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 Team Building & TeamworkSupervisory Responsibilities In Team Building Date: 9/16/2010 - Live Audio Conference  From the Global Scenario Series As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, people increasingly encounter problems when communicating with people from other cultures. This can lead to problems ranging from employee frustration and decreased efficiency, to losing billion dollar deals. The Cross-Cultural Communication training video is a lively, engaging dramatization in which you'll observe a manager floundering as she tries to understand her employees and their culture, as she fails to understand the manager role in communication and diversity. Her employees only make matters worse by concealing important information, without the proper communication skills for a multicultural organization. Benefits of the Cross-Cultural Communication training dvd include:
One of our most popular training progams, the Cross-Cultural Communication training video is an easy-to-use yet highly effective tool that will empower your employees to develop communication skills for a multicultural organization, read nonverbal business communication, get accurate information, and more. Includes business communication exercises.
Program includes: 12 minute DVD, PDF script, exercises and role plays.
 The Cultural Diversity and Awareness Profile will help individuals understand how much awareness and commitment exists towards the diversity of individuals and different backgrounds in their organization.
From the Global Senario Seires As our world becomes increasingly global, people are increasingly likely to work with people from other cultures. It's up to you to provide the proper training essential for intercultural effectiveness. In the Cultural Awareness training program, you'll discover what happens when an American manager collides with his Muslim counterpart. Find out how poor communication leads to bad feelings and damaged relationships. This powerful dramatization will help your employees gain the essential skills for avoiding costly cultural conflicts, and for respect and cultural awareness in business places. Benefits of this training program include:
Program includes: 10 minute DVD, PDF script, exercises and role plays.
 This program is also available for online training. See details below. Request a free online preview! Through a series of short dramatizations this unique series explores the rules and techniques that distinguish a Dialogue from other forms of communication, such as debate or negotiation. The series examines how we can surface the often unspoken assumptions, in ourselves and in others, that can stand in the way of effective organizational communication. In so doing we build mutual trust and respect. Each program in the series can stand alone and may be licensed separately. There are volume discounts if you license the entire series or multiple copies of any program. Program Contents: Communicating in a Diverse World. Overview. What is dialogue - contrasting debate and dialogue. Initiating Dialogue - how to do it, where to do it. The skills of Dialogue - Suspension (of judgment, decision making and status); Listening (with empathy, for understanding, showing you care); Discovery (uncovering and sharing hidden assumptions in yourself and others). Includes a dramatization of how Dialogue helps us communicate across job functions, helping improve relations between people at different levels within the organization as well as between different departments or areas of expertise. (25 minutes) Dialogue for Cultural Understanding. We apply the skills of dialogue outlined in Program 1 to challenges faced in culturally diverse work environments. We see a dramatization that demonstrates how dialogue can be used to open communication, uncover hidden assumptions, break down stereotypes and facilitate more productive relationships. (24 minutes) Dialogue between Genders. A dramatized dialogue shows us how the skills we learned in Program 1 can be used to overcome misunderstandings, break down gender stereotypes and improve communications between men and women at work. (21 minutes) Dialogue among Generations. We demonstrate how the skills of dialogue can be used to bridge the personal and professional style differences that exist between employees of different ages. We uncover how divergent personal and world views common to people of different generations can lead to misunderstandings and distrust and how dialogue can help overcome age barriers and build more productive workplace relationships. (24 minutes) Program includes: A comprehensive facilitation guide, reproducible handouts and PowerPoint slides for classroom presentation.
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 These activities provide stimulating exercises, realistic case studies, and creative role-plays that will enable your managers and supervisors to sharpen their skills in several key coaching roles - as team leader, facilitator, counselor, and director. Each fully reproducible activity is organized in a user-friendly format with detailed trainer's notes, clear objectives, and suggested variations for customizing the activity to meet your group's needs. Training Objectives
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 In the corporate world, success is only restrained by one's perceptions. If one thinks she can't do it, then she certainly won't succeed. This program is an inspiration to these people, to those who let limitations get in the way of their success. They’ll come face-to-face with and be spurred by some of the greatest personal triumphs of our time – the touching stories of individuals who have surmounted the odds and pushed the envelope of success.
