TEAMS
“A team is a group of people who go out of their way to make each other look good.” – Robert Farrell
Teamwork and Team-Building
Human Resources
MANAGER MOMENTS: How to Build a High-Performing Team
A Media Partners ReleaseThrough 7 short but powerful learning modules, this micro-learning series focuses on the characteristics of high-performing teams. Managers learn how to assess their team’s strengths and needs while receiving practical tips on specific things they can do to take team performance to a higher level.
The Unified Team
A Media Partners ReleaseTeam conflict can take on many different forms such as belittling, blaming, backstabbing, and bickering. The Unified Team offers tools to help leaders overcome these problems, and promote a sense of unity within their team. Ideal for team leaders, supervisors and managers.
The Abilene Paradox
A CRM ReleaseThe all-time bestseller on group decision making. See the negative impact of "going along to get along". This highly entertaining film explores what can happen when no one truly believes in what they're agreeing to. Don't let your team take "the road to Abilene".
Accountability That Works!
A CRM ReleaseAccountability 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.
Groupthink
A CRM ReleaseA powerful reenactment of events surrounding the launch of Space Shuttle Challenger helps viewers see how Dr. Irving Janis' theory of "groupthink" phenomenon can lead to costly decisions in business.
The Clarity Imperative
A CRM Release...How Getting Everyone on the Same Page Makes Your Organization Stand Out. What makes an organization or team stand out? Typically, it's things like clarity, the culture, and direction where the group is headed. This program shows that teams and organizations are more apt to succeed when everyone is clear on: "What we do, Who we are, the Direction in which we're headed".
Everest
A CRM ReleaseThis video 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.
We're on the Same Team, Remember?
A CRM ReleaseThe first time we saw this film, we knew it would be a best seller. An expertly produced story of what can happen when each member of your team has a different focus and agenda -- and all that can go in to ruining the deal.
WE'RE IN THE BAND
A Media Partners ReleaseGo on tour with, The Paperboys, a popular Northwest folk rock band and find out how they combine preparation, teamwork and connecting with their audience to grow their fan base and achieve success. WE'RE IN THE BAND is a great way to re-energize your employees and inspire them to, "come to perform," everyday.
What's Your Pickle?
A Media Partners ReleaseThis customer service video picks up right where Give 'em the Pickle left off! This time, Bob Farrell is out on a road trip, collecting inspiring pickle stories from real-life companies, just like yours, which provide outstanding customer service. These fun-filled stories not only exemplify the Pickle Philosophy, they also add fresh new insight into how your own team can "give ‘em the pickle".
Open Mind, Open World: Improving Intercultural Interactions
The values or norms of other cultures are not always obvious to us. This pogram on improving intercultural employee relations will serve to boost productivity by developing cultural capability and navigating today’s global workforce.
Magic Of We
A CRM ReleaseA riveting video case study from Snapper Lawn Mowers and versatile ancillary materials help you teach lessons on leadership, teamwork and communication.
Change and Innovation through Brainstorming
A Media Partners ReleaseWhether we pursue it, or it is forced upon us, change can make or break any business. The determining factor for success relies on the attitude of the employees challenged with adapting to the change and charged with finding new solutions.
Essential to the Team
Labeling a group of individuals as a team is one thing. Getting that group of individuals to actually function as a team is altogether another challenge. Essential to the Team breaks down the myths and facts about teamwork.
Teamwork in Crisis: Miracle of Flight 232
A CRM ReleaseTeamwork in Crisis is the unforgettable story of the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 and how the unprecedented teamwork of all involved turned what could have been a major tragedy ...into a miracle.
The Four Styles
People communicate, think and behave differently, but they generally fall into four classifications. Learn to communicate with each of these personality types more effectively.
The Power of Teamwork: Inspired by the Blue Angels
Teamwork separates the winners from the losers. The Blue Angels set the standard each day and at every level. At what level does your team operate? Raise the bar with this inspiring and motivational training program.
Chilean Mine Rescue: The Unstoppable Team
Equip your managers and employees with the ability to react and respond to the unexpected. This training explains how a diversity of thinking facilitates success and spotlights how to work together to achieve common goals.
Twelve Angry Men: Teams That Don't Quit
Hosted by Dr. Margaret Wheatley, this film takes its basis from the group dynamics of the classic film: Twelve Angry Men. Much can be learned from watching this team struggle to consensus.
Communication Counts: Speaking and Listening for Results
A CRM ReleaseHow is it that a lack of communication can cause so much harm to an organization? Take a look at 6 common communication problems and the resulting impact associated with each. It's easy to see why so many failed projects, missed deadlines, and workplace conflicts are attributed to a communication blunder in one or more of these areas.
Communication Breakdown Training
Looking to lay a solid foundation for everything we do in the workplace? Communication Breakdown covers topics such as communication skills, interacting with teams, and management interaction to help create an open and productive work environment.
Fun Is Good
A CRM ReleaseIs it possible to combine your passion with your everyday work and have fun in the process? Absolutely. In fact, finding and applying passion in our work is something we should all strive for. That's what Fun Is Good is all about.
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!
Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace
Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace reduces workplace conflict and provide managers and supervisors with strategies for dealing with recruiting, retaining, and motivating.
Teamwork: What's Trust Got To Do With It?
Lack of trust is one of the main impediments to effective teamwork. This team-oriented training program demonstrates how to build and maintain trust among team members.
The Employee Awareness Series
Increases employee productivity through improvement of work habits and relationships. The Employee Awareness Series is an all-in-one talent management suite filled with 24 unique courses on Attitude, Behavior, Communication, Safety & Health, Time Management and Workplace Essentials.
Working Without a Script
Well known for improv comedy, Second City Communications, in this program, teaches how the fundamentals of improvisation will help your organization communicate better, build stronger teams, and create a positive work environment.
Life's Lessons Series
Life's Lessons is a simple, inspiring and thought-provoking motivational video that includes wisdom from across the ages is presented through gentle and visually arresting animation and moving music.
Let's Get Together: Communicating Respect in a Diverse Workplace
With a unique and comprehensive approach, this training program tackles the issues of diversity, communication, conflict-management and teamwork to help you foster a more productive workplace.
Everybody Wins: How to Turn Conflict into Collaboration
Conflict is everywhere. It’s natural and unavoidable. Conflict is something we all deal with in one form or another every day. Everybody Wins is designed to help you learn how to turn conflict into collaboration and reach a win-win resolution.
Supervisor on the Scene: 6-Part Supervisor Development Series
Each program in this series follows two supervisors who address everyday workplace concerns. Step-by-step guidelines are presented regarding a specific soft skill and how its application can help improve efficiency, raise morale and enhance productivity.
WorkSmarts™: How to Get Along, Get Noticed and Get Ahead
Success isn't just about what employees do on the job, it's also about how they go about doing it. Poor communication and teamwork skills can sabotage results no matter how skilled someone is in their job function.
Feedback Solutions Series
Provide employees with the skills they need to effectivly create a "feedback culture" within your organization where giving and receiving feedback becomes a normal part of day-to-day business, therefore improving moral, empowering teams as well as quality of your service.
Everest: 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.
Building Your Team: Recruiting, Interviewing & Hiring
Finding and hiring the best associates is quite possibly the most important job of any retail manager. It's as simple as keeping your eyes open during day to day transactions with staff in the businesses that you shop at personally.
Workteams & The Wizard of Oz
Join renowned management expert Ken Blanchard as he observes teamwork through the adventures of Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion trying to reach the Land of Oz.
Pit Crew Challenge: Driven to Perform
Learn how to apply lessons regarding clarity, collaboration and courage to your own team with this new and exciting leadership training program.
Tearing Down Walls
A CRM ReleaseTearing Down Walls uses the Berlin Wall as a metaphor for the barriers that exist between individuals, teams, departments, or even between an organization and its customers by eliminating miscommunication, distrust, and stereotyping.
Win Teams
Is your company going through change? Doubts and fears are part of the process, but this program can show your employees the positive aspects of change. Based on a true story, Win Teams should inspire any workplace dealing with change.
Attitude, Attitude, Attitude!
Train employees to become self-motivated. Adopt proven practices use by Dennis Connor, a man who has assembled championship-caliber sailing teams and lead four to an America’s Cup title.
Ben & Jerry Innovation and Teams
Learn the secrets to attracting loyal team members and building successful and innovative teams from two of the world’s sweetest entrepreneurs, Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, founders of the uber-successful Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream.
Conflict, Collaboration and Communication
Are you aware of how you're communicating with others? Are you reactive? Do you snap back when you are stressed? Do you hold back out of fear of speaking? Can you control your responses? Watch this video for a surprising self-realization.
Destructive Comments
Destructive comments undermine organizational initiatives by contradicting them and making them appear inauthentic. Empower employees with the ability to refrain from such costly behavior with this program.
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.
Expanding Options
Individuals have direct control and influence over their own environments. Learn that through self-knowledge and self-control, we can move forward with a clear vision of success in mind and control our own destiny.
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.
Self-Awareness and Engagement at Work
Knowing what makes us unique as individuals and discovering who we are, mark the first steps to finding happiness both at work as well as in life. Raise the level of consciousness in your organization and help the people that push it forward discover what makes them special.
The Winning Coaches Series
Looking to inspire a handful of executives? How about thousands of sales and customer relations representatives? Experience immediate and long-term results with The Winning Coaches Series of thought-provoking training and content.
Leadership: Influence, Incentives & Knowledge - L.I.N.K.
In most of today’s organizations, authority is only one segment of a motivational formula used by the most effective leaders. Football’s winning coaches Mike Ditka, Sean Payton, Rex Ryan, and Bobby Bowden tell you how to be a successful leader!
Ethics Made Simple
Workplace Ethics is a serious workplace issue. Not only do ethics involve laws and regulations that dramatically affect an organization’s future, but ethics can profoundly influence productivity, employee morale and an organization’s reputation.
Effective Leadership Skills with Marshall Goldsmith
This leadership video training program features Marshall Goldsmith and helps to develop the interpersonal skills of senior managers.
