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 Diversity & Respect Best-Seller! This animated program tackles the tough subject of stereotyping in a delightful way by looking at some different "birds" in the workplace. It makes us do some soul-searching about the casual way we limit ourselves and others through stereotyping. We "pigeon-hole" others when we overlook their unique abilities, talents, personalities, and backgrounds. We do it to ourselves, too - when we impose limits and cheat ourselves of new experiences, challenging opportunities, and the fulfillment of our undeveloped potential. Though animated, this training tool is no flight of fancy. It's a critical component of training in today's changing workplace. Workgroups, committees, and executive teams will benefit from this program, as will any group interested in mobilizing the talents of all its members. PigeonHoled in the Land of Penguins will help team members recognize pigeon-holing, understand its high cost, and learn how to change the pattern. By tapping into the full creativity of everyone on a team, we open ourselves up to significant breakthroughs in innovation, productivity and team effectiveness. Participants will learn:
Program Contents: A 10 minute DVD or VHS and Leader's Guide
 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:
Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide.
 Invaluable information for those directly (or indirectly) affected by traumatic incidents in the workplace.Without Regard To Race, Religion, Sex, National Origin, Age, or Disability features 10 short personal stories that explore the different types of actions and behaviors that can lead to discrimination claims. Participants also learn that by following six simple and unarguable principles – Respect, Integrity, Honesty, Trust, Responsibility and Citizenship – discrimination can be stopped. The legal viewpoint is discussed after each vignette along with the principles that can successfully guide employees through this issue. The impact that this still frequent and subtle discrimination can have on both organizations and individuals is detrimental. Organizations not only face costly legal proceedings and high judgments, but low employee moral, lost productivity, and lost talent. Employees face personal and professional risks such as undue stress, lack of career advancement, emotional pain, and untapped talent.
Length: 25 minutes
 In 1968, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, the students in a small third-grade class couldn’t understand why he had been killed. King had been the “Hero of the Month” the previous February. Their teacher, Jane Elliott, wanted to help them understand the enormity of his death. She decided to try a daring classroom exercise on the meaning of discrimination, as detailed in the classic film, THE OF THE STORM. What she taught those children and the effect her lesson had on them throughout their lives is explored in this award winning follow-up, A CLASS DIVIDED. First broadcast in 1985, A CLASS DIVIDED was hailed as a “riveting, and potentially life-changing hour” and was honored with the Sidney Hillman Prize and an Emmy Award for outstanding informational programming. Over the years, A CLASS DIVIDED has become a classic – a powerful exploration into the nature of prejudice which has been used in classrooms, corporations, prisons and other governmental and educational settings. Running time: 60 minutes This award-winning documentary is enhanced by a comprehensive Facilitator’s Guide applicable to all ages.
 If you think "it couldn't happen here" or "it wouldn't happen now", this may prove to be a bit of an "Eye Opener"! Jane Elliott, the internationally acclaimed diversity champion, conducts her "Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed" exercise in Glasgow with thirty-five volunteers from across the United Kingdom. Many of the blue-eyed participants were shocked at their own reactions to what for many of them was the new experience of being powerless. Many of the brown-eyed participants were shocked at how easy they found it to go along with what was happening, even though they knew it was wrong. They all now have a better understanding of the systematic nature of racism, as well as the awareness of their own actions - or inactions - can reinforce and perpetuate it. "Eye Opener" shows this exercise is as relevant and necessary in the UK today as it was in Riceville, Iowa more than thirty years ago. This award-winning documentary is enhanced by a comprehensive Facilitator’s Guide applicable to all ages. Running time: 33 minutes
 Hailed as a “fascinating revisit” to the famous 1970 blue eyed/ brown eyed exercise in discrimination by Jane Elliott, this film documents the effects of racial prejudice with startling force and emotional intensity. Taking pigmentation – in this case, eye color – as an arbitrary dividing line, Jane Elliott builds a microcosm of contemporary American society, compelling her more privileged blue eyed participants to live in another world for the longest two and a half hours of their lives. THE ANGRY EYE skillfully interweaves the young adults in the exercise with post-session interviews that show the participants struggling to come to terms with their recent experiences. Through the intense and often painful emotions that the exercise provokes shines a hope that, someday, we overcome the capricious lines that divide us – if only we can learn to accept and appreciate our differences. This award-winning documentary is enhanced by a comprehensive Facilitator’s Guide applicable to all ages. Running time: 35 minutes
 The In This Together training package presents an engaging look at harassment and respect in the workplace. Seven front line employees from a variety of businesses speak directly to their peers as they lay out the issues of respect and harassment head on. No heavy corporate message, but rather insightful looks at real situations that will lead employees to make better choices. From dealing with gossip to being in a bad mood, the In This Together video package utilizes an entertaining, non-threatening opinion survey to create a safe environment where viewers can re-evaluate their beliefs and their actions. In This Together's Key Learning Points...
