communicate across job functions, helping improve relations between people at different levels within the organization as well as between different departments or areas of expertise. (25 minutes)

Dialogue for Cultural Understanding. We apply the skills of dialogue outlined in Program 1 to challenges faced in culturally diverse work environments. We see a dramatization that demonstrates how dialogue can be used to open communication, uncover hidden assumptions, break down stereotypes and facilitate more productive relationships. (24 minutes)

Dialogue between Genders. A dramatized dialogue shows us how the skills we learned in Program 1 can be used to overcome misunderstandings, break down gender stereotypes and improve communications between men and women at work. (21 minutes)

Dialogue among Generations. We demonstrate how the skills of dialogue can be used to bridge the personal and professional style differences that exist between employees of different ages. We uncover how divergent personal and world views common to people of different generations can lead to misunderstandings and distrust and how dialogue can help overcome age barriers and build more productive workplace relationships. (24 minutes)

Program includes: A comprehensive facilitation guide, reproducible handouts and PowerPoint slides for classroom presentation.

Online Streamed Video Training Option Includes:

  • Post training test
  • Trackable reporting results 24/7
  • Certificates of completion
  • Digital copies of the support materials
  • Customized for you at no additional cost - your logo, your polices and more
  • No need to download or install software - works with any standard browser  

Online Training Pricing:

  • 1 to 1000 $6 per person
  • 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
  • Minimum order for any one program $395.00
  • Dialogue - Now You're Talking! Series - DVD $1,875.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Dialogue - Now You're Talking! - Dialogue for Cultural Understanding $625.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Dialogue - Now You're Talking! - Dialogue between Genders $625.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Dialogue - Now You're Talking! - Dialogue among Generations $625.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Dialogue - Now You're Talking! - Communicating in a Diverse World $625.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Dialogue - Now You're Talking! Series - Online Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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The Respectful Workplace (3 DVD Set)

These program are also available for online training. See details below.

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While the media has focused on the spectacular but very rare instances of lethal workplace violence, the reality in most workplaces is very different. We deal with daily occurrences of hostility, intimidation, harassment and other damaging behavior. The perpetrators are employees, managers and customers. So are the victims. They are us. Unlike the rare, extreme cases, the more common manifestations of workplace violence take a daily toll on most workplaces. The Respectful Workplace is a resource designed to help organizations put an end to this other violence - the destructive conflicts that affect us all.

Series Objectives

The Respectful Workplace is a 3 part training series designed to help organizations address the behavioral and values issues that can allow conflicts to escalate. The series treats workplace violence as an outgrowth of hostility, harassment, bullying and intimidation which has not been effectively dealt with and arms employees and managers with the tools they will need to ensure respectful workplace relations.

Program Contents:  

  • Program 1, Opening the Right Doors (25 minutes) teaches employees skills for dispute resolution and diffusing hostility. We learn to take responsibility for eliminating intimidation, bullying and harassment from our workplace culture.

     

  •  Program 2, Diffusing Hostility through Customer Service (25 minutes), takes a strong customer service training approach to the issue of working with hostile customers. Important communications skills are taught which will help employees turn difficult customer service challenges around. However, where abusive customers cross the lines of acceptable behavior, employees are empowered to put their physical and emotional safety first.

     

  • Program 3, Managing Harmony (26 minutes), defines the role leaders must play in creating and supporting a non-violent, respectful workplace. We explore the organizational costs of inappropriate behavior, diffusing hostile situations, aligning policy and behavior with the organization's values, how conflict can be a positive force, and the organization's responsibility to provide effective avenues for dispute resolution. 

Each program in The Respectful Workplace series includes several dramatizations designed to help focus and stimulate discussion. There are 10 of these scenes.

Support Materials

The Respectful Workplace series comes with a comprehensive Facilitator's Guide. Handout pages are incorporated in the guide. Trainers need only to decide which topics would be relevant for individual distribution and which to copy as transparencies. With the purchase of this series, QMR grants you license to make as many copies of the Facilitator's Guide or the handout / transparency pages as you need for your organization.

