Managing Your Own Productivity - A Training Bytes Program Developing Critical Work Skills About the Program: Today’s jobs rarely include detailed instructions, relying instead on the initiative of individual employees to figure out how to get their work accomplished. The modules of this program empower your employees to create effective plans, involve others, ask for help and prioritize their many competing tasks in order to deliver the results your organization needs to be successful. This program features modules: 1. Have a Plan. Work the Plan. Planning & Organizing for Results 2. What Should I Do First? Effectively Managing Priorities 3. It Takes a Team! Working with Others to Achieve Results Learning Point Highlights: Helps employees plan and organize for results Addresses how to respond to and manage constantly changing priorities Demonstrates various ways of working effectively with others to produce results Program Components: DVD or VHS (8 minutes) CD-ROM (Facilitator Guide and Reproducible Participant Materials) Purchase DVD or VHS for $595.00

The Goal: The Dramatic Version - Best Selling Video The Goal is a dramatic video that can give your employees an entirely new insight in how to look at business. Alex Rogo is trying to live the American dream. He has a loving family and is head of a manufacturing plant in his hometown. Then one day, everything begins to fall apart. Company executives threaten to close the plant. Alex slowly begins to lose control of his life - until he finds Jonah. Through wisdom and intuition, Jonah educates Alex to find the true meaning of business by supplying questions instead of answers. Jonah helps guide Alex to find the true goal of his organization. The Goal is about people trying to understand what makes their world run so they can make it better. As Alex and his team think logically about their problems, they are able to identify the "bottlenecks" in their work system and implement basic principles to improve performance. The Goal can give your employees a perspective that won't allow them to think it is acceptable to do something just because "that's the way it was always done". Through Alex's family struggle, as well as his problems at work, The Goal emphasizes that we tend to lose sight of the most important aspects in life. This video can teach your employees how to think logically and consistently to determine "cause and effect" relationships between their actions and the results. The Goal can teach ongoing improvement throughout your entire organization. Key Training Points Understand the goal of your organization Identify and improve the performance of "bottlenecks"  Learn how to maximize nonbottleneck resources Understand and implement continuous improvement strategies Learn the importance of working together as a team Length: Part I: 26 min. / Part II: 24 min. / Includes Training Leader's Guide Purchase DVD or VHS $895.00 Rent DVD $225.00 Rent VDS $195.00

The Goal: The How-To Version

Based on the best-selling book by Eli Goldratt, this inspiring video fosters bottom-line, team-driven commitment through real-life dramas that demystify buzzwords like "bottlenecks" and "improvement measurements." The Goal tells the story of Alex Rogo, a plant manager facing the threat of his plant's closure. The video follows Alex and his team as they use such principles as benchmarking and the theory of constraints to transform their mediocre division into a money-making machine. How To Training Points How to rally your team behind the improvement process How to identify and eliminate system bottlenecks How to continuously improve and practice measurability of ideas How to plan for ongoing improvement  Length: 45 Minutes / Training Package Includes: A revised edition of the suspenseful business novel The Goal by Eli Goldratt. Purchase DVD or VHS $895.00 Rent DVD $225.00 Rent VHS $195.00

Own It! Boosting Productivity by Cultivating the Attitude of Ownership Imagine a workplace... Where the employees are supportive of one another. Where they strive to be more effective in their jobs. Where each employee makes a positive difference. Where everyone contributes to the success of the organization It's not a dream! It can be a reality! In this powerful training video, "Own It!", Owen the "OWN IT!" guy introduces you to the good people of one of the nation's most successful pediatric clinics and helps you establish that kind of culture in your organization by presenting the four key principles of job ownership: Caring about what you do Being a team player Going above and beyond Being proud of what you do and where you do it This 20-minute video delivers its messages by sharing the wisdom and experiences of supervisors and front line personnel who have greatly enhanced their work experience by taking ownership of their jobs. OWN IT! shows that when employees own their jobs, productivity improves, customers remain loyal, and frowns turn into smiles. The complete package includes: Video-running time, 20 minutes One Facilitator Guide Participant Exercises Purchase VHS $495.00 5-day rental $195.00 For a Free Preview, Call: 1-973-427-3004 or email your request along with your information to: service@communicationideas.com