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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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Jungle Escape 4th Edition (Complete Kit)

A long-time favorite of customers — Jungle Escape is a fun and highly effective hands-on game that's perfect for introducing and reinforcing basic team skills.

The adventure begins when teams learn that their airplane has crash-landed in a remote jungle. To survive, each group must build an escape helicopter using spare parts, a diagram, and limited access to a completed model.

Learning Outcomes

  • Discover how teams function: Fragmented, Divergent, or Cohesive
  • Learn the group-process skills vital to effective teamwork, including communication, decision making, problem solving, and conflict resolution
  • Experience first-hand the impact of planning on group results
  • Understand the effect of individual behavior on group productivity

How It Works

This exciting simulation challenges participants to work together to complete a project under a deadline and with limited information.

Presented with a predetermined set of toy parts, teams must create a plan for construction and then build a helicopter to exact specifications. After the models are completed (approximately 30 minutes later), team members take part in a discussion about team dynamics and offer insights gained from the activity. When scores are compared, participants learn that typically the team that took the most time to plan builds the helicopter in the least amount of time.

Uses for Jungle Escape:

  • Kick off a team-building workshop or seminar
  • Introduce or reinforce basic team-building skills
  • Surface group issues or concerns that block team progress

    What to Order/Product Contents

    Each Complete Game includes materials to train up to 3 teams of 5-8 participants. All parts except for the Participant Guides are reusable. For training sessions with more than 3 groups, order one extra game pack per team. Refill packs of Participant Guides are available for individual purchase.

    Our Product Consultant Team would be happy to assist you in determining your materials needs.

    The Jungle Escape 4th Edition Complete Kit (Team and Interteam Versions) includes:

    • 1 Facilitator Guide (CD-ROM containing Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation and reproducible masters)
    • 24 Participant Guides
    • 3 bags of helicopter parts
    • 1 facilitator model
    • Spare parts for lost pieces
    • Sturdy tote bag

    Optional

    Jungle Escape 4th Edition Extra Game Pack - $95.00
    (Includes: 8 Participant Guides, 1 bag of helicopter parts, and 1 laminated game card.)

    • Jungle Escape 4th Edition (Complete Kit) $399.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Jungle Escape 4th Edition Extra Game Pack $99.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Jungle Escape 4th Edition Participant Guide 5-Pack $40.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Teamwork with Pat Riley - DVD

    Award Wining Program

    Free Online Preview

    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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    Team Management Training Bundle Online Course (1 Year Access)

    Learn all about Teams and Team Management. Join expert instructor as he presents and expounds on the topics of teams through this 4 part series. The Team Management Training Bundle includes all 4 individual training courses for:

    • Enabling Teams
    • Leading Teams
    • Team Participation
    • Managing Team Conflict

    4 courses - 4 levels - 152 training modules

    Key Course Topics:

    • Team Empowerment
    • Organizational Environment
    • Mistakes that Managers Make
    • Establishing the Team
    • Why Teams Don’t Work
    • Learning Teams
    • Teams Leadership
    • Team Fundamentals
    • Role of the Team Leader
    • Intro To Communication
    • Introduction to Team Meeting Protocol
    • Elements of a Successful Team
    • Team Fundamentals
    • Symptoms of Team Conflict
    • Sources of Conflict
    • Healthy Conflict=Strong Teams

    • Team Management Training Bundle Online Course (1 Year Access) $299.99 [Add to Cart]
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    One for All - Teamwork the Meerkat Way - DVD

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    Produced - 2007

    Free Online Preview

    Teamwork has never been captured in such a fresh and exciting way! But then most training programs don't feature the engaging meerkat of the Kalahari Desert in a starring role. One for All - The Meerkat Way is an inspirational new program that utilizes riveting footage of meerkats in their natural habitat using teamwork and cooperation to ensure their survival!

    One for All both trains and motivates with its down-to-earth demonstration of important teamwork principles. Participants will clearly understand the value of team-oriented behaviors as the following training points are highlighted:

    • The power of cooperation
    • Respecting teammates
    • Being accountable
    • Communicating
    • Learning from each other

    Everybody loves meerkats. But as a species, the meerkat should never have survived at all. These tiny, vulnerable creatures live in an incredibly hostile environment full of savage predators, such as jackals and martial eagles. The fact that they survive at all can be attributed to a single extraordinary talent: their ability to cooperate and create an interdependent culture. That is the heart of this upbeat and informative documentary-style training program. Beautifully filmed by BBC crews, One for All can work wonders to improve an attitude of teamwork and cooperation in your organization.

    Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

    • English and Spanish versions – many also include Portuguese
    • A customizable PowerPoint™ presentation
    • Informative training points and bonus material for refresher or training talks
    • Video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates discussion
    • A printable Leader's Guide

    Length: 21 minutes

    • One for All - Teamwork the Meerkat Way - DVD $595.00 [Add to Cart]
    • One for All - Teamwork the Meerkat Way - VHS $595.00 [Add to Cart]
    • One for All - Teamwork the Meerkat Way - DVD Rental $225.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Team Working - DVD

    Produced - 1994

    Free Preview

    Team-based structures are the most effective and rewarding way for people to work together. Team workers are motivated, satisfied, productive and flexible. Such businesses are more responsive to change and perform better than traditional hierarchies.

    Through a combination of drama and documentary, Team Working illustrates how team working avoids duplication of effort and allows members to share knowledge and experience; that teams need to value people and their ideas and allow everyone to participate; that teams need to establish their own ground rules; that projects need to be carefully planned with goals set, stages defined and progress reviewed; and how successful teams recognize individual strengths.

    The benefits

    • Comprising 2 DVDs, the first DVD, Team Working looks at what it really means to work as part of a team.
    • The second DVD, Conflict Resolution focuses on the relationship between two team members, and how to analyze and resolve conflict.

    Program includes: DVD (29 mins), DVD (8 mins), trainers guide, participants guide and handout.

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    We're On the Same Team, Remember? DVD

    Free Online Preview

    This course is also available for online training, see details below.

    In this film, viewers will see how each employee contact gives the customer additional insight into the ways in which the organization operates. A customer can quickly determine if the employees are helpful, cooperative and willing to listen. Through these interactions, customers are also left with an impression of overall management philosophy and business policy. These include quality of communication, organization of priorities, management style, handling of complaints and the treatment of employees, as well as customers.

    As an all too familiar drama unfolds, participants see how listening to clients' needs and expectations, clarifying inter- and intradepartmental tasks when servicing the customer, and being available and responsive are all crucial to keeping customers from going elsewhere.

    Includes:

    • Extended Leader's Guide
    • Participant's Workbook
    • 20 Minute Video or DVD with Discussion Segments.

    Online Training Option:
    This program is also available for online training, click here for details

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    Everybody Wins: How to Turn Conflict into Collaboration - Complete Kit

    Best-Seller!

    Deadlines, change, stress, miscommunication, confusion over responsibilities there is no shortage of opportunities for conflict in the workplace. However, there is a loss of productivity when employees spend all their time dealing with conflict. This program teaches employees to take the initiative in resolving conflict with their coworkers and cooperating to find win/win solutions for most disagreements.

    Learning Point Highlights:

    • Presents the causes of and reasons for workplace conflict
    • Showcases the three most common conflict situations
    • Teaches the use of the Everybody Wins approach in the workplace

    Complete Training Kit Includes: DVD, VHS (19 minutes, Facilitator Guide, Reproducible Participant Materials, Reproducible Self-Study Guide, Online Program Resources and Trainer Pack

    • Everybody Wins: How to Turn Conflict into Collaboration - Complete Kit $995.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Everybody Wins: How to Turn Conflict into Collaboration - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Tall Ships: Building Effective Teams (Complete Kit)

    Raise your team’s effectiveness with Tall Ships, the fast-paced simulation that challenges teams to race against the clock — and others teams — to build the tallest ship mast at the lowest cost. Participants learn about and practice the 7 skills critical to effective team performance: Clarity, Capability, Collaboration, Commitment, Communication, Continuous Improvement, and Creativity.

    The Scenario

    The Seven Seas Company has selected your company to collaborate with them in an attempt to win a lucrative contract for designing and building a tall ship. But your company must first demonstrate that it can successfully perform the “Seven C’s” upon which The Seven Seas Company is founded. Can your team rise to the challenge to win the deal? How It Works

    Three game rounds reveal the team dynamics that impact team effectiveness. In Round 1, teams are asked to assemble the tallest ship mast possible in the least amount of time. Lessons learned from this round are discussed and applied to the Seven C’s model. Round 2 challenges teams to rethink their strategy and build yet a taller mast in the same amount of time, but at the lowest cost. Following a team performance assessment and debrief, teams make one last attempt at the task, assembling the mast according to new specifications and requirements. Finally, an action-planning phase provides teams and team members with an opportunity to improve their performance.

