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Do Right! The Plan - DVD

Produced - 2006

In 1988, Lou Holtz filmed Do Right an examination of the three values at the heart of his success. Shortly thereafter, Do Right became the best selling corporate film in America.

In Do Right The Plan, Lou Holtz illustrates the way to apply these values to achieve individual and organizational success. Through trial and error, victory and defeat, every success begins with two things: a vision and a plan.

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Film Highlights

  • Through trial and error, victory and defeat, every success begins with two things: a vision and a plan.
  • A vision provides the direction necessary to achieve our goals.
  • A plan is the vehicle by which we achieve our goals.
  • Teaches audiences how to develop the vision essential to achieving their goals.
  • Guides individuals, organizations and teams to consistent and lasting success.

Lou Holtz illustrates how many of America's most influential leaders nurtured success by focusing on these key elements, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Super Bowl Champion Jerome Bettis, and Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Do Right The Plan teaches audiences how to develop the vision and the plan essential to achieving their goals. Along with the enduring values illustrated in Do Right, the message of Do Right The Plan guides individuals, organizations and teams to consistent and lasting success.

Running Time: 35 Minutes
Formats: DVD and VHS
Subtitles: Spanish
Closed Captioning: Yes
Includes: One each of Trainer's and Participant's Playbooks
Additional Playbooks: $6.00 each

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Getting Ahead by Getting Along: People Skills for the Workplace- DVD

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Your workplace is filled with many different personality types. Sometimes they mesh, and sometimes they clash. Communication skills play a key role in reducing stress and resolving any discord that comes up. Trust, respect, and compromise among coworkers can make it easier to find the root of a problem and come to an agreement about how to fix it. Through collaboration and support, we all have the chance to contribute to each other’s success. 

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Coaching a Winning Team - DVD

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Whether it be in basketball or business, a successful team is created by strengthening individual qualities and focusing them on a singular goal. A candid and engaging storyteller, VanDerveer shares the coaching methods that have helped her teams triumph, as well as what she has learned to avoid. Making honesty and positive reinforcement the cornerstones of her process, she explains her techniques for maintaining team unity and focus.

Over a remarkable 27 seasons, Tara VanDerveer has claimed more than 600 wins. She has lead Stanford to two NCAA championships, five Final Four appearances, and ten Pac-10 Conference titles. She coached the USA Women's Basketball Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1996, and has been named Pac-10 Coach of the Year eight times.

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X-Teams: Extroverted Teams That Lead and Innovate- DVD

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Deborah Ancona challenges the dominant wisdom that effective teams focus internally on the roles, synergies, and collaboration of team members to produce results. Building on twenty-five years of research, she shows that the most successful teams instead focus externally—on customers, competition, and the marketplace—tapping into an expanded knowledge base and skills set to move forward quickly. X-teams cross boundaries within their own organizations as well. Members network up and down the hierarchy, gaining support for their undertaking as well as knowing how best to integrate it strategically into the organization. X-teams need to be fostered, and Dr. Ancona describes how team members should be selected, what the mindset of the team should be from Day 1, and how the teams should be supported with tools, timelines, deliverables, and top-management commitment. $99.99 [Add to Cart]

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Everest - DVD

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Named One of the Best Training Programs in 2007

Climbing Mount Everest is hard. Climbing Mount Everest blind is ... impossible. Or at least that's what they told Erik Weihenmayer. This incredible true story follows Erik's quest to reach the summit of the tallest peak in the world - and the amazing team that made it possible.

Erik Weihenmayer has never believed in limitations - even though he is blind. And he's good at questioning other people's perceptions of his abilities. That's why it was easy to ignore the ones who said he was crazy to pursue his dream of climbing Mount Everest. Erik knew that he couldn't do it alone. And here's the key - he never wanted to. He knew that his vision could only be achieved through the power of teamwork.

Remarkable, yet unfathomable, Everest is essential for anyone who has ever worked on a team -- or is responsible for making teams strive to reach higher performance goals. Unlike any other training program, Erik's journey vividly illustrates the weight and significance of teamwork and leadership at a most crucial time.