Online Training Option:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:

  • Post training test and reporting results 24/7
  • Certificates of completion
  • Digital copies of the support materials 

    Online Training Pricing:

    • 1 to 1000 $6 per person
    • 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
    • Minimum order for any one program $395.00

 

  • The Respectful Workplace (3 DVD Set) $1,462.50 [Add to Cart]
  • The Respectful Workplace (3 DVD Set) - 7-Day Rental $885.00 [Add to Cart]
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Conquering Difficult Conversations: Managing Conflict (DVD)

Conflict management is difficult because no two situations are alike. In this training program, learn more about the various types of conflict and how best each can be moderated. Areas of conflict discussed include those between coworkers, between a supervisor and subordinate, and between two supervisors. By demonstrating effective and ineffective examples of handling conflict, the video teaches supervisors to act in an objective, unbiased manner.

In addition, the program features advice from industry professionals, including labor law attorneys, social psychologists, and professors of Human Resources.

Managing Conflict also includes the following:

 

  • (1) 43-Minute, Closed-captioned video - Available on DVD (with extra bonus features) or VHS, the program combines engaging video and editing technology with expertise from industry professionals at all levels.
  • (1) Training Guide - Provides background information on personal issues and gives a brief overview of the video.
  • (10) Supervisor Fact Sheets - Recap recap key points from training and make a convenient reference.

 

  • Conquering Difficult Conversations: Managing Conflict (DVD) $399.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Conquering Difficult Conversations: Managing Conflict (VHS) $299.99 [Add to Cart]
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Diffusing Hostility Through Customer Service - DVD

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Diffusing Hostility through Customer Service (25 minutes), takes a strong customer service training approach to the issue of working with hostile customers. Important communications skills are taught which will help employees turn difficult customer service challenges around. However, where abusive customers cross the lines of acceptable behavior, employees are empowered to put their physical and emotional safety first.

Key Learning Points:

  • Providing service to hostile customers
  • Developing good communication and customer-service skills

Includes: 25 minute DVD or Video & Leader's Guide

Online Streamed Video Training Option Includes:

  • Post training test
  • Trackable reporting results 24/7
  • Certificates of completion
  • Digital copies of the support materials
  • Customized for you at no additional cost - your logo, your polices and more
  • No need to download or install software - works with any standard browser  

Online Training Pricing:

  • 1 to 1000 $6 per person
  • 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
  • Minimum order for any one program $395.00
  • Diffusing Hostility Through Customer Service - DVD $625.00 [Add to Cart]
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Team Working - DVD

Produced - 1994

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Team-based structures are the most effective and rewarding way for people to work together. Team workers are motivated, satisfied, productive and flexible. Such businesses are more responsive to change and perform better than traditional hierarchies.

Through a combination of drama and documentary, Team Working illustrates how team working avoids duplication of effort and allows members to share knowledge and experience; that teams need to value people and their ideas and allow everyone to participate; that teams need to establish their own ground rules; that projects need to be carefully planned with goals set, stages defined and progress reviewed; and how successful teams recognize individual strengths.

The benefits

  • Comprising 2 DVDs, the first DVD, Team Working looks at what it really means to work as part of a team.
  • The second DVD, Conflict Resolution focuses on the relationship between two team members, and how to analyze and resolve conflict.

Program includes: DVD (29 mins), DVD (8 mins), trainers guide, participants guide and handout.

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Working with Aggression - DVD

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Violence and aggression at work can be emotional as well as physical. This powerful drama, based on the research of specialist consultant Roy Braithwaite, will help people manage aggressive situations at work by seeing how such behaviour is expressed.

It covers the body language and verbal indicators of aggression, diffusion techniques and preparation and ideas for reducing risk and preventing violence. Written materials also provide information and exercises on levels of acceptable behaviour, causes of aggression, anger and its constructive use, assertive communication and body and verbal language from a multi-ethnic perspective.

