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Focus Your Vision video
Since its release, this compelling training DVD, hosted by Dewitt Jones, has been in high demand. It's a beautifully photographed program that encourages everyone to look beyond the ordinary, and focus on the passions that motivate and drive us to succeed.
Ethics 4 Everyone video
Ethics 4 Everyone covers many issues of corporate integrity and accountability - from taking home a few office supplies, to insider trading, and more...
Character is Destiny video
The issues of business ethics and character seem to appear in every newspaper, magazine and business publication these days. Why is character so often discussed?
1440 Minutes
Every man, woman and child on the planet wakes up each morning with the same 1440 minutes. It's what they do with them that makes all the difference.
30 Ways to Make More Time
This time management training video is an easy and humorous way to sharpen your communication and performance management skills. Humorous and down-to-earth, this Video Arts training video is a fun way to teach personal efficiency.What you should know...
- Comprehensive list of ways to get organized and find time
- Humorous moments will keep viewers interested
- Perfect for helping employees get focus on time management
- Learning points are instantly applicable to current work habits
6 Principles to Negotiate Anything with Ed Brodow
It takes courage to negotiate. It's a life skill that each of us need, but many lack. Ed Brodow's 6 Principles to Negotiate Anything lays out a practical, easy to follow approach to negotiating; giving participants the opportunity to hone their skills so they can negotiate successfully at work and in life.
A Complaint is a Gift
Using humor and wit, this fun animated parable illustrates how customer complaints - when handled effectively - can be gifts in disguise, but only if your employees are ready to accept them.
A Kick in the Attitude
One of three programs in the Sam Glenn series, this training video will inspire you, make you laugh, and help you improve employee attitude and customer relationships!
A Second Chance
A Second Chance is a motivational meeting opener that inspires the idea that taking a risk or a road less traveled can lead to success. Using beautiful landscape photography, this short film is taken from Robert Frost's famous poem "A Road Less Traveled".What you should know...
- Beautiful imagery and music
- Short length makes it ideal for a meeting opener
- Motivational video for "fresh start" training or personal achievement
Accountability That Works
Accountability That Works! is an exciting, innovative training program that will provide everyone in your organization with the tools they need for a greater sense of empowerment, effectiveness and increased productivity.
All Washed Up
All Washed Up takes viewers on a journey to better understand what it takes to get people to change their behavior - especially when it's hard.
Art of Possibility Series
Using the metaphor of symphony, this inspiring program directs the viewer to live their life above it all, into the realm where music takes you. Doing this might change your attitude, at work and in other parts of your life.
Assert Yourself
The techniques of assertive behavior are shown in a series of real life situations from in an office, within meetings, to even in a hospital looking both at the wrong way and right way scenarios.
Breaking Through
Join Robert K. Cooper on a personal journey that will give you a new perspective on success. This inspirational video will help you learn more effective methods to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Can We Count on You?
A common-sense program designed to put people - especially those entering the workforce for the first time - on the path to becoming highly valued employees. It provides a basic overview of what it takes to be seen as accountable, focusing on specific day-to-day workplace behaviors.Character is Destiny video
The issues of business ethics and character seem to appear in every newspaper, magazine and business publication these days. Why is character so often discussed?
Do Respect
"Do Respect" is a short, animated program that encourages employees to act in ways that enhance workplace culture. Respect is critical for any organization to function.
Don't Panic!
What happens when nine fascinating people with experience successfully navigating stressful situations at work come together to cook a meal? Insights simmer along with the food! Cooking serves as a metaphor for working through a challenge together. After the flames die down, the participants enjoy the meal they’ve created and share what they’ve learned from their dialogue.
Driven to Distraction
A poignant program to help put an everyday activity in perspective anytime, but especially on the job. Driven to Distraction will show how making the right choices behind the wheel may save a life. Maybe even your own. A reduction of accidents and incidents will improve the bottom line and the quality of employee lives.
Driven to Distraction II
Nearly 6,000 people died in 2008 from fatal crashes involving distracted drivers, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Distracted driving continues to be an epidemic on our roads. Help raise awareness of this dangerous practice among your employees with this high-impact training DVD.
Empathic Listening
Communication is said to be the most important skill in life. Effective communication always comes down to one thing--mutual understanding. This 4 part series explains empathic listening and shows how it helps us understand and successfully communicate with others.- Series Contains These 4 Programs
- Diagnose Before You Prescribe
- Nobody's Listening
- I Know Just What You Mean
- Tonesetter
Employee Wellness: A Way of Life - For the Public Sector
This program explores the importance of wellness - the state of being at your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual best - and shows practical, every day steps employees can take towards achieving wellness.