Program Includes: A 18 minute video or DVD, 1 Opinion Survey Tablet (50 sheets), 1 Leader's Guide with reproducible forms, 10 In This Together Pocket Cards and 10 In This Together Employee Handbooks
Released - 2004 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:
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
This is a very effective representation of an intact team going through all four phases of the team building process. Diverse team members struggle to relate and reach high performance. Teams in Motion 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. After taking the Teams in Motion course, learners should be able to:
Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide.
 Customer Favorite! Spend the afternoon in almost any hospital and you'll discover the challenges of providing - and receiving - medical care in this increasingly diverse era. That's the lesson delivered in Patient Diversity: Beyond the Vital Signs. You'll witness the valiant, yet often flawed attempts of nurses, orderlies and doctors to find a course of treatment for patients whose cultural beliefs toward medicine they do not understand. This lack of understanding not only hampers communication, it delays proper treatment. Patient Diversity clearly illustrates the importance of learning about your patient population: their belief systems, folk medicine, lore, even those things that dictate how they respond to pain and medical care. Take, for instance, Mr. Lopez, who is quite vocal about his post-surgical pain. Nurses pay less attention to his moans, believing that, as a Latino, he will naturally respond this way to discomfort. When a doctor does finally examine him, it is clear he is suffering from internal bleeding at the site of his incision. Or what about Mrs. Humphreys, who refuses medical care because she believes God is punishing her and medical intervention is useless? Trying to convince her that the hospital's tests are her only alternative does no good. What does? Approaching her with understanding: offering to phone her minister, encouraging her to see that perhaps God wishes her to have the help of this hospital's resources. These and other poignant scenes examine the concerns faced in healthcare delivery every day. And though the challenges, patients and solutions are highly diverse, the basic principles are not. Participants will learn they must:
With our communities becoming more global every day, there is no better time for Patient Diversity: Beyond the Vital Signs. Program includes - 18 minute VHS or DVD and leaders guide. Online Training Option:
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:
Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide.
 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. Move your organization toward greater success in the global marketplace with Global Contrasts. Participants will learn how to:
Watch 9 video dramas of North American, Japanese, German, Italian, African, South American, Indian and other nationalities operate in the domestic and global marketplace, creating a diversity and relationship challenge beyond that familiarity of your 'typical' national demographics. Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide.
 The Bottom Line 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. Use this course to:
Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide. $500.00 [Add to Cart]Sexuality in the workplace has become a bottom-line business issue. 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. Use 7 real-work video moments to help you:
Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide.
This program is also available for online training. See details below. What makes Generation Y different? What experiences have influenced their attitudes, values and work styles? What do they need to be successful at work? How can organizations engage and inspire them to maximize their impact and productivity? These questions are becoming increasingly important as the largest generation in history begins entering the workforce. In the next few years, Gen Y will constitute 38% of all employees. They are smart, adaptable, energetic, skilled and eager to make their mark. At the same time, these young people do things differently and enter the world of employment with great expectations and a culture that may be unfamiliar to many of us. Program Contents
Support Materials - A comprehensive facilitation package accompanies the program and includes a facilitator’s guide, PowerPoint slides, reproducible handouts and program transcripts. 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:
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 Healthcare Version also Available CLOWN is a brand new, thought provoking and entertaining addition to diversity awareness training for all levels of your organization! This new film follows the lives of three "Clown-Americans" and their families as they make some poignant observations about life on the other side of stereotypes. CLOWN is refreshingly unique, and combines both drama and comedy to explore the affects of bias and racism in America. While originally aired as an entertaining short film on HBO, we have created an adaptation that focuses on diversity issues and is supported by comprehensive training materials. CLOWN will be the springboard from which your Diversity discussions will jump start. We see excerpts of the life of several clowns during their daily routines; a Clown doctor whose son gets repeatedly picked on in school, a Clown mechanic who is accused of unnecessarily replacing automobile parts during a service visit, and a Clown mother who agonizes over an interracial marriage between her Clown son, and her Mime daughter in law. CLOWN humorously and effectively demonstrates how anyone looking or sounding differently than everyone else can be the subject of discrimination. The Video & Training package will help employees learn how to:
Program includes: DVD or VHS Leader's Guide, Power Point Presentation on disc, and 10 Employee Handouts. DVD includes a Customizable PowerPoint Presentation and a printable Leader's Guide.
 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)
This program is also available for online training. See details below. 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 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:
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 Studies show training that includes audio and visual elements leads to improved retention. Make training easy with this set of top Audio CD Click 'n Trains. Just pop a CD into your computer and start training! Get three of our top titles in month one, and a new title every month for the next 11 months! A new training topic every month for a year! Your first shipment includes a binder with protective sleeves to house this essential training resource. Build up your training library and take the HR labor out of the equation with this unique offer. You'll get:
Your initial shipment will includes these three titles:
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This training favorite asks the simple question: If we shrunk the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing ratios remaining the same, what would it look like? In three minutes, this program statistically approximates what that village would be like. These dramatic figures make the need for both tolerance and understanding glaringly apparent. KEY LEARNING POINTS
Program Includes: A 3 minute DVD or VHS, Reproducible Village of 100 Activity Sheet, Facilitator’s Guide and PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM plus 50 Pocket Reminder Cards
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