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Human Energy at Work

Human Energy at Work


GOING INTERNATIONAL: BEYOND CULTURE SHOCK

Prepare yourself and your family for moving abroad. Beyond Culture Shock eases the move abroad for yourself and your family by providing insights and advice from experienced travelers. View the two titles Beyond Culture Shock and Welcome Home, Stranger as a pair, both deal with the personal impact of culture, adjusting to life over there and adjusting to life back here which is one cycle.

The DVD:
  • explain the psychological phases of the adjustment process
  • provide practical suggestions for making life abroad a positive experience
  • give particular attention to the needs of the spouse and children during relocation
  • is about living over there and prepares expatriates and families for phases of culture shock and adjustment.

    Summary
  • About cultural shock... "It's like being in an exam, twenty-four hours a day."
  • Experts describe culture shock as a " cycle of readjustment," marked by four phases.
  • Impact on the family, family needs, the spouse's attitude and children's adjustment challenges. Expatriate communities.
  • Characteristics for success and key traits.
  • Preparing for the move.
  • Are you ready for relocation aboard?

    Review
  • "Answers important questions for families relocating abroad."- World Vision

    Item no.: RS03180002
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 500.00

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    GOING INTERNATIONAL: BRIDGING THE CULTURE GAP

    Reveals the importance of cross-cultural understanding for the traveler and the person doing business abroad. It's an introduction to the whole concept of relating across cultural contrast. Bridging the Culture Gap doesn't use dramas but rather is an "anthropological" introduction about how interesting it is that people think differently, have different concepts of time, space, work...

    The DVD:
  • explain cultural taboos and accepted standards of behavior
  • develops an awareness of the cultures and habits of other countries before traveling abroad
  • explores how every aspect of life, that everyone takes for granted, is usually culturally determined
  • illustrate important points with colorful footage from around the world

    Summary
  • Understanding cultures and exploring different values
  • What are culturally determined patterns
  • Symbols and their different interpretations
  • Rules of etiquette
  • Cultural stereotypes
  • Overcoming cultural differences

    Review
  • "Should be viewed by anyone going overseas." - Kaiser Engineers

    Item no.: EC03370003
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 500.00

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    GOING INTERNATIONAL: GOING INTERNATIONAL - SAFELY

    Alerts the traveler to the variety of security problems that can interrupt a trip. It is about the dangers involved in international business travel. Sensitizes travelers to dangers and shows how to reduce risk. The DVD:

  • identify potential problems: crime, accident, illness, arrest, fire, natural disasters, and terrorism
  • show how the traveler can reduce the risk each step of the way: while planning, at the airport, on the street, in the car and hotel, home, or workplace
  • offer advice for what to do in the event of an emergency
  • provides "Travel Safety Checklists"

    Review
  • "Professionally produced, beautifully edited. Shows me I must do my homework before entering another culture." -University of Southern California

    Item no.: LE03560006
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 500.00

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    GOING INTERNATIONAL: LIVING IN THE USA

    Ease the transition of non-US citizens into the United States.

    Living in the USA prepares the newcomer for the culture shock and practical realities of life in the United States.

  • highlight challenges such as housing, banking, credit cards, schools, home appliances, driving and social customs
  • provide an overview of the cultural and regional diversity of the USA
  • emphasize the importance of making friends
  • families discuss relocation, culture shock, and realities of everyday life in the USA

    Review
  • "Current, applicable, appropriate." - Mattel

    Item no.: ZL03180007
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 500.00

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    GOING INTERNATIONAL: MANAGING THE OVERSEAS ASSIGNMENT

    DVD dramas illustrate cross-cultural misunderstandings and provide guidelines on doing cross-cultural business.

  • present experiences in such diverse countries as Japan, Saudi Arabia, England, India, and Mexico to illustrate the impact of cultural misunderstandings wherever you go
  • utilize experts, experienced travelers and foreign nationals to explain what went wrong
  • propose ways for improving results when communicating and negotiating
  • prevents cultural misunderstandings from negatively affecting your overseas business goals
  • increases your chances for success by helping you increase your cultural awareness

    Doing Business Abroad - Understand the host culture
    Dramas that show interactions in Mexico, Japan, England, and Saudi Arabia, and are not intended to make you an expert in any culture, but rather give you examples that wherever you go culture affect the way people communicate and the way business gets done.

    Respect for the host culture
    In Saudi Arabia, an American is seeking a permit for building supplies... Gain advantage by understanding etiquette, religion, and social taboos and essentials of doing business in other countries.

    Giving and receiving instructions
    We visit India and American manager is ... When working abroad learn how differently job functions and positions are defined and perceived. Who needs to perform/conform to whose expectations? Learn how to work effectively with each other. What are your assumptions about what makes people work well.

    How to source information
    An American business woman discovers that the English do not speak her language...Who is diplomatic and who is undiplomatic? Question how you get information , consider your own communication style and how does this contrast with the style of people in the host company?

    Making new business contacts
    An American business man is waiting for his customer to arrive in a restaurant in Mexico... Learn that a 'personal relationship' must be established before business can be done in many cultures. Learn the customary steps for building a business relationship in the host culture.

    Motivation and reward
    An American executive ends a meeting with his Japanese department heads... What are your assumptions about incentives and rewards in another culture.

    Review
  • "Addresses all levels of international traveler, seasoned as well as novice." - 3M

    Item no.: PN03370009
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 500.00

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    GOING INTERNATIONAL: WELCOME HOME, STRANGER

    Prepare yourself for repatriation to the United States of America. Welcome Home, Stranger focuses on the unexpected problems of returning home. Beyond Culture Shock is about living there and Welcome Home, Stranger is about returning home,it is a pair because it is the personal impact of culture, adjusting to life over there and adjusting to life back here which is one cycle.

  • deals with four steps: before going abroad, living abroad, before returning home, and upon return
  • prepare families for the difficulties they are likely to encounter
  • how to overcame the difficulty of "reentry"
  • deals with this overlooked aspect of the overseas assignment
  • international families share repatriation experiences

    Review
  • "A vital message." - Amoco

    Item no.: NL03560011
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 15 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 500.00

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    GOING INTERNATIONAL: WORKING IN THE USA

    Introduces all cultures to the values and dynamics of the US workplace. Improves understanding of how North Americans and American organizations behave and what it takes to succeed in business here. The pair of titles - Working in the USA and Living in the USA are for non-Americans who are going to work and live in the USA.

