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 Business Innovation & Creativity
Stretch your employees' thinking and boost their creativity through the 4 key actions outlined in this program: viewpoint alteration, breaking of mental habits, generation of alternatives and finding similarities. Practice these methods through a series of challenges that illustrate creative problem-solving methods. How-To Training Points:
Added features and benefits of DVD training include:
Length: 22 minutes
 The ‘green’ approach to life started as a grass-roots, community-based movement. It has now permeated the mainstream to the point where businesses across the globe realize that adopting an environmentally sound philosophy is essential – not only to maintain credibility and protect the bottom line, but also to attract the best employees. People expect business to be at the fore with regard to sustainability – to lead changes in thinking and behaviour. This program discusses the benefits of ‘green’ workplaces. The lead must come from the top - managers and business owners find themselves needing to be increasingly in tune with sustainable and ecological thinking. We hear from leading business people and sustainability experts about environmental corporate culture and practices and gain an insight into how to effectively implement a policy and strategy.
 After reinventing itself years ago from a software-for-PCs producer to a software-for-the-enterprise producer, Microsoft is now in the midst of a multi-year initiative to transform itself again—to a software-plus-internet-services provider. And Microsoft remains committed to that transformation, notes Chris Capossela, despite the global economic downturn. In fact, it sees the crisis as an opportunity to rally all parts of the company behind its “big, big bets” for the next five to ten years. For the short term, Microsoft’s strategic direction to employees comes down to four simple guidelines: understand what they can and cannot control, prepare for an unknown length and depth of downturn, strengthen customer and partner relationships to grow market share, and act with a sense of urgency. For the longer term, the single-minded focus on its software-plus services initiative—which led to Xbox LIVE® and Exchange Online, for example—will continue to demand innovation on all fronts: technology, new business models, global pricing plans, and even naming and packaging practices. Program Highlights
Chris Capossela is responsible for worldwide product and business management for the Microsoft® Office System. He has spent more than 15 years with the company in marketing, technical and field positions, and was previously general manager of the Microsoft Project business unit. He has a BS degree in computer science and economics from Harvard University.
 "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." So said the Red Queen, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. The neo-classical model of business strategy is built on a theory of market equilibrium. But in reality, markets create disequilibrium, and therefore opportunity. Rather than seeing competition as a problem to be solved, Professor Barnett explains how to see competition as an engine that generates capability. Intense competition can result in higher growth rates and higher profitability if you understand how to create an organization that leaps ahead—while your competitors keep running in place. $129.99 [Add to Cart] 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
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Managers are under constant pressure to grow, but it is often difficult to find new avenues of growth within an existing line of business. Fortunately, growth is available in almost every market if companies look for it in the right way. In order to win in the marketplace, it is essential to understand which customer behaviors make money (and lose money) for your organization. Next, it is important to segment customer groups in a way that allows you to explain those behaviors and find the actual customers in the real world. Then you can identify the drivers and barriers to influencing the particular behavior you want to motivate. By doing so, your marketing efforts can be focused on the critical specifics, early in the process. Dr. Hollingshead provides insights on these principles, and offers specific tools for seeing existing markets differently and uncovering hidden opportunities for growth. $129.99 [Add to Cart]Dr. Jerry Porras and his colleague Jim Collins studied the life histories of 18 visionary companies, looking for their most significant characteristics. Then they created a conceptual framework for managers seeking to build a company of enduring greatness. In this talk, Dr. Porras explains how forward-thinking companies adapt to and drive change, and details two fundamental components: an organization's core ideology and its drive for progress. $129.99 [Add to Cart] A 5 Video or DVD Program Library Set The Covey Leadership Library consists of the following video programs: I Know Just What You Mean! - This workshop explores the difference between listening with the intent to respond and listening with the intent to understand. It underscores the vital importance of diagnosing needs before prescribing solutions and demonstrates why much-hyped "active listening techniques" may actually contribute to miscommunication. (Length: 20 minutes) Leading By Example - Powerful, principle-centered video learning workshop that illustrates the difference a mentor and coach can make. Through the dramatic story of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller, this case study enables leaders to identify ways in which they can be more effective models, how they can set lasting examples, and how they can bring out the best in others. (Length: 20 minutes) Mauritius - In this documentary, participants learn guiding principles designed to turn individual viewpoints into lasting organizational cohesiveness. Mauritius offers timeless insights designed to create an environment where people subordinate "mine" to "ours", and "now" to "the future", by recognizing the power of diversity. (20 minutes) Max and Max - This program is designed to increase leaders' awareness of the waste of human potential within organizations, and to help create a culture that fosters independent initiative, creativity, and resourcefulness. (20 minutes) Tearing Down Walls - This program uses the Berlin Wall as a metaphor for the barriers that exist between individuals, teams, departments, or even between an organization and its customers. Help people eliminate miscommunication, distrust, and stereotyping to improve performance and productivity in the workplace. (20 minutes) Program Contents: 5 Program DVDs or Video set and 5 Participant Guides for each title.
