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Continuous Process Improvement - Facilitator Kit

Packaged Training Program: Integrated Curriculum

Don't be fooled by the myth that just because a process worked well in the past that theres no need to improve it. Needs and demands are constantly changing and so must the methods for meeting them. This comprehensive program takes a systematic approach to Continuous Process Improvement (CPI), incorporating customer feedback and fact-based decision making, to ensure that process performance improvement efforts maximize key business result areas and competitiveness.

Skill-Based Program Content

Intro: CPI Concepts And Methodology

  • Following the supplier-producer customer chain
  • Defining process relationships
  • Applying a systematic CPI model

Unit 1: Selecting A Process To Improve

  • Determining core customer segments
  • Defining customer requirements
  • Selecting processes to improve

Unit 2: Analyzing A Process

  • Creating a process flow chart
  • Assessing value-added versus non value-added tasks
  • Determining process measures

Unit 3: Measuring Process Performance

  • Displaying and interpreting measurement data
  • Uncovering process improvement gaps
  • Identifying process problem areas

Unit 4: Improving A Process

  • Developing an improvement plan that defines goals and responsibilities
  • Negotiating improvement goals with customers and suppliers
  • Applying a problem-solving model

Unit 5: Evaluating Improvement Efforts

  • Tracking and analyzing the impact of improvement efforts
  • Developing a transition plan
  • Standardizing processes for sustained performance

Facilitator Kit: The Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

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

Participant Kit: Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

  • Participant Workbook
  • Participant Tools on CD-ROM
  • Five Practical Guidebooks: Continuous Process Improvement; Continuous Improvement Tools, Volume 1; Continuous Improvement Tools, Volume 2; Step-by-Step to Problem Solving
  • Pocket Reference Cards
  • Certificate of Completion

Facilitator Start-Up Package: The Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) includes one Facilitator Kit and ten Participant Kits.

Program Length: 3 Days/Flexible Training Options

  • Continuous Process Improvement - Facilitator Kit $1,395.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Continuous Process Improvement: Participant Kit $235.00 [Add to Cart]
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HighPERFORMANCE Management: Facilitator Kit

Human Resource Executive Top 10 Training Product for 2002

Packaged Training Program Integrated Curriculum

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

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

Skill-Based Program Content

Unit 1: Planning Successful Employee Performance

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

Unit 2: Coaching For Peak Employee Performance

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

Unit 3: Evaluating Employee Performance

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program Length: 2 Days/Flexible Training Options

  • HighPERFORMANCE Management: Facilitator Kit $999.99 [Add to Cart]
  • HighPERFORMANCE Management: Participant Kit $135.00 [Add to Cart]
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Living The Vision On The Job: Facilitator Kit

A Personal Commitment To The Organizational Strategy

An organization's strategic vision is a roadmap for the future. It defines the direction in which the organization is headed, the market position it intends to occupy, and the capabilities it plans to develop. Through Living The Vision On The Job, participants learn how to develop and align their personal visions, missions, and values with those of their organization to become more self-motivated and productive.

Skill-Based Program Content

  • Aligning the work of employees with the organization's vision
  • Achieving the organization's mission through day-to-day work activities
  • Modeling the core values of the organization when interacting with customers and associates

Facilitator Kit:
The Living The Vision On The Job Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

  • Facilitator Guide
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Online Tools
  • Participant Kit (See below)

Participant Kit:
Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each Living The Vision On The Job Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

  • Participant Workbook

  • Living The Vision On The Job: Facilitator Kit $349.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Living The Vision On The Job: Participant Kit $49.00 [Add to Cart]
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Step-By-Step Problem Solving: Facilitator Kit

Ensure Problems Get and Stay Solved

It sometimes seems that there is a never-ending stream of problems to solve in business. Ironically, many are not new. They are recurring problems that never seem to go away. Step-By-Step Problem Solving shows participants how to get at the underlying causes of these problems and not just the symptoms so they get solved and stay solved.

Skill-Based Program Content

  • Applying a six-step problem-solving model
  • Developing problem-solving skills
  • Defining the problem
  • Analyzing potential causes
  • Identifying and selecting the best solutions
  • Developing an action plan
  • Implementing solutions and evaluating progress
  • Applying problem-solving tools

Facilitator Kit:
The Step-By-Step Problem Solving Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

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

Participant Kit:
Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each Step-By-Step Problem Solving Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

  • Participant Workbook
  • Guidebooks: Step-By-Step Problem Solving; Team Decision-Making Techniques

  • Step-By-Step Problem Solving: Facilitator Kit $499.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Step-By-Step Problem Solving: Participant Kit $59.99 [Add to Cart]
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Quality: You Don't Have to Be Sick to Get Better - DVD

Free Online Preview

This dramatic program by international quality expert Dr. Richard Chang shows employees how their personal actions can make a huge difference throughout their entire organization and ultimately in the minds of the customers who benefit from the products or services supplied by their organization.