  • identify problems the foreign visitor is likely to face
  • feature foreign nationals who share their experiences and advice
  • provide documentary footage filmed in diverse work environments to show the difficulties the foreign visitor is likely to encounter
  • employees from other cultures share their experiences working in the USA

    Summary
    Deals with arrival issues, contact with locals,and different aspects of organizational life in the USA: life at the office, gender issues, scheduling, scope of assignments, planning, meetings, relocation protocol, guidelines for success

    Review
  • "On target." - PepsiCo

    Item no.: DJ03180013
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 500.00

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    HUMAN ENERGY AT WORK: CONFLICT AS OPPORTUNITY

    Conflict is the most critical phase of building effective relationships.Motivate people in your organization to utilize conflict and manage it as an opportunity for change. Prevent hostile work environments, cultural misunderstandings, discrimination, racism, sexism, harassment and other depleting patterns.

  • explore cultural differences in the expression and management of conflict
  • understand that conflict provides opportunities for learning
  • see conflict as the most critical phase in relating across differences
  • identify the core principles and skills to manage the complexity of conflict in the workplace
  • learn to recognize the early warning signs of conflict
  • manage conflict and facilitate co-creation

    7 dramatic moments used in the Conflict as Opportunity:

    Moment 1
  • Is Al really hearing Mary? Is trust tested in this true work place story? Learn to build trust.

    Moment 2
  • There is no right way of giving feedback and recognition in the multi-cultured work place. But what did Ted fail to recognize during his interaction with Richard?

    Moment 3
  • As the scene replays, we see Ted attempting to share feedback in a way that Richard can appreciate. Learn to use conflict as an opportunity to change.

    Moment 4
  • In relating across differences "good" communication skills are not always enough, it's important to be authentic and real. What could Dave do to increase his effectiveness in conflict resolution? What can you do?

    Moment 5
  • Focusing on cultural differences that are irrelevant to the work situation, such as accent, appearance, dress, etc., creates a tension between coworkers, inhibiting the opportunity to leverage real and relevant differences to the work task. In this video moment Halima intervenes on Lo's behalf...

    Moment 6
  • Professor Marshall and Sheila openly express conflict... based on inaccurate assumptions. Learn to manage your stereotypes and assumptions and prevent cycles of conflict!

    Moment 7
  • Professor Marshall and Sheila strive to recover from their conflict by openly talking about it and by providing relevant feedback.

    After completing this program, learners should be able to:
  • assess whether people in the system are working together as well as they could
  • recognize the early signals of conflict
  • understand how diversity, relationship, and cultural dynamics fuel conflict in the organization
  • recognize and understand this and other natural phases of the relationship-building process
  • recognize the ways in which cultural and other group differences may affect how conflict is handled
  • use relationship-building principles for resolving conflict in a way that respects cultural and other group differences

    Review
  • "Sophisticated. It goes well beyond the rudimentary stages of embracing diversity." - Tim Wright, Corporate Staffing, Hallmark

    Item no.: WV03370015
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    HUMAN ENERGY AT WORK: GLOBAL CONTRASTS

    Global Contrasts will help you manage cultural contrasts and build effective cross-cultural relationships.Build global teams and cross-cultural work relationships characterized by trust, cooperation, and synergy. Move your organization toward greater success in the global marketplace with Global Contrasts.

  • explore the process of building cooperative relationships in the global work context
  • examine cultural contrasts and how they can create misunderstandings if not identified and understood
  • provide critical relationship skills for achieving success on global teams
  • provide culture general principles and skills that move relationships and teams to higher, more productive level

    Watch 9 video dramas of North American, Japanese, German, Italian, African, South American, Indian and other nationalities operate in the domestic and global marketplace, creating a diversity and relationship challenge beyond that familiarity of your 'typical' national demographics.

    Learn generic principles for managing global working relationships.

    Examine issues that pose a challenge to building global work relationships.

    Learn to recognize and understand cultural contrasts.

    Recognize and manage the 5 critical phases of relationship development.

    Understand that the dynamics of this global marketplace are increasingly apparent at home. Foreign organizations operate in every domestic market. "International" no longer means "outside the country" and "foreign" is as close as across the hallway.

    Specifically learn to :
  • recognize and manage key cultural contrasts-a critical skill in developing global work relationships and teams
  • understand the natural phases of the global relationship-building process and how to manage uncomfortable cross-cultural relationship dynamics
  • apply principles and skills to manage each of the five phase of building relationship across cultural differences
  • appreciate that building global relationships is a process that takes time and requires the skill to actively manage cooperation, competition and conflict

    Review
  • "Excellent! Clear and easy to work with" - Expatriates Manager, Systematics, Inc.

    Item no.: DU03560018
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    HUMAN ENERGY AT WORK: RELATING ACROSS DIFFERENCES

    The key to any organization's success is the ability of its employees to relate effectively. Build trust and respect in your organization with Relating Across Difference.Transform human energy into higher work-related goals by:

  • learning the process of building relationship across differences
  • understanding the phases relationships go through before they stabilize and perform
  • managing the opportunities and barriers to relating across differences
  • recognizing diversity issues, relationship patterns and cultural differences that impact workplace performance and goals
  • learning core principles and skills to move relationships to higher, more productive levels
  • Exploring five natural phases (pre-relationship, initiation, conflict, negotiation and performance) relationships move through before they stabilize and really perform.

    Moments in Relating Across Differences

    Moment 1
  • Maria tries to build trust and intimacy with Sophie by sharing personal information. Find out if this strategy works?

    Moment 2
  • What is familiar and acceptable in one culture may be offensive in another. Who is more comfortable with Gino's style--Peter or Han?

    Moment 3
  • The way we give & receive feedback can have major impact on work relationships. What are the behaviors that may be causing conflict and misunderstanding between Margo (supervisor) and Elaine (employee)

    Moment 4
  • There are many types of differences which are not readily apparent as differences, such as energy levels and pacing. How well does Paige, the manager in these scenes, deal with the concerns of Rhea and Tim about each other?

    Moment 5
  • Mary and Al have worked together for quite a while. Can they move through the potential conflict , inevitable in all relationship, without polarization and shutdown. Also use Conflict As Opportunity to view Mary and Al in a different moment...

    Moment 6
  • Elaine and Margot negotiate a new way of dealing with their conflict. How do cultural differences come into play in this situation?

    Moment 7
  • Halima and Phillip have been stereotypically lumped together? Does this work for them or their organization?

    Moment 8
  • Tension builds in the diverse workplace and it is sometimes necessary for a third party to step in and facilitate the differences. Grace, the supervisor, effectively deals with a potential problem in her work team.

    Moment 9
  • Rhea and Tim come together in this scene. The 'client' benefits when these two very different people work towards a dynamic balance.

    Examine "moments in the relationship-building process" to help you build authentic relationships that are stable enough to perform at a higher level. Employees can learn how to manage the diversity in the relationship and consciously begin to value it and create the conditions for synergy and breakthrough results.

