PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Even when goals are embraced and objectives are clear, intervening to adjust performance is always part of a manager’s job.
Performance Management Training Video
Painless Performance Improvement
A Media Partners ReleaseAre you looking for a simple, yet proven technique to help employees improve their performance without drama, pain and conflict? Look no further than this training comedy -- focused specifically on the challenges of developmental conversations.
Painless Performance Conversations
This micro-learning course provides a guide for tackling the most difficult workplace discussions. It presents behavior models with actionable and practical day-to-day advice for any manager or supervisor looking to improve employee performance.
Positive Discipline
A CRM ReleaseMost managers dread addressing performance issues with subordinates. Positive Performance Coaching is achievable ...when supervisors and managers have the right training. Positive Discipline provides a straight-forward 5-step process for resolving tough performance problems in a win-win manner.
Pygmalion Effect: Managing the Power of Expectations
A CRM ReleaseLimited expectations bring limited results. High expectations lead to exceptional results. That's the basic principle behind this compelling program. Learn the four ways managers can communicate expectations to their employees.
A Leader's Guide to Delegating
A CRM ReleaseWhat's every top manager's secret to success? In a word: delegate, delegate, delegate. What does the reluctant delegator need? A foolproof 5-step process for making sure that tasks are delegated correctly and the end result is successful.
MANAGER MOMENTS: Interviewing and Termination Do's and Don'ts
A Media Partners ReleaseWhether a manager's goal is to interview for attitude, set aside their own bias, predict future performance or just keep questions on a legally safe path, this collection of six micro-learning videos is designed to provide managers with the planning and preparation tools they need to substitute dread and anxiety with focus and excitement.
Keeping the Good Ones Video
A Media Partners ReleaseThis management training video should simply be considered Management 101. This groundbreaking film takes us into the world of a seasoned manager who is learning that his team are "people first, and employees second." Whether you're a new manager who is learning the ropes or a seasoned manager who wants a fresh perspective on what managing people is all about, this video is a must-have for your library.
Make Mentoring Count
This comprehensive eLearning course will help develop mentoring and coaching skills throughout the organization. Filled with rich content and short video segments, it provides all the information, skills and practice needed for leaders to successful engage, motivate and mentor others.
Would I Follow Me?
If you could be on the receiving end of your own leadership style, how do you think you'd answer this question: Would I follow Me? It's an interesting thought and a very entertaining video where leaders learn effective behaviors and come to appreciate the impact they have on group success.
After All, You're The Supervisor!
A CRM ReleaseAfter being promoted to supervisor, how does one move from individual contributor and co-worker to "boss"? Here are 9 important things to remember. This comprehensive training video is full of practical advice for supervisors who must transition from friend and colleague, to a position of coach and leader.
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!
Discussing Performance
For many managers and employees, performance reviews are nightmares to be avoided. Through a realistic scenario showing both sides of a performance discussion, this program explains how to make them painless, but effective, for everyone concerned.
Johnny the Bagger®: A True Story of Customer Service
To fully address consumer needs one must exude passion, motivation and a personal commitment to delivering exceptional service. Train your employees to understand how individual actions ultimately impact the customer with this heartwarming true story.
On a High Note with Laura Goodrich
An inspring program about the importance of knowing yourself, where you want to be and finding the commitment to get there. Join bestselling author Laura Goodrich as she dives into key concepts that will help us achieve our goals.
Turning Apathy into Proactivity
Apathy is when a person lacks emotions, lacks motivation, or lacks enthusiasm. This person is in a state of not caring, not inquisitive, and accepts complacency. This film teaches viewers how to get into a productive state of mind and turn Apathy into Proactivity!
Taking Care of Your Future Is...™
Communicating effectively, working well with others, staying positive and flexible in the face of change—these are essentials for helping new employees become productive as quickly as possible. Stimulate discussion about what it really takes to succeed in a career.
Managing Ourselves in a Timely Manner
It has been said that time management is actually a myth. After all, there are always only twenty-four hours in a day. While we cannot manage or create more time, we can learn how to reduce or eliminate procrastination in order to use time wisely and more efficiently. This program shows you how.
Giving Managers Feedback
Managers need feedback to improve but they may not always like what they hear. Great managers seek feedback and are open to change. Make sure employees understand how to give managers feedback to help them improve.
Supervisor on the Scene: Coaching for Performance
This program focuses on a specific soft skill for supervisory and managerial development training. Shows supervisors how they can create a positive and productive environment, and how to give constructive feedback.
Legal Briefs™ Discipline & Termination: Improving Performance & Reducing Liability
Although discipline and termination decisions are common areas of legal exposure, it is too often that managers don't have the proper training to handle these fundamental managerial responsibilities appropriately. The result can be expensive, time-consuming litigation.
Giving Feedback - Basic Skills
Discover how to structure feedback so that it is specific, balanced and timely. By the end of this program, participants will know why everyone has an inherent responsibility to provide constructive feedback to others.
