This animated video illustrates why we sometimes have difficulty working with other people. Using a simple model, the JoHari Window, As Others See Us offers individuals and teams an opportunity to examine, understand and improve their relationships with others. It is useful for any discussion on communication or interpersonal relationships. Produced by Salenger Inc.
10 min. Includes Leader's Guide.
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Closing the Gap: Gender Communication Skills
Based on the work of communication expert Dianna Booher, Closing the Gap is a video-based training program that can help resolve communication problems for all employees in your organization. This video focuses on gender differences and how conversation styles, not relationships or the people themselves, can create misunderstandings and disappointments.
This narrated video presents a series of gender-gap situations, and illustrates effective solutions for both men and women when faced with similar situations. Several common communication differences between men and women are evaluated, and your employees will be introduced to the three ground rules that can help them communicate more effectively.
How To Training Points:
How to acknowledge differences in gender communication styles
How to understand gender-based motivation
How to adapt to individual communication styles
How to treat others the way they want to be treated
Communicating with coworkers can sometimes be…a nightmare! Communication Nightmares shows specific examples of how to maintain a conversation with someone who is defensive, a poor listener or a discussion dominator and how to turn that challenging situation into an effective conversation. This video demonstrates that you must first make up your mind to deal with the situation, no matter how complicated or emotional it might be. Second, you must make the commitment to stick with the challenge until your message is clearly understood. Learn more about these tips and also the way you communicate with your coworkers, and the way they respond to you.
Key Training Points:
How to turn a difficult conversation into an effective one
How to focus on defining the basic problem of an issue
How to see the situation from the other’s point of view
How to make sure your words, body language and tone of voice all send a consistent message
How to give and get feedback
How to lighten up a heated discussion
Length: 26 min. Includes Training Leader’s Guide Also Available: Self-Study workbooks
There are two ways to give and receive criticism--constructively and destructively. Criticism given or received destructively leads to damaged relationships, unsolved problems, stress, and conflict. Constructive criticism can strengthen relationships, increase productivity, improve quality, and help solve problems.
Introduced in this video are three techniques for successfully giving and receiving criticism--communicate, clarify, and commit. By following these three techniques, criticism becomes a productive, positive means for changing behavior and gaining results.
How To Training Points:
How to focus on the facts, not opinions and personalities
How to relieve stress, resolve conflicts, and build mutual trust
How to Communicate, Clarify, Commit--the three C's for successful communication
This video can help your employees realize how their perceptions can easily become distorted through belief based on their past experiences, fears and expectations. How they interpret a response to a situation can determine their success.
