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The John Cleese "...From Hell" Series - DVD

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!

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Leadership: an Art of Possibility - DVD

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Experience the phenomenon of Ben Zander, world-renowned conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, as he expressively teaches a new and improved style of leadership in the exciting video training program Leadership: an Art of Possibility.

The new leaders job is to SPEAK POSSIBILITY. To speak possibility you do not need to be the top guy in the elegant suit. You can speak possibility from any position, in any group of people, anywhere in the world. This leader keeps a possibility alive until every person involved in the project is enrolled in it. As Ben often says, when you are conducting an orchestra it does not work to have just some of the players involved. A great performance arises out of everyone's passion. And a great performance stirs the soul, rearranges ones molecules, connects ones being to the being of others.

This kind of leadership increases the resources of an institution immeasurably in terms of energy, flexibility, and speed of response to a fast-paced world.

Key Learning Point:

  • Speak Possibility
  • Recognize the downward spiral and enroll people in the journey to Radiating Possibility
  • Lead by making others more powerful (The conductor does not make a sound)
  • Look for shining eyes
  • Quiet the voice in the head that says "I can't do it"
  • Everyone gets an "A" (Give people a possibility to live into, not an expectation to live up to)
  • Remember Rule #6!

Package Includes: A 27 minute DVD or VHS & Leader's Guide

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Purchase both the Leadership: An Art Of Possibility & Attitude Radiating Possibility (2 DVD Set)for $1,495.00. (A $400 savings)

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  • Leadership: An Art Of Possibility & Attitude Radiating Possibility (2 DVD Set) $1,495.00 [Add to Cart]
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Do Right! The Plan - DVD

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Produced - 2006

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Lou Holtz is recognized as one of the premier football coaches in NCAA history. During his extraordinary career, Lou inherited six losing football program all of which he transformed into winners. Lou's plan for success never failed to lead his teams to a bowl game within two years. While times and teams change, Lou has proven that this plan consistently leads to success.

In 1988, Lou Holtz filmed Do Right an examination of the three values at the heart of his success. Shortly thereafter, Do Right became the best selling corporate film in America.

In Do Right The Plan, Lou Holtz illustrates the way to apply these values to achieve individual and organizational success. Through trial and error, victory and defeat, every success begins with two things: a vision and a plan.

  • A vision gives us the direction necessary to achieve our goals.
  • A plan is the vehicle by which we achieve our goals.

A plan consists of four key elements:

  • Have A Positive Attitude
  • Focus
  • Be A Dreamer
  • Be Passionate

Lou Holtz illustrates how many of America's most influential leaders nurtured success by focusing on these key elements, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Super Bowl Champion Jerome Bettis, and Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Do Right The Plan teaches audiences how to develop the vision and the plan essential to achieving their goals. Along with the enduring values illustrated in Do Right, the message of Do Right The Plan guides individuals, organizations and teams to consistent and lasting success.

Length: 35 minutes

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Attitude: Radiating Possibility! - DVD

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Ben Zander, Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra -

Every Human being is brought into the world Radiating Possibility. The trick is to keep that song going.

You know how when you are listening to music you love, or when you are dancing, the worries and apprehensions of the day melt away and you feel part of something larger than yourself? There is a reason for this. Music touches our emotions and reaches us on a visceral level. It quickens our pace, sets our feet tapping and calls us to dance. Music draws us into a universal experience where we feel connected to all human beings. This is called transformation.

What if there was a way to step into that experience of aliveness and connection on an everyday basis? How powerful it might be to leave behind the anxiety and pressure that are part of the competitive mindset, and connect with others through their dreams and visions! Ben Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic with his partner, executive coach and author Roz Zander, are world-renowned speakers and teachers of the practices of possibility.

In this moving program, Ben and his wife Rosamund expressively coach employees to accelerate their pace of interaction, have courage in the face of fear, and enter the dance.

Key Learning Points:

  • Sit in the front row of your life. Participate!
  • Quiet the "Voice in your head" that says "I can't do it."
  • Live in Radiating Possibility. Become a part of the song!
  • Invent a New Game: "I am a contribution."

