Change & Strategy
The Business of Change (DVD)
Business schools have always been strong on analytical thinking—what is going on in the business environment, what’s happening to your competitors, what your strengths and weaknesses are. (DVD or Video Streaming)
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Infinite Reality - Revealing the Blueprints of our Virtual Lives
Virtual reality is here — what does that mean for your business? Early adopters such as Merrill Lynch, Toyota, LinkedIn and Konica Minolta are already seeing dramatic results in learning simulations, training, and marketing effectiveness.
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Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done- DVD
In a business environment of fast-moving markets, global supply chains, and dynamic technologies, executing strategy is becoming increasingly difficult. (DVD or Video Streaming)
Bud to Boss e-Learning Toolkit
Bud to Boss e-Learning Toolkit® of 20 e-learning courses has been designed specifically to address the needs of anyone who is new to supervising and managing others. Bud to Boss provides the foundation needed to take on this new position and move forward in your career.
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Ready. Set. CHANGE!: Reacting Smarter. Adapting Faster. Engaging Together.
Ready. Set. CHANGE! helps employees positively and productively navigate any change—big or small. Through learning tools such as right-way behavior modeling and a Change Response Assessment, this program equips employees with skills to react smarter, adapt faster and engage together more productively when change comes around again. Learn more about strategies for a change-responsive workforce..
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Promotional Strategy for Small Business DVD
Leads entrepreneurs through the promotion plan of target-market identification, setting communication objectives, setting the appropriation, selecting communication vehicles, and evaluation.
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Six Skills of High-Scale Entrepreneurs (DVD)
How do you take an idea and turn it into a 100-million dollar enterprise—seemingly overnight? Based on five years of academic research, Amy Wilkinson has isolated six entrepreneurial skills that can carry an idea from start-up to scale in the midst of this rapidly changing economy. Free Online Preview
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works (DVD)
Most companies aren't winning today—not because of the economy, rapid change, or rising complexity. It’s because they confuse strategy with vision and don't make the critical decisions it takes to win. (DVD or Video Streaming)
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25 Training Activities for Creating and Managing Change
25 experiential activities for teaching managers and employees how to effectively deal with workplace change. Activities are organized into 4 change stages: Preparing for change, Articulating choices, Visioning the future, and Implementing change programs.
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Strategy and the Purpose-Driven Leader DVD
Cynthia Montgomery Professor at the Harvard Business School makes the case for bringing people back into the equation. Though you start with ideas, you need leaders to construct a company that brings these ideas to fruition. Leadership is required to define your purpose and form a management model that carries it out.
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Scaling Up Excellence (DVD)
Scaling is never quick and easy task — it takes daily dirty work to make it happen, and even then it’s a ground war that can go on for years. (DVD or Video Streaming)
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Idea Hunting: Key Principles for Spawning Great Ideas - DVD
Arriving at new ideas does not require genius. Andy Boyton explains that to become an effective idea hunter, be receptive to creative inspiration from unfamiliar or unusual sources.
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Leveraging What Small Business Knows (DVD)
While big companies have many advantages—lower production costs, greater bargaining power, access to financial markets—a clear disadvantage is the separation between management and ownership. Small businesses, on the other hand, often have the distinct advantage of operating with an ownership mentality that allows them to move more quickly with a more motivated workforce. (DVD or Video Streaming)
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Change Management and Strategic Planning (DVD)
Strategic planning is the process of creating a wave of change while gaining commitment from your employees and other stakeholders necessary to make it happen. Yet, change inevitably engenders resistance. (DVD or Video Streaming)
Capabilities-Driven Strategy (DVD)
(Available for Video Streaming) Most companies today face a fundamental problem: the disconnect between what they aspire to do and what they can actually accomplish. CEO’s are worried about their differentiation in a world that is increasingly hard to compete in. But are they creating strategies without fully understanding what the organization is capable of delivering?
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from Business Failures (DVD)
While we are inspired by business success stories, we are educated by business failures. Chunka Mui and Paul Carroll researched 750 of the most significant business failures of the past quarter-century and found the Number 1 cause of failure was not sloppy execution, poor leadership or bad luck.
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Garage-Based Innovation - DVD
The drive to invent that Bill Hewlett and David Packard shared when they launched HP in a garage decades ago is critical to organizations today. (DVD or Video Streaming)
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Finding Untapped Growth in Existing Markets- DVD
Managers are under constant pressure to grow, but it is often difficult to find new avenues of growth within an existing line of business.
