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Best Sellers![]() This program is also available for online training - learn more! What do you do if someone you care about is the target of demeaning stereotypes? What if you are being demeaned or stereotyped? How often do you speak up on behalf of respect? This new program, based on the book by Leslie Aguilar, can be used for training on Diversity & Inclusion, Communication, Teamwork and Leadership. Why is OUCH! important? Staying silent in the face of demeaning comments, stereotypes or bias allows these attitudes and behaviors to thrive. This undermines our ability to create an inclusive workplace where all employees are welcomed, treated with respect and able to do their best work. Yet, most employees and leaders who want to speak up don't know how. So, we say nothing. What Does OUCH! do? In a unique and powerful way, viewers will experience the impact of stereotypical comments, explore why people don't speak up against stereotypes and other biased behaviors, and learn six techniques for speaking up without blame or guilt. OUCH! Learning Objectives:
Program includes: 12 minute DVD or VHS video, Speaking Up Activity 5 min., OUCH! That Stereotype Hurts with vignettes 13 min., CD-ROM with Leader's Guide, Powerpoint presentation, 1 OUCH! book and 10 OUCH! reminder cards
![]() Best-Seller! Strengthen your leadership skills as a manager or supervisor."...best value in the leadership category. Focuses on issues none of the others touch." — View Magazine Different management situations demand different styles of leadership in order to get the job done. And different types of employees respond better to different methods of direction. This leadership video defines four distinct management approaches, and helps you see which style you tend instinctively to fall back on when the going gets tough. It then describes which employees respond best to the different methods, and explains how you can modify your own natural approach, using the other techniques as needed to achieve better outcomes. Learn how to:
Duration: 27 Minutes / Includes Study Guide
![]() Best-Seller! Angry customers can take their toll on employees, to the point where it can be easy to lose perspective. In this updated version of the classic training video, a frustrated employee receives advice from his coworkers on how to better handle difficult customers. When a kind greeting and an ounce of respect aren’t enough, the techniques presented here can keep a situation from getting out of control. Rather than taking the matter personally, employees learn that they’re in a position to solve problems and possibly even make someone’s day a little bit brighter. Duration: 21 Minutes
![]() Length: 19 minutes Help your long-term care facility comply with HIPAA's Privacy Rule -- the first comprehensive federal protection guidelines for the privacy of health information. This training program will teach your staff the new guidelines for protecting resident privacy and confidentiality in long-term care under the new rule.
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![]() Best-Seller! Your employees need to know that they are just as responsible for maintaining a harassment-free office as you are. Things like inappropriate pictures, jokes, emails, gestures, and touching can create a hostile environment where protected characteristics become targets. Get employees to see that certain behaviors can be interpreted as offensive. Once they know exactly what will and will not be tolerated, everyone can work together to ensure that your diverse workplace operates on a level of respect and understanding. Duration: 20 Minutes
![]() Best-Seller! As a manager, you have a responsibility to keep your workplace free of any form of harassment. In this popular program, an office “comedian” uses his coworkers’ race, religion, and age as the basis of snide comments that no one else finds particularly funny. An emphasis is placed on the various types of harassment—other than sexual harassment—that can violate company policy. Learn how to investigate when discrimination occurs, and how to protect the rights of all involved. Duration: 16 minutes
![]() 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: Meetings, Bloody Meetings course is also available online - Click here for details
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Best-Seller! Business entertaining is still an important part of business deals, and people still judge you professionally by how well you handle yourself in social situations. But standards have changed over time, and there's a lot to know. Etiquette expert Margery Sinclair explains today's business dining standards, from issuing the invitation to sending your thanks. Once you've mastered the suggestions in this video, you'll be more at ease—and more effective—when you share a meal with an important client or prospective employer. 21 Minutes
![]() Release - 2007 Communication is the foundation for everything we do in the workplace. It happens every day, all the time. This program identifies the seven communication breakdowns most likely to undermine organizational success, and gives tips on how to avoid them. Most employees never receive training in the development of their communication skills. Even more importantly, employees aren't provided with the knowledge and skills to help them avoid the frequent communication problems that arise. The good news is that the most common communication potholes in the road can be easily spotted and avoided. Illustrated in this program are Seven Common Communication Breakdowns:
Program inlucdes: A 18 minute DVD or VHS, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on disc and 10 Employee Handbooks (additional copies sold in packs of 10 for $29.50)
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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.
