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Meetings, Bloody Meetings - DVD

Featuring John Cleese

Free Online Preview

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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Faultless Facilitation Instructors Manual

By Lois B. Hart, Ed.D

This instructors manual for the Faultless facilitation program offers 48 in-class learning activities and optional training designs to go with the best-selling Faultless Facilitation Resource Guide. The instructors manual lays out exactly how to plan, run, and evaluate skill-based training for inexperienced facilitators.

Faultless Facilitation Resource Guide
The Resource Guide includes "how to's" on group leading and problem solving for new facilitators. It covers everything from agenda setting to selecting the right problem solving tools. Use it as a participant coursebook with the training program, as a self-study option, or for managers who need to understand more about the facilitator's role.

  • Faultless Facilitation Instructors Manual $149.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Faultless Facilitation Resource Guide (2nd edition) $99.99 [Add to Cart]
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Fearless Facilitation! -Complete Kit

Just say "NO" to boring training classes and unproductive meetings. Turn your trainers and meeting leaders into "Fearless Facilitators"! They'll learn how to bring a laser-like focus to every agenda, handle disruptions with ease and condense a week's worth of meetings into a single session. "Fearless Facilitators" expertly foster participation and make any group session more productive.

Learning Point Highlights:

  • Covers all the fundamental techniques of effective facilitation
  • Delivers an effective method for planning and managing meetings
  • Takes current trainers and facilitators to a new level of effectiveness

Complete Training Kit Components:

  • Two DVDs (full length video, companion SMART-START Motivation, interview with subject-matter expert, Laura Bernstein, TrainerTALK™ with Sue Mueller and classroom slides)
  • Two VHS (21 minutes each)
  • Facilitator Guides (multiple agenda options)
  • Reproducible Participant Materials
  • Online Program Resources
  • Trainer Pack

Life IS a Series of Presentations - Complete Kit

New Release Available on Video & DVD!

Based on the book by author Tony Jeary, Life IS a Series of Presentations demonstrates how to focus and execute your communication so that every time you present an idea, a message, a speech, or even conduct a meeting, you will gain the skills necessary to maximize your daily interactions. The course follows a series of easy-to-use steps with the P.O.I.N.T. model, enabling participants to inspire, inform, and influence others confidently and persuasively. Ultimately, employees will establish credibility, improve working relationships, increase efficiency and effectiveness, improve job and personal satisfaction, and more.

After viewing this video, employees will know how to:

  • Explain why work (and life) is a series of "presentations"
  • Identify the three categories of presentations:
  • Inspire, Influence, and Inform
  • Articulate why and how the P.O.I.N.T. model is effective
  • Apply the steps of the P.O.I.N.T. model in common presentation situations, including e-mail, voice-mail, live phone conversations, one-on-one, small group/team
  • Demonstrate confidence and persuasiveness when making presentations

Program Includes:

  • 24 Minute program available in DVD or VHS
  • Facilitator Guide with 1-hr, 4-hr, and 1-day
  • (8-hr) agenda options
  • Reproducible Participant Materials
  • Reproducible Self-Study Workbook
  • PowerPoint presentation available for download

  • Life IS a Series of Presentations - Complete Kit $995.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Life IS a Series of Presentations - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Meeting Robbers - DVD

2nd Edition

Free Online Preview

The program teaches that meetings can be essential but should be used as last resorts when there's no better or less costly way (like email, memos and one-on-one meetings) to discuss and disseminate information. When meetings ARE needed, the leader must assemble all data in advance and be thoroughly prepared. People can't be changed, but their energies can be re-directed so that effective meeting leaders must double as meeting security, arresting each robber on the spot and getting the group back on track.

Meetings are made, not born. Every meeting has style and tone, and some one else will set it if the leader doesn't.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Identify when and why meetings should be held
  • Be thoroughly prepared for meetings
  • Identify and stop classic time wasters
  • Implement good ideas

Program Contents: A 20 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, and 1 Participant's Workbook

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Meetings That Work! Facilitator Kit

Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Your Meetings

A poorly planned meeting often results in unclear goals and objectives which inevitably lead to other timeconsuming, non-productive meetings down the road. In contrast, a well-conducted meeting, which uses proven procedures and tools, actually increases productivity, encourages team involvement, and builds commitment to group decisions. Meetings That Work! provides practical examples and proven methods on the three essential stages of preparing, conducting, and evaluating meetings, and for building team success.

Skill-Based Program Content

  • Preparing for an upcoming meeting by arranging logistics, establishing roles, creating objectives, and developing an agenda
  • Conducting a meeting using the four meeting roles, ground rules, an agenda, and actionoriented meeting minutes
  • Evaluating and increasing meeting effectiveness through recognizing participant concerns and finding ways to improve

Program Length: Half Day

Facilitator Kit The Meetings That Work! Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

  • Facilitator Guide
  • PowerPoint Presentation*
  • Online Tools

Participant Kit:
Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each Meetings That Work! Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

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

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More Bloody Meetings - DVD

Best-Seller Featuring John Cleese

Free Online Preview

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.

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Going to a Meeting Series - DVD

Featuring John Cleese

The Going to a Meeting series is an engaging two-part program hosted by John Cleese (that's right...he's back). The series focuses on the attendee's role and how to make the most of meetings.

