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 Meeting Management Best-Seller! Featuring John Cleese 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:
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 Bring your staff together in a meaningful way by holding more organized meetings. Your meetings should serve one of three purposes: to give information, take information, or solve a problem. Regardless of what kind of meeting it is, the guidelines presented in this video will help you stay focused, maintain control, and produce results. Learn ways to get the meeting going quickly and move participants toward constructive contributions. Changing the way you handle meetings will save time and get your staff that much closer to achieving goals.
 Release - 2009 Are your conference calls as productive as you'd like them to be? With the rise of travel costs and shrinking corporate budgets, the common face to face meeting is being quickly replaced by the conference call. Unfortunately, many people have not yet learned the skills it takes to make this type of meeting effective. Often participants don’t take a conference call as seriously as a regular meeting and can feel it's simply a waste of time and energy. Sadly, without proper preparation and clear direction, your conference call may end up being just that. The INVISIBLE Meeting demonstrates 6 practical steps for making your conference calls more effective. This entertaining training video uncovers the challenges and virtual rules that both participants and meeting organizers must understand. The INVISIBLE Meeting is sure to make all your conference calls more effective. LEARN HOW TO...
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 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
 This new Communication Library allows you to improve your communication skills in a short period of time at a most reasonable price. The following new titles are included in the set:
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 2nd Edition 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:
Program Contents: A 20 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, and 1 Participant's Workbook
 Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Your Meetings Poorly planned meetings often result in unclear goals and objectives which inevitably lead to other time consuming, non-productive meetings down the road. In contrast, well-conducted meetings are powerful communication tools that improve productivity, encourage team involvement, and build commitment. And, as with other tools, there are certain procedures and techniques you can use to maximize effectiveness. 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.The easy to use Meetings That Work! Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to Facilitator Kit The Meetings That Work! Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:
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Best-Seller Featuring John Cleese
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:
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Includes: 31 minute videocassette and Leader's Guide. Online Training Option: More Bloody Meetings course is also available online - Click here for details
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
 Best-Seller! 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
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 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
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.
 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:
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 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
 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
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 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.
 Andy Kirby Use these participative training techniques to rejuvenate, challenge, and motivate participants. This collection of over 145 group games will get participants involved in the learning process and add substance to new or existing programs on any training topic. In addition to providing you with a substantial stock of games, the manual includes an in-depth discussion of the unique dimension that well-presented games add to a training session. It covers proper preparation for the use of games in training, techniques for providing feedback to participants, and methods for choosing a game that is right for your audience and subject matter.
 The Hidden Communication Skill That Will Make Your Next Team Meeting More Productive With John O'Hurley We understand that speaking clearly, using proper listening skills, and knowing the importance of non-verbal cues all play vital roles in clear communication between people in organizations. Surprisingly, the impact of questions, and how to ask them properly, remain an unacknowledged part of the training curriculum. This sprightly and to-the-point video addresses that shortfall. Driving home the lessons is John O'Hurley, best known as J. Peterman on the Seinfeld series. His unique persona helps deliver these important learning points.
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How To Ask Positive Questions is designed to be used during team training sessions devoted to productivity and communication skills, or before a meeting starts. By increasing the questioning ability of employees, the video's benefits extend beyond team impact. Employees who can properly ask questions will deal better with all colleagues throughout the entire organization. Additionally, communication with both external and internal customers will improve. Entertaining, motivational, and informative, How To Ask Positive Questions is a skill-building, consciousness-raising video that will energize your teams to perform at higher levels. Program Includes: DVD or VHS (Running time: 12 minutes) 32-page Leader’s Guide with Two Lesson Plans
 Put an end to unproductive meetings, for good! Are too many unproductive, wasteful meetings eating up your time? If so, then here is the better-meeting-management-training program you've been waiting for to put an end to unproductive meetings. This program begins by showing you the advantages and disadvantages of meetings in the pre-meeting step, then walks you through a systematic decision-making process. This all results in a productive problem-solving or informational meeting that everyone wants! You'll Learn To:
 Meetings are the hub of team communication and decision making. This workshop addresses why meetings should be called, how to prepare for them, and most importantly how to conduct them effectively. Workshop Includes:
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 Featuring John Cleese 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! Colleagues From Hell!
Communicators From Hell! Customer service from Hell! Customers from Hell! Free Preview
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Interviewers From Hell! Public Services from Hell! Salespeople from Hell! Teams from Hell! 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!