    Review
  • "Immediately applicable to my organization's circumstances" - Professional Development Center, State of Montana

    Item no.: RW03180023
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    HUMAN ENERGY AT WORK: SEXUAL DYNAMICS

    Sexuality in the workplace has become a bottom-line business issue. Sexual Dynamics opens the debate and examines the reality of sexuality in the workplace. This DVD can help prevent the costly outcomes to depleting symptoms (litigation, stress, fear, anger, control, lying, denial, projection, etc.) by helping you manage the reality of sexuality in the workplace. Learn to provide a safer, less sexualized workplace and a climate that transforms human energy into higher performance.

    Use 7 real-work moments to help you:

  • identify organizational, team, interpersonal, and personal patterns that sexualize the workplace
  • facilitate the "sexuality" debate in your own organization and dare to look beneath the surface to examine what is going on, long before the crisis of sexual harassment
  • recognize depleting relationship dynamics across gender and other differences (sexism, racism, gender stereotyping, team intimacy gone wrong...)
  • understand and value the difference between the natural intimacy that teamwork brings and sexualized patterns that interfere with workplace goals
  • examine how relationships in today's workplace have changed and put into place appropriate boundaries
  • examine sexual dynamics in the workplace and view them within the context of change
  • prevent the downward slide to sexual harassment
  • manage the different perceptions of sexuality in the workplace

    Understand the new workplace dynamic
    From the boardroom to the factory floor, diverse individuals now work side-by-side, forming a new workplace dynamic. As organizations continue to embrace such management strategies as team-building, cross-functional work, home-office work options and increased customer contact, the intensity and intimacy of work-related interactions multiply.

    Strive for openness yet clearer boundaries
    This course opens the debate about the challenge of sexualized relationship patterns in the workplace. It motivates individuals, teams and organizations to do something proactive, creating awareness and preventing depleting patterns from becoming an organizational liability. Help motivate learners to begin to prevent the downward slide to a hostile work environment or sexual harassment by building a culture that is more open yet has clear boundaries, more nurturing and less controlling, less sexualized, and more productive.

    Allow intimacy without sexualization
    To release the creative and productive energy of the work place requires managing and not denying sexuality. Sexual harassment is only one, if not the most costly, symptom of workplace dynamics around the issue of sexuality. All too often the response has been crises interventions, dealing with the symptoms and not the real challenge. Sexual harassment is a depleting and discriminatory relationship pattern and the unequivocal response should be prevention. This requires an awareness of the reality of sexual energy in the workplace, a recognition that the workplace demands intimacy without sexualization.

    Review
  • "Sexual Dynamics is better than sexual harassment films because it shows what can lead to sexual harassment, and that is excellent." - Marsha Braun, Houston Community College

    Item no.: MZ03370025
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    HUMAN ENERGY AT WORK: TEAMS IN MOTION

    This is a very effective representation of an intact team going through all four phases of the team building process. Diverse team members struggle to relate and reach high performance. Teams in Motion introduces learners to the phases of team development and the skills necessary to build effective relationships at each phase of the team process. It helps team members identify and manage wide-ranging differences (race, gender, cross-functional, thinking style, relationship style, personality, culture, etc.) that can be either an opportunity or barrier to achieving team goals.

    Use the DVD to:
  • identify the phases teams move through before reaching higher performance
  • illustrate how diversity issues, relationship patterns and cultural differences affect the team process
  • address the challenge of relating across differences in the team context
  • provide core principles and skills for building high performance teams which are challenged by differences

    Use 21 dynamic video 'moments' to examine and explore the reality of team work in today's organizations.
    The dramatic video case study in Teams in Motion is based on a true story and research gathered from tracking a real team over 18 months.

    After taking the Teams in Motion course, learners should be able to:
  • recognize and actively manage the five natural phases diverse teams move through
  • understand how diversity, relationship, and cultural patterns affect each phase of the team process
  • recognize and manage key moments during the rhythmic process of team development
  • use core principles and skills to build a high-performance diverse team
  • transform individual energy into synergistic group performance

    Review
  • "Making the most of diverse high performance teams takes skill, time, and awareness of differences. Depending on how they're managed, such teams can yield terrible headaches or terrific results."- Training & Development, October 1995

    Item no.: KY03560028
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    HUMAN ENERGY AT WORK: THE BOTTOM LINE

    The Bottom Line creates a rationale for why diversity and relationship across differences is a business opportunity. The Bottom Line deals with strategic questions, one at a time, providing useful information, awareness exercises, and the motivation to apply the contents back to your own organization or work team.Help your organization plan and reach its fullest potential with The Bottom Line. Prevent hostile work environments, cultural misunderstandings, discrimination, racism, sexism, harassment and other depleting patterns.

    Use this DVD to:
  • focus on human energy as an integral part of any organizational strategy
  • ask strategic questions( what, why, how, who, when) and offer directions for implementing change toward higher performance
  • help you organize the learning experience into a logical sequence of insights, with each one building on the previous insight toward creating a business case for diversity and relationship across differences
  • highlight the need to leverage diversity and relationship across differences
  • motivate managers and employees to adapt depleting ways of relating across differences into new ways that enhance performance
  • start a process of change that you cannot afford to avoid!

    Learn to think more clearly about the following issues:
  • What is the relationship across difference challenge in your organization?
  • Why are diversity and relationship important to the organization?
  • What are the barriers to change?
  • How does the organization change and begin to lead with differences?
  • Who will be responsible for change?
  • How do diversity, relationship, and culture affect the bottom line?

    Review
  • "Organizations will find this approach extremely useful as they build their own (diversity) case." - Cultural Diversity at Work Newsletter, March 1996

    Item no.: TC03180030
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    NO POTENTIAL LOST: INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

    Interpersonal effectiveness explores interpersonal dynamics in the workplace (coworker,teams,customer relations). The focus is on taking mutual responsibility for effectiveness. This interactive multimedia learning experience deals with team building, conflict management and building foundations of trust in the multicultural and diverse workplace.

