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What Bob Farrell did for customer service in the run away hit Give `em the PICKLE!, he's doing again for leadership with The Leadership Pickles! A fun and exciting new video from Media Partners, The Leadership Pickles! combines Bob's passion for serving others with powerful leadership stories to create a memorable and motivating message for leaders of all kinds. Just as customers need pickles - those special things you do for them to keep them coming back - your employees need their pickles too. They want and need certain things from you as their leader. If they get them, they'll follow you and achieve great things. If they don't get their leadership pickles, their belief and respect for you as a leader may begin to slip. Being in leadership is a tough job. It requires you to be the best you can be. The Leadership Pickles! will inspire you to give your employees their leadership pickles! Program Incudes: A 16 minute video or DVD, 1 50 sheet Pickle Sticky Pad, 10 Pocket Reminder Cards, 1 Gold Pickle Lapel Pin, 5 Green Pickle Lapel Pins and 1 Leader's Guide on CDRom
![]() Govenment & Healthcare Version also Available! This course is also available for online training, see details below. These days, coaching isn't only the responsibility of the manager. Any team member may be called upon to coach a coworker. This video walks viewers through the practical steps to increasing success for coaches and learners in any organization. You'll visit an accounting office, a factory and service center as workers resist and stumble through the coaching process, finally learning to create positive outcomes. This important training tool explores the perspective of both coach and learner. You will watch purchasing administrator Wes try to move Peggy from one-on-one vendor ordering to an online purchasing system. His incomplete coaching results in an ordering snafu on Peggy's part. Ultimately they learn to work together to make the coaching process successful. In the factory, shop foreman Michelle enlists Hector to help a coworker increase productivity. Hector's not too keen on losing his own time on the line but in the end sees that teaching Arnold what he has learned over the years not only improves his coworker's skills and efficiency, but increases the entire shop's productivity. At the service center, veteran service representative Todd is none too pleased to have a freshman rep assigned to coach him on calls. His defensiveness and stubbornness make it difficult for him to take Vicki's suggestions but Vicki's coaching allows him to see how his technical proficiency could be balanced with a greater sensitivity toward client needs. You will watch the evolution of these encounters, skipping from one scenario to the next as each pair illustrates the skills necessary for successful coaching. Includes: 18 minute DVD or VHS and Leader's Guide Online Training Option
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How would you respond if told that only 25% of the time spent in any given process adds value to your product or service? Rath & Strong's John Guaspari and Edward Hay present a simple, but effective concept - don't spend time on anything that has no value in the eyes of the customer. That's exactly what you'll learn with this breakthrough video on increased productivity and customer service: how to look at a process to identify which steps add value and which do not. Once the non-value-added time is removed or reduced, your managers and employees will deliver products and services to the customer faster, achieve higher levels of quality and put your organization so far ahead of your competitors they may never catch up. Time: The Next Dimension of Quality is for everyone in all organizations large and small who want to serve the customer better, be more competitive, and make breakthrough improvements in "Quality" performance. Viewers will learn how to:
Includes: 18 minute VHS Video or DVD and Leader's Guide.
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Develop your leadership and supervisory skills with these nine high-impact productions. We all know that being a manager isn't easy. Roles are changing and today's managers find themselves faced with not only being responsible for the goals of their workforce but for the entire organization as well. These nine top-selling management training DVDs provide proven techniques that are guaranteed to improve productivity and people skills for new managers and seasoned veterans. Learning points include:
Guarantee: This comprehensive management training series will have your staff making more confident and knowledgeable decisions than ever before.
![]() Produced - 2007 Pass it on: coaching skills for managers is our new September 2007 release. This program uses humor and practical examples of how to get coaching right (and wrong). It also demonstrates the way in which effective coaching can facilitate development through any organization and how personally rewarding it is for the coach too. Core program - key learning messages:
Program includes: DVD (25 minutes), DVD extras (11 minutes), leaders guide, group training workbook, self-study workbook and PowerPoint presentation slides.