The benefits

  • Comprehensive, wide-ranging and high-impact resource
  • Note: for realism, video contains language that may be found offensive

Program includes: DVD (39 mins)

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Complete Hell Series - DVD

Featuring John Cleese

This collection of short humorous ice breakers focus on key business issues or skills and the mishaps and mayhem that can occur when things go wrong. The series features John Cleese and many others. The programs are designed for use as humorous meeting openers, breaks and/or meeting closers.

Bosses From Hell!
There’s an art to being a good boss, but some people have yet to learn the right skills. Some typical examples will raise a smile in this collection of clips from videos such as Can you spare a moment?, The helping hand, The best of motives, Where there’s a will and I’d like a word with you. Free Preview

Colleagues From Hell!
You can rarely choose who you work with, and there are some characters that are a nightmare to deal with day-to-day. They’re typified in these clips in From ‘No’ to ‘yes’, Talking to the team, The paper chase, Straight talking and other programs. Free Preview

Communicators From Hell!
Some people just don’t know how to communicate at work, and need a helpful push through training to get the skills right. This amusing video really gets the message across. Free Preview

Customer service from Hell!
What can go wrong when you don’t have the right service skills? These amusing clips show the types of gaffes that can be avoided. Free Preview

Customers from Hell!
Difficult, demanding and down-right dangerous customers crop up in this collection of light-hearted clips.

Free Preview Employees From Hell!
Being a manager can feel like the hardest job in the world, especially when you’re dealing with Employees from Hell! This collection comes from titles including The dreaded appraisal, Managing problem people and Oh what the hell. Free Preview

Interviewers From Hell!
A light-hearted 10-minute look at interview gaffes and nightmares, featuring clips from classic John Cleese programs. Suitable as an ice-breaker, meeting break or to reinforce key interview skills learning points. Free Preview

Public Services from Hell!
Dealing with the public is a responsible position - but the service from some of those in authority leaves a lot to be desired in this selection of blunders.

Salespeople from Hell!
A collection of clips from award-winning Video Arts titles that confirm your worst fears about the sort of salespeople that give you hell. Free Preview

Teams from Hell!
A light-hearted look at what happens when teams aren't performing up to expectations, featuring clips from Talking To The Team, Meetings, Bloody Meetings and From 'No' To 'Yes'Free Preview

The series includes the following programs: Bosses from hell! Colleagues from hell! Communicators from hell! Customers services from hell! Customers from hell! Employees from hell! Interviewers from hell! Public service from hell! Salespeople from hell! and Teams from hell!

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Human Energy At Work Series - (6 DVD Set)

Incorporate the key challenges facing today's workplace. Based on extensive research and interviews with leaders, managers and employees of Fortune 1000 companies as well as government, non-profit and other organizations. It includes video case studies based on real workplace stories, extracts of interviews with leaders in the field, comprehensive guides, presents opportunities for classroom, self-paced, small group and on-line learning.

This series includes the following titles:

  • The Bottom Line - This program creates a rationale for why diversity and relationship across differences is a business opportunity. The Bottom Line deals with strategic questions, one at a time, providing useful information, awareness exercises, and the motivation to apply the contents back to your own organization or work team.Help your organization plan and reach its fullest potential with The Bottom Line. Prevent hostile work environments, cultural misunderstandings, discrimination, racism, sexism, harassment and other depleting patterns. (30 minutes)
  • Relating Across Differences - This programs examines "moments in the relationship-building process" to help you build authentic relationships that are stable enough to perform at a higher level. Employees can learn how to manage the diversity in the relationship and consciously begin to value it and create the conditions for synergy and breakthrough results. (30 minutes)
  • Conflict As Opportunity - Conflict is the most critical phase of building effective relationships.Motivate people in your organization to utilize conflict and manage it as an opportunity for change. Prevent hostile work environments, cultural misunderstandings, discrimination, racism, sexism, harassment and other depleting patterns. (30 minutes)
  • Teams In Motion - This program introduces learners to the phases of team development and the skills necessary to build effective relationships at each phase of the team process. It helps team members identify and manage wide-ranging differences (race, gender, cross-functional, thinking style, relationship style, personality, culture, etc.) that can be either an opportunity or barrier to achieving team goals. (30 minutes)
  • Global Contrasts - Global Contrasts will help you manage cultural contrasts and build effective cross-cultural relationships. Build global teams and cross-cultural work relationships characterized by trust, cooperation, and synergy.(30 minutes)