    Overview of Interpersonal Effectiveness
  • explores the role of diversity issues, relationship dynamics and cultural differences in achieving high performance
  • focuses on team-building, conflict management and building trust in the multicultural and diverse workplace
  • provides self-guided quizzes and activities to increase understanding of interpersonal effectiveness
  • motivates employees to accept mutual responsibility for ensuring interpersonal effectiveness

    Activities and Objectives:

    KEY CONCEPTS
  • Interpersonal Space: Understand that people are mutually responsible for creating enhancing or depleting patterns in coworker, team and other interpersonal work situations. Effectiveness is a mutual responsibility.
  • Cultural Bubbles: The concept of culture from an interpersonal perspective. Cultural differences can create miscommunication (preventing the opportunity for cooperation) unless understood and managed.
  • Diversity Noise: Diversity noise (racism, sexism, assumptions, etc.) can deplete the performance related energy in coworker, customer, team and other interpersonal work situations. How valuing and managing diversity can be an opportunity.
    Relationship Patterns: Interpersonal interactions can be a barrier or an opportunity for workplace effectiveness. Recognize that relationship patterns affect coworker and team productivity.
  • Trust Bank Activity: Trust and cooperation are essential for higher performance and impact the potential effectiveness of work relationships. This interactive multimedia activity links diversity, relationship and cultural patterns to levels of trust in the workplace.
  • Performance-Related Energy: Coworkers, teams and other interpersonal work relationships create the opportunity for synergy. Users assess simulated interpersonal work situations and learn to recognize patterns that increase and decrease interpersonal effectiveness.

    EXPLORATION ELEVATOR
  • Relating Across Differences: Users are asked to assess different workplace scenarios. After receiving guidelines and information they reassess the same situation with "new eyes," challenging their original assumptions.
  • Phases of Building Relationship: Work relationships move through different phases before they stabilize and perform (pre-relationship, initiation, conflict, negotiation and high-performance). Users observe behaviors that characterize each phase. They learn basic guidelines to move effectively through each phase.
  • Conflict Floor: Conflict is normal and a necessary phase in building authentic work relationships. Users learn skills (facilitation, conflict resolution, feedback and communication) to manage conflict and increase effectiveness across differences. They begin to see conflict as an opportunity.

    RESOURCE ROOM
  • Glossary: Users will have access to an on-screen glossary of terms used in this disc.
  • Textbook: Users will have assess to suggested readings, off-line activities, exercises and other print-based materials to support ongoing learning.
  • Work Relationships: Users will have access to information about the importance of interpersonal relationship in the workplace. Subjects such as "Why is Relationship Important?", "Barriers to and Opportunities for Relationship" and "Enhancing and Depleting Interpersonal Relationship Patterns" are presented.

    FUN ACTIVITIES
  • Greetings: Users will explore different forms of greeting in different cultures. They explore the significance of greetings in initiating relationships.

    Relationships at Work Game
  • Users test their cross-cultural knowledge in a game show format. They are provided guidelines for relating across differences.

    Team Assessment
    Explore four dimensions of team functioning. Case studies to practice assessment skills. Assess your own work team.

    Hot Buttons
    Through video moments explore terms, phrases and cliches that are potential hot-buttons for different people.

    Personal, Interpersonal and Organizational Patterns
    Explore definitions of personal, interpersonal and organizational patterns and question what role you can play in making these patterns enhancing.

    System Requirements:
  • Processor: 486
  • RAM: 8MB
  • CD-ROM: 2x Speed
  • Operating System: Widows 3.1
  • Audio Card: Any Sound Blaster Compatible

    Item no.: JM03370033
    Format: CD-ROM (Win)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    NO POTENTIAL LOST: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

    Organizational Effectiveness takes users on an interactive multimedia journey through a simulated organization. Explore current and future workplace scenarios, make assessments and changes that result in the improved performance of employees in "Organizational Park". Learn how diversity, relationship and cultural issues are barriers or competitive advantage. Ask strategic questions, understand barriers, opportunities and the need for change. Organizational Effectiveness motivates mutual self-interest, benefiting both the organization and employees.

    Overview of Organizational Effectiveness
  • a simulated organization deals with diversity, relationship and cultural challenges
  • provides an interactive multimedia "walk" through a simulated organization, allows assessments and changes
  • deals with areas critical to organizational effectiveness: environment, change, skills, and full participation
  • effectively demonstrates systemic challenges
  • an interactive panel discussion highlights the bottom line need for change
  • strategic questions identify barriers & opportunities
  • motivates employees to participate in the creation of an effective organization

    Sections, Activities and Objectives

    KEY CONCEPTS
  • Diversity Noise: Users learn how diversity noise (racism,sexism,stereotyping) can become an organizational pattern that depletes workplace performance.They learn that diversity can add value.
  • Relationship Patterns: Users will understand that when depleting or enhancing relationships are repeated throughout the workplace, they become an organizational pattern. Systemic patterns can be managed more effectively by accepting personal, interpersonal and organizational responsibility.
  • Culture: Users learn about culture and how it can impact organizational effectiveness. They examine co-worker, team,customer, and cross-functional situations.

    EXPLORING THE CURRENT REALITY AND RECOMMENDING CHANGE
    In a multimedia journey through a simulated organizational park during an interactive "walk-about," the users are given the task to assess and change the behavior pattern in different buildings in a simulated organization.
  • make assessments and recommend changes that increase the overall effectiveness of the organization and prevent the downslide to a more depleting scenario
  • learn skills to effectively manage and leverage differences
  • make choices to build a more effective organizational culture
  • view video role plays that represent the positive or negative outcomes of choices
  • access guidelines and skills for organizational effectiveness
  • write an assessment and change report on the 4 challenges (environment, change, skills and participation) that impact this simulated organization's effectiveness

    PRODUCTIVITY SPIRAL
    A multimedia learning experience allows users to discover how relationship patterns can spiral throughout an organization with consequences for productivity, profitability and customer relations. They become aware of the need for organizational leadership, teamwork and accountability at all levels. Video dramas draw attention to the core challenges that can influence organizational effectiveness: diversity noise, depleting relationship patterns, cultural miscommunication and misunderstandings.

    THE TRAINING CENTER
    Users can access multimedia learning options: speeches, and opportunity to participate in an interactive panel discussion with experts and printout text options. The organizational assessment activity allows users to make an assessment of their perceptions of the current reality in their own organization. There is a special focus on diversity, relationship and culture as a bottom line organizational challenge.

    RESOURCE ROOM
    In a simulated organizational library the users can learn about the bottom line needs for change, and how diversity, relationship and culture are a competitive advantage. They can find answers to strategic questions like: What is the challenge? Why change? What are the barriers and opportunities? Who is responsible? How to change and lead with differences? The library provides users with group activities, information that can be printed-out, questions for discussion and much more.

    PROFILING THE ORGANIZATION
    This activity allows users to identify behaviors that exist on a continuum towards organizational effectiveness (from denial of differences towards valuing and leading with those differences).They give feedback about where they think their organization is on where their organization is and where it should be. This activity can be used as a facilitator feedback tool.