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How do you impress on your manager the importance of performance documentation or the potentially public nature of e-mail? These are just two of nine litigation landmines which can end up costing your company millions of dollars. Employment law litigation has exploded over the last five years: one in five managers will find themselves in litigation at some time during their careers. Avoiding Litigation Landmines: A Survival Guide for Managers should be a staple in every management training library. Brought to you by the producers of the best selling Workplace Violence: First Line of Defense, this video uses a compelling dramatization which no manager will be able to forget. When a litigation landmine explodes, three senior attorneys from Littler Mendelson, the Nations' largest employment and labor law firm, explain the problem. Managers will learn not only how avoid these litigation landmines, but how to turn them into positive tools for unlocking the potential of the individuals within their work force. Key Features Include: 30 minute DVD video, leader’s guide and one participant’s guide
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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.
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![]() In The Differences in People you'll learn how to overcome stressful personality conflicts; how to recognize the control we have over ourselves; how to develop better business relationships and how to understand and adjust our "belief filters." Volume II: Dealing with Difficult People In Dealing with Difficult People you'll learn the various types of difficult behavior; discover the formula for changing attitudes and the ways to bring out the best in people. Volume III: Strategies for Increased Self-Esteem In Strategies for Increased Self-Esteem you'll learn how to maintain your composure when times get tough and you are under pressure. Also, you'll discover the keys to communicating effectively and you'll learn the importance of positive self esteem. 3 Volume Set includes 3 DVDs or videos and 3 workbooks.
![]() Released - 2006 Designed for maximum flexibility, The Supervisor Toolkit provides you with high-quality video vignettes that you can easily incorporate into your own custom training courses. The clips are drawn from CRM's library of best-selling programs. Each vignette/clip runs anywhere from 20 seconds to 3 minutes and depicts a common workplace interaction involving a supervisor and usually, a subordinate. Suggestions are provided in the Leader's Guide for using the clips to draw out specific lessons on supervision. The 90 clips in the Toolkit are organized into the following supervisory skill categories:
Program Contents: Video clips on 1 DVD and 3 CD-ROMs, each with introductory narration and without, Printed Leader's Guide and Leader's Guide on CD-ROM.
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Emotional Intelligence provides an excellent overview of this breakthrough training topic and includes commentary from numerous EI experts including Daniel Goleman and Peter Salovey. Five EI competencies are introduced: Self-awareness, Self-regulation, Self-motivation, Empathy and Effective Relationships. The program then takes viewers to organizations such as Kaiser Permanente, State Street Bank and Nichols Aluminum where training in emotional intelligence is being used to help employees access the power of emotions to create better, more productive working relationships. Through interviews with various employees, viewers see how EI competencies can be combined with other knowledge and technical capabilities to increase one's overall effectiveness on the job. Viewers will come away with specific areas of improvement to focus on and a structured, step-by-step approach to developing the required emotional competencies to bring more creativity, energy and intuition to their work, whatever the industry or field. Program includes: A 25 minute VHS or DVD of Main Program and separate Discussion Segments, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint presentation on CD-ROM, 10 Participant Workbooks with EI Quiz, 10 Reminder Cards.
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![]() Release - 2007 Communication is the foundation for everything we do in the workplace. It happens every day, all the time. This program identifies the seven communication breakdowns most likely to undermine organizational success, and gives tips on how to avoid them. Most employees never receive training in the development of their communication skills. Even more importantly, employees aren't provided with the knowledge and skills to help them avoid the frequent communication problems that arise. The good news is that the most common communication potholes in the road can be easily spotted and avoided. Illustrated in this program are Seven Common Communication Breakdowns:
Program inlucdes: A 18 minute DVD or VHS, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on disc and 10 Employee Handbooks (additional copies sold in packs of 10 for $29.50)
![]() Best-Seller! You have a business problem but you just don't have the time to read all the articles and business books in hope that you can solve it. Well, no longer do you have to worry. Working with noted Industrial Psychologist Dr. Anthony Salemi we have developed the In An Instant DVD learning series which provides 20 solutions to many of today's most troubling business situations. The series offers methods you can put to work immediately to help turn those problems into positive business opportunities! Presented on four tapes with five solutions each, the series looks at the following business situations: Volume 1:
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This course is also available for online training, see details below. A comprehensive training program for new and seasoned supervisors alike, After All, You're the Supervisor! provides an array of tools for use in your training sessions and as follow-up to help keep your training fresh. After All, You're the Supervisor! holds the key to effective supervision, teaching the nine components of supervisory success:
Program Includes: A 20 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, Pre-training Assessment Tool, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Participant CD-ROMs with Follow-up Activity, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM and 10 Pocket Reminder Cards. Online Training Option
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![]() 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.