Free Preview - Part 1, Messing Up a Meeting

The two part Going to a Meeting Series in based on a group of middle managers in a large hospital. Part 1 - Messing Up a Meeting, focuses on Jeremy preparing to go to a regular meeting with his colleagues. Unfortunately "preparing" doesn’t describe what we see him doing. "Grabbing a few papers and turning up late" would be more accurate.

Free Preview - Part II, Menaces

Part II of the Going to a Meeting Series, Meeting Menaces, contains five short sequences, introduced by John Cleese. These show how to cope with colleagues whose behavior stops meetings from getting results. Jeremy fails to handle the destructive behavior of each of the menaces and the meeting they are all attending becomes a farce.

These two videos are available separately.

Package Contents: Two 20 minute VHS Videos or DVD's, Series Course Leader's Guide, Series Delegate worksheets on disk, Series Powerpoint slides and Series Self-Study Workbook on disk

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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]
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The Strategic Leadership Game

If you're looking for an innovative and fun way to teach managers about the difference structure and support make in employee performance, it's time to play The Strategic Leadership Game. A full toolbox of ideas to help managers experience how leaders manage task performance.

The game consists of two rounds:

Game A simulates a typical task assignment. Participants are delegated a task with clear output criteria, but without any useful support or structure. They'll experience first-hand the performance pressure, anxiety and failure employees feel when assignments are handed over to them without appropriate instruction or feedback.

Game B also simulates a routine assignment. But participants are placed in pairs, one as manager and one as employee. The manager is responsible for supporting the employee's efforts. They'll discover how the appropriate type of leadership makes tasks easier to do and instills a sense of accomplishment.

Key Benefits

  • You hire people for jobs, but you manage their performanceof tasks.
  • Effective managerial leadership is making sure people perform the right tasks well.
  • It takes ongoing effort to manage peoples performance.

Includes: Tangram puzzle pieces, Leader's Guide, Work Orders Pad, Coaching Cards Pad, Master Solution Sheets (set of 5) and CD-ROM with slide/handout masters.

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We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This! - DVD

Carl, the long-winded accountant, is facilitating, but his audience and colleagues are far from listening to him. One is yawning, another is composing grocery lists, and still another is thinking of how to bail out. Carl's problem is just one of the many challenges a meeting facilitator must resolve - from handling difficult personalities sorting out objectives and plotting a clear course for action.

Through this entertaining dramatization of a meeting, any meeting facilitator can meet, stand up to and resolve the difficulties. Learn to save time. Hold only necessary meetings. Start and end at the scheduled times and ask participants to come prepared. Communicate better and use company resources (such as time!) as efficiently and effectively as possible.

How-To Training Points:

  • How to use an agenda to stay focused
  • How to support the agenda with goals, delegation and time-frames
  • How to involve participants in the meeting
  • How to resolve disagreements

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

    • We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This! - DVD $845.95 [Add to Cart]
    • We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This: DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
    • We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This! VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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How Do You Put A Giraffe Into A Refrigerator? - VHS

A wake-up call for managers and training seminars.

Your team will snap to attention with this 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.

The video's four problem-solving steps encourage everyone to look at challenges from a new perspective.

  • Consider simple answers before looking for complicated ones.
  • Think about the consequences of your actions.
  • Use all available information.
  • Focus on the big picture, not just a small part of it.

Great for:

  • New Hires
  • Front-line Personnel
  • Middle Managers
  • Senior Executives

Package includes: Video-running time, 10 minutes - Tape includes both Linear and Discussion Versions, Giraffe Bean Bag and Two Participant Pads

  • How Do You Put A Giraffe Into A Refrigerator? - VHS $299.00 [Add to Cart]
  • How Do You Put A Giraffe Into A Refrigerator? Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Creative Training Techniques Handbook

Best-Seller

Tips, Tactics, and How-To's for Delivering Effective training

This complete collection of training tips, tactics and how-tos will show you the eight steps to proper presentation preparation, how to customize training to your audience, and how to keep learners motivated both during and after the training session. This second edition includes a comprehensive resource guide, activity sheets, transparencies, outlines, detachable index cards, and more. An invaluable resource for delivering cost-effective, high-impact training.

Selected Contents

  • Creative Genesis
  • Learner Motivation
  • Group Involvement
  • Customizing Training
  • Closing the Circle
  • Presentation Preparation
  • Visual Aids
  • Creative Materials
  • Presentation Techniques
  • Creating Effective Resource Materials

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Mastering Change Management: Facilitator Kit

Optimize Performance During Change

In times of transition, priorities change and organizations need to respond as quickly as possible to new requirements and optimizing performance despite the uncertainties. Mastering Change Management provides participants with the insights and techniques needed to understand change and positively respond to the reactions of workgroups, team members, and other associates to minimize disruption and maximize results.

Skill-Based Program Content

  • Recognizing types of change
  • Understanding the reactions to change
  • Recognizing resistance to change
  • Optimizing team performance during changes
  • Overcoming resistance to change
  • Implementing a six-step Model For Managed Change
  • Establishing change plans

Facilitator Kit:
The Mastering Change Management 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 Mastering Change Management Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

  • Participant Workbook
  • Practical Guidebook: Mastering Change Management; Creating Teams During Transitions
  • Mastering Change Management: Facilitator Kit $349.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Mastering Change Management: Participant Kit $69.99 [Add to Cart]
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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.