Includes: A 17 minute DVD or VHS & Leader's Guide

Buy the Set and Save:
Purchase both the An Art Of Possibility & Attitude Radiating Possibility (2 DVD Set)for $1,495.00. (A $400 savings)

  • Attitude: Radiating Possibility! - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude: Radiating Possibility! - VHS $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Attitude: Radiating Possibility! - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Leadership: An Art Of Possibility & Attitude Radiating Possibility (2 DVD Set) $1,495.00 [Add to Cart]
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Life’s Lessons: Leadership - DVD

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

Life’s Lessons: Leadership inspires us all to let out the leader inside! Motivational and educational, this program helps us all see the leaders we can be, and how we can help others to do their absolute best in any organization

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

Program Includes: A 3 minute DVD or VHS Video, (includes Full program with music and narration, Music only (no narration) & Continuous play options.

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Meetings, Bloody Meetings - DVD

Featuring John Cleese

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Too many meeting are genuine nightmares. They lack preparation, direction, and worst of all, results.

Thankfully, there's Meetings, Bloody Meetings. This award-winning program, remade in 1993, is essential viewing for anyone who chairs meetings. You'll learn how to make your get-togethers shorter, more focused, and more productive. And you'll find plenty to laugh at along the way.

John Cleese's nightmare meetings land him in court for negligent conduct of meetings. The court pronounces Cleese guilty of all five counts: failing to prepare, failing to inform others, failing to plan the agenda, failing to control the discussion, and failing to record the decisions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Plan meetings in advance
  • Prepare a detailed agenda
  • Pre-notify attendees
  • Control the discussion
  • Summarize and record decisions

Suggested Uses:

  • Meeting management
  • Time Management
  • Internal communication

Includes: 31 minute videocassette and Leader's Guide.

*Also available in French and Spanish

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Life’s Lessons: Motivation - DVD

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

Life’s Lessons: Motivation encourages people to do their best, work to their fullest potential and achieve greatness within themselves. This motivational short program is a wonderful way to help inspire any organization.

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

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

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

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Quick Wits

This compendium of activities will add real value to your training by taking critical thinking skills out of the box and into the workplace. Learners will sharpen their critical thinking skills and develop a thought process that are creative, accurate, and assumption-free.

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Remember Me? - DVD

Available in English and Spanish

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If you could purchase just one customer service training program, this would be it. It's a 10-minute gem that's easily adaptable to current training programs. It's also an ideal training tool around which an entire training program can be developed. Either way you'll have unforgettable customer service training at your disposal.

The 3rd Edition has also been expanded to include Meeting Opener and Meeting Closer segments that emphasize the message of Customer Service at it's best.

  • Customers can forgive mistakes but not bad attitudes
  • Poorly treated customers spread the word
  • Customers will take their business elsewhere without a second thought
  • Exceeding customer expectations is the key to building customer loyalty and a healthy bottom line

Program Contents: A 16 minute VHS or DVD with Opener and Closer segments, Leader's Guide, Follow-up Activity Pack, 10 Reminder Cards.

Online Training Option:
This program is also available for online training, click here for details

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Ethics 4 Everyone - DVD

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

Ethics 4 Everyone beautifully illustrates the cause-and-effect of corporate and individual responsibility, offering do-able solutions, including how to make decisions that ensure a greater ethical response to business issues.

Discover what some of the world's most respected public and private sector concerns have learned about long-term organizational viability.

Ethics 4 Everyone teaches viewers:

  • The Three Rs of ethics: respect, responsibility and results
  • How to say 'no' with tact
  • How to manage conflicting rights
  • How to 'walk the (ethics) talk'

Program Contents: A 15 minute DVD or video, Leader's guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Copies of the book "Ethics 4 Everyone" and 10 Reminder Cards

Online Training Option: This program is also available for online training - click here for details

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Do Right with Lou Holtz - DVD

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Do Right II is the follow-up to the best selling motivational video Do Right. In Do Right II, Lou Holtz focuses on the importance of teamwork, the cornerstone of every individual and organizational success. Lou Holtz discusses the four fundamental factors at the heart of every successful team or organization:

  • Develop a sense of purpose – a clear, strong and common goal
  • Communicate your goal
  • Utilize the diverse individual talents of everyone in your organization
  • Empower others to make their own decisions

Lou Holtz inspires listeners with a sense of teamwork, commitment to excellence, organizational loyalty, and personal dedication. Filmed in 1991, Do Right II continues to instill pride and dedication in executives, employees, students and athletes.