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![]() 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:
Information about each program may be found under the individual listing on the website.
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Jamie Oliver wanted to transform school dinners from processed, ready-made junk into tastier, more nutritious meals. He also needed to convince dinner ladies, head teachers, government ministers and thousands of school kids to support this radical plan. But how can Jamie's school dinners campaign help your organization deal with change? Program includes: DVD Part 1 (26 mins), DVD Part 2 (19mins), course leader's guide, self study workbook and customizable worksheets.
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Produced - 2007 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:
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.
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![]() 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! Colleagues From Hell!
Communicators From Hell! Customer service from Hell! Customers from Hell! Free Preview
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Interviewers From Hell! Public Services from Hell! Salespeople from Hell! Teams from Hell! 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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This course is also available for online training, see details below. In The Magic of We, you'll see a team of 25 Snapper employees gather in the main plant on a Saturday morning for a very different kind of meeting. Senior managers, engineers, suppliers, customer service and marketing are assigned one task: Put together 4 lawnmowers themselves. It comes down to nuts and bolts - literally! As they work, these diverse teams realize that a universal bolt that was supposed to streamline production is causing more problems than it was supposed to solve. See how they use the 'magic of we' to find the solution. The Magic of We is one story, shown five times with five different intros and closings, each addressing a different topic area: Leadership, Teamwork, Problem Solving, Lean Manufacturing, Communication. Here is just a sample of the learning points covered:
The Leader's Guide provides step-by-step instructions for introducing activities, leading discussions, and making transitions between the video, group discussions, and exercises. It includes directions for presenting the workshop materials, along with suggestions for preparation, timing, and follow-up activities. Program Includes: DVD Or VHS Video, Leader's Guide (including reproducible participant handouts), PowerPoint CD-Rom, and 10 "Magic of We" Post-It Notes.
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![]() 2009 Release! What makes a government agency accountable? It is a willingness to be answerable and accessible to the public. And while the specifics of an accountability initiative can vary from one agency to the next, all have one thing in common: Everyone -- from the top down -- must demonstrate personal responsibility and integrity. Designed specifically for government training, the 9 categories in this Toolkit, containing a total of 35 video clips, will help you demonstrate what it looks like when people hold themselves, each other and the organization accountable for keeping commitments and achieving results. It only includes clips that are set in a government agency or take place in a "generic work environment" that could be a government facility.
This Toolkit contains 35 unique video clips that fall within 9 categories of personal responsibility and accountability. It only includes clips that are set in a government agency or take place in a "generic work environment" that could easily be a government agency or government-run facility. The clips are provided on DVD and CD-ROM so that you can play them right off the DVD or embed them into a PowerPoint Presentation. Program Includes
![]() Featuring John Cleese/ Release date: 2000 The aim of these programs are to ensure that managers understand how to use praise to make their staff realize that their efforts are appreciated. The program also enables managers to employ criticism as a means of preventing the recurrence of mistakes and improving staff performance. This two DVD set includes the following programs:
Performance Matters: The Importance of Praise Free Preview
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Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism Free Preview
The programs aim is to ensure that managers understand how to use praise to make their staff realize that their efforts are appreciated. To enable managers to employ criticism as a means of preventing the same mistake from being made over and over. (Length: 21 minutes) The benefits:
![]() Produced - 1994 Strong coaching skills are invaluable to any business. Through effective coaching, managers can encourage and motivate staff, change attitudes, bring in new ideas and increase job satisfaction. Coaching for Results presents a three-step model to enable your mangers to introduce a coaching culture into your organization by:
The resource DVD expands upon this three-step model and shows coaching in practice. Three short programs examine:
Program includes: DVD (25 mins), Resource DVD (45 mins), self study DVD (25 mins), training guide, coaching resource guide and self study workbook.