    Uses for Tall Ships

    Perfect for both newly formed and intact teams, Tall Ships can be used as a stand-alone learning event, integrated into a larger training initiative, or adapted to address such topics as leadership, change management, quality awareness, process improvement, and safety awareness.

    What to Order/Product Contents

    Each Complete Game includes materials to simultaneously train 3 teams of 5-7 participants. All parts except for the Participant Guides are reusable. Participant Guides Refill 5-Packs are also available for individual purchase.

    For larger groups, order one Game Pack for each additional team of 5–7 participants.

    The Tall Ships Complete Game includes:

    • 1 Facilitator Guide
    • 3 bags of reusable game parts
    • 3 sets of laminated Game Cards
    • 21 Participant Guides
    • 1 tablet of observer and materials cost worksheets
    • 1 stopwatch
    • 1 tape measure
    • 1 sturdy tote bag

    The Tall Ships Extra Game Pack includes:

    • 7 Participant Guides
    • 1 set of reusable parts with tape measure
    • 1 set of 3 game cards
    • 1 mesh bag

    Participant Guide features:

    • The “Seven Cs” model and dimensions
    • Team assessment
    • Questions to Consider
    • Planning worksheet
    • Action planning

    Magic of We - DVD

    Best-Seller

    This course is also available for online training, see details below.

    In The Magic of We, you'll see a team of 25 Snapper employees gather in the main plant on a Saturday morning for a very different kind of meeting. Senior managers, engineers, suppliers, customer service and marketing are assigned one task: Put together 4 lawnmowers themselves.

    It comes down to nuts and bolts - literally! As they work, these diverse teams realize that a universal bolt that was supposed to streamline production is causing more problems than it was supposed to solve. See how they use the 'magic of we' to find the solution.

    The Magic of We is one story, shown five times with five different intros and closings, each addressing a different topic area: Leadership, Teamwork, Problem Solving, Lean Manufacturing, Communication.

    Here is just a sample of the learning points covered:

    • Gain first hand knowledge and experience. Walk your "four corners". (Leadership)
    • Understand the team's mission and each individual's role. (Teamwork)
    • Step outside your day-to-day environment to change your perspective. (Problem Solving)
    • Help create a work environment that brings down barriers to talking, listening, and sharing. (Communication)
    • Cultivate a culture of "us vs. the problem," not "department vs. department." (Lean Manufacturing)

    The Leader's Guide provides step-by-step instructions for introducing activities, leading discussions, and making transitions between the video, group discussions, and exercises. It includes directions for presenting the workshop materials, along with suggestions for preparation, timing, and follow-up activities.

    Program Includes: DVD Or VHS Video, Leader's Guide (including reproducible participant handouts), PowerPoint CD-Rom, and 10 "Magic of We" Post-It Notes.

    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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    Valuing Relationship Series - (3 DVD set)

    Shows that "relationship" is the life-blood of the organization. Synergistic relationship patterns are the survival skills and creative tools for the future. The three part Valuing Relationship® series tackles work relationships from a different angles. This series includes for following programs: Organizational Energy , Personal Patterns and Interpersonal Synergy. All three levels function simultaneously, but to start the process of change it is helpful to focus on each element separately. For learning purposes, there must be an intentional focus on the element in question and start the change work where it is most relevant.

    Each title includes diverse individuals and diversity issues, but the main focus is on relationship, the key resource available to every individual, partners, team and organization. Includes real workplace dramatizations, which portray depleting and enhancing relationships, as well as interviews with leaders, employees and experts.

    Each of the three parts of this DVD and Video series explores:

    • Key challenges and change issues
    • Relationship as an untapped resource in addressing today's challenges
    • Relationship across differences as the basis of multicultural workplace effectiveness
    • Learning to manage behaviors that deplete productivity: control, manipulation, blame, lying, stereotyping, racism, sexism, sabotage, collusion, misunderstanding, miscommunication...
    • Learning to create behaviors that enhance productivity and creativity: active listening, openness, understanding, trust, honesty, feedback, valuing and managing diversity, team work...
    • Building authentic relationship across differences
    • Relationship as a unique kind of "ecological" system in which no one part is as important as the whole/or the dynamic relationship of the parts

    Relationship issues addressed in the program:

    • Systemic Change
    • Depleting and Enhancing Personal, Interpersonal and Organizational Patterns
    • Creating open, Trusting and Adaptive Organizations
    • Quality and Performance
    • Creativity, Co-creation and Synergy
    • Leadership and Vision at Work
    • Teamwork, Participation and Communication
    • Building Cross-Cultural Relationship
    • Relationship as the "How-To" of Managing Diversity

    Includes: Three 30-minute DVDs and leaders guide.