    DEVELOPING 'PEOPLE SKILLS'
    Organizational Effectiveness will prepare leaders, managers, and employees for the "people skills" that will enable their organizations to deal more effectively with changing realities (demographics,the global economy,the reality of increased diversity in today's workplace and marketplace). Users experience that the people and management skills, in this simulated organization, are strenuously tested when relating across differences: listening, feedback, facilitation of team work, facilitation of change, negotiation across differences, management, problem-solving and decision-making, leadership, communication, coaching and mentoring, conflict management, strategic thinking, etc.

    System Requirements:
  • Processor: 486
  • RAM: 8MB
  • CD-ROM: 2x Speed
  • Operating System: Widows 3.1
  • Audio Card: Any Sound Blaster Compatible

    Item no.: DT03560034
    Format: CD-ROM (Win)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    NO POTENTIAL LOST: PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

    Personal Effectiveness an interactive multimedia learning journey that explores personal effectiveness and responsibility for one's own performance. Identify personal challenges in the workplace and how diversity, relationship and cultural dynamics can impact effectiveness. Explore and understand how performance related energy can be affected by personal patterns. The disc is filled with awareness opportunities, information, skill building exercises and video drama.

    Overview Personal Effectiveness
  • helps employees take personal responsibility for their own effectiveness
  • diversity, relationship and culture as a personal challenge
  • multimedia, interactive activities build understanding of how personal patterns affects performance
  • insights and expertise of managers, diversity experts and other champions
  • articles, suggested readings, off-line activities and print-based materials round off the learning experience

    Sections, Activities and Learning Objectives

    KEY CONCEPTS SECTION
  • Masking: Users create an on-screen personal diversity profile and can contrast this with their perception of how their organization sees and values their diversity dimensions.
  • Cultural Bubbles: Users will begin to understand the concept of culture. They will become aware of their own and different cultural ways of being.
  • Diversity Noise:Diversity noise (racism, sexism, assumptions, prejudices, judgments, etc.) hinders personal effectiveness. This activity helps the users to understand the concept of differences, increase their awareness of how diversity noise affects their perceptions of others, and learn skills to manage their own diversity noise.
  • Relationship Patterns: Users will understand their own personal patterns of relating. They will acquire skills to manage depleting relationship patterns (mistrust, control, manipulation, etc.) and increase enhancing patterns (facilitation, trust, openness, etc.) that impact their personal effectiveness.
  • Performance Related Energy: Users will understand how their personal patterns can impact their performance related energy and workplace effectiveness.

    APPLICATION SECTION:EXPLORATION ELEVATOR
  • Floor 1: Users explore simulated workplace scenarios. They learn to recognize and change behaviors that deplete work relationships (stereotyping, assumptions, etc.)
  • Floor 2: Users will explore how cultural differences can affect how people give and receive feedback. Users receive guidelines and skills to help them understand and manage cultural contrasts.
  • Floor 3: Users are given an opportunity to test their assessment skills. They identify how diversity, relationship and cultural dynamics affect performance related energy in three different video scenarios.
  • Floor 4: Through an interactive "video-phone," users will explore different communications styles and acquire basic skills to improve their personal effectiveness.

    RESOURCE ROOM
  • Voices in the Field: Users access a collection of "voices" such as diversity experts and champions, people in today's workplace and others.
  • Glossary: Users will have access to an on-screen glossary of terms used in this disc.
  • Textbook: Users will have access to suggested readings, off-line activities, exercises and other print-based materials to support ongoing learning.
  • UBUNTU: Users are introduced to the African Philosophy of UBUNTU and it's connections to the learning process.

    ACTIVITIES DESK
  • Newspaper: Users will learn ways to change personal behaviors to prevent hostile work environment and prevent the downward slide to sexual harassment.
  • Personal Space: This multimedia exercise has users assess how comfortable they feel with people's physical differences and how this comfort level affects their sense of personal space.
  • Biography Matching: This activity challenges users to make and question their assumptions and teaches them how making assumptions impacts their personal effectiveness.
  • Global Gestures: Users explore global hand gestures and their meanings and receive guidelines about nonverbal communication.
  • Telephone: Users learn that people have different perceptions about telephone versus face-to-face communication and that being flexible about communication methods can increase personal effectiveness.

    System Requirements:
  • Processor: 486
  • RAM: 8MB
  • CD-ROM: 2x Speed
  • Operating System: Widows 3.1
  • Audio Card: Any Sound Blaster Compatible

    Item no.: HC03180035
    Format: CD-ROM (Win)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    POTENTIAL IS YOURS, THE

    The Potential is Yours is an entry level diversity program that makes it easy and cost effective to sensitize employees anywhere and anytime. A small investment will create opportunities and prevent costly mistakes! This introductory course deals with diversity, relationship, and cultural dynamics in the workplace. It takes participants from learning about themselves and what valuing diversity means, to how this affects their relationships with coworkers and customers, and ultimately how this impacts personal and organizational success.

    The Potential Is Yours has 3 sections, each containing 6 learning activities?
  • Learn to effectively manage diversity, relationship, and cultural dynamics
  • Become sensitive of attitudes and behaviors that enhance and deplete performance
  • Learn to relate across differences and succeed in the diverse workplace

    The Potential Is Yours has 3 different sections
    Personal Effectiveness
    focuses on taking personal responsibility for masking, stereotyping, and other behaviors that sabotage performance.

    Interpersonal Effectiveness
    focuses on interpersonal dynamics in coworker, team, and supervisor relationships, increases sensitivity to diversity challenges such as stereotyping, hot-buttons and trust.

    Organizational Effectiveness
    explores "attitudinal ", "behavioral", and "change" issues which impact performance.

    6 Personal Effectiveness Activities:
    Voices from the field
    Discover why diversity in the workplace matters.

    Personal Space
    Discover how different people impact your personal space.

    Personal Masking
    Learn about your diversity and discover if you are masking.

    Stereotyping
    Learn why stereotyping limits effectiveness.

    Cultural Differences
    Discover how culture can affect how we interact at work. Decrease misunderstandings by evaluating other cultures using our own as the standard.

    Workplace Diversity
    Open doors in the workplace and explore 3 areas of diversity.

    6 Interpersonal Effectiveness Activities:
    Interpersonal Space
    Discover why diversity in the workplace matters.

    Relating Across Differences
    Explore the concept of interpersonal space. Discover skills necessary to relate across differences.

    Relationship Patterns
    Learn how relationship patterns impact effectiveness.

    Relationship Baggage
    Learn how personal baggage affects work relationships.

    Hot - Buttons
    Become more sensitive to your own and other people's hot-buttons.

    Trust Bank
    Learn why trust is the key to effective work relationships. Once trust is destroyed, it is difficult to rebuild.

    6 Organizational Effectiveness Activities:
    Introduction
    Notice patterns which help create an enhancing or depleting organizational culture.

    The Customer: Productivity Spiral
    People are the organization. How they relate to one another spirals throughout the organization and impacts productivity and customer relationships.