![]() This movie-like version of the PowerPoint® presentation with audio makes it easy to deliver staff management training. There are no laws that require you to train supervisors to help reduce turnover and increase employee retention. However, it is wise to do so because when your supervisors understand the impact of turnover and are well prepared with effective retention strategies, there’s a better chance that you can reduce your organization’s turnover rate and retain valuable employees who might other¬wise be lured away by competitors. Although a certain amount of turnover is to be expected and is even desirable, high levels of turnover can undermine the success of your organization. When the training is completed, trainees will be able to:
This time-saving program includes everything you need:
![]() Released - 2007 An employee not up to par with your standards? Get a fair and consistent way to deal with substandard performance and behavior. Have the proper documentation, avoid the courts, and win any lawsuits that cannot be avoided. But most importantly, be a better manager who creates, in turn, better employees. Documenting Discipline II covers:
Added features and benefits of DVD training include:
![]() 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:
Program Includes: A 20 minute VHS or DVD of Main Program and Discussion Segments, Leader's Guide, sample Participant Workbook.
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![]() This course is also available for online training, see details below. As the competition for qualified employees gets tougher and tougher, what alternatives does an organization have when positions open up? They can spend a lot of money recruiting and hiring. They can settle for workers with inadequate skills. Or, as this video shows, they can avoid turnover in the first place and retain the productive workers they already have. This program shows that supervisors, managers and team leaders play a crucial role in this process and demonstrates three of the most important tactics a manager can take to retain workers. Viewers will learn how to:
Program Contents: A 20 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide
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![]() Managers and supervisors will sharpen their analytical and decision-making skills with this new collection of fully reproducible case studies. Based on actual, real-life situations, these exercises prepare supervisors and team leaders for the challenging problems they face in today's complex workplace. Each case study includes
400 page 3 ring binder
![]() All time best-selling Coaching programs in the industry. Coaching is all about encouraging, correcting and challenging your team. It's as simple as noticing how your team is performing, and then letting them know you notice. In other words...Coaching is the process of letting people know that what they do matters to you. Realistic role plays covering a variety of topics - from getting good work repeated, correcting poor work in a positive way, dealing with employees poor personal habits, and tools for turning a dead-end performance around - make The Practical Coach an everyday guide to using good judgment and caring about each member of your team.
Let them know they matter...
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The first two parts of The unorganized manager series show that no matter how efficient managers may think they are, they cannot be fully effective until they learn how to manage their time. In Part 3: damnation a hard-working manager is so disorganised that he unwittingly makes the lives of his family and colleagues a misery. His disorganisation leads to an early heart attack and a confrontation with St Peter. By being given a second chance on Earth, he is able to learn the principles of time management in a way that viewers, many of whom will be unaware of their own faults, can easily relate to. The benefits
Release date: 1996 Program includes: DVD or VHS, (25 mins), Meeting break DVD, Course leader’s guide, Delegate worksheets on disk Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook
![]() Featuring John Cleese, Nigel Lindsay and Beatie Edney. Release date: 1996
The first two parts of The unorganized manager series show that no matter how efficient managers may think they are, they cannot be fully effective until they learn how to manage their time. In Part 2: salvation the manager has returned to Earth full of enthusiasm, but his inability to establish priorities and to delegate effectively lands him back in front of St Peter. The program shows why managers should consider the actual purpose of their jobs, and not the function. They must learn how to schedule time for active tasks, while leaving time for reactive tasks. By delegating and retaining responsibility, they will make more effective use of their own time and that of their team, and contribute to everyone’s motivation and morale. The benefits
Program includes: DVD or VHS, (29 mins), Meeting break DVD, Course leader’s guide,Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk
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