 This program is also available for online training. See details below. Are meetings a valuable business tool or a waste of time? When should a meeting be called and who should attend? Better yet, when should a meeting be avoided and who should not be invited? These questions and many more are answered in the 30-minute training program How To Hold Successful Meetings . The 30 tips in this program are designed to be put to use immediately! You'll learn to develop a proper agenda and why it's important; how to reinvigorate a stalled meeting; how to use brainstorming when creative ideas are needed; how to invite the right people to the meeting so as to get the most out of it; how to start on time and use a realistic schedule; how to run short, profitable meetings and much, much more. Improve your meetings now by putting to work the solid, do-it-now common sense techniques found in this program. Complete with DVD, CD audio and book. 45 minutes. Online Training Option: This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:
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Featuring John Cleese People do need to know what is going on, especially if there's something afoot that could affect them personally. And once the rumour mill starts grinding it's very difficult to stop - and even harder to correct any misinformation once it has gained currency. The grapevine shows what can happen when people suspect the worst and start to make up things for themselves. One of the largest customers of a fictional company has called in the receivers; the MD has made contingency plans and is confident that new contracts will forestall the need for compulsory redundancies. The message that managers were to pass on was one of reassurance but the production head doesn't brief his team properly and their fears mount, fuelled by the fact that people in other departments seem to know more than they do. Only when a key member of staff hands in his notice does he realise his mistake and the importance of structured communication . The benefits
Program includes: DVD(28 mins), Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk
 Improve your management team with the new Manager's Library. Comprised of 10 DVDs, 10 CD audios, and 10 books, this library will help your managers get the needed jump on the competition. Your cost $999.50! If you were to buy these programs individually the total would be $1,299.50. Buy the complete library and save $300.00! The Manager's Library includes the following titles:
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Featuring John Cleese, Peter Capaldi and Jennifer Saunders. Release date: 1991
Techniques of assertive behavior are shown in action in a series of different settings from a management meeting to a one-to-one conversation between colleagues. Straight talking shows that the basic rule of assertive behavior is honesty and that it's usually for fear of the response that honesty is avoided. However, this fear is generally over-exaggerated. The video is highly reassuring on this point for anyone who has doubts about volunteering what they think - even when asked to do so. It also demonstrates why aggressive behavior doesn't work in the long run and why it's important to establish a negotiating position and stick to it. The benefits
Style: Humorous drama Program includes: DVD or VHS,(27 mins), Meeting break DVD, Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk
Here’s an opportunity for you to purchase some of john Cleese's best selling programs at a huge savings. The regular price of this package is $3,480.00 When you buy all four programs, you’ll save $348.00 The John Cleese Best-Seller Library includes:
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Best-Seller! You have a business problem but you just don't have the time to read all the articles and business books in hope that you can solve it. Well, no longer do you have to worry. Working with noted Industrial Psychologist Dr. Anthony Salemi we have developed the In An Instant DVD learning series which provides 20 solutions to many of today's most troubling business situations. The series offers methods you can put to work immediately to help turn those problems into positive business opportunities! Presented on four tapes with five solutions each, the series looks at the following business situations: Volume 1:
 Are you maximizing every opportunity to connect with participants before, during and after training? This is the key to optimizing the learning experience of every individual – and the focus of these 125 tested and proven-effective activities for trainers. The activities are grouped under five critical points of contact trainers have with participants:
Based on the principles of accelerated and adult learning, the activities have sound objectives. But they are also fun. Some utilize all the senses. Many get participants on their feet and moving around. Others encourage participants to reveal what they already know and apply what they learn. The activities are formatted for easy use with clearly marked objectives, best occasion to use them, group size, estimated time equipment and supplies needed and materials. Many of the activities have ready-to-use handouts.
 By Sarah Cook One of the many challenges you face as a trainer is getting employees to look at themselves, their skill gaps and their attitudes. This collection of 43 fun and creative quizzes is just what you need. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to find the perfect quiz. The quizzes are organized in alphabetical order. They also are grouped in nine easy-access topic areas: Communication skills, customer service, health and safety, leadership, performance management, personal development, teamwork, recruitment and selection, and training and development. The quizzes are easy to administer in the classroom, too. Accompanying each quiz are suggested responses to the questions and helpful background information.
You’ll find quizzes that ask participants to fill in the blanks, choose from several answers, rank items and pick between true and false. Action plans can be developed immediately after most quizzes are completed and then evaluated. You can adapt each quiz to meet the specific needs of your group simply by changing wording, phrases or questions. You don’t have to be a professional trainer to use these quizzes. You could be a line manager, team leader – anyone who wants a fun and effective way to inspire learners to look inside and get to know themselves better. Sample topics:
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Develop your leadership and supervisory skills with these nine high-impact productions. We all know that being a manager isn't easy. Roles are changing and today's managers find themselves faced with not only being responsible for the goals of their workforce but for the entire organization as well. These nine top-selling management training DVDs provide proven techniques that are guaranteed to improve productivity and people skills for new managers and seasoned veterans. Learning points include:
Guarantee: This comprehensive management training series will have your staff making more confident and knowledgeable decisions than ever before.
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