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Dealing with Difficult People

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Conquering Difficult Conversations: A Supervisor’s Training Series - DVD

Help train supervisors to handle difficult situations with confidence!

Conduct difficult conversations with confidence! The Conquering Difficult Conversations video series is designed for Human Resources professionals to train supervisors on conducting difficult conversations with employees. Without this type of training, situations can escalate and lead to repercussions such as legal action and litigation.

Conquering Difficult Conversations, available on DVD or VHS, demonstrates proven communication methods that have been developed, tested, and used by experienced industry experts. Supervisors learn to prepare for and address situations in an objective, businesslike manner. The program is designed to help supervisors feel more confident in their abilities to confront and resolve difficult situations with other employees.

This training series encompasses four individual training topics:

  • Managing Conflict – Discusses the various types of conflict and how best to moderate it.
  • Addressing Personal Issues – Teaches supervisors to address personal issues such as inappropriate dress, family issues affecting work, uncleanliness, and more.
  • Conducting Layoffs and Terminations – Provides ideas on how to handle this process effectively for the best interests of all involved.
  • Providing Performance Coaching – Covers giving employees honest feedback using a performance coaching environment.

Each training program also includes the following:

  • (1) 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: A Supervisor’s Training Series - DVD $799.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Conquering Difficult Conversations: A Supervisor’s Training Series - Video $699.00 [Add to Cart]
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Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace - DVD

Produced 2007

This program is also available for online learning - learn more!

Generation conflict costs billions of dollars in lost productivity to organizations like yours worldwide - not to mention the incalculable effects on motivation and morale. Now there's help with generational expert Cam Marston's new DVD course, Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace.

 

This program will educate and stimulate positive interaction among your people. It will also dramatically reduce workplace conflict and provide managers and supervisors with strategies for dealing with recruiting, retaining, and motivating, using the generational differences in a positive way.

Key Learning Points: 

  • Generational context is not about age, but common experiences.
  • Acknowledge your team's expectations, not just your own.
  • Different is neither right nor wrong, just different.
  • Age-ism is the death of any coaching strategy.
  • Generational understanding does not take the place of concern for the individual.
  • Different generations care about different approaches to the same problem.
  • Technology is not universal - assess your team members' affinity level before making communication assumptions.

Program includes: 

  • Program One - Defining Four Generations in the Workplace - 18 Minutes
  • Program Two - How to Deal with the Four Generations - 16 Minutes

    Program includes: 2-program DVD; CD Support Package with 32-page Facilitator's Guide, 30-Page Participant Guide, Participative Exercises and PowerPoint Presentation. All support materials customizable and reproducible.

  • Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace - DVD $795.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Mixing Four Generations In The Workplace - DVD (Spanish) $795.00 [Add to Cart]
50 Activities for Developing Leaders Vol. II

Best-Seller By Lois B. Hart, Ed.D. (2003)

Free Shipping within the U.S.

For years, the popular 50 Activities for Developing Leaders, Volume I, has helped trainers effectively introduce and reinforce key skills in leadership training. Now the all-new, second volume reflects the best and latest thinking on leadership theory making it the best tool available for building leadership skills, attitudes and competencies.

Developed by two veteran leadership experts, the second edition offers 50 ready-made, proven activities organized into four modules that focus on:

  • Laying the groundwork for a workshop that makes an impact
  • Developing the individual leader
  • Setting an example so others will want to be leaders, too
  • Helping leaders excel and perform at their best

The activities help leaders:

  • Build trust
  • Be ethical
  • Teach
  • Coach
  • Facilitate meetings
  • Develop their careers
  • Create balance
  • Respond to change
  • Handle conflict
  • Be creative
  • Self-promote

Includes: 3-Ring Binder, 300-pages, Written Exercises, Self-assessments, Closure Activities, Role Plays, And Group Exercises.

  • 50 Activities for Developing Leaders Vol. II $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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Accountability That Works! - DVD

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

Accountability That Works! is an exciting, innovative training program that will provide everyone in your organization with the tools they need for a greater sense of empowerment, effectiveness and increased productivity. Participants will learn to view accountability as an ongoing process, a method for achieving personal effectiveness. When you have accountability in your organization, you have better results, improved teamwork & clarity. When you don't have accountability, you get blame, finger pointing, missed deadlines, etc.

Building accountability in your workplace saves you money every day in real terms:

  • Consistently met deadlines.
  • Clearly defined roles and expectations.
  • Less blame and reduced time spent in conflict.
  • Improved supervisor-to-subordinate and peer-to-peer relationships.
  • Increased team efficiencies (such as less time lost in meetings).