Team interviews and footage from the actual climb help viewers learn about:

  • Choosing the right people
  • Keeping the goal in sight
  • Banishing ego
  • Understanding sacrifice
  • Discovering your inner leader
  • Finding joy in the success of others
  • Overcoming immense setbacks
  • Believing in the dream

Viewers see the amazing things that are possible when people work together as a cohesive team.

Includes: 14 minute DVD or VHS video and discussion guide.

Online Training Option

  • Pricing - $9.95 per user
  • Minimum order - $500
  • Users receive a post-test and certificate of completion. You set the test’s passing grade.
  • You get an Administrator’s Page that shows who has logged on to take the training and the test score of each viewer.

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

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The Dilemmas of Team-Based Organizations- DVD

Many organizations today have flattened their traditional hierarchies and redistributed work to multi-functional teams. Although easily launched with the promise of decreasing cycle time, improving quality, and increasing customer satisfaction, most teams find it difficult in practice to reach their potential. With a bias toward the pragmatic, Dr. Meyer suggests how to avoid "teaming": the deadly reflex reaction to form a team regardless of the situation. He addresses the trade-offs and downsides of teams, but then proceeds to detail fifteen key architectural elements that help create productive teams that work effectively—and can actually fulfill their promise. $99.99 [Add to Cart]

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Team Workout: 50 Interactive Activities

"Team Workout: 50 Interactive Activities provides a wealth of team activities that are both engaging and insightful. Be sure to add it to your list of favorite resources." Lorraine L. Ukens, Teaming With Success; author of All Together Now! and Energize Your Audience

Two of the world's leading team building facilitators bring you their best icebreakers, assessments, games, and exercises in a user friendly format. Team Workout is for facilitators, team leaders, trainers, and managers who want all the necessary materials and a step-by-step protocol for fast and easy implementation of effective team development. It's all here, the goals, time required, room set-up, materials, and detailed instructions to ensure a no-fault experience. There are even debriefing questions to facilitate the transfer of learning back to the workplace.

Selected Contents

  • Customer Delight: A data collection tool
  • E-Handles: A closer for a mature team
  • Respect: A feedback tool
  • Virtual Brainstorming: Problem solving for a geographically dispersed team
  • Characteristics of an effective work team
  • Creating a team mission
  • Forming new teams
  • Improving team meetings
  • Virtual brainstorming: problem solving for a geographically dispersed team

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We're All Different: Diversity in the Workplace - DVD

Workplace equality is something that everyone is entitled to, regardless of factors like age, race, and gender. Too often, fear creeps in where issues of diversity are concerned and qualified individuals are overlooked just because they’re different. This program encourages you to look beyond the stereotypes and see people for who they truly are, overcoming preconceptions to discover where employees’ strengths lie. Learning how to embrace our differences is a huge step in dealing with—and avoiding—conflict at work.

  • We're All Different: Diversity in the Workplace - DVD $189.99 [Add to Cart]
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Grand Canyon Adventures

Three new simulations! Now there are six realistic adventure simulations in all! Set in America's most popular scenic wonder!

Take participants on an unforgettable learning adventure! Set in the Grand Canyon, these stimulating group activities provide an adventurous backdrop for enthusiastic participant involvement and memorable skill building.

Use Grand Canyon Adventures for active learning in:

  • Creativity and Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Consultation

More than the usual consensus-building activities
The creative design of the participant scenario booklets gives these learning activities a distinct advantage over other consensus-building simulations by supporting participants throughout the activity with helpful techniques and key learning points.

Six related activities provide new training flexibility
The Grand Canyon Adventures package includes three interrelated activities on problem solving, collaboration, and consensus decision making, which makes the program extremely flexible. Use all six activities with your entire team, or split up your group to focus on individualized skill development with a single activity.

Inspiring DVD gets participants involved
Start your session with The River Song, an 18-minute video which sets the scene for the simulations. It is an all-original, breathtaking video tour of the sites within the Grand Canyon where the simulations take place. It will motivate and focus participants on the activities, and ensure high-impact learning.