Managers and other leaders will receive practical steps for implementing quality and for showing their employees who express resistance to ongoing improvement how changes in their processes can make a tremendous impact.

Training Points:

  • How to define needs and expectations of the customer
  • How to analyze, measure, and improve work processes
  • How to achieve quality at the individual level

Run time 20 minutes

  • Quality: You Don't Have to Be Sick to Get Better - DVD $795.95 [Add to Cart]
  • Quality: You Don't Have to Be Sick to Get Better -DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
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Empowering Employees - DVD

Enpowerment is the ability to let other assume the responsibilities, risks and rewards associated with making their own decisions. Are your employees empowered? Can they make decisions without having to ask their supervisor? Do you feel comfortable with them representing your company?

To help your company grow and thrive in today's competitive marketplace your employees need to play a major role in its success. They must make decisions that will enhance the productivity of your organization, and they must take ownership of both successes and problems. Discover how to make this happen with the new video training program Empowering Employees.

You'll learn:

  • What empowerment really means and how it can help your company grow
  • Which employees you can empower and why
  • The six key factors needed to empower your employees and motivate them for success
  • What really motivates your employees
  • When and how to provide needed feedback!

The Empowering Employees video training program comes complete with a DVD, audio CD and copy of the book Empowering Employees by L. Kristi Long.

Available in NTSC and PAL. Length: 30 minutes.

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Stephen Covey's Lessons in Leadership Series - DVD

Dr. Stephen Covey, founder and chair of the Covey Leadership Center and author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, once again brings us an inspirational set of leadership training programs. The series breaks new ground, shifting the paradigm in ways that will surprise even the most seasoned leader. For instance:

A Grander Goal takes a striking look at character, bringing to bear that which is at once the simplest and most complex: love and forgiveness. It's a story of how one man's unselfish character is providing direction for young unemployed men in Uganda. (11 minutes)

Journey to Discovery tells the tale of a successful writer at a crossroads, a man questioning his life from a personal and professional perspective. Unable to write, he wanders the streets and finds the character he needs to once again take pen in hand. This heartwarming story (and its surprise ending!) will help your leaders rediscover the passion from which breakthroughs and innovations arise.(14 minutes)

A Better Way offers a new approach to the concept of 'win-win.' It's an intriguing look at three South African retailers, each facing unique challenges to one common concern: increasing profitability. They find increased profits - and more - with customers, vendors and employees by simply shifting from an attitude of competition to one of cooperation. (15 minutes)

Law of the Harvest provides an enlightening look at the true meaning of 'reaping what you sow.' Viewers meet a potato farmer whose story exemplifies that the technology and quick fixes many of us have come to rely on are no substitute for patience, perseverance and preparation(7 minutes).

Throughout this series the lesson is clear: there is plenty in this world for everyone if we work with integrity, respect and cooperation. Each is an excellent stand-alone program; used together, they comprise a comprehensive multi-session training program.

program contents:DVD or Video, 4 programs (A Grander Goal, Journey to Discovery, A Better Way and Law of the Harvest), Leader's Guide and Participant's Workbook

  • Stephen Covey's Lessons in Leadership Series - DVD $2,399.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Stephen Covey's Lessons in Leadership Series - DVD Rental $780.00 [Add to Cart]
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50 Activities for Promoting Ethics within the Organization

This title is divided into five sections. Each section has ten exercises designed to stimulate discussion and promote inquiry regarding business ethics. The activities focus on Leadership, Corporate Citizenship, Salesmanship, Management, and Teamwork. Contributing to this collection is a range of trainers from a wide variety of disciplines and locations, including Europe, India, Canada, and a broad cross-section of the United States.

Training Objectives

  • Increase ethics awareness among managers, teams and sales personnel
  • Help develop values and guidelines
  • Provide training activities to support organizational ethics policies
  • Provide activities for practice in ethical decision-making

Training Methods

  • Icebreakers
  • Assessments
  • Role plays
  • Games

Time Guidelines: 50 activities vary in length from 15 minutes to 60 minutes.

  • 50 Activities for Promoting Ethics within the Organization $159.99 [Add to Cart]
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Values and Ethics: Situations for Discussion - DVD

Free Online Preview

Lay a strong foundation for building and maintaining healthy corporate ethics. Program contains short dramatic vignettes that demonstrate typical every day situations of employees exhibiting questionable ethics.

As your managers struggle with the issues of ethics in the workplace, they may realize that your employees often do not have a clear understanding of the difference between ethical and unethical business practices.

The success of organizations who train their employees on ethics offers proof that honesty really is the best policy - for both your organization and your employees. That's why it's critical for you to clearly communicate exactly what the ethical and moral expectations are for your employees. Your organization's bottom line depends on it!

Values and Ethics can help your organization reduce wasted time and money, while increasing employee morale, confidentiality and productivity.

Synopsis

Values and Ethics is a series of 12 short dramatic What Would You Do? vignettes. Each situation is followed by a short video break to allow for group discussion. After each discussion, you can summarize by communicating your organization's policy on the situation presented.