Length: 12 minutes
 This workshop provides team members with an analytical framework for thoroughly evaluating nine critical dimensions of team effectiveness. Participants will gain a clear understanding of their team's strengths and weaknesses, and will develop a process for improving team performance. Workshop Includes:
Time Required: 2 hours
 Produced in 2001
There are three steps managers should take to inspire their teams: give them confidence in the value of their specific role in the team, confidence in their value as individuals and confidence in their value as part of a team. The video tells the story of George, who is given the role of leading a team. With the help of Harry and his team at his local pub, George learns that being in charge doesn't mean having all the answers, but means involving the team and using their skills, experience and initiative to find them. The benefits
As well as the core video, you'll receive comprehensive support materials that add value to the way trainers and managers address learning needs, including self-study materials and a meeting break video. Program includes: DVD (25 mins), Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk
 Format: Three-Ring Binder In 50 Activities for Collaborative Management, you’ll find an array of dynamic and engaging exercises to help you explore what makes collaborative management work, its potential benefits and how to experience them in your organization. Each exercise highlights a specific aspect of collaboration, such as:
With each exercise, you’ll get everything you need to bring it to life—including a purpose, description, time to allot, presentation tips and debriefing statement.
This course is also available for online training - learn more! As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, people need to develop greater cultural diversity skills. It's up to you to provide intercultural communication training to effectively communicate with and understand other cultures. Our top-selling training program, Cross-Cultural Understanding investigates all the key components of culture and communication, including values and beliefs, social structure, perceptions of time, communication styles, proper etiquette and more. With this expert training program, you'll get the answers to these essential issues and many more:
Cross-Cultural Understanding is expertly designed for intercultural communication training, and questions and role play exercises are included for a complete training package. Includes: 45 minute DVD and leader's guide.
 Packaged Training Program: Integrated Curriculum Today's organizations are utilizing teams more and more to meet customer demands and stay competitive in a changing marketplace. Team members must understand their increasing roles in the team process and actively work to support each other to maximize effectiveness and meet organizational expectations. HighINVOLVEMENT Teamwork provides managers, supervisors, team leaders, and team members with the practical skills needed to be successful within their teams. In this comprehensive five-unit program, participants develop the fundamental interpersonal skills that are the foundation of high performance teamwork. Skill-Based Program Content Unit 1: Engage With Understanding
Unit 2: Share Constructive Feedback
Unit 3: Participate Actively In Meetings
Unit 4: Resolve For Consensus
Unit 5: Solve Team Problems
Facilitator Kit: The High Involvement Teamwork Kit; (HIT) Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:
1 Participant Kit: Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each High Involvement Teamwork Kit; (HIT) Participant Kit includes materials listed below:
Facilitator Start-Up Package: The Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) includes one Facilitator Kit and ten Participant Kits. Program Length: 3 Days/Flexible Training Options
 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.
This intriguing, involving, and entertaining video will improve:
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
In The Differences in People you'll learn how to overcome stressful personality conflicts; how to recognize the control we have over ourselves; how to develop better business relationships and how to understand and adjust our "belief filters." Volume II: Dealing with Difficult People In Dealing with Difficult People you'll learn the various types of difficult behavior; discover the formula for changing attitudes and the ways to bring out the best in people. Volume III: Strategies for Increased Self-Esteem In Strategies for Increased Self-Esteem you'll learn how to maintain your composure when times get tough and you are under pressure. Also, you'll discover the keys to communicating effectively and you'll learn the importance of positive self esteem. 3 Volume Set includes 3 DVDs or videos and 3 workbooks.
 If Enough People Care illustrates Lou Holtz’s firm belief that satisfaction and organizational success – in football or business – “can’t come from the job you’re doing . . . but from how well you’re doing the job.” Liberally sprinkling his impassioned presentation with personal and professional anecdotes and humorous stories, Lou Holtz expresses his seven essentials for success:
Includes: 28 minute DVD or video
The In An Instant® Business Training Library contains six individual courses that have been updated to include new post-tests and closed captioning. Plus, each course in the library comes with a videocassette, DVD, audio CD, book and copies of the post-tests that may be reproduced. The In An Instant Business Training Library contains the following courses:
Each course with video, DVD, audio, book and post-tests (plus closed captioning) is $149.95; however, if you purchase the entire library the cost is $749.75. Save $149.95. These courses are terrific to start a new training library, or to augment an existing one.
