Recommending AV Resources for Purchase (Bulletin 192 - February 2022): MMHRD

Recommending AV Resources for Purchase (Bulletin 192 - February 2022): MMHRD

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Subject Areas: Business & Management, Organizational Behaviour, Leadership, Decision Sciences, Strategy, Psychology, Accounting & Finance, Production, Business Ethics

New Business of Paradigms, The - 2nd Edition by Joel Arthur Barker
Video Running Time(min.): 21:00

Description: "Announcing a new look for a timeless message. Joel Barker's The New Business of Paradigms 2nd Edition is now available. The following improvements have been made to this best-selling program:
Shorter, more focused message
Widescreen
High definition
Updated support materials
The result is The New Business of Paradigms Second Edition is a fast moving, visually stunning program that will engage the viewer while helping them develop the skills needed to anticipate, understand, and take advantage of change.
The New Business of Paradigms Second Edition is critical viewing for every organization. In example after example, Joel Barker demonstrates how thinking differently is necessary for us to identify new ideas and opportunities.

Paradigms can be useful tools. They help us navigate our day-to-day lives and make sense of the barrage of information that comes our way. For instance, in an organization, paradigms help leaders set goals based on past experience and an understanding of what is likely to happen in the future. But what happens when unexpected opportunities or unforeseen challenges arise? Can assumptions or perceptions shared by individuals within the organization prevent them from embracing a new paradigm or solving problems creatively?

The answer is yes. Paradigms can limit our ability to innovate and create if we don't look at the larger picture and ask questions. Through stories and examples Joel Barker demonstrates how thinking differently is necessary for us to identify new ideas and opportunities. Challenging accepted paradigms requires detachment from prevailing wisdom, courage to challenge conventional thinking, and the skills to follow through with out-of-the-box thinking. From this, individuals help organizations establish new paradigms that lead to new products and processes that attain the goals they've set out to achieve.

Key Concepts Participants Will Learn:
Paradigms are common
Paradigms are useful
Don't let your paradigm become the paradigm
Outsiders bring in new paradigms
Shifting paradigms takes courage
You can choose to change your paradigm
As an added bonus, Joel Barker shares six additional stories to supplement the learning in the main program."
Ideas Into Action: To stimulate creativity as a tool for enhancing an organisation's success by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min.): 13:00

Description: "Based upon the work of Mark Brown of Innovation Centre Europe, Ideas into action looks at the barriers to fresh, profit-related creative thinking and suggests some simple but powerful ways to overcome them. It shows how stimulating constant creativity and innovation is key to coming up with viable ideas for products and services, and processes and procedures that your customers (internal and external) really want.

In a striking and original style, mixing live action and animated graphics, the programme addresses a number of key issues:

The difference between a 'dinosaur' and 'dolphin' outlook
Why we tend to restrict thinking to self-imposed limits - and how to think your way beyond them
How to improve your problem-solving skills by challenging your own assumptions
How to avoid idea assassination
How to assess ideas and solutions in a positive, creative way
How to take the initiative and translate ideas into action
The benefits

Everyone needs to challenge the way they think, and will therefore benefit from this video
Title programme in the Ideas into action series
Visually stimulating and highly entertaining resource"
Leadership feedback: what employees want to tell you ... but don't by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min.): 16:53

Description: "It's true; most leaders live in a vacuum. They don't receive much feedback from the people they lead. In fact, they often have no idea how good--or bad--their leadership really is. ""Leadership Feedback"" is an entertaining and thought provoking video training program that provides the kind of honest feedback leaders don't normally hear.

This video program is based on extensive interviews with actual employees who gave candid feedback about the leaders they worked for. Because the interviews were anonymous, employees were free to honestly discuss which leadership behaviors were motivating or demotivating.

Six key issues of leader/employee interaction emerged from this research and are illustrated in the video. For each issue, the video shows two scenarios one with an ineffective leader, the other with an effective one.

After watching the video, viewers will clearly understand how to generate the kind of feedback that really matters: employee commitment and productivity."
Team Problem-Solving and Decision-Making by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min.): 23:00

Description: "An innovative and successful organization relies on teams for greater productivity. To keep teams working smoothly, this program shows how to rationally confront problems and systematically resolve crises. Teams learn how to find a problem's ""root cause,"" and implement real solutions that avoid recurrent problems

Key points:
* Understand the steps and analytical techniques of problem solving
* Improve vital communication skills
* Know how to apply the system to real-life problems."
Negotiating for Business Results by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min.): 15:00

Description: "Negotiation takes place all the time. It plays a vital role in your everyday business and personal life; yet, many people view negotiation as an onerous exercise to be tolerated rather than enjoyed.