    Building A: Attitudes
    Learn how employee attitudes shape the organization. Attitudes at work increase or decrease the organization's effectiveness.

    Building B: Behaviors
    Learn how employee behaviors shape the organization.

    Building C: Changes
    Discover how change can be an opportunity.

    The Globe: Global Communication
    Explore the challenge of global communication. Watch and learn how people of other cultures communicate. Be aware of your own verbal and nonverbal styles.

    System Requirements:
  • Processor: 486
  • RAM: 8MB
  • CD-ROM: 2x Speed
  • Operating System: Widows 3.1
  • Audio Card: Any Sound Blaster Compatible

    Item no.: FV03370036
    Format: CD-ROM (Win)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING DIVERSITY: CHAMPIONS OF DIVERSITY

    Use with Organizational Effectiveness

    Champions of Diversity is a documentary about the changing demographics in the labor pool and marketplace. Special emphasis is given to the personal growth involved in valuing diversity. Senior executives share why they are " champions of diversity" and how they personally change their behavior and lead their organizations in change. Targeted toward senior level managers, CEO's, executives and program designers.

  • provides understanding of what diversity means, how diversity is a bottom-line issue and an asset
  • motivates individuals to show respect and value diversity
  • explores changing demographics in the labor pool and marketplace
  • highlights the benefits of diversity
  • emphasizes the application of positive attitudes toward diversity

    NEEDS AND CONCERNS
    The focus is on organizational needs and concerns. Interviews with experts in the field and employees support core diversity messages.

    COSTS
    In today's organizations there are employees who do not feel valued or respected. These feelings lead to a loss of productivity and creativity, and retention problems.

    DEMOGRAPHICS
    By the year 2000, 92% of the growth in the labor force will be women, people of color and immigrants.

    THE BUSINESS CASE
    Reasons to value diversity include: changing demographics, responsiveness to the marketplace, need for new ideas, personal growth, & new requirements for teamwork & diversity management.

    STOP PREJUDICE
    Increasing violence and prejudice in society comes into the workplace each day.

    TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
    There is a personal responsibility for learning and changing, and for transforming that personal change into organizational change.

    CHANGE IS GROWTH
    Valuing Diversity is a bottom-line business issue.

    Review
  • "A tremendous tool in aiding both management and employees to value, rather than fear, differences." - Bank of Boston

    Item no.: NK03560038
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING DIVERSITY: COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURES

    Prevent cultural misunderstandings through effective cross-cultural communication. Communicating Across Cultures increases awareness of the skills necessary for cross-cultural interaction. This is the best behavioral level introduction to the concept that we are all different, and therefore all have different styles of communicating. It doesn't put responsibility on any one group, thus it is better to show this program prior to Managing Differences and Diversity At Work.

  • addresses the discomfort people feel with issues of race and gender
  • provides skills for effective cross-cultural communication & why communication is so important
  • raises awareness of barriers & examines misunderstandings based on miscommunication
  • challenges employees to address "differences" that create misunderstanding
  • Includes 12 dramatized examples of common causes of misunderstandings

    All of the dramas in this program are based on actual incident

  • "Conventions for courtesy" and differences can cause misperceptions...
  • "Sequencing " and cultural differences in providing information...
  • "Phasing" and differences affect protocol...
  • "Objectivity" and different styles of expression...
  • "Specificity" and different styles of negotiating...
  • "Assertiveness" and cultures vary in the ways of expression...
  • "Candor" and differences in priorities for communication...
  • "Simplicity" & consequences for not speaking in your own style...
  • "Accents" and bias against accents and jargon...
  • "Telephone" and some cultures prefer face to face...
  • "Walking on eggs" and the need for feedback and inclusion...
  • "Hot buttons" and dealing with jokes & hot buttons...

    This Program:
  • Increase awareness and may bring out uncomfortable feelings at first. However, new awareness replaces previous insensitivity. Reassurance and support will help these people change.
  • Provokes discussion. We hope that by "mentioning the unmentionable" and by opening up communication, we will promote understanding and valuing of diversity.
  • Does not use differences to explain every misunderstanding or difficult situation. Some real problems have little or nothing to do with cultural differences, but result from issues outside the scope of this program.

    Review
  • "One of the most thought provoking and challenging films I have ever viewed on the subject." - Emory Worldwide

    Item no.: PH03180039
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING DIVERSITY: DIVERSITY AT WORK

    Helps mid-level employees understand that they must learn how the organization functions in order to take responsibility for their own career growth and development. Stops the stereotyping and assumptions that interfere with effective performance. Illustrates that employees from "non-dominant" cultures have to take some responsibility for learning how to keep their personal identity and adapt to the organizational culture within which they work. Ideally this would be shown after Champions Of Diversity & Communicating Across Cultures.

  • builds awareness of cultural differences and the importance to an effective organization
  • provides skills for managing cross-cultural relationships
  • emphasizes that every individual is responsible for their own performance
  • targets all employees and managers

    Outline of dramatic moments in this program:

    Managing the system dramas
    Clustering, isolation in the system, mentors, networks, office politics and more ...

    Being bi-cultural dramas
    In this film employees from different organizations talk about the importance of understanding oneself and adapting without compromising personal values. One manager insists: "Your uniqueness is one of the reasons that you were hired." But no one maintains that it is easy to find and sustain the right balance...

    Managing your boss and peer relations dramas
    introduces the concept of cultural differences,expands on stereotypes, assumptions and working with people who are different

    Review
  • "I strongly recommend this program. Training in this area of cultural diversity is essential to enforce the caliber and quality of our workforce." - Rockwell International

    Award
  • National Education Film and Video Festival- Silver Apple

    Item no.: VJ03370042
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING DIVERSITY: MANAGING DIFFERENCES

    Empower management in your organization to recognize and release the full potential of its diverse workforce. Help managers recognize talent & develop diverse employees. Let Managing Differences illustrate how assumptions, differences, and organizational culture affect the performance of managers, supervisors and administrators and inhibits the potential of employees. We interviewed over 100 managers, personnel administrators, EEO officials, teachers, trainers and cross-cultural consultants, and isolated barriers that interfere with the ability of women, minorities and others who are different to make their greatest contribution to their organization. Barriers covered in this program:

  • membership in the "white male club"
  • unwritten rules
  • stereotypes and assumptions
  • cultural differences

    Includes dramatized real "work life" stories

    Opening membership drama
    A position becomes available. The candidates that come to mind are all men. Beth, a woman, undoubtedly the best candidate, gets the job. But she never "belongs." Her contributions are ignored, and eventually she leaves. The drama reveals several problems that affect the ability of women and minorities to perform and rise in their organizations.