 The newest addition to the best-selling Insight Inventory product line is Teaming Up with Insight. Using all of the tried and trusted knowledge gained by using the Insight Inventory, this team focused product is dedicated to evaluating and improving vital group communication. The 16-page booklet contains a scoring sheet and grid as well as full breakdown of trait preferences and appropriate "flex" points, allowing for quick administration and comprehension of scoring outputs. Teaming Up with Insight will help to track and evaluate interpersonal communication through each stage of team development with positive effects on your group's core structure, conflict management, time management, goal setting, and overall efficiency. Sections in Teaming Up with Insight Include:
 In just 20 minutes participants can complete the INSIGHT Inventory and begin bridging communication gaps that are costing your company a fortune. Key Benefits
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Description INSIGHT Inventory has a fast paced approach in an uncomplicated format which can make it the centerpiece of a training program or easy to integrate into an existing curriculum. Easy to use, participants will see results quickly. INSIGHT moves quickly from developing a profile to applying the learning. INSIGHT allows participants to develop a profile and apply what they have learned. Consultants and trainers alike appreciate the INSIGHT Inventory's ease of use and skill building designed to produce results in a quality psychometric instrument. INSIGHT can be used for:
 "Successful organizations of the future are going to have leaders, are going to have team members who understand the rules of both cultures." -- Dr. Pat Heim According to Dr. Pat Heim in this customer-requested sequel to THE POWER DEAD-EVEN RULE, men and women grow up in different cultures, learning different lessons about what it means to be a leader and what it means to be a team player. The hitch is that the rules of these cultures are typically invisible and these invisible rules are the cause of many misunderstandings as men and women work together on teams. In her thoughtful and lively presentation, Dr. Heim sorts out some of these INVISIBLE RULES. Among her insights: -- Men and women have radically different ideas of what it means to be a team player. -- Our meeting behaviors are different. For men, the meeting often doesn't happen in the meeting and women may not know this. -- Women often use disclaimers, hedges, and tag questions in their linquistic behavior which can backfire when talking to men. -- Our non-verbal communication is different. For example, when women nod it means "I hear you," while men nod in agreement. These differences are not right or wrong but they can result in confusion and conflict. By making these INVISIBLE RULES visible, Dr. Heim provides the basis or better understanding, communication and teamwork. Available on DVD and VHS, length 34 minutes
 Featuring Hugh Laurie, Dawn French, John Cleese, Simon Shepherd and Philip Franks. Release date: 1993
A selection interview is a bit like detective work. Suspects must be eliminated until the right person is found, whether from inside or outside the organisation. Making the right selection choice means knowing the budget was spent well, a valuable asset has been acquired and that colleagues will be motivated by the new team member. It's your choice shows that too many people get the costly decision wrong, introducing three managers who make common mistakes. It then shows the viewer how each manager learns from these mistakes. Ethelred the Unready is unprepared, knows little about the job or the candidate, and is constantly interrupted by colleagues as the interview progresses. It is not until he is more organised and professional that he is able to make the best choice. Ivan the Terrible would rather trumpet his own opinions than encourage the candidate to talk. He eventually learns about asking open questions and listening to what the candidate has to say. Gillian the Silent allows the candidate to take over. She fails to probe or voice her doubts, and realises she has to be more affirmative and specific to gain the information she needs. The benefits
The Interviewee preparation program, which also forms part of the It's your choice programme, explains to job candidates how to research a company and question interviewers to find out the things that matter to them. It is suitable for internal candidates, as well as for schools and colleges to prepare graduates for the job market. Style: Humorous drama Program includes: DVD or VHS,(30 mins), Interviewee programm (5 mins), Meeting break DVD, Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk
 This course is also available for online training, see details below. Leaders of Character: Leadership the West Point Way takes us into some of this country foremost organizations, including Proctor & Gamble, the FBI, Penguin Publishing, and the Peoples Health Center, where we see West Point graduates putting their skills to the test. These are people who, like all of us, combat time and resource pressures, yet practice daily the principles of leading with character, heading top-notch teams, uplifting entire organizations. Includes: VHS video or DVD, Leaders Guide, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Reminder Cards and PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM
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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
 This book was written to help leaders use some of the valuable lessons learned from winning teams to help your team become more successful. These 30 lessons remind leaders that a tradition of winning alone won’t make them successful. You have to continue a tradition of winning every day, whether you are a professional football team or any other type of organization. The lessons focus on such topics as: UL> Each lesson is covered in a separate section and includes an inspirational summary statement and thought-provoking leadership questions, such as:
 Meeting Opener Simple, inspiring and thought-provoking wisdom from across the ages is presented through gentle and visually arresting animation and moving music. Life’s Lessons: Motivation encourages people to do their best, work to their fullest potential and achieve greatness within themselves. This motivational short program is a wonderful way to help inspire any organization. Life's Lessons works with YOU to fit your individual training needs. For the first time, you determine how to present these unique programs.