By viewing ""Negotiation for Business Results"" you'll develop the skills necessary to help you become a successful negotiator, and at the same time, learn to enjoy the process along the way.

You'll learn:

The fundamental elements of negotiations
How to prepare for nearly any kind of negotiation
How to outline your negotiating goals
How to anticipate what the other side will do and how to react
You'll learn to negotiate like a pro!"
Building The Perfect Team: Belbin's team role theory in action by Barbara Flynn and Duncan Preston
Video Running Time(min.): 05:00

Description: "Managers must understand that people bring more than their skills and experience to a team; they bring their personalities as well. Utilising people's behavioural strengths to create a balanced team adds immensely to both group and personal performance.

This video dramatises Dr Meredith Belbin's team-role theory, and explains how to identify nine key team roles for a balanced team. It shows that although each team member in an example team has a functional role in, for example, marketing in accounts, they also have team roles. These are critical to the team's success. Each of the nine roles is defined and shown in action.

Belbin explains that teams with fewer members may need people to perform dual roles. He shows how behavioural skills can be assessed and how, with care, teams can be constructed that take account of hierarchies as well as personal interaction.

The benefits

Illustrates skills for team building, meetings and project management
True-to-life scenario backed by Belbin's credibility
Clearly explained structure to understanding the theory
Learning chapters:

An introduction to building the perfect team
Functional roles
Team roles in action
Displaying strengths without exposing weaknesses
Dr Belbin's recommended team
Measuring a person's team-role profile
Non-desirable actions of a team-role
Dr Belbin's attitude towards a person's weakness
The importance of reporting relationships
Summary
Style: Humorous Drama"
We Will by Under Armour and Kevin Plank - CEO
Video Running Time(min): 19:00

Description: "Powerful Lessons on Leadership, Teamwork,
Victory and Growth from Under Armour

No champion reaches victory without first having fallen, countless times.

True champions are those who have failed before but found failure empowering.

They don’t go home—they go back to practice; renewed by their failure, strengthened by their struggle. For it is in the choices we make in defeat, that world champions still see the next level and reach for their destiny.

With more than 20% growth every year for the past eight years, Under Armour has shown that its vision to be ""the next great brand"" works. Every goal is achieved as team members, management, and leadership move the company forward driven by one overriding philosophy:

Great Product. Great Story. Great Service. Great Team.

WE WILL is a training program and tool to help you motivate and lead people toward an environment of passion, loyalty, collaboration, communication and trust. Get the new WE WILL training video today and join us in this highly motivating exploration of what it takes to be high growth and winning: No Loser Talk, Lean In, We Will, and Push.

Key Learning Points:
Management: NO LOSER TALK
Leadership: LEAN IN
Teamwork: WE WILL
Culture: PUSH
Purchase Includes:
We Will DVD (19 Minutes)
We Will Support Materials
Bonus Materials
English Subtitles
WE WILL™
Grab Hold of Destiny.
Push it to a New Level."
Managing Stress for Mental Fitness by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min): 20:00

Description: "In its simplest form, mental health is the capacity to work (be productive), to live (have friends), and to play (renew one's self) without internal stress or causing stress to others. This program help you
* Recognize the basic ingredients for good mental health
* See how others have successfully managed stress
* Learn how to apply healthy concepts to your personal life"
Beyond Impossible by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min): 8:00

Description: "When a young boy discovers a rusting Model A in a cornfield, Henry Ford himself appears to espouse his doctrine that nothing is impossible if you think outside your self-imposed limitations.

An exciting, story-driven film touting expansive thinking. It challenges viewers to: go beyond their boundaries, discover their capabilities to achieve, self-motivate, problem solve, and believe in themselves."
Jamie's Kitchen: Fifteen Lessons On Teamwork by Jamie Oliver
Video Running Time(min): 26:00

Description: """For me tonight was a very powerful night really. Because there was no one to catch them, they concentrated so hard. I think today they came together really well as a team."" (Jamie Oliver)

Jamie Oliver's passion and vision transformed a bunch of unemployed kids into an efficient, organised team, capable of running a first-class London restaurant, Fifteen.