Deborah Ancona challenges the dominant wisdom that effective teams focus internally on the roles, synergies, and collaboration of team members to produce results. Building on twenty-five years of research, she shows that the most successful teams instead focus externally—on customers, competition, and the marketplace—tapping into an expanded knowledge base and skills set to move forward quickly. X-teams cross boundaries within their own organizations as well. Members network up and down the hierarchy, gaining support for their undertaking as well as knowing how best to integrate it strategically into the organization. X-teams need to be fostered, and Dr. Ancona describes how team members should be selected, what the mindset of the team should be from Day 1, and how the teams should be supported with tools, timelines, deliverables, and top-management commitment. $129.99 [Add to Cart] This animated program tackles the tough subject of stereotyping in a delightful way by looking at some different "birds" in the workplace. It makes us do some soul-searching about the casual way we limit ourselves and others through stereotyping. We "pigeon-hole" others when we overlook their unique abilities, talents, personalities, and backgrounds. We do it to ourselves, too - when we impose limits and cheat ourselves of new experiences, challenging opportunities, and the fulfillment of our undeveloped potential. Though animated, this training tool is no flight of fancy. It's a critical component of training in today's changing workplace. Workgroups, committees, and executive teams will benefit from this program, as will any group interested in mobilizing the talents of all its members. PigeonHoled in the Land of Penguins will help team members recognize pigeon-holing, understand its high cost, and learn how to change the pattern. By tapping into the full creativity of everyone on a team, we open ourselves up to significant breakthroughs in innovation, productivity and team effectiveness. Participants will learn:
Program Contents: A 10 minute DVD or VHS and Leader's Guide
What lessons can Cervantes’ romantic knight from La Mancha offer the bottom-line world of today? Based on Professor Emeritus James G. March’s acclaimed course at the Stanford University School of Business, this program creatively examines how Quixote’s kind of self-knowledge might serve modern leadership. Narrated by Professor March, the program parallels episodes from Quixote’s adventures with illustrative examples in the modern world—from former President Richard Nixon and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Bill Gates and Hewlett-Packard. Engaging interviews with contemporary leaders drawn from business, government, and education are interwoven with archival footage of historic leaders who demonstrate imagination, perseverance in the face of adversity, and joy in work. (70 minutes) Copyright date: 2003
 This collection of experiential activities in game format will enable trainers and facilitators to make effective use of the outdoors as a vehicle for learning. It contains sixty-three creative games that can be conducted easily and safely with a minimum of materials and preparation. Many of the activities can be run equally well indoors. Each activity is presented in a standard format that includes a summary, a statement of objectives, a note of any materials required, time requirements, and detailed guidance on the effective use of the games in training. The games vary in length from a few minutes to over an hour. Together they provide a rich store of adventure, energy, and memorable learning. Games Teach
 Since many existing business practices inhibit innovation, new organizational designs and managerial approaches must emerge to meet today's new challenges. Professor Raymond Miles describes how self-managed projects among firms can generate innovation and market placement. Program Highlights
The United States and other advanced nations must learn to live by their wits in the global economy of the 21st century. Since many existing business practices inhibit innovation, new organizational designs and managerial approaches must emerge to meet today's new challenges. Professor Miles describes one such model: the establishment of communities of networked firms that can leverage their knowledge base and their entrepreneurial know-how to create economic wealth through collaborative innovation. Duration: 37 Minutes (2006)
 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
iRobot operated without venture capital and on a break-even basis for eight years, developing a number of products for industry and the military without commercial success. An engineer who minored in business, Angle shares the practical lessons learned from these early failures: from managing a business struggling month-to-month to make payroll, to fostering early collaboration between engineering and marketing, to “rebuilding the plane you are flying” when growth ultimately takes off. $129.99 [Add to Cart] Part of Stephen Covey's Lessons in Leadership Set. Here is a lesson about how the ghosts of our past create both fear and guidance. It is the story of a successful author grappling with writer's block and his very personal Journey to Discovery. Walking the cold streets of 19th century London, our distressed writer is under pressure to produce another novel and haunted by memories of his childhood: the poverty, the grueling factory work, the fear of being homeless. He is at a paralyzing impasse. While walking, he comes across a boy with whom he begins to talk. He finds the boy is working because his parents don't make enough money and, when asked for whom he works, the boy replies, 'For people like you.' This chance encounter is transformative, inspiring our writer, who gets back to his task with fervor. This is the true story of Charles Dickens and his classic, A Christmas Carol. It is an excellent example of how, when blocked, we tend to focus on the impasse itself, which hampers our ability to move forward. Journey to Discovery offers a poignant look at how we can utilize our past and our vision of the future to get back in touch with who we are and our place in the world. It's a look at how our past, present and future come into play when faced with stressful change situations. Journey to Discovery will help viewers to:
