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Fun Is Good - DVD

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

This highly motivational program takes you behind the scenes at Midway Field in Minnesota, where fun is encouraged daily. Visit a workplace where a costumed pig tosses out the balls, "ushertainers" serenade you in the stands and games are always sold out. See firsthand just how much fun, when combined with commitment, relates to organizational success and personal satisfaction.

Sure, a day at the ballpark might sound like a good time. But when it's your job, it can mean a fifteen-hour day of hard work, whether you're cleaning the bleachers, keeping the books or taking care of customers. How do they do it?

For the people who work here, fun is an attitude. An experience. It's why everyone from head groundskeeper to the president and co-owner is passionate about coming to work. Having fun on the job makes these employees more creative, more productive, and ultimately more satisfied. They don't take themselves too seriously. They treat each other with respect. And they make every day an event.

Key concepts in the video can bring this mindset to any workplace:

  • Discover Your Passion
  • Bring a Positive Attitude
  • Show People You Care

Program includes: VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM with film transcript, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Reminder Cards. Bonus extended-cut DVD version of show included with either video format.

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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Global One: Intercultural Communicating - DVD

To be successful in today's increasingly diverse workplace, you need to train your employees on effective communication in the cultural workforce. Intercultural Communication is a complete training program to help your people avoid misunderstandings and communicate more effectively with other cultures.

Benefits: With this expert training program, you'll get the answers to these essential issues and many more:

  • Why some cultures might avoid giving straight answers
  • How to understand what's really being said
  • How to read body language and nonverbal business communication
  • How to know when æyes' might really mean æno'
  • What topics might be offensive and disrespectful with other cultures
  • Why some cultures prefer to avoid touching, eye contact, etc.
  • How to overcome language barriers and avoid translation disasters

Program includes: 40 minute DVD and PDF leader's guide download

  • Global One: Intercultural Communicating - DVD $695.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Global One: Intercultural Communicating - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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HighPERFORMANCE Management: Facilitator Kit

Human Resource Executive Top 10 Training Product for 2002

Packaged Training Program Integrated Curriculum

When an organization's people meet their performance targets, the organization succeeds. This collective success is directly related to how well managers help their people focus their energies and achieve significant results.

Our comprehensive, highly-interactive HighPERFORMANCE Management (HPM) program shows managers, supervisors, and team leaders how to align individual employee efforts with organizational goals, measures of success, and objectives; clarify roles, responsibilities, and expectations; and redirect and/or reinforce behavior to support employee growth and performance. Following our proven Performance Management Cycle which seamlessly integrates all aspects of Planning, Coaching, and Evaluating participants learn how to develop and link Performance Plans and scorecards, prepare and give constructive feedback, and effectively evaluate employee performance.

Skill-Based Program Content

Unit 1: Planning Successful Employee Performance

  • Incorporating and communicating inputs into Individual Performance Plans and scorecards
  • Drafting position descriptions
  • Drafting individual scorecards
  • Drafting performance action plans
  • Finalizing Performance Plans

Unit 2: Coaching For Peak Employee Performance

  • Monitoring and diagnosing performance improvement requirements
  • Preparing and sharing feedback with passion and style
  • Recognizing winning performance

Unit 3: Evaluating Employee Performance

  • Collecting and selecting performance data
  • Describing and documenting performance
  • Developing and reviewing performance
  • Conducting and summarizing evaluations

Facilitator Kit: The HighPERFORMANCE Management™ Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

  • Facilitator Guide
  • Implementation Guide
  • Quick-Start Guide
  • PowerPoint Presentation*
  • Online Tools
  • Travel Tote
  • 1 Participant Kit (See below)

Participant Kit: Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each HighPERFORMANCE Management™ Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

  • Participant Workbook
  • Participant Tools on CD
  • Pocket Reference Guide
  • Practical Guidebooks: Planning Successful Employee Performance; Coaching For Peak Employee Performance; Evaluating Employee Performance
  • Certificate of Completion

Facilitator Start-Up Package: The HighPERFORMANCE Management Kit; includes one Facilitator Kit and ten Participant Kits.

