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How can we stay positive and productive when facing stressful situations at work?

We asked 9 people who successfully navigated mergers, acquisitions, economic downturns, rapid growth, layoffs & other big challenges... to come together and tell us how they did it... and to cook dinner. We taped them for this exciting video. And you can preview it online at no cost.

This program should be of interest to any public or private sector organization that has gone through or will soon go through a major change that has stressed employees and managers – including a layoff or RIF, merger, acquisition, fast growth, expansion into new markets, major budget reductions, unplanned loss of a CEO or other prominent leader…

What distinguishes Don’t Panic!

•  The program presents 5 key elements to successfully navigating a major challenge
• The style is fun, combining a reality-type cooking experience and insightful conversation by knowledgeable experts. Cooking demonstrations and other foodrelated programs are very popular these days (have you seen “Julie and Julia”?) and Don’t Panic! successfully integrates that motif.
• This is practical, not theoretical. The participants have all personally navigated major changes as leaders in public and private sector organizations. They are speaking from experience.
• Price. At US$625 per DVD price and great volume discounts, this is a bargain! The same applies to our Streamed Learning solutions where the price per training (one person taking one course) runs around $4-$6
• Great support materials. The facilitation guide is comprehensive. The program also comes with PowerPoint slides and reproducible handouts. Greener Packaging. The DVD program is all digital using less packaging and paper. The guide, PowerPoint slides and program transcript are all on a single CD. The Streamed Learning option is greener yet – with delivery entirely online.

Program Description:

24-minute video with complete facilitation package. Eight fascinating people with experience successfully navigating stressful situations at work come together to cook a meal and share insights from their experiences.

Key points:

• Know Yourself
• Build Support Assess your Situation
• Take Action!
• Learn from Everything.

Purchase DVD for $625.00

Discounted price available for educational, governmental and non-profit organizations $500.00

Rent DVD for 5 business days $295.00

For Streamed Learning solutions email for information.

To request a preview please email your request along with your business contact information to: service@humanext.com

The Diversity Series is a series of 4 programs designed for managers and employees. We focus on the legal, ethical and practical definitions of diversity and address some of the complex issues organizations and employees face. We explore issues of communication styles, workplace values, conflict, stereotypes, fear and building productive workplace relationships with those who are different from us in a variety of ways. Program Contents:

Program 1, On the Threshold of Change, is the overview module. We explore the definition of diversity and how it can impact our work lives.

Program 2, Gender and Sexual Orientation Workplace Issues....

Program 3, Race, Ethnicity, Language and Religion Workplace Issues.

Program 4, Age and Physical Ability Workplace...

The Diversity Series Training Scenes : Each program in The Diversity Series includes dramatizations designed to help focus and stimulate discussion.

There are 6 of these scenarios in the series, and they are available in the Diversity Series Training Scenes DVD

Rent any one program of the above four $295.00

Special discount of $100 per video applies to this series for the month of December 2011. Please place the order at the regular price and we'll apply the additional discount of $100 per video as we settle the order and will send an adjusted invoice showing the actual price paid.

Purchase any one program of the above four $625.00

A 20% discount is available for video purchases by schools, colleges, government and non-profit entities - Not to be combined with volume discounts.

Discounts are applied as the orders are settled.

Purchase all four programs for $1875.00

Purchase any two programs For $1062.50

Purchase any three programs For $1462.50

For a Free Preview of this series or any other video, send your request and business information to:

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First Program: Surviving the Slings & Arrows

Second Program: To Lead Or Not To Lead

A Manager'sGuide, is an excellent overview of the fundamental skills needed to survive and thrive in today's complex work environments.

Using the casting and rehearsal of a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a backdrop, this 2-program series provides an entertaining overview of the essential skills needed by both new and more experienced managers. A team of experts reinforces the key learning points.

Each program addresses 5 critical subject areas and presents 3 key learning points in each area.

The video programs run 25 minutes each. While we recommend using the full series, each program can stand alone as a complete, separate training resource. The programs come with a comprehensive facilitation package including reproducible handouts.

We have also created handy credit card size Gold Cards that you can purchase for your managers. Each 2-sided card includes the 30 key learning points presented in the programs. They make an attractive and convenient reference or reminder tool.

These programs can be delivered a number of ways. Contact us for details on broadcast licenses or computer network delivery options.

Program Objectives

A Manager's Guide is intended to provide new and experienced managers in public and private sector organizations with an overview of the fundamental skills needed to be successful in the work they do.

There are two programs in the series:
Program 1 - Surviving the Slings & Arrows focuses on the skills needed to navigate the legal and behavioral challenges managers can face.
Program 2 - To Lead Or Not To Lead takes a look at the communication, organizational and leadership skills managers need to excel.