![]() Best-Seller! Great telephone service doesn't have to be a thing of the past. Even with the advent of email and the Internet, your customers still want to be able to call sometimes and reach a live person. And how that call is handled still makes a huge difference to the success of your organization. When the phone rings, your employees have only a few seconds to set a tone. To communicate that your company listens to customers and gives them what they need- every single time they call. Those who answer the phones are speaking for everyone in the company. Make sure they have training. This program teaches the following telephone courtesy skills:
Duration: 20 Minutes
![]() Best-Seller! Basics of Business Etiquette how-to training program you'll learn:
The Basics of Business Etiquette training program comes complete with a DVD, CD audio and copy of the book The Basics of Business Etiquette by Majorie Brody and Barbara Pachter, which is part of the Business Skills Express Series published by the McGraw-Hill Companies. 45 minutes
![]() Produced - 2007 This course is also available for online training, see details below. What causes the most stress across ALL occupations? The interpersonal conflicts we all experience on a daily basis - with coworkers or supervisors. Give your employees a memorable, easy-to-implement tool to resolve conflict. Rather than a complicated model, What to Do When Conflict Happens introduces:
What makes the C.A.L.M. approach unique is the first stage - CLARIFY, where employees step back and think. They rationally examine what's happening, why it's happening, why they feel the way they do, and what they need to keep in mind as they address the issue. Program includes: A 21 minute VHS or DVD with bonus segment, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM, 10 participant Workbooks, 10 copies of the book What to do…When Conflict Happens and 10 Reminder Cards. Online Training Option
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
![]() Best-Seller! Produced - 2009 The best way to discipline employees is to do it progressively, giving them a chance to turn their performance around and meet your expectations. Start with coaching and then move on to more severe measures, like verbal and written warnings, if necessary. This new video follows the stories of two employees, one whose priority seems to be fantasy baseball instead of his production report, and one who has a habit of showing up late. Learn the six steps that can show your problem employees the effect their behavior has on other members of the organization, and how it’s their responsibility to make a change or face the consequences.
![]() Best-Seller! Managers have to be as educated about sexual harassment as their employees. This award-winning program features six real world scenes depicting different kinds of unwelcome behavior, including inappropriate comments, unwanted touching, and quid pro quo harassment, in which a superior uses his power to coerce an underling. Learn what qualifies as sexual harassment, and what your response should be once you’ve recognized or been alerted to a problem. Make sure all your managers know their unique role in preventing sexual harassment. Duration: 32 minutes
![]() Best-Seller! Sometimes your employees’ behavior is blatantly offensive while other times it can be hard to know what is inappropriate. This best-selling video offers a thorough explanation of what kinds of behaviors constitute sexual harassment. Dramatic scenes cover the two types of harassment recognized by the courts: hostile work environment and quid pro quo. Employees learn that any form of sexual harassment violates your zero tolerance policy, and that this is a subject that should never be taken lightly. Duration: 25 Minutes
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Generation conflict costs billions of dollars in lost productivity to organizations like yours worldwide - not to mention the incalculable effects on motivation and morale. Now there's help with generational expert Cam Marston's new DVD course, Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace. This program will educate and stimulate positive interaction among your people. It will also dramatically reduce workplace conflict and provide managers and supervisors with strategies for dealing with recruiting, retaining, and motivating, using the generational differences in a positive way. Key Learning Points:
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![]() Best-Seller! This program is also available for online training. See details below. If you write well, you will often do well. It's that simple. But many of us haven't taken a writing course since high school or college. When we sit down to write, we confront a frustrating, time-consuming task. Words and meaning elude us. Precious hours march by as we stare at a blank computer screen. Don't despair. You don't have to be a best-selling author to write clearly and effectively. You just need to follow the program in Writing for Business Results. This clear-cut, non-threatening approach gives you the principles you need to make your writing powerful, interesting and relevant to the reader. You'll improve all aspects of your business writing from memos to e-mails to detailed annual reports by learning how to:
Sharpen your pencils, fire up your computer, and write for results! This new training program comes complete with a DVD, CD audio and copy of the book Writing for Business Results by Patricia E. Seraydarian, which is part of the Business Skills Express Series published by The McGraw-Hill Companies. 25 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:
![]() Best-Seller Your business is not what you sell, it's who you serve. Meet Bob Farrell, founder of Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant, as he serves up the most important aspect of any service business taking care of the customer. We're all in the same business, the people business. Our job is to make customers happy. What's the best way to do that? By giving out pickles. Pickles are those special or extra things you do to make people happy. The trick is figuring out what your customers want and then making sure they get it. That's the pickle. Make sure your employees have the scoop on effective customer service with this fun, lighthearted and highly effective training tool. Viewers will learn what it takes to foster and maintain customer loyalty. Participants will learn to:
Program Contents: DVD or Video, Leader's Guide with reproducible handouts, Give 'Em the Pickle hardback book, 10 Reminder Cards and 10 Pickle Pins