Program Length: 2 Days/Flexible Training Options

  • HighPERFORMANCE Management: Facilitator Kit $999.99 [Add to Cart]
  • HighPERFORMANCE Management: Participant Kit $135.00 [Add to Cart]
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How Leaders Provide Performance Feedback - DVD

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

Managers, supervisors and team leaders, whether new to their positions or with years of experience, are under pressure to come to grips with the skills needed to lead their organizations into the next century

How Leaders Provide Performance Feedback explores the skills needed to support employee development in learning organizations.

Topics include:

  • The fear factor.
  • What is performance feedback?
  • How do you best provide performance feedback?
  • Who should provide feedback to whom?
  • Feedback and Leadership.

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

    • How Leaders Provide Performance Feedback - DVD $625.00 [Add to Cart]
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    How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less - DVD

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    How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less is a fun and motivational training program that will teach your employees how to naturally make a genuine connection with everyone they meet.

    In business as well as life, the failure to build trust and rapport can be insurmountable, while the rewards of a good first impression are almost immeasurable.

    How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less can have a life changing impact on customer relationships and sales success as well as every other personal relationship in your employees' lives.

    Program Includes: A 16 minute video or DVD, Hardback Book, 10 "Great!" Buttons, 10 Pocket Reminder Cards and 1 52-Page Leader's Guide

    • How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
    • How to Connect in Business in 90 seconds or less - DVD Rental $350.00 [Add to Cart]
    • How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less (Spanish) - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
    Keeping the Good Ones - DVD

    In the end, keeping the good ones comes down to connecting with each member of your team on a regular basis. The great news is that this doesn't cost the company a dime.

    Keeping the Good Ones is a management and leadership training video that deals with employee retention. It will inspire managers and provide them with practical tools which they can use to keep the good people they already have.

    Key Learning Points..

    • Offer YOURSELF as a person
    • Offer your TIME with a regular Take 10 Check-in
    • Offer your APPRECIATION

    Program Includes:

    • 1 DVD or VHS Video (26 minutes)
    • 1 Leader's Guide
    • 10 Pocket Reminder Cards
    • 1 Workbook

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    LEADERSHIP: What's Trust Got To Do With It? - DVD

    Free Online Preview

    What can leaders do to regain trust? This DVD provides realistic methods for rebuilding trust and reestablishing employee involvement. Today's LEADERSHIP: What's Trust Got To Do With It? tells the story of a team leader who learns that trust is the foundation of leadership. Using three trust building behaviors: openness, credibility and trusting others, he gradually regains the trust and active participation of his work team.

    Rebuilding trust, as demonstrated in the video, requires time and consistency. As Sid, the video's mentor says, "Trust is like money. It's tough to get and easy to lose." And without trust, leadership is not possible.

    Includes: Comprehensive 28 page leader's guide with reproducible worksheet.

    • LEADERSHIP: What's Trust Got To Do With It? - DVD $695.00 [Add to Cart]
    • LEADERSHIP: What's Trust Got To Do With It? - DVD (Spanish) $695.00 [Add to Cart]
    • LEADERSHIP: What's Trust Got To Do With It? - DVD-R (French) $695.00 [Add to Cart]
    • LEADERSHIP: What's Trust Got To Do With It? - DVD-R (Italian) $695.00 [Add to Cart]
    • LEADERSHIP: What's Trust Got To Do With It? - VHS (Spanish) $695.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Leading By Example - DVD

    This is part of The Covey Leadership Library

    This powerful, principle-centered video learning workshop illustrates the difference a mentor and coach can make. Through the dramatic story of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller, this case study enables leaders to identify ways in which they can be more effective models, how they can set lasting examples, and how they can bring out the best in others.

    Included is an introduction and summarizing insights by Dr. Stephen R. Covey, founder and chairman of the Covey Leadership Center and best-selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (also available from CRM Learning).