The Wisdom of Teams
Build a high performance team that can innovate and produce during times of change. Ensure productivity across ranks and prevent infighting and inertia from getting in the way with this high performance training program.
Four Weeks In May
Learn lessons in coordinated teamwork and leadership from a successful Indianapolis 500 racing team and put their techniques to work in your organization.
America 3: The Power to Create
You can learn how the unique combination of teamwork, technology and talent led to victory for a seemingly ordinary crew in America3: The Power to Create.
America3: The Power to Create Meeting Opener
The crew of America3 won the America's Cup by overcoming obstacles and focusing on teamwork, technology and talent. This is a meeting opener based on the full-length film.
Flight 232: The Power of Teamwork
A CRM ReleaseThis special edited-version of the classic CRM Learning program, Teamwork in Crisis, tells the amazing story of United Airlines Flight 232. In less than ten minutes, the video shows how teams in the cockpit and on the ground resisted panic when the plane experienced potentially catastrophic mechanical failure...leading to an outcome far better than anyone would have predicted.
Compliance is Just the Beginning
Compliance is Just the Beginning presents an easy-to-learn approach that will help employees at all levels make better ethical decisions and avoid the many consequences that come with doing the wrong thing.
Team Building: What Makes a Good Team Player
A CRM ReleaseBased on the principles developed by Glenn M. Parker in the Parker Team-Player Survey, this video program depicts the four primary team-member personality styles inherent to every workteam: the contributor, the collaborator, the communicator and the challenger.
Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace
A CRM ReleaseOne bad attitude can infect your entire team or organization. With this program, viewers learn to identify the seven most common attitude virus carriers and how to inoculate themselves and their organization against them.
Leading with Persuasion
Positive persuasion is the name of the game in this carefully crafted communication skills training video. Team members will learn to persuade with confidence and present their case with credibility.
Handling Anyone Difficult
This training offers 6 key skills that will ensure problems don’t escalate when employees engage ‘difficult’ people.
Diffusing Anger
Help staff to develop anger management skills with this training program that demonstrates necessities for controlling anger.
Resolving Conflict
A great program on essential skills, this training covers methods for both preventing and resolving conflict. Viewers will learn how to manage emotions and be respectful, communicate openly and avoid letting frustrations interfere with work.
Mediating for Resolution
Learn excellent skills for controlling respectful exchanges and facilitating solutions with this entertaining installment of the Cutting Edge Communication Comedy Series.
Surviving Team Conflicts
Too much energy is wasted on wars at work. Peace and harmony is good for health and well-being.
Welcoming New People
Early days in a new job have a big impact. A warm friendly start makes all the difference.
Facing Social Media
Social media is growing out of control. Finding opportunities is within our control.
Handling the New Wave
Digital natives can be challenging at times. They can also provide great opportunities.
Supporting Others
Being supportive is an essential skill for teams. It takes very little effort to show support.
Living the Brand: The Patagonia Story
This program helps encourage people in your organization to recognize that they can contribute to building the brand of their company with their everyday actions and making an environmental commitment a core element in an organization.
Embracing New Ideas
Developing new ideas makes us creative. Sharing new ideas leads to innovation.
Making Decisions
Avoiding decisions weakens your position. Making good decisions keeps you strong.
Workplace Excellence Series
Utilize the tools and examples shown in this series and inspire your people to rise above the average benchmarks and truly create Workplace Excellence. This series consists of ten programs that showcase best practices regarding management, leadership, motivation, teamwork, communication, innovation and more!
Workplace Excellence: Open Communication & Teamwork
Learn how to communicate effectively to achieve best results. Promote open and honest communication through the sharing of information while discouraging gossip. Employees on all levels will understand how to build collaborative relationships and, should it arise, resolve conflict productively.
A Formula for Team Success
Discover how to ensure the success of the virtual team through daily training and learning with an emphasis on daily reporting of achievements and challenges to easily meet future goals.
Jamie's Kitchen
Well known British Chef and entrepreneur Jamie Oliver takes a group of street kids and, through passionate leadership, turns them into a unified and effective team of young chefs.
First Among Equals
The goal of this humorous and intelligent program is to give managers the leadership skills they need to enable individuals to work more effectively as part of a team.
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.
Don't Panic!
What happens when nine fascinating people with experience in 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, and after the flames die down, the participants share what they’ve learned.
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.
A Passion for Excellence with Tom Peters video
There is a revolution underway, in business government, and education, people are challenging the “gospel,” thinking the unthinkable, and achieving the impossible. Behind it all are people who have a passion for excellence.
The Covey Leadership Library
A CRM ReleaseDr. Stephen R. Covey, best-selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, presents five programs that show leaders new ways of interacting with subordinates so that self-esteem, productivity, and performance are increased.
Managing Diversity
A CRM ReleaseThis provactive diversity management video addresses one of the most important issues of our day: how to overcome differences and tap into the limitless strength of a diverse workgroup.
Impressions Count: An Introduction to Workplace Etiquette and Communication
A CRM ReleaseThis breakthrough program covers the basics of workplace courtesy and etiquette, models professional behaviors for all employees and helps with organizational messaging and business-to-business relationships.
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.
