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Business Training Media offers a wide selection sales training programs. We also offer Online Sales Training Programs for employee development.
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The S.A.L.E. Series (3 DVD Set)

Need everyone in your organization thinking like a sales professional? Buy this Complete Kit series and save up to $590, plus receive a lightweight easy-to-carry totebag, ideal for training facilitators on the go. Sell smarter, not harder with this three module series featuring the easy-to-learn S.A.L.E. process.

  • S - Set the stage
  • A - Analyze needs
  • L - Link to solutions
  • E - Establish commitment

The S.A.L.E. Series includes the following programs:

  • Win the S.A.L.E. for Sales Professionals
    A part of The S.A.L.E. Series, Win the S.A.L.E. for Sales Professionals provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic sales process and is specifically designed for people who are new to sales or have limited sales experience. Learning activities include opportunities to explore and practice skills and strategies for responding to common sales situations. Using the S.A.L.E. process, participants take critical first steps toward successfully building rapport and managing the sales process.

  • Coach the S.A.L.E. for Sales Managers
    A part of The S.A.L.E. Series, Coach the S.A.L.E. for Sales Managers introduces the multiple roles, responsibilities, knowledge and skills required of an effective sales manager. Participants will experience a variety of learning activities, including opportunities to explore and practice skills and strategies related to modeling the S.A.L.E. process, setting goals and expectations, managing accounts and applying the coaching process.

  • Support the S.A.L.E. for Service and Support Professionals
    A part of The S.A.L.E. Series, Support the S.A.L.E. for Service and Support Professionals is specifically designed for professionals who support sales teams in their organizations. This program introduces a basic S.A.L.E. process which gives participants a comprehensive approach to supporting the sales process. Learning activities include opportunities to explore and practice skills and strategies for upselling, referring business and responding to challenging customer situations.

    Program Includes:

    • 3 DVDs
    • Facilitator Guide for each program (with multiple agenda options)
    • Reproducible Participant Materials
    • Reproducible Self-Study Guide
    • Online Program Resources
    • Trainer Pack

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Breaking Competitive Accounts: The Seven Critical Sales Actions - DVD

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Many selling courses often approach sales as though the rep is selling in a vacuum – just the rep and the prospect. Let Breaking Competitive Accounts show the extrapersonal factors that influence the success, or failure of a sale. The program examines the dynamics of today’s competitive atmosphere, so that reps are aware that they're up against two-three "invisible" factors and competitors. This way, they can lock the sale down and increase market share!

Skip Normand, international sales training consultant, explains the seven critical actions that are vital to breaking competitive accounts. His business philosophy is based on extensive research on over 5,000 sales cycles in a variety of industries world-wide.

How-To Training Points:

  • How to use price/value perception to plan and implement a high-impact sales campaign to capture competitive business
  • How to build and maintain high-level sales momentum needed even with hard-to-see decision makers
  • How to reposition the top competitors in the mind of your prospect and positioning your company, its products and services as the new benchmark
  • How to avoid the most common lost sales patterns
  • How to form and use a planner to stay on track

Length: 23 minutes

  • Breaking Competitive Accounts: The Seven Critical Sales Actions - DVD $595.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Breaking Competitive Accounts: The Seven Critical Sales Actions - DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
50 Activities for Sales Training

Novice and experienced salespeople alike will benefit from these activities which focus on strengthening essential selling skills. The ready-to-use activities offer practice in closing a sale, developing new business, resolving customer objections, managing sales relationships, and more.

Program Includes: A 3-Ring Binder, 300 pages, trainer's notes, feedback instruments, exercises and simulations.

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So You Want to Be A Success At Selling (4 Program Series) - DVD

Best-Seller Featuring John Cleese

Series Objective: To give all sales staff a solid grounding in core sales skills.

This classic four-part series is ideal for new sales recruits or as a refresher for experienced members of the sales team.

Part 1: The Preparation: Shows why it is imperative for salespeople to get to know their customers and to understand how their products or services can benefit their client.

Free Preview: The Preparation

Part 2: The Presentation: Sales staff learn how to stay cool and dispassionate even when a customer criticizes them or their products.

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Part 3: Difficult Customers: Deals with the duckers, ditherers, and dictators that often stand in the way of progress. How to use people's anxieties, laziness, or vanity are some of the suggested techniques to help get things moving.

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Part 4: Closing The sale: This is an area where even skilled salespeople fear rejection, which delays closing. They will find out how to conclude a deal efficiently and effectively.