Journey to Discovery is an opportunity to identify and overcome impasse-causing situations from Dr. Stephen Covey, founder and chair of the Covey Leadership Center and author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
 Release - 2009 Whether we pursue it, or it is forced upon us, CHANGE can make or break any business. The deciding factor is the attitude of the employees charged with adapting to the challenge of finding new solutions. Change and Innovation through Brainstorming is a fun and highly entertaining video designed to kickoff any team meeting with a sense of energy and optimistic enthusiasm. Hosted by comedian and national speaker John Sweeney, and based on his best-selling book, Innovation at the Speed of Laughter, John explores and explodes the most common myths and misconceptions that hamper effective brainstorming and challenges the team to accept the potential of every idea in their search for solutions. DVDs Includes: Meeting DVD - 15:00 minutes The 8 Secrets of a Brainstorming Session Look at Change as Fuel
Leader's DVD - 12:00 minutes Whether it is doing more with less or finding the next great new product or service this program prepares and inspires team leaders for the critical challenge of facilitating a dynamic and productive search for innovation. John Sweeney demonstrates practical techniques to engage each team member and create a safe environment by increasing the fun and decreasing the status in the room. As an added bonus, the DVD includes 4 extended scenes of John’s team warm-up exercises. Four Warm-Up Excercises - 9:00 minutes Four exercises that the Brave New Workshop uses to help team members get out of their heads. This is business improvisation at it's finest. See John Sweeney in action! Purchase Package Includes
Antonio Dávila Innovation and incentive go hand in hand, but you have to be careful that the motivation is coming from the right place. You want your team to be fueled by passion rather than money. There are two types of innovation—radical and incremental—and limiting yourself to one or the other may squelch creativity. Get the best result for your product by ensuring that everyone in your organization is on task and inspired. Having strategies in place that lead to the accomplishment of clearly defined goals is an important way to keep ideas flowing. Author and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki explains the rules that make new products and services successful. Using examples from the personal-computer industry and a broad spectrum of other industries, Kawasaki outlines the ten things that a revolutionary must do to succeed in today's business climate. His presentation is a complete and pragmatic guide to the creation and marketing of revolutionary products and services for people who want to change the world. $129.99 [Add to Cart]The biggest risk today is irrelevancy. Barriers that protected incumbents in the past have broken down, and competitive positions can be quickly overturned. If you miss a trend, there may be no catching up. How do you stay out of the band of mediocrity and position your company to become an architect of industry revolution? The answer is to reinvent who you are in meaningful ways. Innovation has to be a deeply embedded capability where every person in the company has a responsibility for wealth creation. Of course, wealth will not only be created, it will also be destroyed. As companies move beyond incremental change, strategy innovation is the only way for a company to renew its lease on success. $129.99 [Add to Cart]Great ideas are integral to success. Lynda Curtin gives you the tools to generate fresh ideas quickly and systematically. Using the proven techniques of lateral thinking, provocative operations, concept extraction, and random entry, she engages you in a powerful ideas-generating process that will give you something useful to take back to your job. You'll learn how to break out of your current mind box, take charge of your creative thinking potential, and outthink your competition. $129.99 [Add to Cart]If your business has a closed innovation model, there is only one way into the product development funnel, and there is only one way out to the market. While this model has performed remarkably well for many companies�in many, many industries�it is now obsolete. In conditions of uncertainty, with very complex information, you don't have all the data you need to make the right R&D decisions every time. There is a temptation to go with ideas or products that fit your current business model, with the risk of investing in flops while overlooking potential blockbusters. Dr. Chesbrough describes how to open your closed innovation model, and then apply these same principles to rejuvenate your company's broader business model. He details specific examples of enterprises that have successfully leveraged innovation to create and capture value from ideas and technologies. $129.99 [Add to Cart]As work increasingly cuts across boundaries, it's necessary for you to influence people at all levels of your organization in order to get your job done. You often need resources and information beyond your own unit, pay grade or