  • Sexual Dynamics - Sexual Dynamics opens the debate and examines the reality of sexuality in the workplace. This course can help prevent the costly outcomes to depleting symptoms (litigation, stress, fear, anger, control, lying, denial, projection, etc. ) by helping you manage the reality of sexuality in the workplace. Learn to provide a safer, less sexualized workplace and a climate that transforms human energy into higher performance. (30 minutes)

This six-part series will move you to higher performance and productivity by helping you:

  • understand the bottom line impact of diversity in the work context
  • learn key principles and skills for greater effectiveness
  • manage the 5 phases of global, organizational, team, personal and interpersonal relationships
  • recognize and manage diversity issues, relationship dynamics, and cultural differences
  • relate more effectively across any difference
  • prevent the downward slide to toward miscommunication, misunderstanding, miss-attribution, stereotyping, hostile conflict, racism, sexism, discrimination, sexual harassment and hostile work environments
  • create awareness, provide useful information, and identify core principles, that will allow you to attain higher performance, creativity and productivity
  • make sure that Human Energy at Work? is constructively managed
  • start a process of change that you cannot afford to avoid!

Each program includes: DVD and leaders guide.

Each title in this series may be purchased separately for $500.00 each.

  • Human Energy At Work Series - (6 DVD Set) $1,500.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Human Energy At Work Series: Global Contrasts - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Human Energy At Work Series: Sexual Dynamics - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Human Energy At Work Series: The Bottom Line - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Human Energy At Work Series: Teams In Motion - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Human Energy At Work Series: Conflict As Opportunity - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Human Energy At Work Series: Relating Across Differences - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
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Human Energy At Work Series: Relating Across Differences - DVD

The key to any organization's success is the ability of its employees to relate effectively. Build trust and respect in your organization with Relating Across Difference.Transform human energy into higher work-related goals by:

  • learning the process of building relationship across differences
  • understanding the phases relationships go through before they stabilize and perform
  • managing the opportunities and barriers to relating across differences
  • recognizing diversity issues, relationship patterns and cultural differences that impact workplace performance and goals
  • learning core principles and skills to move relationships to higher, more productive levels
  • exploring five natural phases (pre-relationship, initiation, conflict, negotiation and performance) relationships move through before they stabilize and really perform.

Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide.

  • Human Energy At Work Series: Relating Across Differences - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
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Human Energy At Work Series: Conflict As Opportunity - DVD

Conflict is the most critical phase of building effective relationships.Motivate people in your organization to utilize conflict and manage it as an opportunity for change. Prevent hostile work environments, cultural misunderstandings, discrimination, racism, sexism, harassment and other depleting patterns. Use the Conflict As Opportunity program to help you:

  • explore cultural differences in the expression and management of conflict
  • understand that conflict provides opportunities for learning
  • see conflict as the most critical phase in relating across differences
  • identify the core principles and skills to manage the complexity of conflict in the workplace
  • learn to recognize the early warning signs of conflict
  • manage conflict and facilitate co-creation

Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide.

  • Human Energy At Work Series: Conflict As Opportunity - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
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Dealing With Problem Employees Audio Conference on CD

Order this 90-minute audio conference recording, where our expert – an experienced employment law attorney – will tell you how to recognize and reform “below standard” employees. You’ll learn how to set clearly understood performance standards for your workers before problems set in, as well as how to administer discipline and terminate employees, if required, without making matters worse.