Program Includes: A 22 minute VHS or DVD with two versions (one straight-through and one stop-and-go for discussion), Leader's Guide, PowerPoint presentation, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Reminder Cards and 10 Buttons

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

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Leadership Lessons From Mom - 5 Pack

It’s amazing how often Mom’s advice fits right into the business world. Leadership Lessons from Mom was written to encapsulate just some of the many leadership lessons learned from our mothers so you can use them to be successful in business and life.

These 21 valuable lessons will help you know just what to say and how you should handle virtually any situation. They are timeless, universal and can be easily applied to your everyday work life. For example:

  • eating your vegetables (taking care of your health)
  • tucking in your shirt (paying attention to your image in the workplace)
  • don’t be late for dinner (getting to work on time, keeping appointments, meeting deadlines)
  • be polite (showing common courtesy to others)
  • mind your manners (following the culture and customs of your organization)
  • watch your mouth (avoiding the use of foul language)

Each lesson is covered in a separate section and includes an inspirational summary statement and leadership tips, such as:

  • serve as a mediator between employees having conflicts with one another
  • floor areas should not be used to store books, papers and notebooks
  • help employees learn to make the best use of their time through time management tools and training resources
  • encourage employees to find better ways to perform their jobs

Leadership and Self-Deception -DVD

Leadership & Self-Deception training program illustrates this "simple" concept by presenting an unforgettable video re-enactment matched with a comprehensive workshop. The video and workshop exercises offer a poignant look at how self-deception prevents us from seeing the obvious solution to some of our biggest workplace problems, providing tools for analyzing and solving problems, at their core.

Participants learn that:

  • most - if not all - "people problems" (poor communication, lack of teamwork, unresolved conflict...) share a common root: self-deception.
  • the very people involved in resolving a given problem contribute to it, and even help spread it.
  • the solution to a problem always begins with them.

Learning about self-deception and its solutions enables us to:

  • enthusiastically focus on results
  • enthusiastically help others achieve results
  • actively and concurrently learn and teach
  • take responsibility

    Program includes: Two versions of the video re-enactment (one with a host; one without) on VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM, 10 copies of the book, Leadership & Self-Deception, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Reminder Cards.

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Learning from Conflict - Book

Learning From Conflict offers ready-to-use, fully reproducible activities for training in recognizing and resolving the major causes of conflict.

The structure of the book is derived from Dr. Hart's Learning From Conflict Model, a simple, clear model that gives basic guidelines for applying its techniques to the specific needs of the participants. Instructors will learn how to help others accurately name their patterns of conflict, understand their reactions, identify the causes, prevent conflicts from developing and escalating, and apply conflict resolution techniques.

Learning From Conflict is written for trainers, facilitators, team leaders, and educators. The numerous, fully reproducible sample training designs, case studies, and activities can be applied in a variety of training situations, including communication, supervision, and interpersonal relationships.

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Unlocking Conflict! Meeting Opener - DVD

Need the keys to conflict around your office? Well, here they are! Unlocking Conflict! offers fast-paced, entertaining tools to handle conflict, from positive reinforcement of tried-and-true methods to new ideas for helping solve conflict issues in the workplace. Anyway you look at it, Unlocking Conflict! is your master key to workplace harmony!

Key Learning Points

  • Easily implementable solutions to workplace conflict.
  • Innovative methods to help reduce conflict in many different situations.
  • Fun music and progressive animations to engage the audience.

Includes: 3 minute DVD or VHS Video

  • Unlocking Conflict! Meeting Opener - DVD $295.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Unlocking Conflict! Meeting Opener - DVD Rental $195.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Unlocking Conflict! Meeting Opener - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Communication Toolkit - DVD

Released - 2005

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

 

A library of 39 video clips on various aspects of communication, plus a comprehensive guide for using the clips in a number of innovative ways!

Designed for maximum flexibility, the Communication Toolkit provides you with high quality video vignettes that you can use in your own custom training courses. Each vignette/clip runs anywhere from 20 seconds to 3 minutes and depicts a common workplace interaction. Suggestions are provided for using the clips to draw out specific lessons/skills on communication.

The 39 clips in the Toolkit fall into the following communication skill categories:

 

    1. Speaking Clearly and Specifically 2. Listening/Asking for Clarification 3. Nonverbal Communication 4. Resolving Conflict/Difficult Conversations 5. Group Communication 6. Presentation Skills

Clips are provided in two formats:

Format 1: The clip is introduced with some brief narration. The narration sets up the scene and gives a very general idea of what to look for in the vignette. As the narration plays, key phrases and words are highlighted through on-screen graphics.