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Strategic Decision-Making (DVD)
Strategic moments often appear in a crisis. These moments can either propel you forward or set you back—perhaps irretrievably. In order to set the right trajectory when something goes horribly wrong, get the worst information out first, know your values, and act on them. (DVD or Video Streaming)
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Simple Rules: Thriving in a Complex World - DVD
Simple Rules are the answer. These rules focus our attention and simplify the way we think. Easy to understand and remember, they coordinate teams and keep everyone working toward the same results. With practical examples that range from Airbnb to Indiegogo, biotech to burglars, poker-playing to internet-dating, Dr. Eisenhardt reveals how Simple Rules work to sharpen thinking and clarify strategy.
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Getting from Little Bets to Big Breakthroughs
Release - 2011
Much like the standup comedian who tests and refines jokes in small clubs before rolling them out to a television audience, most successful entrepreneurs don’t begin with brilliant ideas: they discover them through a deliberate process of creative trial and error. From his research on innovative leaders, from Apple, 3M, Toyota, and Starbucks, to the U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency strategists, to artists and even standup comics, Peter Sims found they shared a surprisingly similar approach. (DVD or Video Streaming)
The Uh Oh Syndrome: From Intolerance to Inclusion
In this program, Robbins introduces the concept of "mental models," explaining where they come from and why we hate it so much when we encounter things that don't fit those models. While certain cultural and neuro-biological forces compel us to be closed-minded towards anything new or different, we have it in our power to overcome these influences so that we can comfortably entertain new ideas and be more accepting of those who differ from us.
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Strategy for Transformational Change DVD
When Brad Smith took over as CEO, Intuit founder Scott Cook advised him to “Question everything.” Using this as his mantra, Smith set out to create innovative business structures that built on Intuit's strengths and retained market dominance (DVD or Video Streaming)
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Creating A Culture Of Excellence DVD
Great companies create cultures that attract the right employees and create buy-in to the bigger vision. In this dynamic program loaded with powerful stories and examples, expert speaker Randy Pennington guides you through the fundamentals that lead to long-term growth and bottom-line results.
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Wingman Team Building and Leadership DVD
What does it take to overcome fear and lead with courage when facing adversity? How can you build trusting partnerships in your personal and professional life, and live congruent with your core values? Discover answers to these questions and many more in this high-flying adventure featuring highly decorated US Air Force fighter pilot Lt. Col. Rob "Waldo" Waldman.
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Customer-Centric Innovation - DVD
According to Lara Lee, this intensive customer focus is the most effective means of achieving the rich pipeline of innovation that leads to continuous improvement and consistent growth. (DVD or Video Streaming)
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Coyote Power - DVD
Coyotes have not only survived, they have thrived in the face of an all-out war to exterminate them - because they've learned to adapt, to use teamwork, and they exhibit amazing courage.
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50 Activities for Achieving Change- Download
A complete selection of training activities for teaching others the process of accepting change, demonstrating the need for change, reducing conflict, improving communication skills and more.
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Purpose, Passion & Persistence - DVD
Get ready to unleash your greatness in this powerful seminar featuring award winning speaker, Desi Williamson. Through captivating stories and useful examples, Desi illustrates the action oriented mindset required to overcome obstacles and achieve any goal you set. You’ll learn how to reignite your purpose, stay focused on the big picture, develop true “will power”, become a master of change, raise your performance level, challenge your fears, and much more.
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The X Factor: Managing & Motivating Generation X - DVD
America's primary labor supply for the next decade -- mostly in their teens and twenties -- represents the smallest population group in U.S. history and the thinnest pool of entry level workers in modern times. There simply are not enough of them to go around, particularly in the service industries. And every time a business loses an employee, the high cost of attracting, hiring and training a replacement cuts into the profit margin.
Thriving on Change – DVD
Change management skills are critical for organizations and individuals alike, as change has become the standard in today’s society. Whether it’s up-sizing, downsizing, changing vendors, upgrading computer systems, moving to a new location, starting in a new position, or any other deviation from the norm, there are change management tools to help facilitate the change process.
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A Marketing Strategy: Energizing the Brand DVD
To avoid the constant price competition associated with widely distributed manufacturer brands, many retail chains have developed their own private label. Although successful, many of these retailers never really "energized" their private labels to maximize their profit potential.
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Leveraging China and India for Global Advantage- DVD
A successful China or India strategy is likely to become a matter of survival for multinational companies. China’s GDP will catch up to that of the U.S. by 2025, predicts Professor Gupta.
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Change and Innovation through Brainstorming with John Sweeney - Video
Whether we pursue it, or it is forced upon us, CHANGE can make or break any business. The deciding factor is the attitude of the employees charged with adapting to the challenge of finding new solutions.
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Creating the Future- DVD
The biggest risk today is irrelevancy. Barriers that protected incumbents in the past have broken down, and competitive positions can be quickly overturned. If you miss a trend, there may be no catching up.
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