You and your colleagues will learn:

  • The first step that’s required in your workplace to nip problem employees in the bud
  • How you can recognize problem employees – and steer them to higher performance levels – before it’s too late for them to remain employed
  • What steps you can take to administer progressive discipline with your workers (and how to avoid claims of discrimination or retaliation in the process)
  • How to keep problem employees from affecting the morale of their co-workers
  • The limits of “at-will” employment, especially when dealing with workers who are in protected classes due to their age, disability, gender, national origin, race, or religion
  • Which mistakes many employers make when terminating problem employees (and how you can avoid repeating them!)

This audio conference was recorded on Thursday, February 7, 2008

About Your Speaker:

Marie Burke Kenny, Esq., is a partner in the San Diego, California, office of the nationwide law firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, LLP. She represents employers in federal and state court litigation involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, unfair competition, and wage and hour claims. The former co-chair of the labor and employment law section of the San Diego County Bar Association, Kenny lectures frequently on a wide variety of employment law issues, and she is an adjunct professor of employment law San Diego State University. She earned her law degree from the University of San Diego.

Approved for Recertification Credit

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

  • Dealing With Problem Employees Audio Conference on CD $199.99 [Add to Cart]
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Valuing Relationship Series - (3 DVD set)

Shows that "relationship" is the life-blood of the organization. Synergistic relationship patterns are the survival skills and creative tools for the future. The three part Valuing Relationship® series tackles work relationships from a different angles. This series includes for following programs: Organizational Energy , Personal Patterns and Interpersonal Synergy. All three levels function simultaneously, but to start the process of change it is helpful to focus on each element separately. For learning purposes, there must be an intentional focus on the element in question and start the change work where it is most relevant.

Each title includes diverse individuals and diversity issues, but the main focus is on relationship, the key resource available to every individual, partners, team and organization. Includes real workplace dramatizations, which portray depleting and enhancing relationships, as well as interviews with leaders, employees and experts.

Each of the three parts of this DVD and Video series explores:

  • Key challenges and change issues
  • Relationship as an untapped resource in addressing today's challenges
  • Relationship across differences as the basis of multicultural workplace effectiveness
  • Learning to manage behaviors that deplete productivity: control, manipulation, blame, lying, stereotyping, racism, sexism, sabotage, collusion, misunderstanding, miscommunication...
  • Learning to create behaviors that enhance productivity and creativity: active listening, openness, understanding, trust, honesty, feedback, valuing and managing diversity, team work...
  • Building authentic relationship across differences
  • Relationship as a unique kind of "ecological" system in which no one part is as important as the whole/or the dynamic relationship of the parts

Relationship issues addressed in the program:

  • Systemic Change
  • Depleting and Enhancing Personal, Interpersonal and Organizational Patterns
  • Creating open, Trusting and Adaptive Organizations
  • Quality and Performance
  • Creativity, Co-creation and Synergy
  • Leadership and Vision at Work
  • Teamwork, Participation and Communication
  • Building Cross-Cultural Relationship
  • Relationship as the "How-To" of Managing Diversity

Includes: Three 30-minute DVDs and leaders guide.

"Valuing Relationship ® helped us create awareness for a new kind of interaction."
- Levi Strauss

Each program in this series is available separately for $500.00

  • Valuing Relationship Series - (3 DVD set) $1,200.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Valuing Relationship Series: Personal Patterns - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Valuing Relationship Series: Organizational Energy - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Valuing Relationship Series: Interpersonal Synergy - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
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The Four Styles - DVD

Free Online Preview

Do you want to be a better communicator? You're not alone if you've ever had a tough time getting through to someone.

Do you want to be a better communicator? You're not alone if you've ever had a tough time getting through to someone. One of the biggest problems in business today is getting along with and communicating with others. And it's one of the top reasons why most people are limited in their relationships and limited in their ability to communicate well on or off the job.

Scientific research shows that people communicate, think, and behave differently. But, when large numbers of people were analyzed research has shown that they generally fall into four categories called behavior or communication styles: 

  • Supportives
  • Emotives
  • Reflectives
  • Directives

In Part One of this three-part video program you'll learn about these four behavior styles and what's included in them. Part Two teaches you how to identify these styles in others.

Part Three talks about how to change your behavior to better communicate with others - what is called being FLEX-able - able to flex out of your style and into the other person's style.