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Program Includes: So You Want to Be A Success At Selling SERIES Training Video-VHS and a Discussion Guide.

Each program in the series is also sold separately for $870.00

  • Success at Selling (Part 1 Preparation) - DVD $870.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Success at Selling (Part 2 Presentation) - DVD $870.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Success at Selling (Part 3 Difficult Customers) - DVD $870.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Success at Selling (Part 4 Closing the Sale) - DVD $870.00 [Add to Cart]
  • So You Want to Be A Success At Selling Series - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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The Negotiation Sourcebook, 2nd Edition

The Negotiation Sourcebook, Second Edition focuses on the needs of active negotiators&emdash;those people asked daily to negotiate with vendors, government officials, and others. The articles cover a cross section of these negotiations and will help to fill in the gaps for those situations that your negotiators may have only limited experience in addressing. There are also a number of articles that provide a theoretical framework for the process, since more than technique is needed to be an effective negotiator. Because we do not negotiate in a vacuum but within the context of a relationship, each of these articles leans towards the problem-solving or collaborative approach. Unfortunately, not everyone readily accepts this model.

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Support the S.A.L.E. for Service and Support Professionals - Complete Kit

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A part of The S.A.L.E. Series, Support the S.A.L.E. for Service and Support Professionals is specifically designed for professionals who support sales teams in their organizations. This program introduces a basic S.A.L.E. process which gives participants a comprehensive approach to supporting the sales process. Learning activities include opportunities to explore and practice skills and strategies for upselling, referring business and responding to challenging customer situation.

The S.A.L.E. Process:

  • S - Set the stage
  • A - Analyze needs
  • L - Link to solutions
  • E - Establish commitment

Learning Point Highlights:

  • Explains how to build trust with prospects and customers
  • Demonstrates ways to maintain customer loyalty when handling complaints
  • Describes how to recognize opportunities and "up sell" existing customers

The videos used in this program are:

  • S.A.L.E. One Step at a Time for Service and Support Professionals (32 minutes)
  • S.A.L.E. Putting it all Together for Service and Support Professionals (11 minutes)
  • S.A.L.E.S. Supporting the Sales Process (14 minutes)

Complete Training Kit Components:

  • DVD (includes full length video, companion SMART-START® Sales Truths, Insight Interview with Subject Matter Expert)
  • Two VHS (Tape 1 - 43 minutes (two programs), Tape 2 - 14 minutes)
  • Facilitator Guide (multiple agenda options)
  • Facilitator Resources
  • Reproducible Participant Materials
  • Online Program Resources
  • Trainer Pack

  • Support the S.A.L.E. for Service and Support Professionals - Complete Kit $995.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Support the S.A.L.E. for Service and Support Professionals - Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Sold! - DVD

Produced - 1994

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From the cold call to that first appointment, from asking the right questions, to closing the sale, these videos give practical training in selling techniques that work and show how you can apply these techniques of varying sales situations.

The package is divided into four modules:

  • The Preliminary Research - how to find out what your customer wants and get the appointment
  • The Investigation - how to use questions to uncover the customers needs and clarify requirements
  • The Commitment - how to use different closing techniques and continue the relationship

Program includes: DVD (44 mins), Self study DVD (44 mins), training notes and self study workbook.

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The Complete Telesales Training Kit - DVD

Produced - 1998

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Whether it's training a completely new telesales team, a refresher course for existing staff, or fine-tuning certain aspects of an individual's performance, this course covers it all.

From start to finish, every facet of the sales process is tackled. From making initial contact and finding out customer needs through to identifying buying signals, dealing with objections and closing the deal - it's all here in eleven easy-to-follow segments.

Based on people and situations everyone will identify with and presented in a fun but structured format, each video segment is followed by a review of key points by a telesales expert. So if probing, say, or staying in control of a presentation is a problem, these are skills that can be focused on. And if it's a whole new team that needs the ultimate A-to-Z to successful telesales then look no further.

The benefits

  • True-to-life scenarios staff can relate to
  • Suitable for teams or individuals - experienced or novices
  • Ready-made OHTs with the main training points
  • Eleven flexible and easy-to-identify modules

Program includes: DVD(73 mins), 11 segments of video, trainer's guide, resources binder and handouts.