Giving Feedback - Advanced Skills
By the end of this program, participants will have a firm understanding of the four most difficult situations they will encounter when giving feedback and be able to act appropriately and efficiently when dealing with them.
Receiving Feedback - Basic Skills
People are often embarrassed when receiving positive feedback. They can also be fearful and defensive when faced with negative feedback. After watching this video, they will be able to easily digest criticism, learn from it, and accept praise with grace.
Receiving Feedback - Advanced Skills
This video demonstrates skills and techniques viewers can use to handle difficult situations when receiving feedback. Learn how to overcome personal attacks and dig deeper to understand vague feedback with this program.
Bring Out Positive Attitude
Ever wonder what your team members are really thinking? What are their unwritten rules? What insights are they holding back from sharing? Do you have your own rules of engagement? Use this streaming program to help answer those questions.
Communicate to Influence
When team members know how to meet each other on their “turf,” where they are most comfortable, it can lead to seamless innovation and cooperation allowing for increased productivity across all levels. Use this program to bridge that communication gap.
Endurance & Communication
This video teaches viewers that strength is built from each other and that through communication we can go further and reach higher heights than we ever could on our own.
Jack Welch on Teams
When good work is rewarded, an example of success is highlighted for the rest of the team to see and precedent for excellence is established. Learn from this philosophy and more from Jack Welch, the mastermind behind GE’s exponential growth in the late 20thcentury.
Team Building without Time Wasting
Time is arguably the most important commodity in the modern business climate. But how do teams remain productive without being slowed down by time-consuming, costly and continuous team building activities? Find out from Executive Leadership Coach, Marshall Goldsmith.
The Benefit of Visualizing Change
Taking yourself on might be the most difficult part of personal transformation. It starts with accountability. But how do you get started? Find out in this eye-opening short.
Time Equals Energy and Attention
Everyone has too much to do and not enough time to do it in. Sound like a common problem? You’d be right, but it doesn’t have to be. Unlock the secrets of time-management and teach your workforce to focus on the elements within their control.
The Unorganized Manager
John Cleese stars in the management training classic, The Unorganized Manager. This epic tale conveys the vital importance of effective time management in a way that is creative and humorous. Our disorganized manager gets a second chance from St. Peter (John Cleese) after creating strife for himself and everyone around him with ineffective time management. Over the course of the series, he will find tools and techniques
Documenting Discipline II
Provide steps to ensure solid, consistent documentation procedures throughout your company. Give your managers a fair and consistent way to deal with negative employee behaviors with four practical steps and great real-world advice.
Documenting Discipline (MANUFACTURING)
Specifically for the industrial workplace, this is a program designed to guide managers through what is often an aggravating and nerve-racking process. Documenting discipline correctly is key to maintaining a positive work environment.
Care and Candor: Making Performance Appraisals Work
Performance appraisal meetings are often dreaded by both the manager and the employee. However, handled correctly, the appraisal meeting can be an invaluable opportunity to learn, grow, and increase motivation - on both sides of the table.
Love and Profit
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.
Creating the Respect Effect: Preventing Harassment, Discrimination & Retaliation
Touching on a wide variety of harassment and discrimination issues, this cost-effective and results-oriented 5-part, vignette-based training program educates your managers and employees about the characteristics and the benefits of a respectful work environment.
Customer Service: But I Don't Have Customers!
If your employees are happy, your customers will be happy! This customer service video will help put your employees in the right frame of mind to make positive changes for themselves and one another and in turn provide great customer service to each and every customer.
Performance Review: Code Red
Help managers conduct better performance reviews with this new training film from Video Arts that illustrates the techniques required to handle the most difficult and tense performance reviews.
Performance Review
TV's Hugh Laurie stars in this recent release from Video Arts. Performance Review sets out to change the way individuals think about reviews - to look forward to them, rather than dread them.
Performance Matters: The Importance of Praise
This Video Arts Production makes the point that giving praise where it's due is a performance management tool that is powerful and economical...but not always easy to remember to do.
Dreaded Appraisal Video
Produced by Video Arts, this unique program proves that
performance appraisalinterviews can be positive experiences for employer and employee, but only if both parties stick to the fundamentals - evaluating the past, consolidating the present and planning for the future.
Time Management: A Productivity Plan
Bob Peterson, our good natured sales manager faces his worst enemy, time wasting. in Time Management: a Productivity Plan, a coworker helps him sort through the proverbial junk in his office and Bob shows us that streamlining the day-to-day activities can be done.
How Am I Doing?
Get your managers laughing, and learning, with this entertaining look at the appraisal interview. After they watch How Am I doing?, they won't be able to approach the appraisal interview in the same way again.
Building Employee Morale - Missed Opportunities
Don't let opportunities for praise slip through the cracks. Employees who routinely meet job demands MUST be considered company assets. This training discusses the importance of recognizing and appreciating employees who meet expectations.