After viewing Program 1 and working through the material in the Facilitation Guide, participants should understand:

• Appropriate & effective hiring practices
• EEO compliance issues
• How to handle workplace harassment
• Respectful termination procedures
• Performance management fundamentals

After viewing Program 2 and working through the printed support materials, participants should understand:

• Fundamentals of effective communication
• How to be a supportive coach
• Conflict management dos and don'ts
• Basic time management concepts
• The keys to being an effective leader

Support Materials

Program Contents

The programs combine dramatized scenarios that demonstrate the key learning points in each section and expert commentaries that underscore and reinforce the training.

The dramatizations are set against a backdrop of the rehearsal of a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The interactions between the play's director and actors serve as a dramatic metaphor for the kinds of situations managers are likely to face in their work environments.

The facilitation materials offer several approaches to using the programs. The training can be 2-4 hours or longer depending on the exercises and activities you choose to use. We also offer a self-study track for organizations that prefer that option for their managers or supervisors.

Purchase One Program $625.00 each

Schools, colleges, not-for-profits and governments special price . $500.00 each

Purchase Program 1 and Program 2 for $1062.50

5-Day DVD Rental $295

This series (A Manager's Guide) is available for streamed learning.

For a free preview or to receive more information on streamed learning, please send your request and information to service@humanext.com

Program 1, Preventing Sexual Harassment (For All Employees):

Preventing Sexual Harassment looks at four common patterns of inappropriate behavior - the habitual harasser, the smitten harasser, the bully and the jilted harasser. How we respond to harassment will be most effective when we recognize why the behavior is occurring. This program arms employees with information and insights to help them determine the best way to get the behavior to stop. A series of dramatizations bring each pattern to life. Attorneys, human resource professionals and a troupe of exceptional actors take us through the legal, psychological, cultural and moral issues.

Program 2, Responding to Sexual Harassment (For Organizational Leaders):

Program 2 is an extension of the first program in both style and content, and we recommend that managers view both parts of the series. Program 2 examines the legal liability issues and questions of personal responsibility that managers and supervisors must face. Using dramatizations, we explore different patterns of how managers often respond to sexual harassment incidents, including the ostrich, the chameleon, the wounded tiger and the mother hen and present more effective alternatives. Finally we discuss how incidents should be investigated and best resolved.

Program 3, Rights & Responsibilities (For New Employee Orientation):

Program 3 is a brief introduction to the issue of sexual harassment prevention intended for new employees. This orientation program describes what sexual harassment is, how it is damaging to the person being harassed, the harasser, the workgroup and the organization, and what an employees rights and responsibilities are in this area.

Program 4, Patterns Training Scenes:

Program Objectives: These training scenes (Scenarios) are taken from the three programs above and are intended to explore the behavioral side of sexual harassment, arming employees and managers with the tools they need to effectively prevent incidents in the first place, and to respond appropriately when they either feel harassed or are aware of harassment occurring. Scenarios included are:

Scenario #1 - The Habitual Harasser - sexual harassment by a coworker ; Scenario #2 - The Bully - same sex harassment by a coworker; Scenario #3 - The Smitten Harasser - sexual harassment by a supervisor/manager; Scenario #4 - The Jilted Harasser - hostile environment harassment and retaliation; Scenario #5 - The Ostrich - managers who won't intervene in harassment situations; Scenario #6 - The Chameleon - managers who say one thing about harassment but do another; Scenario #7 - The Mother Hen - over-reacting to a harassment report ; Scenario #8 - The Wounded Tiger - manager retaliation once charged with sexual harassment

The PATTERNS series comes with a comprehensive Facilitator's Guide. Handout pages are incorporated into the guide. Trainers need only to decide which topics would be relevant for individual distribution and which to copy as transparencies. Some handouts are also available as PowerPoint slides, provided on disk at no additional cost when you license the programs. With the purchase of this series, you are granted license to make as many copies of the handout / transparency pages as you need for your organization.

For Program I and Program II, the facilitator may choose from either an abbreviated 1-½ hour session, or a longer, more experiential 3-½ to 4 hour program. Each option was created to be flexible and allow the facilitator an opportunity to select handouts and exercises based on your own experience with or without knowledge of the topic, as well as the learning styles of each participant group. We recommend presenting both Programs I and II to managers and supervisors.

Programs I and II are $625 each. Program III is only $395. All three programs can be ordered together for $1,283.10

Purchase Program 1, or Program 2, or Patterns Training Scenes for $625.00 each
 
Purchase Programs 1, 2, and 3 for $1283.00

Purchase combinations of 2 programs $1062.50

Purchase combination of Program 3 and another Patterns program for $867.00

Purchase Program 3 for $395.00

Rent any one program for 5 days for $295.00 each

Patterns Program I and Program II are available in  interactive version whereby streamed LMS Managment Learning systems are deployed. The program is SCORM compliant and can be run over any network. The program includes quizzes, a post test and certificate of completion of training  and full reporting of all results.

