Featuring comedic legends Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner, this is a hilarious session starter on how NOT to conduct a meeting. Since time is of the essence, Sid orders lunch for everyone, but lunch takes over the agenda. The video is a wonderful way to:
Introduce effective meeting techniques,
Illustrate the importance of having - and sticking to - an agenda;
Emphasize putting aside your own personal agenda - in Sid's case, his stomach - in order to facilitate the group process.
It's a wonderful session starter and we especially recommend it for lunch breaks. Bon Appetit! Produced by Salenger Inc.
Create a work environment where people do their very best every single day. Based on the proven strategies of Bob Nelson, author of 1001 Ways to Energize Employees, this documentary-like video uses real-life examples from managers and employees at Boardroom Inc. and United Airlines to illustrate practical techniques and approaches that managers at all levels can implement.
From Motivation: Igniting Exceptional Performance, managers will learn about the powerful benefits of encouraging communication, soliciting suggestions, developing trust and confidence, encouraging creativity, and providing rewards and recognition.
Communication can make or break an organization. Teach your managers the performance enhancing advantages of promoting "spontaneous interaction," managing by "walking around" and promoting an open door policy at all levels. Viewers will also learn to tap into individual initiative and solicit suggestions so employees become their own agents of change. And because the people who do the job know the job best, you'll hear why a suggestion system should include every employee in your organization.
Key Training Points:
How to spark excitement, fuel momentum and sustain a passion
How to reward and build morale and trust
How to encourage creativity
How to solicit suggestions and feedback
How to provide rewards and recognition
How to communicate and be "visible" to your employees
What motivates people? Why is recognition so important? Why is allowing people to take responsibility for their own work such a powerful motivator? This video gives a brief overview of Dr. Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" theory and relates it to today's business environment:
Physical needs: In the workplace this can mean the physical comfort of the workplace. Workplaces that constantly undermine physical comfort, undermine motivation.
Safety needs: Here the issue is safety, health, mental and physical, and job security.
Social needs: Some workplaces interfere with this basic need and thereby undermine motivation. It may be that the workplace is designed to discourage people from congregating. It may be that it refuses to provide flexibility for individuals to deal with family matters.
Esteem needs: A persistently negative corporate culture that refuses to provide psychological support for its employees either through praise or a reward structure de-motivates.
Self-actualization: This is a need to feel that what one is doing is worthwhile in the greater scheme of things; that one is contributing to a higher good.
Vignettes help illustrate Maslow's theory and demonstrate why understanding people and their needs is critical for working effectively with internal and external customers and team members. Produced by Salenger Inc.
Exclusive access to an incredible film library-every NFL game played in the last years and candid on-field and locker room interviews with star players and legendary coaches--makes this series truly unique. Ardent fans and sports novices alike will appreciate the relevance of the NFL to the problems that arise in the workplace and on the field of corporate competition. As an arena in which results can be measured in moments instead of weeks, days, instead of years, inches instead of miles, the professional football field provides a microcosm of the business world, an incredible opportunity to learn what will and will not work in our new, fast-paced, diverse world of business.
45 min. Includes Discussion Guide.
The six-part series includes:
Can You Guys Here Me? A humorous collection of on-field situations showing coaches and players at their worst is used as dramatic counterpoint to reveal just how easily miscommunication occurs and the havoc it can cause.
5 min.
Courage To Change To profit from change, we must accept it, partner with it and learn to thrive on it. In this emotionally charged short, some of the NFL's most successful players and coaches reveal the personal and professional challenges that they had to overcome to get to the winner's circle. Using memorable game sequences and candid interviews they explain how they learned to embrace the unknown.
9 min.
Risk Taking: Putting It All On The Line Do nothing, and accept the consequences. Take a risk and chance greatness. This fast-paced program uses exciting on-location film footage to showcase three very diverse organizations that have learned that the ability to handle risk is the only real strategic advantage.
6 min.
Speed Is The Strategy Get fast or get run over! In the competitive world of business just as in sports, speed is a principle that must be applied to every objective and every step of the process. Using exciting footage from some of the NFL's greatest moments, this program illustrates the four competitive elements of speed.
10 min.
Teams: When ME Becomes WE The road to victory is inevitably long and painful, but it begins with the realization that victory is a place "where only teams can go." A six-minute version is also available.
10 min.
We Have Met The Enemy Using a series of classic wrong way examples and a voice over of pithy statements from philosophers and pundits, this short is a tongue-in-cheek look at the long and winding road to success, and the problems that dog every step along the way.