  • The Complete Telesales Training Kit - DVD $1,995.00 [Add to Cart]
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Call to Order - DVD

Produced - 1995

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n this video a cocky telesales executive is quick to complain about the treatment he receives from an evasive car salesman he's been trying to pin down over the telephone. But he is blind to his own errors. It isn't until a 'Twilight Zone'-like dream sequence that he sees the light and discovers where he's been going wrong.

The benefits

  • Teaches staff how to deal with inquiries and develop sales opportunities
  • Practical and easy-to-follow techniques
  • Demonstrates how to close a sale over the phone
  • Suitable for call center and telesales staff - in fact anyone who takes a customer call

Program includes: DVD (20 mins),briefcase booklet and discussion leader's guide.

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25 Sales Strategies and Activities

25 Sales Strategies and Activities is a unique training and development tool designed to teach sales professionals how and when to use a variety of proven sales strategies.

A diagnostic sales strategy matrix shows how much each strategy emphasizes both relationship and performance. A relationship performance index further classifies the strategies as highest, higher, moderate, lower, lowest.

Each strategy comes with an activity that clears up any question about how the strategy should be implemented. Each activity includes fully reproducible exhibits which can be used as exercises and handouts in training sessions.

Rather than a one-time training tool, 25 Sales Strategies and Activities is a useful and practical guide your employees will refer to over and over again. It’s packed with a wealth of insight, tips and guidance for motivating sales people to:

  • Know the customer
  • Create buying habits
  • Adapt to change
  • Empower customers
  • Create the need
  • Sell the sizzle
  • Understand the customer’s perspective
  • Sell service
  • And much more

Binder - 176 pages

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Coach the S.A.L.E. for Sales Managers - Complete Training

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A part of The S.A.L.E. Series, Coach the S.A.L.E. for Sales Managers introduces the multiple roles, responsibilities, knowledge and skills required of an effective sales manager. Participants will experience a variety of learning activities, including opportunities to explore and practice skills and strategies related to modeling the S.A.L.E. process, setting goals and expectations, managing accounts and applying the coaching process.

The Four-step Coaching Process:

1. Identify the S.A.L.E. issue
2. Get agreement on the problem
3. Agree on an action plan
4. Follow up

Learning Point Highlights:

  • Inspires managers to model the S.A.L.E. process for their teams
  • Helps managers recognize and respond to their most common challenges
  • Provides a four-step process for coaching sales professionals

The training titles used in this program are:

  • S.A.L.E. One Step at a Time for Sales Managers (33 minutes)
  • S.A.L.E. Putting it all Together for Sales Managers (11 minutes)
  • Coaching for S.A.L.E. Success (12 minutes)

Complete Training Kit Includes: DVD and two VHS tapes, Facilitator Guide, Reproducible Participant Materials, Reproducible Self-Study Guide, Online Program Resources and Trainer Pack

  • Coach the S.A.L.E. for Sales Managers - Complete Training $1,295.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Coach the S.A.L.E. for Sales Managers - Basic Training $995.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Coach the S.A.L.E. for Sales Managers - Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
Ask for the Order - DVD

Do you remember the old parable: "Give them a fish and they'll eat for a day, teach them how to fish and they'll eat for a lifetime" Well, closing the sale is the same thing. Teach them (your salespeople) the skill of how to improve their closing of sales and you give them and your organization a gift for a lifetime- consistently much higher sales. That's the gift that keeps on giving to everyone.

Research has clearly shown that if you don't ASK FOR THE ORDER, your probability of Closing is less than 20%.

That's why LearnCom and noted sales trainers Arthur R. Bauer and Gerald L. Manning have teamed up to produce this brand new high powered video-based sales training course entitled ASK FOR THE ORDER!

With 11 realistic vignettes in diverse business settings with 43 different actors, this program brings its message to everyone in sales: rookies, veterans, field sales and telemarketing reps. Expert commentary by Art Bauer supplements the demonstrations of right way/wrong way closing techniques and the illustrations of selling skills for objections, buying signals, and closing questions.

AFTO Components

AFTO is a "Sales Training Meeting in a Box" and includes all the training elements needed to run an engaging, informative and fun session:

  • Instructor's Kit
  • 26-minute DVD
  • 38-page Training Leader's Guide
  • CD-ROM with Training Leader's Guide, Participant's Workbook & 22-slide PowerPoint« presentation

Meeting Kit

  • 25 - AFTO participant buttons ("I AFTOàdo you?)
  • 25 - AFTO note pads
  • 25 - AFTO Reminder Cards
  • 25 Certificates of Completion
  • 1 - 12" x 24" 4-color AFTO Poster, suitable for framing

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Through the Customer's Eyes - DVD

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If looks could kill demonstrates how thoughtless behaviour can create a dissatisfied customer. Its sequel, Through the customer's eyes, takes a different stance. In this amusing story with a sting in the tail, we see that how we believe we are behaving is not necessarily how the customer sees it.