Some video situations include:

  • Using an organization's toll-free number, copier and office supplies for personal use
  • Abusing confidential privileges
  • Wasting company time
  • Not being honest with coworkers and managers

Participants will learn to use the three-step checklist to decide if each situation is ethical: 1) Is it legal? 2) Is it a win-win situation? 3) Would you do the same thing if someone you respected were watching?

Key Training Points:

  • Recognize unethical employee behaviors
  • Implement ethical business practices
  • Understand your corporate ethics philosophy
  • Respond correctly to ethical situations
  • Develop a clear understanding of business ethics
  • Reduce wasted time, money and productivity
  • Discuss the three-step checklist to ethical decision making

Length: 12 min. Includes Training Leader's Guide and Doing the Right Thing book

  • Values and Ethics: Situations for Discussion - DVD $550.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Values and Ethics: Situations for Discussion - DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
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Verbal Communication: The Power of Words - DVD

Poor communication can create chaos in the workplace. The point is clearly illustrated as this award-winning video visits a newsroom and a hospital where miscommunication reigns. We guarantee you won't forget the lessons.

This film helps you teach people how to speak and listen responsibly for essential results: quality of product, more error-free efficiency, higher productivity, smoother performance and better human relationships. After more than a decade as a best-seller, this film has been updated with a new infusion of training power so needed for the era of empowerment, diversity management and total quality.

LEARNING POINTS:
  • Participants will learn to choose clear, meaningful language, listen actively, completely and with empathy. They will additionally learn to ensure two-way understanding and more.
  • Length: 22 Min
  • Includes: Leader's Guide
  • Verbal Communication: The Power of Words - DVD $795.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Verbal Communication: The Power of Words - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Verbal Communications: The Power of Words: Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Dashboard - DVD

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

 Free Online Preview

The Dashboard tells the compelling story of one company's unique approach to gathering and distributing information about the health of their organization.

Younger Brothers Construction was struggling to make the transition from a good company to a great one. People throughout the company had different ideas of the company's goals, and while they "measured everything that moved", they didn't always know how to act on their findings. Working together, the management team at Younger Brothers set an over-arching goal for the company: to build homes faster, better, and cheaper. To reach that goal, they realized they needed measures, but first they had to prioritize and narrow down the many metrics they currently tracked.

After gaining consensus on what measures mattered the most in the achievement of their goal, Younger Brothers created their "dashboard" - a single graphical tool which displayed key factors describing the company's current performance. Like the dashboard of a car, this tool provided an instant reading of how they were doing. If the needle was in the green, that metric was good. If it was in the red, problems needed to be solved…immediately. It was distributed to employees throughout the company and everyone knew how to read the gauges and act on those readings.

This approach changed the way Younger Brothers did business and the results were dramatic. Their productivity and profits rose, safety improved, and everyone could see how they contributed to the company's success.

After viewing The Dashboard program and participating in the workshop exercises, trainees will:

* Recognize the need for measurement within their department or organization Identify metrics that can lead to improved performance

* Begin to set up a plan to measure and respond to selected metrics.

Program Includes: 7.5 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide with reproducible participant worksheets, CD-ROM with PowerPoint Presentation and worksheets 

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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The Goal: The Dramatic Version (DVD)

Production Date - 1995 / Length: 46 minutes 

Free Online Preview 

Like the outstanding and best-selling business book upon which it is based, The Goal shares the inspiring story of Alex Rogo, who used principles like bottlenecks, throughput, and the theory of constraints to transform his mediocre division into a money-making machine. Alex and his team reject common perform measurements and discover a commonsense, yet more effective approach to boosting the company's bottom line. If you're tasked to meet organizational goals, this program can put you well over the mark. An engaging how-to drama, it not only demystifies corporate buzzwords like standards and benchmarking but also shows how to run your company with efficiency and humanity. The Goal is based on Eli Goldratt's book.

Key Training Points: 

  • How to identify and eliminate system bottlenecks
  • How to measure the viability of new ideas
  • How to rally your team behind the improvement process
  • How to revisit the entire process to facilitate ongoing improvement

Added features and benefits of DVD training include: 

  • English and Spanish versions - many also include Portuguese
  • A customizable PowerPoint presentation
  • Informative training points and bonus material for refresher or training talks
  • Video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates discussion
  • A printable Leader's Guide
  • Resourceful web links to organizations such as OSHA, FEMA, NSC and the CDC, where viewers can download and print information on regulatory standards
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Rapid Skillbulder Process Improvement 10 Pack

The Process Improvement SkillBuilder provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in this competency. The 12 page booklet takes the learner through 6 developmental steps: Choose, Challenge, Collect, Compare, Consult & Change. These steps outline how managers can analyze and change any organizational process to improve it.

Each packet contains 10 booklets.

  • Rapid Skillbulder Process Improvement 10 Pack $99.99 [Add to Cart]
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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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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

 


 

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!