    Participants will be provided essential insights for influencing another person, a team, or an entire organization. More than just becoming better managers, participants will be made into better mentors and coaches who can develop the best in other people.

    Program Contents: A 20 minute VHS or DVD, 5 Participant Guides.

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    Leading With Passion: Facilitator Kit

    Turning Passion Into Performance

    With the emphasis shifting from managing to enabling others, leaders must find ways to help themselves, as well as their employees, learn, develop, and function at ever higher levels. Passion provides the driving force needed to energize careers, improve individual and organizational performance, and strengthen workforce loyalty. In Leading With Passion, leaders discover how to identify and integrate their personal passions and those of their employees with the organization's core passions and Key Profit Areas. Then, through our powerful Performance Scorecard methodology, they learn how to reinforce employee commitment and improve workgroup performance in these and other critical areas using measures.

    Skill-Based Program Content

    • Increasing awareness of personal passions
    • Aligning personal passions with core organizational passions and goals
    • Defining Key Profit Areas that determine workgroup success
    • Using Performance Scorecards to focus on what matters to customers, employees, and other stakeholders and to improve performance in Key Profit Areas
    • Creating opportunities for personal, professional, and organizational success for both managers and their employees

    Facilitator Kit:
    The Leading With Passion Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

    • Facilitator Guide
    • (1) Participant Kit
    • Online Tools with PowerPoint Presentation (CD-ROM)

    Participant Kit:
    Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each Leading With Passion Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

    • Participant Workbook
    • Other publication: The Passion Plan At Work

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    Lessons From the New Workplace - DVD

    In step by step detail, this exciting video shows how three vastly different organizations have successfully implemented Dr. Wheatley's concepts within their teams. Looking at these diverse organizations, viewers will find many practical applications on how to analyze their own work roles in new and more productive ways.

    All three organizations focus on three areas - or domains- that have enabled them to become more adaptive and responsive: opening the flow of Information in the work environment; forming Relationships that maximize informational flow and organizational performance; and using their awareness of the organization's Vision or identity to guide, influence, and support organizational decision making and behavior.

    Participants will learn:

    • what it means to be part of a learning organization
    • the importance of the effective exchange and utilization of information
    • mapping organizational vision and values onto even simple tasks

    Program Contents: A 23 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide

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    Let’s Face It: Harassment Training for Supervisors - DVD

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    Produced - 2007

    Free Online Preview

    Training managers and supervisors for their role in preventing and correcting harassment situations in the workplace is a critical concern for all employers. Harassment training has become a legally required mandate in some states and many others will soon follow that lead. With potential liabilities growing, it’s important to make sure everyone in a leadership position understands the importance of their actions – and their key part in eliminating harassment from the workplace.

    Let’s Face It, the realistic and engaging training program that concisely identifies the roles every manager and supervisor must take in:

    • Identifying harassment
    • Communicating policies
    • Documenting training
    • Handling a complaint
    • Investigating promptly
    • Responding appropriately

    Synopsis
    A knowledgeable host leads the viewer through the key points as we follow a central story involving two co-workers in a friendship that’s creating discomfort for one. As we watch the process evolve from the initial discomfort, to the complaint, investigation and outcome, the role of the supervisor is highlighted and explained. Many other short vignettes and interviews are included to ensure that the varying types of behavior that constitute harassment are considered by the viewer. The realistic scenarios and engaging host commentary create an informative and fast-paced training experience.

    Program includes: A 18 minute DVD or VHS video, an expanded leader's guide with customizable PowerPoint® and 10 employee handbooks.

    • Let’s Face It: Harassment Training for Supervisors - DVD $945.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Let’s Face It: Harassment Training for Supervisors - VHS $895.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Let’s Face It: Harassment Training for Supervisors - DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Let’s Face It: Harassment Training for Supervisors - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Manager's Library - (10 DVD Set)

    Improve your management team with the new Manager's Library. Comprised of 10 DVDs, 10 CD audios, and 10 books, this library will help your managers get the needed jump on the competition.