Mrs Porter (Marion Bailey) has reached the end of her tether. Her mounting frustration while shopping in Starmore's department store has driven her to the edge. Inspector Thackeray (Jeremy Clyde) from the Customer Services Squad arrives to investigate her claims of rude behaviour and poor service on the part of a number of the store's sales assistants.

He retraces Mrs Porter's movements and uncovers a number of cases where she was ignored, forgotten or treated badly by staff. For example, she was left waiting while they did other jobs or discussed business with other employees.

Inspector Thackeray then shows how positively Mrs Porter would have reacted had she received the service she expected.

The staff of Starmore's learn to acknowledge waiting customers and apologise for any delay in serving them; understand that non-selling work comes second to serving customers; and discover when to call in a manager to resolve a problem. Finally they learn always to respect the customer's purchase.

When sales staff offer the service that a customer expects, everyone benefits. Friendly behaviour sells. It also creates the perfect environment for selling accessories and services.

The benefits

  • Sales staff will understand what effect their behaviour can have on customers
  • They will realise how attentive and friendly service really sells
  • This will improve the results for your organisation in terms of customer satisfaction and sales

Sales Effectiveness Profile - Package of 5

In an increasingly competitive world, an effective salesperson needs a wide variety of skills and competencies in order to be successful. These skills and competencies include the ability to:

  • Appreciate Customer Needs and Expectations
  • Listen Attentively
  • Be Analytical
  • Problem Solve
  • Handle Objections and Complaints
  • Communicate and Present Effectively
  • Show Personal Warmth and Empathy
  • Demonstrate Tenacity and Self Motivation
  • Be Well Organized and Resourceful

The Sales Effectiveness Profile report provides a clear indication of an individual's effectiveness in each skill/competency area, as well as interpretative information to use personal action-planning.

  • Sales Effectiveness Profile - Package of 5 $149.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Sales Effectiveness Profile Leader's Guide $149.99 [Add to Cart]
The New Sales Game

The New Sales Game is a highly interactive, one-day, facilitated program that uses presentations, group discussion, games, and activities to help sales representatives better understand their customers and develop strategies to become more effective solution providers. Participants will evaluate where they are, and where they need to be through a creative Customer Focus Tool and an easy-to-implement Action Plan. The training concludes with an entertaining group game to drive home key points.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Focus on the real needs and perceptions of their customers
  • Proactively become solution providers
  • Determine your company's value-added services

The complete training package includes:
A comprehensive Leader's Guide, one participant booklet, one Customer Focus Tool, sixteen overhead transparency masters, game board and playing materials.

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The Unorganized Salesperson - DVD

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In Part 1, Valuing your customers, a ‘Flash-Harry’ salesman takes every opportunity to show off his expertise. He’s all action - rushing from call to call, trying to satisfy customers’ every whim. But it soon descends into chaos and inevitably he starts missing appointments.

In contrast, his colleague takes time to research customers and targets those that offer the greatest opportunity. Her approach means fewer calls, even fewer individual sales, but more long-term profit for her organisation.

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In Part 2, Valuing yourself, ‘Flash Harry’ learns that by valuing himself and his time he will in turn be valued by customers as someone who can offer them specialist knowledge. He also realises that he has to manage his sales meetings and agendas. The truth eventually dawns that being trustworthy is more important and valuable than making a one-off sale.

The benefits

  • Entertaining true-to-life examples brilliantly illustrate how easy it is to be busy without being productive
  • Textbook demonstrations of how to manage a sales territory and call schedule
  • Excellent tuition for trainee salespeople and a valuable reminder to those who have ‘seen it all’

This program production features Harry Enfield, Miranda Richardson, Art Malik and John Cleese. Release date: 1990

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Verify the Decision-Maker and Ask for the Business

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This new video is part 2 of the 3-part Business to Business Prospecting Series

Help your sales staff overcome the "resistance mode" often encountered in an initial sales call. This video shows how to determine the needs of a potential client and demonstrate an ability to meet those needs.