    Sharing the rules drama
    Ricardo, a Hispanic employee makes a presentation to senior executives. He has not been coached in the rules for success and his style is not valued. His ideas are not well received. The drama illustrates what happens when the unwritten requirements for success are not shared with an employee.

    Managing stereotypes and assumptions drama
    Dave, an Asian employee seeks a promotion, but does not sell himself in the way the manager expects. The manager makes several mistaken conclusions as a result of his stereotypes and assumptions. The drama illustrates what can happen when assumptions, even if based on actual cultural differences, can obstruct realistic evaluations and effective decision-making.

    Managing cultural differences
    Elaine, a Native American woman, is recognized for her contribution in a way that for her, is not a reward. She is made so uncomfortable that she does not return for work. This drama illustrates how lack of awareness about cultural differences can result in loss of productivity.

    Review
  • "The only film I've ever used that received the highest rating from each person attending the program. They found it enlightening and provocative. It grounded them into taking action." - SmithKline & French

    Awards
  • Applied Human Resources Trainer's Choice
  • Association of Visual Communications CINDY Bronze

    Item no.: ZB03560044
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING DIVERSITY: PROFILES IN CHANGE

    Use with The Bottom Line from Human Energy At Work

    Profiles In Change is a documentary on organizations that have raised productivity and profitability by implementing programs and processes that value diversity. Targeted toward diversity planners, top executives, administrators, managers, and human resource development professionals.

  • focuses on the processes of cultural change
  • shows how successful organizations are changing to maximize their diverse human resources
  • explores recruitment, training, team building, accommodating differences, rewarding, and holding managers accountable
  • covers organizational needs and concerns
  • includes interviews with experts in the field and employees that support core diversity messages

    A commitment to diversity is made through a demonstration of leadership from the top.

    A commitment to diversity is made through the involvement of employees.

    A commitment to diversity is made by investment in "filling the pipeline" and recruitment strategies.

    A commitment to diversity is made by providing mentoring & training programs.

    A commitment to diversity is made through accommodating specific needs of individuals.

    A commitment to diversity is made by creating accountability systems & rewards.

    A commitment to diversity is made through responsiveness to diversity in the marketplace.


    Review
  • "A high impact, eye-opening experience." - Northern Telecom

    Item no.: ME03180045
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING DIVERSITY: SUPERVISING DIFFERENCES

    Motivate managers and supervisors to create an environment which values the contributions of all employees and respect their differences. Supervising Differences shows first-line supervisors, plant managers and others how to leverage the potential of their diverse workforce.

  • helps supervisors provide a welcoming climate for new employees
  • provides a framework for resolving conflict between diverse employees
  • creates awareness in supervising and managing of differences
  • looks at effective coaching across differences
  • fosters the development of employees on an equal basis
  • explores the demands of the diverse workplace and the role of the supervisor

    Uses dramatic real work stories to facilitate learning

    Creating a Productive Work Environment
    Establishing the rules, respect, productivity, and supervisor roles.

    Conflict Resolution
    The role of supervisors in helping diverse employees work together and resolve their conflicts.

    Coaching and Developing Employees
    Discomfort with an employee who is different from oneself can result in inadequate supervision and failure. It is really the supervisor's failure when an employee fails in a situation like this.

    Stereotypes and Assumptions
    The supervisor often needs to judge the abilities of others and make decisions that affect careers. How assumptions based on stereotypes can get in the way of sound judgments and decision-making

    Cultural Differences
  • attitudes about authority
  • relationships
  • competition
  • communication
  • motivation and rewards
  • self-promotion

    Review
  • "Captures the subtle nature of problems women and minorities face in the workplace." - Corning, Inc.

    Awards
  • Applied Human Resources Trainer's Choice
  • Association of Visual Communications CINDY Bronze

    Item no.: SN03370048
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING DIVERSITY: YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

    Empowers your employees to create a climate that values the contributions of everyone. Helps avoid sabotage, stereotyping and other behaviors that disrupt productivity and causes hostile workplace.
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  • helps employees create a welcoming climate for all employees
  • encourages diverse employees to work together for team success
  • increases flexibility and responsiveness to different interests and styles
  • builds trust and improves relationships across differences
  • is about productivity and teamwork
  • is about racism ,sexism assumptions and stereotypes
  • provides real workplace drama to teach new attitudes and skills

    Assumptions Drama
    In any organization, a promotion tends to provoke endless conversations about the 'why' and the 'who' of the promotion.

    Attitude Drama
    This scene takes place in a locker room, but these 'sexist and racist' attitudes are found in non-industrial settings as well.

    Creating the Climate Drama
    There are many ways to make people feel unwelcome - jokes, posters, graffiti, and other objects. Some people may be unaware of the offense some symbols can cause. Supervisors must be firm in removing objectionable literature or items.

    Sabotage Drama
    Problems are often caused by what people do, as well as what they do not do. Sometimes workers act in collusion to keep another person in the dark, making them look incompetent. Find out why 'Joe' is not giving 'Maria' the information she needs to do her job.

    Stereotypes Drama
    It is difficult to avoid stereotyping as it is everywhere in our culture. The media reinforces stereotypes and attitudes. Every day we are blasted with messages. The problem with stereotypes is that people act on their assumptions, impacting performance, productivity, and promotability.

    Differences Drama
    Whenever diverse people work together, real differences in styles and values can make it difficult to communicate. These differences may be cultural, but may also result from differences in sex, age, religion, marital status, or lifestyles. When people are not sensitive to these differences, they may offend others and interfere with the process of working effectively together. Learn about flexibility, sensitivity; listening, open communication and more...

    Review
  • "Enlightening." -New York State Department of Transportation

    Item no.: KA03560049
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING RELATIONSHIP: INTERPERSONAL SYNERGY

    Helps employees take mutual responsibility for interpersonal challenges and in building synergistic work relationships. The focus is on the interaction (the dynamic space) between individuals. Shows how depleting or enhancing relationship dynamics are often co-created. Learn how enhancing relationship patterns are the basis for creativity, productivity, teamwork, customer service, information flow, effective communication and breakthrough results.

    Includes 7 real workplace dramas where there is a mutual responsibility for the outcome:

    "I need relationship to co-create. If I'm by myself, the only thing I bring to the table is what I have. It can be meager or bountiful, but it is only what I have. Only through relationships, only through interacting with you, can we transform that bounty into something bigger than both of us." - San Jose State University

    Competition Drama
    "Me or you" energy pattern, conflict, loss of opportunity, loss of productivity.

    Depletion Drama
    "Me nor you" energy pattern, loss of trust, collusion, loss of productivity.

