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Managing People Who Work Remotely 

7/27/2010 - Live Audio Conference

This training session will teach you to maximize the advantages of employees working remotely to produce excellent and on-time project results! 

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The Leadership Pickles! - DVD

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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

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When the Coach is You! - DVD

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

  • 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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Time: The Next Dimension of Quality - DVD

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

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:

  • Identify the opportunities and benefits of time as the next dimension of quality for both the organization and individual.
  • Conduct a Value-Added Flow Analysis (VAFA) to identify activities in a process.
  • Apply the three criteria for determining if an activity adds value.

Includes: 18 minute VHS Video or DVD and Leader's Guide.

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

  • Time: The Next Dimension of Quality - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Time: The Next Dimension of Quality (Spanish) - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Time: The Next Dimension of Quality Online Course (50 - 1000) $9.95 [Add to Cart]
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Manager's Collection (9 DVD Set)
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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:

  • How to look for positive behavior, and praise often.
  • Earn the trust of the people you manage.
  • Reduce frustrating miscommunications.
  • Nurture teams through development stages.
  • Set goals that can be achieved—and are worth achieving!
Programs Include
  • Be Prepared to Lead
  • Be Prepared for Meetings
  • Breakthrough Listening
  • Criticism: Giving and Taking
  • Managing People - Key Skills for Great Managers
  • Motivating Your Employees
  • Performance Coaching
  • Supervising for Quality
  • Time Management: Getting Control of Your Life and Work

Guarantee: This comprehensive management training series will have your staff making more confident and knowledgeable decisions than ever before.

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Pass It On: Coaching Skills for Managers - DVD

Produced - 2007

Free Preview

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:

  • Identify The Goals - set targets
  • Promote Discovery - Don't just provide all the answers
  • Encourage - through praise and constructive criticism
  • Treat as equals
  • Admit your own mistakes
  • Listen actively
  • Follow up
  • Check on progress

Program includes: DVD (25 minutes), DVD extras (11 minutes), leaders guide, group training workbook, self-study workbook and PowerPoint presentation slides.

  • Pass It On: Coaching Skills for Managers - DVD $999.00 [Add to Cart]
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Avoiding Litigation Landmines - DVD

Free Online Preview

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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Working With You Is Killing Me - DVD

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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:

  • examine how their own reactions can enable the situation.
  • internalize a series of proven responses to problem behavior.
  • reinforce the message if the problem behavior returns.

Program includes: A 23 minute DVD or VHS, Leader's Guide, CD-ROM with PowerPoint Presentation and printable handout for the Optional Activity (Working With Bosses Who Are Killing You),10 Participant Workbooks and 10 Reminder Cards Related. Workbook are only sold with purchase or rental.

Online Training Option

  • 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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How to Handle Difficult People: Vol. 1, 2, & 3 - DVD

Free Online Preview

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.

  • How to Handle Difficult People: Vol. 1, 2, & 3 - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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The Supervisor Toolkit - DVD

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:

  • Hiring and Building Your Team
  • Planning, Prioritizing, and Delegating Tasks
  • Coaching and Training
  • Motivating, Encouraging and Giving Positive Feedback
  • Building Trust and Showing Respect
  • Handling Conflict
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Discipline and Giving Constructive Feedback

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 - DVD

Best-Seller!

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

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.

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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Communication Breakdown - DVD

Release - 2007

Free Online Preview

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:

  • Believing there is one reality
  • Choosing the wrong method
  • Responding defensively
  • Failing to share information
  • Failing to be direct
  • Breaching confidentiality
  • Failing to listen

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)

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In An Instant (Vol.1,2,3,4 DVD Set)

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:

  • How to deal with the individual who is always late
  • How to respond to someone with poor hygiene (and have them improve)
  • How to deal with an employee who has a substance abuse problem
  • It's not my job-- How to develop individuals as team players
  • How to discipline effectively
Volume 2:
  • How to be an effective time-manager
  • How to sell effectively
  • How to hire effective people
  • How to terminate an unproductive employee
  • How to run an effective meeting
Volume 3:
  • How to give feedback
  • How to get a commitment for action
  • How to be an effective motivator
  • How to help people be effective decision makers
  • How to help your people manage stress effectively
Volume 4:
  • How to delegate effectively
  • How to deal with conflicting employees
  • How to strengthen interpersonal impact
  • How to deal with procrastination
  • How to deal with closed-mindedness

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After All, You're the Supervisor - DVD

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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:

  • Acknowledge Your New Role
  • Plan and Prioritize
  • Be Accessible
  • Encourage Teamwork
  • Communicate Upward and Downward
  • Delegate
  • Discipline Effectively
  • Provide Feedback
  • Model the Way

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

  • 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

  • After All, You're the Supervisor - DVD $995.00 [Add to Cart]
  • After All, You're the Supervisor - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • After All, You're the Supervisor - Online Video Course $9.95 [Add to Cart]
  • After All, You're the Supervisor - Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
  • After All, You're the Supervisor - Workbook $15.95 [Add to Cart]
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AWESOME! (2 Part Program) - DVD

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

Request online preview!

