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Meeting Management 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. *Also available in French and Spanish
 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
 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.
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
 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.
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