    "Valuing Relationship ® helped us create awareness for a new kind of interaction."
    - Levi Strauss

    Each program in this series is available separately for $500.00

    • Valuing Relationship Series - (3 DVD set) $1,200.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Valuing Relationship Series: Personal Patterns - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Valuing Relationship Series: Organizational Energy - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Valuing Relationship Series: Interpersonal Synergy - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace - DVD

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    Produced 2007

    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:

    • Generational context is not about age, but common experiences.
    • Acknowledge your team's expectations, not just your own.
    • Different is neither right nor wrong, just different.
    • Age-ism is the death of any coaching strategy.
    • Generational understanding does not take the place of concern for the individual.
    • Different generations care about different approaches to the same problem.
    • Technology is not universal - assess your team members' affinity level before making communication assumptions.

    Program includes:

  • Program One - Defining Four Generations in the Workplace - 18 Minutes
  • Program Two - How to Deal with the Four Generations - 16 Minutes

    Program includes: 2-program DVD; CD Support Package with 32-page Facilitator's Guide, 30-Page Participant Guide, Participative Exercises and PowerPoint Presentation. All support materials customizable and reproducible.

    • Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace - DVD $795.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace - DVD Rental $395.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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    The Unified Team - DVD

    Conflict... while it's often blamed for the breakdown of a team's unity, it's often just a symptom of a larger problem. This program lays out a practical approach that any team leader can follow to deal with the symptoms, and the cure.

    In addition to learning how to solve the 3 most common types of team conflicts; blaming, belittling and feuding, team leaders will learn how to promote the positive feelings of unity within their team in this popular management and leadership training video.

    Program Includes: DVD or VHS video (22 minutes), 10 Pocket Reminder Cards, 1 Workbook and 1 Leader's Guide

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    A World of Difference - Working Successfully Across Cultures - DVD

    Produced - 2006

    Working internationally is difficult and demands special skills to ensure success. However, highly effective managers and professionals often under perform when working with people from different cultural backgrounds, who do not share the same values and working practices. This challenge is yet more complex in multicultural teams where managers are required to build relationships and achieve business success across a number of different realities, values and perspectives.

    A world of difference is for organizations whose business depends on high-quality international relationships, and who need support in making international teamwork effective. The program focuses on a video dramatization of an international team, brought together to launch a new product. It illustrates the complex challenges that individuals and teams face in working internationally. It covers:

    • How conflicting assumptions about communication style, feedback, task and relationship handling if unmanaged can lead to poor results
    • The essential international skills needed to work successfully and manage effective teamwork across cultures
    • Issues of building trust, teamwork, people management and remote communication in a multicultural context.


    The benefits
    • Clearly illustrates how business counterparts from other cultures can have differing approaches and attitudes to basic business variables
    • Provides a clear framework for experienced and inexperienced international professionals to understand the challenges and complexities of working in a world of difference
    • Helps to develop the practical skills and attitudes required to work with differences, rather than against them, in the pursuit of an organization's international goals

    Program includes: DVD (35 & 42 min version), with English and Italian subtitles, facilitator guide, self-study workbook and trainer's resources CD-ROM

    • A World of Difference - Working Successfully Across Cultures - DVD $870.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Human Energy At Work Series: Conflict As Opportunity - DVD

    Conflict is the most critical phase of building effective relationships.Motivate people in your organization to utilize conflict and manage it as an opportunity for change. Prevent hostile work environments, cultural misunderstandings, discrimination, racism, sexism, harassment and other depleting patterns. Use the Conflict As Opportunity program to help you:

    • explore cultural differences in the expression and management of conflict
    • understand that conflict provides opportunities for learning
    • see conflict as the most critical phase in relating across differences
    • identify the core principles and skills to manage the complexity of conflict in the workplace
    • learn to recognize the early warning signs of conflict
    • manage conflict and facilitate co-creation

    Includes: 30 minute DVD and leaders guide.

    • Human Energy At Work Series: Conflict As Opportunity - DVD $500.00 [Add to Cart]