1 on 1 Informal Employee Performance Review
This training video explains that the best way for managers to keep employees focused, motivated, and equipped to succeed is to regularly meet, one on one, with each direct report for an informal performance review.
The Human Touch: Performance Appraisal II
As a manager, conducting performance appraisals is one of the most important opportunities you will have to help your employees, yourself, and your company. Done correctly, performance appraisals can help close the gap between the actual performance of your employees and the performance needed to meet corporate objectives.
Performance Matters: The Need for Constructive Criticism
This humorous film from Video Arts shows managers how to employ criticism at a performance appraisal as a means of preventing the recurrence of mistakes and improve staff performance at the same time.
Managing Performance Every Day: Beyond Appraisal
To many managers, managing performance means holding an annual appraisal and little else. In today's modern and high pressure workplace, it is all too easy for a manager to forget that their primary responsibility is to get the best out of those they manage on a daily basis.
Looking Forward: Your Performance Appraisal
Everyone knows that managers need to be trained to lead successful performance appraisal meetings. But did you ever consider the other side of the table? Your employees are a critical piece of the puzzle.
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.
Handling Tricky Appraisals
Appraisals can be constructive, destructive or useless. Your contribution directly impacts the outcome.
Workplace Excellence: Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Inspire everyone to be creative, offer suggestions and make improvements. Identify opportunities to improve and teach employees and leaders how to develop and brainstorm new ideas by learning how to replicate the proven success of others.
Workplace Excellence: Recognition & Feedback
Motivate people, develop skills and improve work performance. Learn how to give immediate recognition and feedback, be creative and constructive with both recognition and criticism, and the importance of regular performance appraisals.
Building Your Personal Brand
Sadhana Smiles, Director of RealChange shows how to build a positive personal brand through explaining new approaches to social networks and explains the importance of giving back.
Career Management and Talent Review
Successful HR consultant, Peter Wallbridge gives practical tips for senior managers to plan succession and future roles through the use of a talent review process.
Managing Disruptive Conduct
Peter Wallbridge defines disruptive conduct and how to handle complaints about colleagues and when to perform an HR intervention. Understand the issues and ensuring a code of conduct with this program.
Performance Appraisals
Peter Wallbridge expert HR consultant Peter Wallbridge speaks on conducting appraisals to ensure best outcomes and how it is the responsibility of the appraiser to meet the employee on common ground with regard to goal-setting.
Laying Off and Redeploying People
Manage challenges and sensitivities surrounding layoffs and redeployment effectively. Peter Wallbridge explains the key is remaining consistent to policy.
Reward and Remuneration
Expert HR Consultant Peter Wallbridge instructs viewers that the key to consistency and transparency can be found through maintaining fair and thorough strategy and policies.
Skills for Managing Redundancy and Layoffs
Companies change, roles change and some people just don't perform. HR Expert Peter Wallbridge explains how to determine if the redundancy is genuine.
The Problem of Nightmare Staff
Sadhana Smiles explains how there are a range of strategies for dealing with problem staff; showing how to understand a person's position and how to reduce emotion and seek input.
Planning and Scheduling for Results
Jan Durrans, a Senior Vice President, has had years of experience developing the most efficient ways to manage projects and achieve success. Learn strategies from an efficiency champion.
Setting Goals to Stretch and Grow
Senior VP Jan Durrans provides a powerful set of key practices to adopt to ensure the successful development of staff. She explains how to use clear and specific goals to help team members succeed.
Beyond Words: Customer Service and Sales Series
In this 2-part video series focused on sales training. You will learn how to go beyond words and communicate more effectively with every customer by having deeper understanding of nonverbal communication.
Five Star Teamwork
Featuring the remarkable team at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City, this video tells an inspirational story of teamwork and customer service -- both internal and face-to-face. Watch and see how the workteam at this five-star restaurant is able to achieve extraordinary excellence, day after day, year after year, and manages to stay committed to their customers, to each other and to their organization's mission.
So You Want to be a Success At Selling
Whatever level a sales person might be at, they can benefit from the lessons in this classic series. Humorous, and insightful, John Cleese amuses as he teaches us the difference between good and bad sales techniques. Right-way-wrong-way scenarios demonstrate how to be an excellent salesperson before, during and after meeting the customer.
Cutting Edge Communication Comedy Series
A powerful training series covering over 80 workplace topics every workplace needs to address. Short, sharp and funny with simple messages and skills for everyone.
Time Trap II
Help your employees improve their skills with this classic time management training video. A hot topic for businesses today, this will make a direct impact on your bottom line. Time may be relative, but in the business world.
The Customer is Always Dwight
This program highlights the importance of internal customer service, the need for everyone involved in a process to give their all and how managers can help staff reach top performance.
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.
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.
Understanding Accountability
Managers expect their people to be accountable. Accountability starts at the top.
Courage to Coach™: A Common Sense Approach to Confronting Difficult Employee Performance Issues
Effective coaching is the single most important factor in employee development today. This program turns common sense into common practice with a four-step process that can be applied to any employee performance situation.
