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![]() This course is also available for online training, see details below.
Conflict shifts the focus away from work and the basic goals of the team, department and organization, negatively impacting productivity and thus, patient care. Surveys show that managers now spend about 20 percent of their time on conflict resolution. And employees - now carrying the increased responsibilities of such programs as empowerment and quality management - are more vulnerable to conflict than ever. As medical personnel are asked to become more self-directed, contribute their opinions and communicate with a greater variety of people, they need ready access to their own conflict management skills. This program gives healthcare workers true insight and the lasting strategies for working through conflicts with less dependence on superiors. Based on the world-famous Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, this program offers proven methods for recognizing and resolving conflict. While the skills and insights presented here will enhance management's ability to resolve conflicts, they are for all employees -- enabling everyone to work through conflicts with less dependence on superiors. These interpersonal skills have never been more needed by the healthcare workforce - or more valuable to the organization in its pursuit of objectives. Three scenarios in healthcare, personal and business settings dramatize the five positions taken by most people during conflict: Participants will learn:
Program Includes: A 22 minute VHS or DVD, and Leader's Guide
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![]() Conflict... while it's often blamed for the breakdown of a team's unity, it's often just a symptom of a larger problem. This program lays out a practical approach that any team leader can follow to deal with the symptoms, and the cure. In addition to learning how to solve the 3 most common types of team conflicts; blaming, belittling and feuding, team leaders will learn how to promote the positive feelings of unity within their team in this popular management and leadership training video. Program Includes: DVD or VHS video (22 minutes), 10 Pocket Reminder Cards, 1 Workbook and 1 Leader's Guide
![]() By Kenneth Thomas and Ralph Kilmann The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is the number-one best-selling instrument for conflict resolution. This easy-to-use, self-scoring exercise is fast and powerful. Participants select responses from 30 statement pairs to discover which of five conflict handling styles is their preferred "mode". Interpretation and feedback materials help clients learn about the most appropriate uses for each mode and how to increase their comfort level with their less-used modes. Its simple-to-use format and easy-to-understand content have made it the centerpiece of training programs over a wide variety of applications. This Self-Assessment:
![]() Real change only happens when the decision to change comes from the person doing the changing. Painless Performance Improvement provides managers with a simple and proven technique to help team members improve their own poor performance without the drama, pain or conflict often associated with performance issues. Managers and supervisors will learn how to:
A training comedy, Painless Performance Improvement combines highly entertaining hosts with dramatic and realistic coaching moments. Supervisors will relate to scenes of management gone awry as well as employee's favorite excuses and sidetracks. Used with the accompanying 85 page Managers Reference Guide, leaders will find this package an indispensable resource for improving the performance of their team. Performance Improvement is Painless when you:
This program comes with the following content:
![]() Twelve Angry Men: Teams That Don't Quit uses selected clips from the classic movie starring Henry Fonda and a stellar supporting cast. It presents a vivid example of a team fighting its way to success. In scene after scene, we watch the intense interactions among members of a jury in a murder case. Charged by the judge to do your duty, this team of jurors must determine whether the accused is guilty or not. This innovative video highlights five important concepts of great significance to our life at work:
The program is narrated by Dr. Margaret Wheatley, former professor of management at Brigham Young University and author of several best-selling books on leadership and organizational behavior. Dr. Wheatley shows us the parallels between the dramatic confrontations we see on the screen and certain behaviors familiar to work groups. Length: 22 minutes, includes Leader's Guide.
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This important program discusses the strategies for handling patients whose behavior is difficult. Problem behavior is a catch-all term that refers to patients actions that are not dangerous but can still lead to disruptions of care. Examples of these actions include arguing with staff or visitors, challenging the rules, noisy behavior, name calling and swearing.
Includes: 21 minutes DVD
Added features and benefits of DVD training include:
![]() This program is also available for online training. See details below. Nobody likes working with a difficult employee...and for supervisors, confronting that employee about his or her difficult behavior seems even worse. Supervising the Difficult Employee, however, will steer you through six main objectives that will help you redirect that employee. That employee's behavior may be non-productive, and negatively affects coworkers' performances--hence,the difficult employee. This program begins by high-lighting steps for determining the root problem, using accurate documentation, then helping the employee take corrective action. Who knows? You may find that your "problem" employee just needed guidance to be one of your "best". Comes complete with a 23 minute DVD, audio CD and copy of the book "Supervising the Difficult Employee," by Ann M.
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Produced - 2007 Release! This course is also available for online training, see details below. From chronic complainers to idea-stealers, boundary pushers to just plain jerks, a toxic co-worker can ruin your day - and your life! Everyone - including the lucky few who’ve never had to work with a difficult person - will benefit from this program. It brilliantly portrays how employees on any career path and at any level of an organization can be undone by a problem co-worker. The amount of time spent worrying, avoiding, raging and obsessing over toxic employees can affect performance on the job and peace at home. With authors Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster as hosts, this video program provides the antidote, showing exactly how to take responsibility for addressing the problem and put a stop to it all. It shows employees how to “unhook” from difficult situations in four simple ways: Physically, Mentally, Verbally and With a Business Tool (memo, email, log, etc.). Participants will learn to:
Program includes: A 23 minute DVD or VHS, Leader's Guide, CD-ROM with PowerPoint Presentation and printable handout for the Optional Activity (Working With Bosses Who Are Killing You),10 Participant Workbooks and 10 Reminder Cards Related. Workbook are only sold with purchase or rental.
Online Training Option
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
![]() 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:
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.
![]() Includes FREE CD with 25 role plays from the popular first volume-50 total role plays! Updated with 25 new role plays not covered in the first volume, the latest edition of the popular 25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation will inspire you to think and act like a negotiation expert. If you're a management training and development specialist who needs one or two role-plays to use in a negotiation program, this book's a must. The book provides the opportunity to practice the behaviors used most frequently by successful negotiators-including questioning, clarifying, checking for understanding, summarizing and active listening. Each of these role plays is based on a unique approach to negotiation embracing three critical concepts:
Try out new behaviors that will help you:
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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
Program includes: DVD (39 mins)
![]() 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:
![]() Using DiSC To Build Team Relationships Today's competitive marketplace demands that organizations do more, with less not an easy task. To accomplish this, organizations need to find ways to work smarter and faster, relying more and more on the knowledge and skills of teams specifically high performing teams. A Foundation of Teamwork explores the essence of teamwork effective communication. In this program, DiSC is used to provide insights into communication styles and offer new opportunities for team building. Upon completion, participants will be able to identify their primary communication styles and those of other team members to identify potential areas of interpersonal conflict so they can minimize problems or avoid them entirely. Skill-Based Program Content
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![]() Customer Favorite! Add new life to your training programs! Here's a collection of 75 games that will reinvigorate any training session. There is something here for every trainer and every training situation - from light-hearted energizers to thought-provoking closure activi ties. The games are based on current trends in the world of training, so they're sure to be a relevant accompaniment to your current training programs on team building, diversity issues, leadership, change, and more! Training Methods
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