    Your cost $999.50! If you were to buy these programs individually the total would be $1,299.50. Buy the complete library and save $300.00!

    The Manager's Library includes the following titles:

    • How to Deal with Cultural Diversity in the Work Place
    • Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Work Place
    • Negotiating for Business Results
    • Succeed by Coaching
    • Empowering Employees
    • How to Supervise People
    • The New Supervisor: Skills for Success
    • Hiring the Best
    • How to Hold Successful Meetings
    • Time Management: Get the Most Out of Your Time

    Information about each program may be found under the individual listing on the website.

    More Than a Gut Feeling III - DVD

    Best-Seller!

    Free Online Preview

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

    More Than a Gut Feeling III teaches you to select the most qualified job candidate by applying the ever-popular behavioral approach to interviewing. This method, developed by industrial psychologist Dr. Paul Green, directs you to probe the job applicant for specific examples of their past. The reason is simple: The best predictor of a job applicant's future work behavior is their past work behavior.

    Viewers of More Than a Gut Feeling III will learn helpful job-related interviewing techniques practiced by so many hiring staffs all over the world. You can refrain from judging an applicant on gut feeling by: asking rapport-building questions; discussing the job; taking notes and explaining why; asking specific, open-ended questions to get specific answers; allowing for silence if necessary; maintaining control; getting contrary evidence and evaluating. This video applies these techniques to the most common interviewing situations and helps you to refrain from judging the candidate on intuition.

    KEY LEARNING POINTS

    • How to plan a logical, structured interview that includes pre-planned interview questions
    • How to recognize the importance of developing an interview plan based on thorough knowledge of the job
    • How to understand that a behavioral example is a specific life-history event that can be used to determine the presence or absence of a skill
    • How to use interviewing techniques that allow for interviewer control
    • How to explain why it is important to make selection decisions based on facts and information, not on a gut feeling
    • How to explain why the concept of "the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior" is so important in the behavioral-based interview process
    • How to recognize why some questions cannot be legally asked in the interview process

    Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

    • English and Spanish versions – many also include Portuguese
    • A customizable PowerPoint™ presentation
    • Informative training points and bonus material for refresher or training talks
    • Video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates discussion
    • A printable Leader's Guide
    • Resourceful web links to organizations such as OSHA, FEMA, NSC and the CDC, where viewers can download and print information on regulatory standards

    Length: 17 minutes

    Online Training Pricing Option:

  • $5.00 per user
  • One year access to this program
  • Minimum order: $945.00
  • Please contact us by email if you have 250 users or more for special pricing options.
  • *Prices subject to change without notice

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    Pigeon-Holed in The Land of Penguins -DVD

    Best-Seller!

    Free Online Preview

    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:

    • why pigeonhole-ing is so common
    • the consequences and high cost of pigeon-holing themselves and others
    • how to free people from pigeon-holes, allowing them greater freedom to create and contribute

    Program Contents: A 10 minute DVD or VHS and Leader's Guide

    • Pigeon-Holed in The Land of Penguins -DVD $595.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Pigeon-Holed in The Land of Penguins - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Positive Discipline - DVD

    Release - 2006

    Positive Discipline teaches a simple, yet highly effective, five step process for correcting negative performance.

    • Identify the problem (the gap between the actual & desired behavior)
    • Analyze the problem's severity (determine the impact and consequences of the behavior if not corrected)
    • Discuss the problem (with the employee, gain their agreement on a solution)
    • Document the discussion (including the history of the problem and what was said and agreed upon)
    • Follow-up to monitor results (recognize improvements, or take action if the problem hasn't resolved)

    The program's vignettes are set in different work environments and feature three different performance issues (including the all too familiar example of an employee who is chronically tardy and frequently absent). Accompanying workshop materials include role-play activities, job aids (such as a conversation planner), and more.

    Program Contents: A 24 minute DVD or Video, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 copies of the bookPositive Discipline: How to Resolve Performance Problems Quickly...and Permanently, 10 Job-Aid Reference Cards