Do you remember the golden rule? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The golden rule would be great if we were all the same style. But because people are different they want and need to be treated differently.

This program teaches you to become FLEX-able and introduces you to The Platinum Rule - "Do unto others as THEY want to be done unto."

Program Highlights: 

  • Learn about the 4 styles
  • Learn to identify the style of others
  • Learn to be FLEX-able, changing your behavior to better communicte with others
  • Pop quizzes throughout the program reinforce learning

Program includes: 22-minute DVD, Comprehensive Leader's Guide, and 10-pack of Participant Guides

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5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - DVD

Produced - 2007

Free Online Preview

This course is also available for online training, see details below.

Based on the book, Leadership Made Simple, by Ed Oakley and Doug Krug the program introduces a proven process called The Framework for Leadership™, consisting of 5 questions, which, when asked in a specific order, enable leaders to engage their team in finding and implementing effective solutions.

The Framework keeps groups from getting bogged down in the issue itself and the things that aren't working. It focuses them instead on what is working. Possibilities and solutions are generated from there. The net effect is that:

 

  • Ideas, answers and solutions are born from the people closest to the work.
  • Conflicts are resolved and group dynamics are redirected in a positive way.
  • Employees become critical thinkers and have a sense of buy-in.
  • Ideas and solutions are successfully implemented.

The video program, hosted by Ed Oakley, teaches viewers the 5 questions and shows how real-world organizations have applied the framework to common, yet critical, workplace problems. Within the workshop, participants experience the versatility of the Framework as they complete exercises where the 5 questions are modified to suit specific situations or challenges. A follow-up "mini-framework" is taught for when the group needs to check in on their progress.

Whether your organization is working to institute a change initiative, resolve conflict, raise customer satisfaction, launch a new product or address a specific workplace challenge, your group leaders can use this program to achieve successful results.

Program includes: A 27 minute DVD or VHS of the main program plus bonus interviews with the featured leaders adding additional insights and sharing industry-specific stories, Leader's Guide CD-ROM with PowerPoint Presentation and printable Participant Worksheets, 1 copy of the book Leadership Made Simple (with purchase only) and 10 Reminder Cards 

This course is also available for online training, see details below. 

Online Training Option

  • Pricing - $9.95 per user
  • Minimum order - $500
  • Users receive a post-test and certificate of completion. You set the test’s passing grade.
  • You get an Administrator’s Page that shows who has logged on to take the training and the test score of each viewer.

Please contact us by email if you have more than 1000 users for special pricing options.

Note: When you order the online training version of this program, our shopping cart will show 50 items listed (minimum number of participants) for $500, each additional participant/item added is $9.95

  • 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - DVD 5 Day Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
  • 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - Online Course $9.95 [Add to Cart]
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Race Discrimination Audio Conference CD
Race Discrimination: How to Avoid the #1 Type of Bias Claim in America – And Avoid Costly Lawsuits

Race Discrimination Audio Conference and CD -

Credits:

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCI’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification.

Description:

Race discrimination is the #1 type of claim filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - more than a third of the agency’s entire caseload in recent years. And, the stakes for employers keep getting higher. EEOC broke records in 2008 with the dollar amounts of its race discrimination settlements with employers.

In 2009, the experts say, you’ll face even greater risks from race-related claims and lawsuits. Recent surveys show that 3 in 10 Americans have admitted feelings of racial prejudice, and they’re bringing those feelings into your workplace. The souring economy may encourage even more disgruntled workers to file claims seeking financial settlements.

Plus, employment lawyers have recently identified new types of race bias claims that trip up even savvy employers - from lawsuits that combine racial and gender discrimination allegations to accusations that you didn’t hire certain workers due to the content of their video resumes.

Join us for this important audio conference on February 20, as our expert speakers explain the do's and don’ts of recognizing and preventing race bias in your workplace. They’ll discuss not only the legal issues and risks involved in race discrimination claims, but also the practical ways you can train your supervisors and your frontline workers to stamp out these problems before they mushroom into lawsuits. You’ll also have the chance to submit the race bias questions that have been troubling you directly to our experts – anonymously, if you wish.