    Sabotage Drama
    "Me, not you" energy pattern, sabotage, loss of trust, unethical business behavior, no cooperation.

    Synergy Drama
    "You and I" energy pattern, cooperation, co-creation, breakthrough outcomes, increased productivity.

    Shift Drama
    Demonstrates the interpersonal skills needed to change a situation of sabotage and mistrust: openness, authenticity, risking, feedback, empathy. Shift by one person leads to shift by another.

    Teamwork Drama
    Interpersonal skills in building relationship across differences in a very diverse team (race, gender, age, function). Demonstrating openness, authentic dialogue, trust, participation, risk taking, feedback, dynamic balance, managing diversity and team dynamics.

    Racism Drama
    Demonstrating the challenge of dealing with diversity (race, gender). Interpersonal skills in dealing with stereotypes, assumptions and misunderstandings. Demonstrating relationship as the "how-to" of managing diversity and finding a dynamic balance.

    Let our 30 minutes DVD help you:
  • examine interpersonal relationship patterns in coworker, team, and customer interactions
  • explore the impact of diversity and culture on interpersonal relationships
  • develop mutual responsibility in creating effective relationships
  • build cooperative and synergistic work relationships
  • demonstrate the impact of depleting interpersonal patterns (lying, controlling, sabotage, manipulation, collusion)
  • demonstrate enhancing interpersonal patterns (cooperation, trust, participation, balance, feedback, empathy, authentic feedback, constructive conflict)

    Review
  • "This film seems logical as the next diversity step." - IBM

    Awards
  • International Television Association- Gold
  • National Education Film and Video Festival- Gold Apple
  • Association of Visual Communicators- International CINDY Award- Honorable Mention
  • International Film and Video Festival- Certificate for Excellence

    Item no.: VG03180051
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING RELATIONSHIP: ORGANIZATIONAL ENERGY

    Motivates Leaders, Managers, Supervisors and work team leaders to take responsibility at the top and role model ways to manage and facilitate effective relationship patterns. Helps create a cooperative environment in which accountable, productive and creative work relationships flourish. Helps build enhancing relationship patterns in your organization and thus the opportunity to manage change. Sensitizes employees as to how constructive and destructive patterns spiral throughout an organization.

    Includes 7 real workplace dramas

    Control Drama
    Examines control patterns, over-developed relationship patterns, tight boundaries, loss of participation and shut down.

    Chaos Drama
    Examines being too loose, no boundaries, lack of structure, no listening, over-participative and no leadership.

    Information Drama
    Show how relationship is the vehicle for information flow. Depleting relationship patterns block potential and decrease communication flow.

    Dynamic Balance Drama
    Balance in leadership styles allows for dynamic participation, creativity and productivity.

    Depleting Spiral Drama
    Explores unhealthy relationship patterns including blame, lack of accountability and other depleting patterns that can spiral throughout the organization & affect productivity.

    Enhancing Spiral Drama
    Examines enhancing relationship patterns including accountability, openness, feedback, team work and other enhancing patterns that spiral through all levels. These patterns can help optimize potential.

    Authentic Relationships Drama
    Organizations and individuals need to invest time in facilitating enhancing relationship patterns across differences and support each other during times of change and challenge.

    "If there's going to be a positive relationship, there's got to be a fair amount of trust. There's got to be a feeling that one values the other, and respects the other. Relationship is the substance of anything that gets done in an organization. If the relationships are bad, then you're not going to have a very positive work place, nor for that matter a very positive product or outcome." - Mercy Health Service

    Use this 30 minutes DVD to:
  • explore the challenges and change issues confronting today's organizations
  • show how relationship energy impacts effective information flow and is critical for meeting bottom line objectives
  • provide concrete examples of how relationship is the critical tool for meeting today's realities
  • encourage everyone to take responsibility to create a cooperative environment in which enhancing relationships across differences can flourish

    Reviews
  • "Relationship is important to the organization because it provides a safe context in which people can take risks, in which people feel that they are able to take risks and recover." - Paul Pedersen, Syracuse University

  • "The dramatizations are excellent. They make good points with powerful impact." - Ontario Hydro-Electric

    Awards
  • National Education Film and Video Festival- Silver Apple
  • Association of Visual Communicators- International CINDY Award- Special Achievement: Writing
  • Association of Visual Communicators- International CINDY Award- Bronze
  • International Film and Video Festival- Certificate for Excellence

    Item no.: TK03370054
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Price: USD 500.00

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    VALUING RELATIONSHIP: PERSONAL PATTERNS

    Creates productive and synergistic relationships by developing the self-awareness and encouraging the personal growth of your employees. Personal Patterns emphasizes the individual's responsibility for understanding how one's own behavior forms the basis for building enhancing or depleting relationship patterns. Encourages individuals to manage personal behavior that impact effectiveness and performance. Examine the role an "individual" can play in creating enhancing or depleting energy relationship patterns

    Personal Patterns includes 7 real workplace dramas where there is personal responsibility for the outcome:

    Challenge Drama
    Adapting to change, personal development, dealing with relationship and trust across differences.

    Success Drama
    An example of win-lose,"none for you" relationship pattern.

    Survival Drama
    Depleting, lose-lose,"not enough for any of us" relationship pattern.

    Breakthrough Drama
    Synergistic, win-win,"enough for all of us" relationship pattern.

    Managing 'Age Bias' Drama
    Taking personal responsibility for changing the other person's stereotype of self. Examines stereotyping , bias, loss of opportunity to build a relationship on common ground.

    'Sexual Orientation' Drama
    Accepting personal responsibility to build a more authentic relationship, building trust. Taking responsibility for changing the other person's stereotype of self . Shows stereotyping , bias, risk-taking, and more!

    'Physical Challenge' Drama
    Shows a struggle towards a mutually enhancing relationship, taking responsibility for changing the other person's assumptions and stereotype of self, rebuilding trust and acknowledging fault .

    'Masking' Drama
    Dealing with the pressure to assimilate, low expectations, struggle for self-awareness, receiving honest and empathetic feedback from co-workers.

    Leveraging 'Relationship' Drama
    Personal growth through a trusting relationship. Honest feedback from others and successfully managing change.

    This DVD:
  • provide rich examples of energy-enhancing and energy-depleting personal behaviors
  • demonstrate the personal opportunities for change
  • illustrate the link between productive, synergistic relationships, and self-awareness

    Review
  • "We applaud this and the trend it represents." - The GilDeane Group

    Awards
  • International Television Association- Gold
  • National Education Film and Video Festival- Gold Apple
  • Association of Visual Communicators- International CINDY Award- Bronze
  • International Film and Video Festival- Certificate for Excellence

    Item no.: HA03560056
    Format: DVD (With Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Price: USD 500.00

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