Stranded in Grand Canyon
A Creative Problem-Solving Adventure: In this activity, set on the Colorado River, the group must find its way out of the canyon using the problem-solving method provided. 1 “2 hours. (additional copies/ 5 pack $29.95 / Code SIGC)

Incident at Elves Chasm: Action Plan
Consensus and Consultation In this simulation, set on the Colorado River, a crisis has occurred and the group must build consensus and create a plan of action. 1 to 2 hours. (additional copies/ 5 pack $29.95 / Code IECAP)

Incident at Elves Chasm: Priority Setting
Consensus and Consultation In this simulation, a crisis has occurred and you as an individual and then with the group practice prioritizing. 1 “2 hours. (additional copies/ 5 pack $29.95 / Code IECPS)

Hiking Out of Lava Falls
A Creative Problem-Solving Adventure This activity, based on an actual event and set on canyon trails, gives team members practice in using a proven problem-solving model to accomplish their survival mission. 1 '2 hours. (additional copies/ 5 pack $29.95 Code GCHO)

Up Deer Creek without a Boatman
Collaboration Designed for two leaders or two teams, this exercise provides experience in working together and resolving conflict. Participants will assess their own effectiveness based on three measures of collaboration. 1 “2 hours. (additional copies/ 5 pack $29.95 / Code GCDC)

Overboard in the Roaring River
The Confluence of Crisis and Management This crisis management simulation, set on the Colorado River, gives groups practice in building consensus and action planning. 1 “2 hours. (additional copies/ 5 pack $29.95 / Code GCRR)

Grand Canyon Complete Package Includes:

  • 10 copies of Hiking Out of Lava Falls simulation
  • 10 copies of Up Deer Creek simulation
  • 10 copies of Overboard in the Roaring River simulation
  • 10 copies of Incident at Elves Chasm: Action Plan simulation
  • 10 copies of Incident at Elves Chasm: Priority Setting simulation
  • 10 copies of Stranded in Grand Canyon simulation
  • Scenic 18-minute full color video, The River Song
  • Comprehensive Leaders Guide which includes detailed debriefing suggestions, instructions for leading adventure simulations, and valuable tips on involving and motivating participants.

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Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace - DVD

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This video is divided into two parts: an explanation of six conflict resolution techniques, followed by an examination of how to apply those techniques. Put together, it becomes a complete lesson in communication breakthroughs. Among the topics covered are ways to change the way you speak so that you don’t come across as accusatory, how to anticipate statements to come to a greater understanding, and setting boundaries that define expectations. These techniques will help coworkers curtail aggression and deal with issues that have been bubbling under the surface.

Formats: DVD Duration: 37 Minutes

Includes - Free Study Guide Support Material

Study Guide: This 38-page booklet includes exercises that allow attendees to review the six techniques covered in the video. Also explains how to apply those techniques to resolve conflicts.

Leader's Guide: This 38-page guide is designed to assist facilitators In guiding a group through the program. This booklet includes discussion questions and exercises designed to demonstrate the six techniques.

  • Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace - DVD $99.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace - Leader's Guide $18.95 [Add to Cart]
  • Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace - Spanish (VHS) $99.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace - Study Guide $10.95 [Add to Cart]
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Team Building Blocks: Practicing Group Collaboration

Renew your teams with this stimulating, hands-on training tool. Team Building Blocks gives your teams an easy-to-implement, effective, and enjoyable opportunity to practice and refine their problem solving and communication skills.

Your teams will be motivated and stimulated by solving problems, reaching consensus, and resolving differences while involved with these experiential puzzles. The game comes complete with 14 wooden blocks and a 148-page activity manual, which includes 18 detailed activities, facilitator notes, post-activity commentary, and solutions.

Exercises Cover

  • Risk taking
  • Logic and spatial relations Diversity
  • Trial and error learning
  • Coaching
  • Inter-team consultation
  • Information sharing
  • Time management

  • Team Building Blocks: Practicing Group Collaboration $299.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Team Building Blocks (additional set of blocks) $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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50 Activities for Team Building (Volume 2)

Create high performance teams with these collections of fully reproducible activities. All the activities employ the principle of "learning by doing" to ensure that the skills the participants learn can be applied to real work situations.

Volume 2 offers 50 additional activities for team development and provides practice on cooperation, balancing roles, and defining team objectives and goals.

These activities are ideal for team leaders who are looking for creative activities to energize their teams but do not have the time to develop them. All of the activities are ready-to-use and are fully reproducible; with little effort you can implement them into an existing training program. Each volume comes with detailed trainer's notes, clearly stated objectives, and a quick reference index to the activities.