Employee Wellness: Taking Care of You
Help your employees understand the why's, how's and importance of being well with this informative program.Ethics 4 Everyone video
Ethics 4 Everyone covers many issues of corporate integrity and accountability - from taking home a few office supplies, to insider trading, and more...
Everest Training Video
This video program is essential for anyone who has ever worked on a team -- or is responsible for making teams strive to reach higher performance goals. See how a blind man's quest to reach the summit was only possible through teamwork.
Everest Training Video Creating Greatness Package
This leadership training package expands on the Erik Weihenmayer story by introducing the Whole-Person Paradigm and 4 Imperatives of Great Leaders by looking at problems and their solutions, levels of engagement and opportunities to unleash talent.
- What You Should Know:
- Introduces the importance of unified goals in a tangible, practical manner
- The inspiring story and footage will remind viewers why teamwork is so vital
- Perfect for teams or managers who lead teams
FISH! Philosophy Video
Considered one of the best selling training videos ever, the FISH! video has been called an antidote to cynicism, and can be used for every issue that faces businesses today!- What You Should Know:
- Four memorable training points makes the content easy to integrate
- Fun, fast paced concept will keep the attention of viewers
- Perfect for reinvigorating employees and teams that needs a little “boost”
Focus Your Vision video
Since its release, this compelling training DVD, hosted by Dewitt Jones, has been in high demand. It's a beautifully photographed program that encourages everyone to look beyond the ordinary, and focus on the passions that motivate and drive us to succeed.
For The Love of It Training Video
For The Love of It Video is about falling in love with what you do. This program motivates and encourages us to live every day with a full cup. Great for improving personal effectiveness.- What You Should Know:
- Dewitt Jones’ photography and stories are breathtaking
- Simply truths and real world examples are easily translated into the workplace
- Perfect for inspiring employees and managers to find things they love about their role
Gifts From the Mountain
Join author Eileen McDargh where she discusses six fundamental truths to help us deal with life's complexities. We all climb some kind of mountain every day. By slowing down and considering our surroundings, we can better appreciate the journey.
Life is good Training Video
Can you imagine a workplace where people really want to come into work every day? The Life is good training video features a unique t-shirt and hat company where fun, customer service, and enthusiasm are in charge!
Life Meets Work: Overcoming Stress, Fear and Anxiety
Help your employees regain control of their lives by providing them with the necessary tools to recognize and cope with the many feelings that arise as a result of stress or crisis.
Love and Profit video
We really like this program. James Autry dares to be different by providing clear guidelines for leaders who want to rebuild a sense of trust within their organizations.
Make It Matter
How would people describe you? Would they use words like "vital", "significant", "valuable"? If not, you may be lacking the presence you need for long-term success. This program provides inspiration, insights and instruction on how an individual at any level of an organization can create a strong personal brand that makes them -- and what the organization does -- matter.
Managing Stress
Job burn-out...Illness...Absenteeism...Conflict...Counter-productivity... Often, these problems can be traced to stresses in the workplace, in personal lives, or both. Although life will never be completely stress-free, we can control how we react to it.
Miracle On The Hudson: Prepare For Safety
Use this compelling, real-life story to help your team develop the right safety attitude and better prepare themselves for the unexpected.
Presentation is Everything
We've all sat through too-long, confusing and down right boring business presentations. It takes effort, preparation and skill to capture your audience and get your message across. This humorous program will help individuals structure and deliver effective presentations: and avoid death by PowerPoint.
Recognizing Drug and Alcohol Abuse for Managers
Alcohol and drugs are fatal, not only to your operations but also to your employees' lives. Cultivate a drug-and-alcohol-free culture by training your employees how to recognize, handle and resolve the dangers of drugs, alcohol and other substances.
Sam Glenn Series
This three part series featuring Sam Glenn, is a hilarious and refreshing approach to dealing with change, challenges, the unexpected and negative people. Your staff will love it!
SMART Goals: Steps to Success
SMART Goals introduces the SMART technique for goal setting: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timed. Follow these guidelines and watch increased morale, boost employee retention and raise productivity.
Speaking Effectively to One or One Thousand
Few people consider themselves to be good public speakers, yet it is a highly desirable skill in today's workplace. This entertaining and effective program gives practical advice on how to deliver a compelling message to a group of any size.
Straight Talking Video
Straight Talking, starring John Cleese, helps to equip people with the confidence to get their views and ideas noticed. This video is another quirky and humorous drama by Video Arts.
Success Is An Attitude!
In this highly motivational video, some of the most successful people reveal the secret to their success-attitude. Learn the best ways to win in good times or bad from Stephen Covey, Deepak Chopra, Senator Bill Bradley, Jack Welch, Anita Roddick, and Marshall Goldsmith.