  • What to say once you've made contact
  • Setting appointments - quality vs. quantity
  • How to ask for the business

VHS; 17 minutes; includes 10 employee handbooks.

  • Verify the Decision-Maker and Ask for the Business $795.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Verify the Decision-Maker and Ask for the Business: Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Verify the Decision-Maker and Ask for the Business: Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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The John Cleese "...From Hell" Series - DVD

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!
There’s an art to being a good boss, but some people have yet to learn the right skills. Some typical examples will raise a smile in this collection of clips from videos such as Can you spare a moment?, The helping hand, The best of motives, Where there’s a will and I’d like a word with you. Free Preview

Colleagues From Hell!
You can rarely choose who you work with, and there are some characters that are a nightmare to deal with day-to-day. They’re typified in these clips in From ‘No’ to ‘yes’, Talking to the team, The paper chase, Straight talking and other programs. Free Preview

Communicators From Hell!
Some people just don’t know how to communicate at work, and need a helpful push through training to get the skills right. This amusing video really gets the message across. Free Preview

Customer service from Hell!
What can go wrong when you don’t have the right service skills? These amusing clips show the types of gaffes that can be avoided. Free Preview

Customers from Hell!
Difficult, demanding and down-right dangerous customers crop up in this collection of light-hearted clips.

Free Preview Employees From Hell!
Being a manager can feel like the hardest job in the world, especially when you’re dealing with Employees from Hell! This collection comes from titles including The dreaded appraisal, Managing problem people and Oh what the hell. Free Preview

Interviewers From Hell!
A light-hearted 10-minute look at interview gaffes and nightmares, featuring clips from classic John Cleese programs. Suitable as an ice-breaker, meeting break or to reinforce key interview skills learning points. Free Preview

Public Services from Hell!
Dealing with the public is a responsible position - but the service from some of those in authority leaves a lot to be desired in this selection of blunders.

Salespeople from Hell!
A collection of clips from award-winning Video Arts titles that confirm your worst fears about the sort of salespeople that give you hell. Free Preview

Teams from Hell!
A light-hearted look at what happens when teams aren't performing up to expectations, featuring clips from Talking To The Team, Meetings, Bloody Meetings and From 'No' To 'Yes'Free Preview

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!

  • The John Cleese "...From Hell" Series - DVD $1,049.00 [Add to Cart]
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How to Lose Customers Without Really Trying - DVD

Produced - 1989Free Preview

Featuring Johne Cleese

This program clearly demonstrates that the same guidelines for keeping customers satisfied apply in different situations, from sales to service to a retail checkout or reception desk.

Customers can be trying; not all customers are pleasant. It's easy to put customers off; just be aggressive, or defensive. But it is vital to treat them all as personal guests, making them welcome and indulging their whims.

In various realistic scenarios, staff resort to attacking behavior - by being patronizing or superior - or defensive behavior, where they ignore the customer altogether or fail to accept responsibility. The humorous sketches lay the foundations for customer care and provide a concrete set of behavioral rules to make customers happy and keep coming back.

They provide a memorable demonstration of the do's and don'ts of customer care, which include finding a real need behind a request, agreeing a solution with a customer, and seeing things through to a successful conclusion.

The benefits

  • Suitable for front-line staff in any organization
  • Humorous scenarios based upon real life
  • Key learning points suitable for role play or discussion
  • Rules are valid for any customer care exercise

A Video Arts production featuring Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and John Cleese. Produced in 1998

Length: 32 minutes

  • How to Lose Customers Without Really Trying - DVD $870.00 [Add to Cart]
How To Really Achieve Your Goals - DVD

Nearly all companies and individuals say goals are important. Whether they are sales goals, production goals, personal finance goals, or weight loss goals they are deemed important. Yet many times we set our goals without much real thought. "Our new sales goal is to increase last year's sales by 10%." Why? Maybe it should be 20%. But without any real thought no one is really sure.

In this new DVD training program you'll learn:

  • Why it's important to set accurate goals
  • How to set goals so they mean something
  • The GRASP IT goals achievement system
  • Why planning is critical to both your business and personal life
  • The six key elements to change

"Decide upon your goals and then set your mind, body and world into motion. As a worthwhile being, you deserve success. Demand it. Require it. Insist upon it," says Blackman.

Divided into segments, this DVD is perfect for group training or may be used for individual instruction. This how-to training program comes with a DVD, CD audio and goals-setting booklet. It is a must for any individual and organization. (Length: 35 minutes)