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How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less - DVD

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How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less is a fun and motivational training program that will teach your employees how to naturally make a genuine connection with everyone they meet.

In business as well as life, the failure to build trust and rapport can be insurmountable, while the rewards of a good first impression are almost immeasurable.

How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less can have a life changing impact on customer relationships and sales success as well as every other personal relationship in your employees' lives.

Program Includes: A 16 minute video or DVD, Hardback Book, 10 "Great!" Buttons, 10 Pocket Reminder Cards and 1 52-Page Leader's Guide

  • How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • How to Connect in Business in 90 seconds or less - DVD Rental $350.00 [Add to Cart]
  • How to Connect in Business...in 90 seconds or less (Spanish) - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
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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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I Remember - DVD

The "archival-look" footage in I Remember shows the simple elegance and dignity of what is right with America. The transition to scenes of today's life solidifies the importance of the message of those time-honored ideals. The marvelous cinematography has brought audiences to their feet from coast to coast!

Program Components: DVD or VHS (6 minutes)

$295.00 [Add to Cart]

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A Compendium of Icebreakers, Energizers & Introductions

Activity Manual

Select from 75 quick exercises to break down barriers, increase motivation, and provide the best possible start to your training program. Compiled by a team of five trainers with a wide variety of experience, the games represent a rich mixture of styles and an extensive range of approaches. There is an index of activities by objective to help you choose the most appropriate activity for your application and fully reproducible participant materials are included to save you hours of preparation time.

Training Objectives

  • Break the ice
  • Liven-up sluggish sessions
  • Motivate participants
  • Switch attention
  • Prepare participants for the training at hand

Selected Contents

  • Active Relaxation
  • Anagrams
  • Blind Balloon Relay
  • Ego Ideal
  • House and Garden
  • I'm Somebody Else

  • A Compendium of Icebreakers, Energizers & Introductions $149.99 [Add to Cart]
Keeping the Good Ones - DVD

In the end, keeping the good ones comes down to connecting with each member of your team on a regular basis. The great news is that this doesn't cost the company a dime.

Keeping the Good Ones is a management and leadership training video that deals with employee retention. It will inspire managers and provide them with practical tools which they can use to keep the good people they already have.

Key Learning Points..

  • Offer YOURSELF as a person
  • Offer your TIME with a regular Take 10 Check-in
  • Offer your APPRECIATION

Program Includes:

  • 1 DVD or VHS Video (26 minutes)
  • 1 Leader's Guide
  • 10 Pocket Reminder Cards
  • 1 Workbook

Motivate Employees to Do Their Best

Employee surveys are the best way to find out what motivates your workers to do their best - and what's getting in the way of productivity. Use this convenient employee attitude survey handbook, and you'll find it's easy to design effective and efficient attitude surveys. The program explains how to interpret results and gives practical tips on how to use what you learn about employee attitudes to make positive changes in your organization.

Your Program features:

  • Easy-to-use and practical information
  • Contains all the tools you need to start an effective survey program in one binder
  • Customizable surveys, questionnaires, and results memos
  • Prewritten examples that you can customize to meet your needs
  • Complete step-by-step program
  • Everything you need to conduct accurate employee attitude surveys and improve morale in your organization
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Motivation: Igniting Exceptional Performance

Powerful ideas and techniques to ignite and motivate your workforce!

Create a work environment where people do their very best every single day. Based on the proven strategies of Bob Nelson, author of 1001 Ways to Energize Employees, this documentary-like video uses real-life examples from managers and employees at Boardroom Inc. and United Airlines to illustrate pratical techniques and approaches that managers at all levels can implement.

From Motivation: Igniting Exceptional Performance, managers will learn about the powerful benefits of encouraging communication, soliciting suggestions, developing trust and confidence, encouraging creativity, and providing rewards and recognition.

Communication can make or break an organization. Teach your managers the performance enhancing advantages of promoting "spontaneous interaction," managing by "walking around" and promoting an open door policy at all levels. Viewers will also learn to tap into individual intitiative and solicit suggestions so employees become their own agents of change. And because the people who do the job know the job best, you'll hear why a suggestion system should include every employee in your organization.

How-To Training Points:

  • How to spark excitement, fuel momentum and sustain a passion
  • How to reward and build morale and trust
  • How to encourage creativity
  • How to solicit suggestions and feedback
  • How to provide rewards and recognition
  • How to communicate and be "visible" to your employees

Training Package Includes:

Training Leader's Guide with session agendas, discussion materials, training assessments, interactive exercises and overhead and handout masters. Also included is the soft-cover version of Bob Nelson's 1001 Ways to Energize Employees, when you lease/purchase this new video.