Includes: 3 Minute DVD (includes Full program with music and narration, Music only (no narration) & Continuous play options.
 Meeting Opener Simple, inspiring and thought-provoking wisdom from across the ages is presented through gentle and visually arresting animation and moving music. Life’s Lessons: Teamwork is a positive look at how teamwork can not only help us as individuals, but can bring us all together to do the very best we can. Highly recommended for organizations that need to work together in top form and with great attitude! Includes: DVD (includes Full program with music and narration, Music only (no narration)& Continuous play options. Length: 3 minutes
 When working in teams, it is critical to make decisions that all team members agree with and support. In this workshop, team members learn four basic decision making approaches and identify why consensus decision making is most beneficial in a team setting. Workshop Includes:
Time Required: 2 hours
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:
Time Required: 4 hours
 This is part of the The Covey Leadership Library What can organizations learn from a small island 1,200 miles off the coast of Africa? View this inspirational program and find out. Mauritius is a nation with five distinct societies, four major religions and nine spoken languages, yet it is a model of cohesiveness. In documentary style, viewers are shown how the people of Mauritius learned to replace "mine" with "ours" and change their mindset from "now" to "the future" by recognizing the inherent power of diversity. Included in the presentation is an introduction and summarizing insights from Dr. Stephen R. Covey, founder and chairman of the Covey Leadership Institute and best-selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Trainers will be able to apply this film in training on: leveraging diversity, optimizing teams, and improving interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Program Contents A 20 minute VHS or DVD, 5 Leader's Guide/Workbook combos
This new style of program introduces individuals who are both familiar to us and differ from us in significant ways. It gives a powerful insight into their diverse lives and allows us to see how our minds process information about others. The program encourages managers and team members to become aware of their own thinking processes and question their assumptions of other people. It helps them to see others as individuals and demonstrates how to benefit from a rich diversity of backgrounds and experience. To help you to provide an innovative and challenging session, the program also comes with easy-to-use support materials, which have been written by Dr George Simons and Dr Walt Hopkins - world-renowned experts on diversity. The benefits:
Includes - 28 minute DVD, Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, PowerPoint slides/OHPs on disk, Self-study workbook on disk.
 Meeting Opener! Opening Lines: Understanding Respect is a four minute meeting opener/closer that introduces fundamental and important concepts for promoting respect, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Colorful, elegant and driven by up-tempo and inspiring music, Understanding Respect is the perfect way to open or close a meeting about the importance of respect. Companion DVD to core program: As Simple As Respect Includes: A 4 minute DVD or VHS video.
 In order for teams to be successful, they must be able to solve everyday problems decisively and effectively. With this workshop, teams will learn to do so while working on an actual problem the team currently faces. By the end of the workshop participants will be ready to implement solutions. Workshop Includes:
Time Required: 4 hours
 This animated program tackles the tough subject of stereotyping in a delightful way by looking at some different "birds" in the workplace. It makes us do some soul-searching about the casual way we limit ourselves and others through stereotyping. We "pigeon-hole" others when we overlook their unique abilities, talents, personalities, and backgrounds. We do it to ourselves, too - when we impose limits and cheat ourselves of new experiences, challenging opportunities, and the fulfillment of our undeveloped potential. Though animated, this training tool is no flight of fancy. It's a critical component of training in today's changing workplace. Workgroups, committees, and executive teams will benefit from this program, as will any group interested in mobilizing the talents of all its members. PigeonHoled in the Land of Penguins will help team members recognize pigeon-holing, understand its high cost, and learn how to change the pattern. By tapping into the full creativity of everyone on a team, we open ourselves up to significant breakthroughs in innovation, productivity and team effectiveness. Participants will learn:
Program Contents: A 10 minute DVD or VHS and Leader's Guide
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