Format 2: The scene plays without any set-up narration/onscreen graphics.

The accompanying Leader's Guide contains the following information for each clip:

 

  • Primary and secondary skills that can be taught using the clip
  • Suggested training applications
  • Background information relevant to the clip
  • Scene description and photo
  • Suggested Discussion Questions along with possible responses
  • Activity Suggestions
  • Key points to draw from the clip
  • Ideas for following up on training conducted
  • Suggestions for using the clip in conjunction with other clips in the Communication Toolkit

 

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

Program Contents:

     

  • Video clips on CD-Rom and DVD, printed Leader's Guide and Leader's Guide on CD-ROM.
  • The Guide also contains reference tables that help you select clips by skill (such as Listening) or application (such as Supervisor-to-Subordinate communication).

 

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Life’s Lessons: Values & Ethics - DVD

Meeting Opener

Simple, inspiring and thought-provoking wisdom from across the ages is presented through gentle and visually arresting animation and moving music.

Life’s Lessons: Values & Ethics is a gentle and sobering look at how ethics and values shape our lives, within and outside our organizations. This beautiful program illustrates how one’s character is shaped by our values and ethics, and how to develop them to the best of our ability.

Life's Lessons works with YOU to fit your individual training needs. For the first time, you determine how to present these unique programs.

  • Full program with music and narration.
  • Music only (no narration).
  • Continuous play of the core material with music that will repeat as long as you need it. Great for video “wallpaper” to enhance meetings or conferences.

Includes: 3 Minute DVD (includes Full program with music and narration, Music only (no narration) & Continuous play options.

  • Life’s Lessons: Values & Ethics - DVD $295.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Life’s Lessons: Values & Ethics - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Taking Control of Workplace Violence - DVD

Release - 2005 2nd edition

Managers and supervisors must be trained to respond to potentially violent incidents before they occur. This course helps them recognize, understand and deal with warning signs or threats, and teaches them how to defuse situations and assist troubled employees.

Key Training Points:

  • Illustrate warning signs that often prelude violence
  • Identify internal and external resources that can help resolve and prevent conflicts
  • Examine methods of hiring and firing that help lower the risk of violence
  • Explore ways to respond to emergency situations safely and effectively

Program includes: A 21 minute DVD or VHS video, Leader's Guide and Participant Manual

  • Taking Control of Workplace Violence - DVD $795.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Taking Control of Workplace Violence - DVD Rental $250.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Taking Control of Workplace Violence - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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How to Supervise People DVD

Someone once said, "It's not the job that causes me problems, it's the people that work for me!" Well, sorry to say, in many cases people feel just this way. But it does not have to be like this. Being a supervisor can be one of the most satisfying, productive and even enjoyable experiences anyone can have.

One of our best selling DVD programs, How To Supervise People, really takes the mystery out of being a supervisor. Complete with DVD, CD audio and book, it makes it an enjoyable experience learning how to develop and improve the skills necessary to become an excellent supervisor and leader.

When you really think about it, leadership is the ultimate challange in any job. It takes skill, toughness, and sensitivity sprinkled with that ever-so-important touch of common sense. In this DVD program you'll learn the how-to approach to supervising - some theory and a lot of "what to do if" answers.

How To Supervise People shows you the techniques to develop and inspire your people. It gives you the keys to teamwork and team building; techniques for dealing positively with conflict and compromise; strategies for dealing with change; the best method for cost control and methods improvement and much, much more.

Developed for the new supervisor, the soon-to-be supervisior or the long-time professional, How To Supervise People is a sure winner!

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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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The New Supervisor in an Instant DVD

This DVD training program will become your road map for developing the skills necessary to become a first-rate supervisor. You'll learn:

  • How to develop the necessary leadership skills
  • How to make timely, effective decisions
  • The need for managing change and how to manage your time
  • How to communicate effectively
  • How to praise, correct and deal with conflict
  • Team building
  • Use "The New Supervisor: Skills for Success" and become the consummate supervisor!

This enhanced DVD edition of The New Supervisor: Skills for Success is part of the In An Instant® Business Training Library. It comes complete with a DVD, video tape, closed captioning, audio CD, and a post-test that may be reproduced. It also includes a copy of the book The New Supervisor: Skills for Success by Bruce B. Tepper, which is part of the Business Skills Express Series published by The McGraw Hill Companies.

Length: 48 minutes.

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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]