![]() Best-Seller! Workplace Violence costs American companies $4.2 billion annually and is the country’s second leading cause of on-the-job deaths. As the second-leading cause of workplace deaths, violence represents a challenge to employers who must be prepared to respond to and manage these incidents. This program uses an interview with a convicted perpetrator as well as a compelling dramatization to communicate the impact of this problem. Produced by Kenwood. Learn to recognize the warning signs of impending violence and stop the process before its too late. Key Training Points
Length: 30 miniutes
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This course is also available for online training, see details below. What’s every top manager’s secret to success? In a word: delegate, delegate, delegate. But getting work done through others can often be difficult because it inevitably involves a loss of control. This program outlines a solid process for delegating and gives valuable insight to both new and experienced managers. Delegating responsibility is a dance - a delicate partnership between manager and subordinate involving trust, authority and above all, communication. Brand new managers find delegating to be the hardest part of transitioning into the new role – while many experienced managers still struggle to get it right years after assuming a leadership position. This training program provides a plan for successful delegation, presented in five steps:
Effective delegation accomplishes more than just the task at hand. It also builds trust for future delegations, helps employees develop new skills, reduces managerial stress and improves organizational productivity. Program Includes: VHS or DVD, Facilitator’s Guide, CD-ROM with PowerPoint Presentation and a pdf of the Delegatee Checklist, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Reminder Cards
Online Training Option
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
![]() Best-Seller! Do you know an alcoholic or an illegal drug addict? Chances are good that you do – chances are good that you work with one, too. This important program will help supervisors and managers recognize alcoholism and drug abuse in the workplace and help reduce missed work days, increase productivity and protect worker health and safety.
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![]() 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. Preview Clips Film Highlights
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.
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This program covers the basics of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and shows examples of what is necessary to comply. This must-see program uses specific scenarios to illustrate privacy dos and don'ts.
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![]() Best-Seller! - Produced in 2006 Behavioral Interviewing: taking the guesswork out of recruitment shows how to conduct an effective interview. It shows that past behaviour is the key to predicting future performance. Rather than using intuition (I'll know them when I see them), an interviewer can use the questioning techniques demonstrated to retrieve relevant information based on their past experiences. A candidate's qualifications, experiences, posts they've held, level of responsibilities taken are all important details that you need to know. But the unanswered question is 'how will they actually perform in the precise job you're advertising?' Because behavioral interviewing is a technique that is so important, so effective and always successful that it needs to be used consciously and systematically in every selection interview. This new program covers the following five stages of behavioral interviewing technique:
Program includes: DVD(25 mins), Course leader's guide, Group training workbook, Self-study workbook and Powerpoint presentations slides
![]() Best-Seller! Drugs can be dangerous, even prescription medications if they are misused! Don't let your company become a victim of employee substance abuse and risk the high cost of low productivity, lost work time and even life-threatening accidents. Make sure your employees understand
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![]() Best-Seller! The 50 activities in this resource book has been tested with hundreds of participants to ensure their appropriateness and effectiveness for a variety of diversity training needs. Employees at all levels will be stimulated by interactively learning about cultural and gender differences and mastering new skills for communicating more effectively in our diverse workplaces.
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Includes: 300 Pages, 3-Ring Binder
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You can deliver professional, high-impact supervisory training presentations in PowerPoint even if you've never worked in PowerPoint. This fully equipped program gives you everything you need, including handouts, to train on 20 essential topics. Free quarterly updates.
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![]() Best-Seller! Projects are a way of life, in both technical and nontechnical disciplines: human resources, finance, procurement, marketing, and other functional areas use projects to get work done. Improving your existing project management skills will increase your organizational and individual performance. The Project Management Tool Kit is a comprehensive resource that identifies the competencies for successful project managers and organizations; provides reproducible assessments to measure organization and individual strengths; facilitates developmental action planning; includes comprehensive facilitator instructions (including handouts and transparency masters for a half- and full-day training program); and has self-instructional job aids and a case study. Use The Project Management Tool Kit to:
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![]() Do Right II is the follow-up to the best selling motivational video Do Right. In Do Right II, Lou Holtz focuses on the importance of teamwork, the cornerstone of every individual and organizational success. Lou Holtz discusses the four fundamental factors at the heart of every successful team or organization:
Lou Holtz inspires listeners with a sense of teamwork, commitment to excellence, organizational loyalty, and personal dedication. Filmed in 1991, Do Right II continues to instill pride and dedication in executives, employees, students and athletes. Includes: 35 minute DVD or video
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