The 5 Waves of Trust
The ability to build trust is a key competency for leaders today. Great leaders don't dictate, they influence. And influence comes from a leader's ability to engender credibility and inspire people to both believe them and believe in them.
The Accountability Toolkit
What happens where there is a lack of accountability? Non-performers thrive while the diligent staff picks up the slack. The stress level rises and communication drops. It doesn't have to be this way. This Toolkit contains 38 unique video clips that illustrate what accountability means. Set in a variety of workplace environments, it's ideal for all industries.
The Art of Networking
Ever wonder why some people seem to know everybody? How do they walk up to a group of complete strangers at a conference and fit right in? Why do decision makers always take their calls?The Art of Networking will teach you how to tip the scales in your favor by using a set of innovative communication ideas designed to help you grow your business by improving the way your employees communicate, network, negotiate, and connect with their clients and colleagues.
The Balance Sheet Barrier
The Balance Sheet Barrier training video, starring John Cleese is a world-famous Video Arts video that helps take the fear out of financial documents and complex supervisory concepts. Although accounts might never become a manager's favorite topic, The Balance Sheet Barrier does at least make them understandable.
The Clarity Imperative Training Video
What makes a team, department or organization stand out? Typically, it's things like clarity of purpose, a strong culture and alignment around where the group is headed. This program provides a simple but powerful methodology for getting people "on the same page" so that this kind of clarity and cohesiveness can emerge.
The Comeback by Patrick Coyle
At one time or another, every organization with have to deal with grief and loss in some capacity. "The Comeback" will empower employees to know how to confidently and sensitively support each other during times of difficult loss.
The Emotional Intelligence Series
The Emotional Intelligence 3 part series uses humor while re-enacting common workplace situations to show how emotional and social intelligence relate to work relationships and how clear and honest communication can result in better productivity.
The Great Minds Meeting Opener Series
A great way to start any meeting or training session, the Great Minds Series will put your group in the right frame of mind for success.
The Happiness Advantage with Shawn Achor
What does being happy have to do with work? We've been told, "If you work hard, you'll be successful...if you're successful, you'll be happy." But what if that formula is wrong? What if the opposite were true and happiness is the secret to success - at work and at home...
The Little Big Things with Tom Peters: You
What does your calendar say about you? What books have you read lately? Tom Peters uses his decades of experience to show you things you can start doing TODAY to achieve excellence.
The New Business of Paradigms
This Starthrower release retains the same powerful stories and examples from Joel Barker's original program, The Business of Paradigms but repackages them with a current look and feel. You get 2 programs for the price of 1: The up-dated "Classic Edition" and a new version entitled "21st Century Edition" full of new stories and examples. An incredible value.
The Power of Vision by Joel Barker
The Power of Vision by Joel Barker will help members of your organization to think together, dream together, and act together to make a difference.
The Truth Series
A clever and engaging training series addressing the issues we may or may not already know about e-mail, business casual dress, the internet, and customer Service. Would be great for new employee orientation training.
The Wisdom of Caring Leaders
An exciting and unique training video featuring CNN reporter, Donald Van de Mark as he interviews and explores the winning traits and qualities of our most successful business leaders.
Time Challenged video
Time Challenged is a humorous, good-natured look at overcoming the challenges of time management. You'll find plenty of advice and organizational tips offered.
Undeliverable: E-mail Etiquette for Today's Workplace
E-mail correspondence is a vital means of business communication. Every conversation between your company and your valued customers needs to be handled professionally. This program covers everything from grammar and punctuation to message clarity, censoring yourself, proofreading, and professional closings; also addresses important topics like delivering bad news.
Valuing Our Workplace Complete Set
This two Part Series is comprised of Doing Our Part, a program that focuses on working together, where A Look Inside Ourselves explores personal introspection.
When Change Happens, Adjust Your Sail
Learn how to bring your best attitude to every interaction you have with customers and coworkers in this funny and motivational video hosted by Sam Glenn.
Who Are 'They' Anyway? video
The Who Are 'They' Anyway video is designed to help you and your organization make the shift from looking for a "them" to blame and accepting personal accountability.
Who Put A Lizard In My Lasagna?
Learn how to bring your best attitude to every interaction you have with customers and coworkers in this funny and motivational video hosted by Sam Glenn.
Who Says We Can't Do It? video
The inspirational and motivational story of cancer survivor and champion athlete, Lance Armstrong, as he comes to terms with his illness and beats the odds of survival, going on to win the Tour de France 5 consecutive years. An incredible training tool for leaders and teams.
Yes Lives in the Land of No
The Yes Lives in the Land of No video is the perfect meeting opener to kick off a performance management, motivation or sales training by helping employees understand the source of negativity both in themselves and in their team.Join now! It's Free!
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