Includes: 35 minute DVD or video

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Give`em the Pickle! - DVD

Best-Seller

Your business is not what you sell, it's who you serve. Meet Bob Farrell, founder of Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant, as he serves up the most important aspect of any service business taking care of the customer. We're all in the same business, the people business. Our job is to make customers happy. What's the best way to do that? By giving out pickles. Pickles are those special or extra things you do to make people happy. The trick is figuring out what your customers want and then making sure they get it. That's the pickle.

Make sure your employees have the scoop on effective customer service with this fun, lighthearted and highly effective training tool. Viewers will learn what it takes to foster and maintain customer loyalty.

Participants will learn to:

  • Service-Make serving others your #1 priority. You work in a noble profession, be proud of what you do.
  • Attitude-Choose your attitude. How you think about your customers is how you will treat them.
  • Consistency-Set high standards, and stick to them. Customers return because they liked what happened last time.
  • Teamwork-Look for ways to make each other look good. In the end, everything ends up in front of the customer!

    * also available on VHS

    Program Contents:DVD or Video, Leader's Guide with reproducible handouts, Give 'Em the Pickle hardback book, 10 Reminder Cards and 10 Pickle Pins

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Great Games for Trainers

Customer Favorite!

Add new life to your training programs! Here's a collection of 75 games that will reinvigorate any training session. There is something here for every trainer and every training situation - from light-hearted energizers to thought-provoking closure activi ties. The games are based on current trends in the world of training, so they're sure to be a relevant accompaniment to your current training programs on team building, diversity issues, leadership, change, and more!

Training Methods

  • Attention switchers
  • Case studies
  • Energizers
  • Questionnaires
  • Introductions
  • Evaluations
  • Icebreakers

Topics Include

  • Equal opportunities
  • Stress management
  • Group processes
  • Leadership
  • Team building
  • Creativity
  • Corporate ethics
  • Assertiveness

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Smile! - DVD
The program is a fun, entertaining way to start any meeting. After a short ride on the #27 with Reggie, your people will be ready to work with you to explore creating a SMILE! culture in your company or organization.

The SMILE! customer service training program offers a complete package to help you facilitate a training session around the topics of:

  • choosing a positive attitude
  • the role of attitude in the customer service interaction
  • how to handle any customer - and still feel good
  • how to get out of the downward spiral of a bad day
  • the importance of choice in our lives

The SMILE! training package includes:

  • 1 - 12 minute video or DVD
  • 1 - 25 page Facilitator's Guide complete with large group and small group exercises, participant sheets (reproducible) and background articles about the Inside-Out Model for Customer Service, creating joy at work and the value of laughter at work.
  • 10 - Buttons (just like Reggie's SMILE sign)

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More Bloody Meetings - DVD

Best-Seller Featuring John Cleese

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Too many meeting are genuine nightmares. They lack preparation, direction, and worst of all, results.

Thankfully, there's Meetings, Bloody Meetings. This award-winning program, remade in 1993, is essential viewing for anyone who chairs meetings. You'll learn how to make your get-togethers shorter, more focused, and more productive. And you'll find plenty to laugh at along the way.

John Cleese's nightmare meetings land him in court for negligent conduct of meetings. The court pronounces Cleese guilty of all five counts: failing to prepare, failing to inform others, failing to plan the agenda, failing to control the discussion, and failing to record the decisions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Plan meetings in advance
  • Prepare a detailed agenda
  • Pre-notify attendees
  • Control the discussion
  • Summarize and record decisions

Suggested Uses:

  • Meeting management
  • Time Management
  • Internal communication

Includes: 31 minute videocassette and Leader's Guide.