Speaker(s):

Dennis A. Davis, Ph.D., serves as director of client training for the nationwide employment law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC. He is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of conflict resolution in the workplace, cultural diversity, professional interaction, sexual harassment, and violence in the workplace. An accomplished speaker and author on HR issues, Davis has developed numerous tools for managers such as the Behavioral Risk Management Program (an aid to help organizations reduce the risk and exposure of inappropriate behavior in the workplace). He has conducted extensive behavioral risk management trainings to share effective communication techniques, behavior modification, and employee motivation for private companies, government agencies, and university personnel. Davis earned his doctoral degree in psychology from the United States International University.

Joseph L. Beachboard, Esq., is a partner at the Los Angeles office of law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC. A longtime employment and labor relations attorney, he speaks regularly before human resource, personnel, and employer groups on cutting-edge employment law topics. He is a founding member and the executive director of the Management Employment Law Roundtable, a nationwide, invitation-only organization of management, labor, and employment attorneys. He earned his law degree at Vanderbilt University School of Law.

You and your colleagues will learn:

  • What constitutes race bias, and why the definition matters
  • How race bias can lead to problems in many different phases of the employment relationship - from recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions to compensation levels and terminations
  • The seemingly innocuous ways in which race bias can lead to big trouble (e.g., hiring workers based on video resumes, employment tests, or credit scores that arguably affect minority groups disparately)
  • What the EEOC’s new E-RACE (Eradicating Racism and Colorism from Employment) antidiscrimination campaign means for you as an employer
  • Brand-new types of race bias claims, from “sex plus” gender bias lawsuits to allegations of minority employers’ hiring exclusively within their own ethnic groups
  • Which strategies for creating a racially diverse, hostile-free workplace have proved the most practical and cost-effective for employers
  • How you can train your managers and your frontline employees to recognize and report race bias issues before they get out of hand
  • The biggest mistakes employers make in dealing with race bias on the job – and how you can avoid them

$249.99 [Add to Cart]

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Ethics 4 Everyone - Online Course

Free Online Preview

Ethics 4 Everyone beautifully illustrates the cause-and-effect of corporate and individual responsibility, offering do-able solutions, including how to make decisions that ensure a greater ethical response to business issues.

Discover what some of the world's most respected public and private sector concerns have learned about long-term organizational viability.

Ethics 4 Everyone teaches viewers: 

  • The Three Rs of ethics: respect, responsibility and results
  • How to say 'no' with tact
  • How to manage conflicting rights
  • How to 'walk the (ethics) talk'

Online Streamed Video Training Includes:  

  • Post-test and a certificate of completion. You set the test’s passing grade. If you need special questions on the test applicable to your organization, we will customize the test for a nominal fee.
  • We create a URL just for your organization, which you give to your employees for them to log-on and view the program and take the test. The entry page employees go to will contain your organization’s logo, which you provide to us.
  • We do all the set-up for you. You supply us with the identifiers of the employees who are to view the video. We take it from there.
  • You provide a training contact (the person in your organization that employees go to if they have questions about the content) and a Technical Contact (the person your employees go to if they are having technical difficulties on their end).
  • You get an Administrator’s Page that shows who has logged on to take the training and the test score of each viewer.

Pricing (per user / per title) 

  • 1 – 1000 users............$9.95
  • 1001 – 3000 users.....$8.95
  • 3001 + users................$7.95

 

** There is a minimum order of $500 per streamed program.

Note: When you order this program online, our shopping cart will show 50 items listed (minimum number of participants) for $500, each additional participant/item added is $9.95

 

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Has That Buck Stopped Yet? - DVD

This program deals with taking responsibility in the workplace. Nothing is more frustrating than working with people who do not take and share responsibility – it leads to productivity losses and declining morale. Ultimately, it can lead to an organization failing.

Duration 6 minutes
Captions No
Recommended Year Level College
Year 2009