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
To help you better prepare for the task of engaging, inspiring and productively channeling the energies of your new employees, we have created AWESOME!, a 2-part video-based training program. 

  • Part 1, “A New Generation @ Work”, presents 24 Gen Y employees from a wide range of occupations who share what makes them tick. (10 minutes) 
  • Part 2, “Engaging Gen Y”, introduces 5 managers who present their views on how to help Millennials succeed. You’ll be enlightened, energized and entertained! (10 minutes)

Support Materials - A comprehensive facilitation package accompanies the program and includes a facilitator’s guide, PowerPoint slides, reproducible handouts and program transcripts.

Online Streamed Video Training Option Includes:

  • Post training test
  • Trackable reporting results 24/7
  • Certificates of completion
  • Digital copies of the support materials
  • Customized for you at no additional cost - your logo, your polices and more
  • No need to download or install software - works with any standard browser  

Online Training Pricing:

  • 1 to 1000 $6 per person
  • 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
  • Minimum order for any one program $395.00
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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.

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Jamie's School Dinners Series: Managing Change and Living with Change DVD

Produced - 2005

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?

Jamie's School Dinners: A recipe for managing and living with change, a new 2-part program brings change to life in an easy to understand and inspirational way. It's broken down into a series of digestible lessons to help you and your employees deal with change when it occurs in your workplace.

Part 1 - A Recipe for Managing Change Free Preview
Dealing with change is difficult, but managing change is even harder. Part 1 covers four key learning points that will help you manage and deliver a successful change process of your own.

Passion-Believing in what you are trying to achieve, and believing you can do it, is crucial.

People-Everyone reacts to change differently, but there are certain types of people that can be easily identified, (enthusiasts, gate keepers and resisters).

Planning-When implementing change, careful planning is essential and can determine whether it will be accepted or not.

Perseverance-With change you can nearly always guarantee resistance so determination is a must.

Part 2: A Recipe for Living with Change Free Preview
At some point every single member of your workforce will be confronted with change. By taking your employees through the four different stages, they'll soon realize that it doesn't have to bring with it widespread fear and confusion.

Reject it
Whatever the attitude to change - whether unexpected, unwelcome or simply unwanted - the initial reaction is always the same.

Resist it
'I was right to think that' is the next logical reaction. Any explanation, no matter how implausible, can be used to rationalize the initial denial.

Reflect on it
At this stage previous judgment begins to be questioned. The mind suddenly switches on to the possibilities that change might bring.

Resolve it
The challenge and excitement of new opportunities has triumphed over all the negative perceptions of change.

The benefits
-Engaging way to look at the complex subject of change
-Managers will learn how to introduce change in their organization
-Individuals will learn how to deal with change when it occurs
-Suitable for all levels of staff across the organization
-Real life examples on managing and living with change

Program includes: DVD Part 1 (26 mins), DVD Part 2 (19mins), course leader's guide, self study workbook and customizable worksheets.

  • Jamie's School Dinners Series: Managing Change and Living with Change DVD $1,495.00 [Add to Cart]
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5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - DVD

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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:

  • Ideas, answers and solutions are born from the people closest to the work.
  • Conflicts are resolved and group dynamics are redirected in a positive way.
  • Employees become critical thinkers and have a sense of buy-in.
  • Ideas and solutions are successfully implemented.

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.

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

  • 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - DVD 5 Day Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
  • 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask - Online Course $9.95 [Add to Cart]
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Complete Hell Series - DVD

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!
There’s an art to being a good boss, but some people have yet to learn the right skills. Some typical examples will raise a smile in this collection of clips from videos such as Can you spare a moment?, The helping hand, The best of motives, Where there’s a will and I’d like a word with you. Free Preview

Colleagues From Hell!
You can rarely choose who you work with, and there are some characters that are a nightmare to deal with day-to-day. They’re typified in these clips in From ‘No’ to ‘yes’, Talking to the team, The paper chase, Straight talking and other programs. Free Preview

Communicators From Hell!
Some people just don’t know how to communicate at work, and need a helpful push through training to get the skills right. This amusing video really gets the message across. Free Preview

Customer service from Hell!
What can go wrong when you don’t have the right service skills? These amusing clips show the types of gaffes that can be avoided. Free Preview

Customers from Hell!
Difficult, demanding and down-right dangerous customers crop up in this collection of light-hearted clips.