department. Whether it's your boss (or your boss's boss!), peers or direct reports, Carole Robin describes how to use the law of reciprocity and the theory of exchange to surface the currencies that matter to potential allies—and create win/win solutions. Dr. Robin explains how the effective use of influence helps you deliver on your promises and produce excellent results, making you one of the "go-to" people in your organization. And this in turn makes your circle of influence grow ever larger. $129.99 [Add to Cart] Meeting Opener If meetings and training sessions are an essential part of your organization, you know the importance of getting off to a good start. If your goal is to get everyone to contribute, this quick and quirky video is the way to achieve it. It will challenge any audience to think right out of the gate - and out of the box. Using fun riddles and entertaining animation, this short video will supercharge every ones brain before the real business of the session begins. Key Learning Points
Includes: DVD, Giraffe Bean Bag and Two Participant Pads. Length: 10 minutes
 25 Reproducible Assessment Exercises, Self-Inventories, Tests, and Survey Instruments What makes top-performing managers successful and effective in their jobs? And what do you need to develop in order to achieve similar success? The majority of American managers and supervisors work for firms with fewer than 100 employees - firms that lack the resources to offer management-development programs. This collection of self-assessment exercises was created to fill that gap and provide every manager and supervisor with professional-development materials designed for high performance. Over 100,000 participants have successfully used these materials in Training House programs, but the secret to the long-term effectiveness of these materials is they are based on the belief that before you can build on your strengths, you must first identify what they are and how they relate to job effectiveness. Each self-assessment is accompanied by information explaining how the scores should be interpreted, thus giving you the information you need to set realistic goals for yourself and to then achieve them. Training House believes that management begins and ends with measurement - measurement of needs, of goals and resources, and of timetables. And that you can't manage what you have not first assessed. Selected Contents
How do growth leaders such as Procter & Gamble, GE, and Amazon consistently achieve above-average organic growth? These companies pursue a disciplined, systematic process that distributes innovations across a spectrum of risk, ensuring that they balance incremental growth with breakthrough opportunities. $129.99 [Add to Cart] Duration: 62 Minutes (2008) Most companies that attempt fundamental transformation fail. From a ten-year study of over 500 firms, Professor Tabrizi found the successful ones share common practices: from creating an initial sense of urgency and top-down alignment, to building cross-functional teams with the stamina to “reassemble a flying plane,” to committing to ruthless operational execution and dramatic cultural change. Hewlett-Packard and Oracle had unique transformation goals yet shared common practices. H-P’s top management set goals, timetables, and performance expectations for a multi-pronged overhaul of its operating model, capital structure, R&D investment, and IT infrastructure. Oracle’s transformation from an amalgam of seventy “little companies” to an integrated, cost-efficient structure was launched with a top-down sense of urgency, coupled with changes in performance incentives to get employees on board. Dr. Tabrizi is a Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, and the author of “Rapid Transformation.” He received his MS and PhD from Stanford University. Ann Livermore is Executive Vice President, Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard Co. She holds an MBA from Stanford University, and she serves on the board of UPS. Safra Catz is President of Oracle Corp, and has been a board member since 2001. She earned a JD from University of Pennsylvania Law School. $129.99 [Add to Cart]
Phil McKinney, VP and CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group, oversees long-range technical strategy and research and development. He is also general manager of the group’s gaming business unit.
FIRE is a four-step process for bringing creative ideas to life. Focus on what you’re going to pursue rather than wait for inspiration to strike. Ideate by brainstorming and asking the “killer questions.” Rank ideas to ensure they meet specific goals of the organization. Execute on the ideas with a staged rollout for validation. PO, or perspective and observation, bring the big picture to the process. When we broaden our perspective by knocking down ingrained blinders, and get in the field to directly observe problems or opportunities, truly creative ideas emerge.
Successful innovations must be desirable to consumers, technically feasible, and viable from a business point of view. But how do you meet these requirements? Tim Brown advocates using the three stages of “design thinking”: inspiration, ideation, and implementation. For inspiration, innovators must look at the world through the eyes and the ears of users, perhaps studying analogous situations or extreme users to spark a generative process. Ideation, the core of the process, involves prototyping and realistic testing. Implementation begins with storytelling to bring the idea into the world. If a narrative can be developed around an idea, it has the best chance of being understood and implemented. $129.99 [Add to Cart]
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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