To learn more email us at: service@humanext.com

Dialogue! Now You're Talking Series consists of four video-based training programs, with one dedicated to gender diversity (Program 3:

Program 1. Communicating in a Diverse World.

• Overview. What is dialogue - contrasting debate and dialogue.
• Initiating Dialogue - how to do it, where to do it.
• The skills of Dialogue - Suspension (of judgment, decision making and status)
• Listening (with empathy, for understanding, showing you care)
• Discovery (uncovering and sharing hidden assumptions in yourself and others).
• Includes a dramatization of how Dialogue helps us communicate across job functions, helping improve relations between people at different levels within the organization as well as between different departments or areas of expertise.

Program 2. Dialogue for Cultural Understanding.

• We apply the skills of dialogue outlined in Program 1 to challenges faced in culturally diverse work environments.
• We see a dramatization that demonstrates how dialogue can be used to open communication, uncover hidden assumptions, break down stereotypes and facilitate more productive relationships.

Program 3. Dialogue between Genders.

• A dramatized dialogue shows us how the skills we learned in Program 1 can be used to overcome misunderstandings, break down gender stereotypes and improve communications between men and women at work.

Program 4. Dialogue among Generations.

• We demonstrate how the skills of dialogue can be used to bridge the personal and professional style differences that exist between employees of different ages.
• We uncover how divergent personal and world views common to people of different generations can lead to misunderstandings and distrust and how dialogue can help overcome age barriers and build more productive workplace relationships.

Support materials include a comprehensive facilitation guide, reproducible handouts, pre- and post-assessments, and PowerPoint slides for classroom presentation.

Purchase any one program of the above four $625.00

20% discount available for schools, colleges, government and not for profits entities. This discount cannot be combined with volume discounts

Purchase any two programs For $1062.50

Purchase any three programs For $1462.50

Rent any one program of the above four $295.00

Purchase all four programs for $1875.00

For a Free Online Preview of this video program send your business contact information to service@humanext.com

Series Objectives:

MILLENNIUM - Leadership Capsules for the 21st Century is an 8 part training series (7 parts outside the US) designed to assist managers, supervisors and team leaders in their efforts to draw a bridge between the management skills they need and the leadership concepts their organizations are embracing. (Each capsule is 15 minutes duration.)

• Capsule #1 - Leadership Is... is the overview module. Here we explore the language and concepts of leadership. Topics include: What is a leader? Leadership and management. Who can be a leader? Becoming a leader. Leaders and followers. Why lead?
• Capsule #2 - The Leader as Coach investigates the coaching skills which are vital to any organization's learning and success. Topics include: Coaching in the 21st century organization. What does a coach do? Effective coaching. Who can coach whom? The leader as coach.
• Capsule #3 - The Leader as Mentor. In the fast changing world of the new organization, mentoring has become essential for preserving and passing down the history, culture and experience senior managers have accumulated. Topics include: Mentoring in the 21st century organization. What does a mentor do? Effective mentoring. Getting started. The leader as mentor.
• Capsule #4 - How Leaders Provide Performance Feedback explores the skills needed to support employee development in learning organizations. Topics include: The fear factor. What is performance feedback? How do you best provide performance feedback? Who should provide feedback to whom? Feedback and Leadership.
• Capsule #5 - Beginning Employment Relationships. The 21st century organization requires different kinds of relationships with employees. Topics include: Employment interviews. What you need to know about ... the position you're hiring for; the candidate you're interviewing; yourself. Preparing for the interview. The interview. The leader's responsibility.
• Capsule #6 - Ending Employment Relationships. The reasons why employees leave organizations are many and complex. Some are performance related, others are not. In either case, the termination process doesn't have to be traumatic. Topics include: Why employment relationships end. Inappropriate termination. Alternatives. Termination procedures. After the relationship ends.
• Capsule #7 - In Compliance is a quick course in the complex world of EEO compliance issues. Topics include: What is EEO? Affirmative action? Diversity? What is a protected class? Three types of discrimination. What is harassment? The millennium_leadership. Leadership and compliance. This program is most suitable for American organizations.
• Capsule #8 - Coaching & Performance Feedback Training Scenes consists of 8 dramatizations. Each training scenario begins by setting up a coaching or performance feedback situation culminating at a Decision Point. Here you are presented with 3 options as to how the scene should continue. These options are then played out and the consequences of the choices made are explored by a panel of management and human resource experts.