Training Objectives, Volume 2

  • Encourage continuous team improvement
  • Develop a mutual support network
  • Create balanced team roles

  • 50 Activities for Team Building (Volume 2) $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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What's My Team Member Style? - Starter Kit

Team performance begins with individual performance. So, what do team members need to do individually to contribute to their team’s success? What’s My Team Member Style? provides the needed insight. The 18-item assessment helps individuals evaluate how they typically behave on a team and the results reveal their preference for one of 4 team member styles. With increased awareness, they are able to appreciate other team members’ contributions and address differences proactively. Learning Outcomes

  • Learn about the 4 team member styles
  • Identify personal team member style
  • Understand how to capitalize on style strengths and improve trouble spots
  • Identify the styles of fellow teammates
  • Plan how to take full advantage of the team mix of styles
  • Realize how one is perceived by team members through peer feedback

How It Works

Participants respond to 18 statements using a pressure-sensitive form. After scoring is complete, easy-to-read charts allow respondents to quickly scan the strengths and trouble spots that characterize their particular team member styles. To better understand how they are perceived, individual team members can then view Feedback Forms provided by their fellow teammates.

The Facilitator Guide features optional activities that allow participants to practice using flexibility when working with other styles. These activities utilize Feedback Forms (completed by team members prior to the training session) and StylePlay. Each Participant Guide provides a worksheet for positive personal action planning, a diagram for creating a team profile, and team action planning. Uses for What’s My Team Member Style?

What’s My Team Member Style? is an excellent way to kick off any team-building training and can be used as a stand-alone tool or as part of a larger program. It is most effective for members of intact teams who are in the training session together. The assessment can also assist team members in identifying work roles that fit with their team member styles. (For more work-role practice, use Deir el-Medina and Team-Work & Team-Roles in tandem with What’s My Team Member Style?)

What to Order

Order one Facilitator Guide per trainer and one Participant Guide per participant. To give participants insight on how they are viewed by each other, order enough Feedback Forms for each individual to provide feedback on fellow team members.

Package Options:

  • What's My Team Member Style? Starter Kit - Includes: 5 Participant Guides, 15 Feedback Forms and Facilitator Guide What's My Team Member Style? Participant Guide 5-Pack / $49.00
  • What's My Team Member Style? Feedback Form 5-Pack / $25.00
  • What's My Team Member Style? Facilitator Guide / $99.00

  • What's My Team Member Style? - Starter Kit $299.99 [Add to Cart]
  • What's My Team Member Style? Facilitator Guide $99.99 [Add to Cart]
  • What's My Team Member Style? Feedback Form 5-Pack $25.00 [Add to Cart]
  • What's My Team Member Style? Participant Guide 5-Pack $59.95 [Add to Cart]
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Teamwork with Pat Riley - DVD

Award Wining Program

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In this video program, Pat Riley demonstrates the management concepts and techniques that have made him one of the top coaches in NBA history. Using exciting footage of the LA Lakers in action, Riley shows how managers, businesses and other organizations can apply his teamwork concepts to build a unified and motivated team.

Length 24 Minutes

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Five Star Teamwork - DVD

How is it that certain teams achieve extraordinary excellence, day after day, year after year and manage to stay committed to each other, their customers and their organization's mission? This new program features the remarkable team at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City. Long regarded as a premier destination and widely thought of as one of the best restaurants in the world, the Four Seasons team lives by a set of principles that are universal to any team, in any environment. There are no actors, no experts and nothing is contrived-just a real-life, high performing team delivering excellence day after day, year after year.

Just as an example, one of the most important principles of the team is their commitment to each other. An uncommon promise that is one of the traits that set them apart from all others in any setting. They know that unless they take care of each other first they will not be able to provide the level of service required by the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the restaurant.

The five principles:

  • Commitment to Each Other
  • Commitment to the Mission
  • Commitment to the Customer
  • Commitment to Resolving Conflict
  • Commitment to the Details

The program comes with a comprehensive leader's guide and Power Point Presentation for a one-hour session and a four-hour session and one set of reproducible participant handouts on a convenient CD. It also has very flexible content points that allow for customization for organization-specific exercises or other activities that you may prefer to use.

Program length: 17 minute DVD