Free Preview Employees From Hell!
Being a manager can feel like the hardest job in the world, especially when you’re dealing with Employees from Hell! This collection comes from titles including The dreaded appraisal, Managing problem people and Oh what the hell. Free Preview

Interviewers From Hell!
A light-hearted 10-minute look at interview gaffes and nightmares, featuring clips from classic John Cleese programs. Suitable as an ice-breaker, meeting break or to reinforce key interview skills learning points. Free Preview

Public Services from Hell!
Dealing with the public is a responsible position - but the service from some of those in authority leaves a lot to be desired in this selection of blunders.

Salespeople from Hell!
A collection of clips from award-winning Video Arts titles that confirm your worst fears about the sort of salespeople that give you hell. Free Preview

Teams from Hell!
A light-hearted look at what happens when teams aren't performing up to expectations, featuring clips from Talking To The Team, Meetings, Bloody Meetings and From 'No' To 'Yes'Free Preview

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!

Magic of We - DVD

Best-Seller

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:

  • Gain first hand knowledge and experience. Walk your "four corners". (Leadership)
  • Understand the team's mission and each individual's role. (Teamwork)
  • Step outside your day-to-day environment to change your perspective. (Problem Solving)
  • Help create a work environment that brings down barriers to talking, listening, and sharing. (Communication)
  • Cultivate a culture of "us vs. the problem," not "department vs. department." (Lean Manufacturing)

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.

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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Accountability Toolkit (Government Version) - DVD
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.

In these categories, the clips can be used to make the following points:

~ Take Ownership and Keep Commitments - When accepting responsibility for a task or project, take full ownership and do what you say you're going to do. For clarity, set deadlines-then keep them. When necessary, communicate and renegotiate commitments that cannot be met.

~ Be Proactive - Take the initiative in seeking improvements to processes and practices. Work to improve your own skills, and influence others toward improvement.

~ Communicate With Clarity and Set Measurable Goals - Getting to the right result requires clear agreements and an understanding of expectations and instructions. Accountability for results begins with clear directions, and places responsibility on both parties for clarification.

~ Be Ethical - Know what's right-by law, by policy, by procedure, by best professional practice-and act accordingly. Make decisions for the best outcome when two "rights" conflict. Speak out when someone acts unethically.

~ Be a Problem-Solver - Apply your own experience and knowledge to every problem. With this problem-solving mindset, you'll plan and take action towards a solution, rather than waiting for others to get things started.

~ Serve the Public Professionally - Every person you serve and work with deserves your best effort, whether it's a problem to be solved or a transaction to complete. Know the technical and procedural aspects of your work and bring a positive attitude to the service you provide -- the public expects competence and is paying you for it.

~ Don't Be Afraid to Speak-Up - Know what you need and what you deserve. In a professional manner, let others know it too. Those you work with and for may not realize when their actions are getting in the way. Claim what you need to do your best work.

~ Accept Feedback and Learn From Mistakes - Learning and changing direction happen quickly and frequently in an accountable environment. Listen non-defensively, give proper consideration to what's being said, choose to adjust, and move on.

~ Supervising and Managing an Accountable Workforce - Often held accountable for the work of others, managers and supervisors must first model accountable behaviors, then learn to require this type of personal responsibility from those who report to them. The manager's tone of voice, choice of words and standard-setting behaviors can make or break an accountable workteam!

The Toolkit package includes a Leader's Guide with discussion questions for each clip that will help stimulate further discussion and learning.

Program Includes

  • Chaptered video clips on DVD
  • Chaptered video clips on CD-ROM for importing into powerpoint presentations
  • Leader's Guide PDF on the CD-ROM
  • Flash Tutorial and Instructions on how to import video clips into a PowerPoint Presentation on the CD-ROM

  • Accountability Toolkit (Government Version) - DVD $695.00 [Add to Cart]
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Performance Matters Series: Importance of Praise & Constructive Criticism - DVD

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
This new program makes the point that giving praise where it's due is a management tool that's powerful, cheap and easy to use. It can bring amazing results in terms of increasing the quality and quantity of the output of the people who work for them, providing it is correctly applied. (Length: 21 minutes)

The benefits:

  • Addresses the reasons why managers don't praise
  • Shows the value of adding praise to the corporate culture
  • Makes managers aware that it's important to seek opportunities to praise staff
  • Provides six easily-remembered rules for praising staff correctly
  • Proves that praising is not a natural gift but a learnable skill

Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism Free Preview
Nobody enjoys being criticized, which is why few managers relish the prospect of criticizing their staff - yet it has to be done. Everyone makes mistakes, but no-one can be allowed to go on making the same mistake - and people shouldn't have to wait until an appraisal to discover they have done something wrong.