Support Materials

Each capsule comes complete with a 3 part guide. Part 1 lays out ideas for reflection. Part 2 is a self-study guide with questions to focus learning. Part 3 offers activities and exercises for use in facilitated training. The guides can be reproduced to provide each participant with support materials at no additional charge.

Prices:

Purchase Program 1 and Program 2 (DVD)  for $1062.50 (with volume discount)

Purchase program 1 and program 2 plus the Training Scenes Video - All three at the discounted proce of $1462.50

Despite the dark picture harassment can create, there is good news for organizations and employees. If we work together, we can stop harassment. To accomplish this will take a united effort by all those affected by harassment at work. This includes the offenders, those they offend, observers of the behavior, and organizational leaders.

What distinguishes You Can STOP Harassment is its positive message. The programs in this series are not about pointing fingers and assigning blame. We all share responsibility for stopping workplace harassment. It isn’t easy work. The reasons for harassment are many and the roots run deep. Working together, however, we can make great progress toward creating workplaces where people feel safe, valued and free to do their best work.

Program Objectives: You Can STOP Harassment is intended to encourage employees, supervisors, team leaders and managers in public and private sector organizations to take responsibility to help end all forms of harassment in their workplaces.

After viewing Program 1, Taking Responsibility, and working through the printed support materials, participants should understand: ... what illegal harassment is and its impact at work / the need to support our co-workers in facing up to harassment / how to confront harassment to make it stop / how to defuse disrespectful or harassing situations / that not all harassment is intentional / that it's the impact of our behavior that counts, not our intentions / the importance of setting appropriate boundaries

In addition to the objectives above, after viewing Program 2, The Responsible Leader, and working through the printed support materials, participants should understand...

The importance of modeling appropriate behavior / the liabilities managers and organizations face / how to handle a harassment complaint / the danger of retaliation .

We recommend supervisors and managers view both programs in the series.

Program Contents: You Can STOP Harassment is comprised of short dramatizations that explore harassment issues that are common within organizations. Each scenario is analyzed by a diverse group of legal, human resources and communications experts. These practitioners discuss the significance of the dramatization and suggest guidelines when encountering a similar situation. Several scenarios are "rewound" and played again, modeling appropriate, respectful communication.

Program 1 Scenarios (26 minutes): 1st Scenario: Sexual & gender harassment ; 2nd Scenario: Racial harassment ; 3rd Scenario: Sexual orientation harassment;  4th Scenario: Religious harassment & retaliation

Program 2 Scenarios (25 minutes): 1st Scenario: Racial & sexual harassment;  2nd Scenario: Ethnic & religious harassment; 3rd Scenario: Same sex harassment

You Can Stop Harassment-Training Scenes Video: This video includes all the scenarios in program 1 and Program 2

Support Materials: You Can STOP Harassment comes with a comprehensive Facilitator's Guide which includes handouts. When you license the program, you are granted permission to make as many copies of these printed handouts as you need for your organization.

Buy You Can Stop Harassment One program (DVD) for $625.00

Rent You Can Stop Harassment (DVD) for 5 days for $295.00

Buy both programs (DVD) for $1062.50

On purchase, schools/colleges/governments and non-porfits receive 20% discount that cannot be combined with volume discounts. Eligible order will receive discount deduction upon settling.

For a free prview or information on Streamed Learinig, send your request and information to service@humanext.com

For California employers desiring to meet the requirements of state law AB 1825:

The three programs; Patterns, Subtle Sexual Harassment and You Can STOP Harassment are designed to help

LEADING THE CHANGE. MAKING THE CHANGE - Two powerful video based training programs: 'Leading the Change' for leaders, and 'Making the Change' for employees to help organizations manage and accept changing workplace realities and relationships. $625 Each.

These extraordinary 2 video training programs bring together a distinguished collection of practitioners and researchers who are leading private and public sector organizations through these fundamental transformations. CEO's, managers, line workers and consultants discuss why changes are occurring and how they impact employees and managers alike, sharing their visions of how we can most benefit from the turbulence we find ourselves in.

Flexible Training: Each segment of the video can be viewed separately and the suggested questions, exercises and activities in the guide used as part of a facilitation process. If all the material contained in the guide is used with The New Workplace videos, it can constitute a two day training program.

Support Materials: The videos are accompanied by a 46 page Facilitator's Guide which includes 9 participant handouts, a bibliography, a dictionary of new business terms, activities, exercises and questions for discussion. With the purchase of The New Workplace series, you are granted license to make as many copies of the Facilitator's Guide or the handout pages as your organization needs.

Available in versions for unionized and non-unionized workplaces. Leading the Change is also available in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese.

For a free preview of these videos, send your request and information to: service@humanext.com

Purchase Leading the Change For $625.00

Rent Leading the Change for 5 days for $295.00