Length: 21 minutes

  • Motivation: Igniting Exceptional Performance $695.99 [Add to Cart]
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Power of Attitude - DVD

DVD, Book & audio CD

"Positive attitude. Positive attitude. Positive attitude."...A worn-out anthem? Or is there really power behind a positive attitude? The Power of Attitude, "It Does Make a Difference" shows that there is, and most of what makes us positive is attributed to our own self-image. This video unfolds five steps for developing and projecting a positive attitude in the workplace, and beyond. You'll see how to determine the attitude types of co-workers, how to deal with them and how to keep the hard work of maintaining your own positive attitude in perspective. This also offers general strategies for defusing difficult attitudes before they cause injury to the big and little things we do all day long.

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Team Building Blocks: Practicing Group Collaboration

Renew your teams with this stimulating, hands-on training tool. Team Building Blocks gives your teams an easy-to-implement, effective, and enjoyable opportunity to practice and refine their problem solving and communication skills.

Your teams will be motivated and stimulated by solving problems, reaching consensus, and resolving differences while involved with these experiential puzzles. The game comes complete with 14 wooden blocks and a 148-page activity manual, which includes 18 detailed activities, facilitator notes, post-activity commentary, and solutions.

Exercises Cover

  • Risk taking
  • Logic and spatial relations Diversity
  • Trial and error learning
  • Coaching
  • Inter-team consultation
  • Information sharing
  • Time management

  • Team Building Blocks: Practicing Group Collaboration $299.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Team Building Blocks (additional set of blocks) $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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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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The Bear Essentials of Business! - DVD

Travel to Shelburne, Vermont and take an inside look at what makes the Vermont Teddy Bear Company one of the nation's most famous and successful companies.See how it really cares about its customers and its employees.

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Bear with us and learn:

  • Why the customer comes first and is always the number one.
  • Why it's important to be dynamic and creative to truly make a difference.
  • Why it is important to have a "Yes, we can," attitude.
  • How teamwork can really make a difference.
  • Why it's critical to recognize the worth of your customers and fellow employees.
  • How having fun really makes a difference... right down to the bottom line!
  • And this is just the bear beginning!

The BEAR Essentials of Business is educational, entertaining and is truly repeatable. Make it part of your training library today!

Included Training Items:
Loaded with humor, animation and critical information, the purchase of this training program includes:

  • 19 minute videocassette
  • DVD with the full training program
  • CD-ROM with a PowerPoint presentation and reproducible training materials
  • Mouse pad (oops, make that Bear pad) for constant reinforcement of the BEAR Essentials of Business
  • 60 page facilitator guide

Rentals of this program are available in VHS or DVD format; you must select one or the other.

  • The Bear Essentials of Business! - DVD $595.00 [Add to Cart]
  • The Bear Essentials of Business! - DVD Rental $299.99 [Add to Cart]
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We're On the Same Team, Remember? DVD

Free Online Preview

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

In this film, viewers will see how each employee contact gives the customer additional insight into the ways in which the organization operates. A customer can quickly determine if the employees are helpful, cooperative and willing to listen. Through these interactions, customers are also left with an impression of overall management philosophy and business policy. These include quality of communication, organization of priorities, management style, handling of complaints and the treatment of employees, as well as customers.

As an all too familiar drama unfolds, participants see how listening to clients' needs and expectations, clarifying inter- and intradepartmental tasks when servicing the customer, and being available and responsive are all crucial to keeping customers from going elsewhere.

Includes:

  • Extended Leader's Guide
  • Participant's Workbook
  • 20 Minute Video or DVD with Discussion Segments.

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

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Butkus And Smith On Sales - Video

Put your sales people in a receptive mood for learning with this classic business "music video" starring former pro football players Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith. This hilariously funny award-winning short will kick off and unify your next sales meeting, shattering any remnants of "new class" tension.

Length: 9 minutes

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Card Games for Developing Teams

This versatile team development tool consists of a series of games for developing team effectiveness. The playing cards represent behavioral characteristics of effective teams and are designed to stimulate thinking and discussion.

The cards are divided into four sections of thirteen cards each. Each section covers an essential area of team development and is indicated on each card by an icon in the upper right-hand corner. The four areas of team development are: unity, communication, support, and performance.

Card Games for Developing Teams includes discussion games, card sorting and assessment games, acting and artistic games, as well as games involving the implementation of behaviors for team effectiveness. A learning objective is given for each game and activity along with a short summary and the approximate time needed. The simplest and most effective way to use the cards is for group discussion games and activities.

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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.