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:

  • Helps managers understand that criticism is an essential part of a manager's responsibilities
  • Shows why people should only be criticized for what they've done, not what they are
  • Emphasizes how criticism done badly can make things worse
  • Lays down seven rules for ensuring that criticism is conducted effectively and without acrimony

  • Performance Matters Series: Importance of Praise & Constructive Criticism - DVD $1,595.00 [Add to Cart]
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Coaching for Results - DVD

Produced - 1994

Free Preview

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:

  • Introducing the problem in a non-threatening way and exploring the use of cause and effect questions
  • Drawing out a solution for the individual being coached, and checking understanding of ideas.
  • Agreeing a follow up plan and setting review dates

The resource DVD expands upon this three-step model and shows coaching in practice. Three short programs examine:

  • Coaching Skills ' which employs humor to show how coaching differs from other, apparently similar, people management skills.
  • Coaching Live ' a fly-on-the-wall documentary that illustrates successful coaching in real life.
  • Making a Case for Coaching ' Brooke Bond Foods has successfully introduced a coaching system in its production plants. By empowering staff to solve their own problems, the time taken over completing a vital task is cut from two days to two hours!

Program includes: DVD (25 mins), Resource DVD (45 mins), self study DVD (25 mins), training guide, coaching resource guide and self study workbook.

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Audio Click 'n Training - Reducing Turnover and Increasing Retention PowerPoint

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:

  • Identify the costs of excessive turnover
  • Calculate and analyze your department’s turnover rate
  • Determine causes of turnover among your employees
  • Understand what your employees want from their jobs
  • Develop an effective turnover reduction strategy

This time-saving program includes everything you need:

  • An audio presentation a movie-like version of the PowerPoint® presentation with audio included for out-of-the box classroom training.
  • A fully prepared PowerPoint® presentation fully researched and expertly designed meetings on this key topic.
  • Reproducible handouts print and photocopy the handouts to reinforce the training.
  • Interactive exercises gain involvement with exercises to increase comprehension.
  • Quizzes test your employees’ knowledge.
  • Completion certificate tangible recognition of successful completion of training
  • Trainer’s guide helps identify key training issues for this topic and useful training tips.

  • Audio Click 'n Training - Reducing Turnover and Increasing Retention PowerPoint $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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Documenting Discipline II - DVD

Released - 2007

Free Online Preview

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:

  • FOSA: Facts, Objectives, Solutions, Actions
  • Incidence diaries
  • Disciplinary action memos
  • Progressive discipline

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 talk

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Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - DVD

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:

  • Be aware of the different types of negative attitudes
  • Know how to diagnose an attitude problem in themselves or their colleagues
  • Recognize the need to take responsibility for a negative attitude and its consequences
  • Learn how to replace old, ineffective reactions with adaptable, productive responses
  • Know how to follow through in order to reinforce new, positive behavior

Program Includes: A 20 minute VHS or DVD of Main Program and Discussion Segments, Leader's Guide, sample Participant Workbook.

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

  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - Online Course $9.95 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace (Government Version) DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
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Curse of the Vanishing Employees - DVD

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:

  • Inspire a climate of loyalty
  • Keep individuals challenged
  • Motivate and reward
  • Discipline without demoralizing
  • Be flexible without compromising productivity

Program Contents: A 20 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide

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

  • Curse of the Vanishing Employees - DVD $795.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Curse of the Vanishing Employees - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Curse of the Vanishing Employees - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Curse of the Vanishing Employees - Online Course $9.95 [Add to Cart]
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50 Case Studies For Management and Supervisory Training

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

  • Summary of the case
  • Discussion questions which evoke thought and analysis
  • Suggested solutions to the problems presented
Training Objectives
  • Improve participant's listening skills
  • Empower employees to negotiate
  • solutions fairly
  • Provide opportunities for participants to practice new skills in a supportive environment
  • Illustrate the skills needed to respond productively to complex issues
Activities Cover
  • Performance appraisal
  • Managing effectively
  • Sexual harassment/discrimination
  • Managing disruptive employees
  • Coaching/counseling employees
  • Hiring the right person

400 page 3 ring binder

  • 50 Case Studies For Management and Supervisory Training $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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The Practical Coach - DVD

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...

 

  • For good work, When you see it, say it.
  • For poor work, Make it private, and positive.
  • For a dead-end performer, The Two Minute Challenge

Program Includes:

  • 1 24 minute video "The Practical Coach"
  • 10 Pocket Reminder Cards
  • 1 Workbook

 

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The Unorganized Manager: Part 1 - DVD

Featuring John Cleese

Free Preview

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

  • Ideal for incorporating into time management and delegation courses at junior management level
  • Engaging and humorous plot to make messages highly memorable
  • Wrong-way, right-way scenarios help managers learn practical skills

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

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The Unorganized Manager: Part 2 - DVD

Featuring John Cleese, Nigel Lindsay and Beatie Edney. Release date: 1996

Free Preview

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

  • Ideal for incorporating into time management and delegation courses at junior management level
  • Engaging and humorous plot to make messages highly memorable
  • Wrong-way, right-way scenarios help managers learn practical skills

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