Fifteen lessons on teamwork identifies the key stages of team development - forming, storming, norming and performing. It follows Jamie's young trainee chefs as they move through these stages to come together as an effective unit.

The programme identifies four easy-to-remember learning points so your team can apply the trainees' experiences to improve their own team skills:

Get it straight
This corresponds to the team development stage known as forming, when the team members are put together for the first time. The goals and expectations of the team have to be clearly established. Individual team members ask themselves what they each bring to the team.

Get on board
The team is now at the storming stage. Individual strengths and weaknesses start to emerge as team members work out how to support each other. Individual wants and needs have to take second place to what the team needs.

Get stuck in
The team now moves into the norming stage, where ground rules are established. The team has to work out how to resolve conflict and solve problems, as well as dealing with practicalities such as how tasks are shared out. It's a time to make sure everyone is committed to the team's goals.

Get better
This learning point corresponds to the performing stage, when the group is functioning as a true team. The question for the team now is: Are we learning all the time, not just from the good things but also from our mistakes? The team must also keep striving to achieve more, both individually and together.

The key outcomes:

Will motivate all teams
Encourages continual development
Learn skills to resolve all problems associated with working as part of a team
Achieve more, both individually and together, with your team
Learning chapters:

Introduction
Forming – get it straight
Storming – get on board"
Jamie's Kitchen: Fifteen Lessons On Leadership by Jamie Oliver
Video Running Time(min): 24:00

Description: "I've gone from being the boy next door to being the bloke with the weight of the world on his shoulders.' (Jamie Oliver)

Jamie Oliver's passion and vision transformed a bunch of unemployed kids into an efficient, organised team, capable of running a first-class London restaurant, Fifteen.

Jamie is a natural and instinctive leader. And anyone who takes on a leadership role can learn a lot from watching him in action. Part of the new two-part Jamie's Kitchen training series, Fifteen lessons on leadership demonstrates that leadership is an activity and not a position. Leaders and potential leaders will identify with Jamie's honesty and openness.

The programme covers five key learning points backed up by real examples from Jamie's journey:

Lead the way
Jamie shows how a good leader makes sure everyone is clear about what is expected of them. He also has a clear vision of where he wants the project to go and can communicate this in a way everyone can understand.

Show them how
Jamie is a highly visible leader who sets a great example to his team. He knows that when it comes to leadership, actions speak louder than words. He demonstrates how a good leader is prepared to tackle the unpleasant tasks as well as the pleasant ones.

Believe in them
Jamie shows total belief in his team. His positive approach to coaching, always looking for things to praise, really pays off. Even when his team mess up, he gives them the message that they can and will get it right. He is not afraid to delegate.

Deal with it
Jamie shows enormous responsibility throughout the project, personally, professionally and financially. He understands that if things go wrong, he - and no one else - will carry the can. His honesty in sharing how this affects him will strike a chord with all leaders.

Learn and adapt
Jamie learns continually throughout the project. He learns about himself and about his team, discovering which techniques of leadership work best for each team member. If one way of tackling a problem doesn't work, he tries another.

This real example of the pressurised role of a leader in action not only reflects real life for today’s leaders, but will inspire and motivate the audience in their own personal leadership roles.

The key outcomes:

Will improve skills of both new and existing leaders
Will re-energise and re-motivate leaders in pressurised environments
Learning chapters:

The story of Fifteen
Lead the way
Show them how
Believe in them
Deal with it
Learn and adapt
Summary"
Balance Sheet Barrier, The: The basics of business finance by John Cleese
Video Running Time(min): 26:50

Description: "The light-hearted approach of this world-famous programme helps take the fear out of financial documents and complex concepts and, although accounts might never become a manager's favourite topic, it does at least make them understandable.

Meet two contrasting people — a well-educated company director, and the streetwise owner of a small factory — to see how the whole process of business finance works.

Because the success or failure of her manufacturing company is down to her, the factory owner knows the importance of under-standing how money goes round the business and how to track and measure it — and she's happy to explain it in everyday language!

Having been previously too embarrassed to admit his lack of knowledge, the company director learns from her the difference between key documents and the significance of the balance sheet, profit and loss accounts and cash-flow forecasts.

This well-presented and structured programme assumes no prior knowledge of finance, and avoids financial jargon in favour of everyday language to convery the key points.

The key outcomes:

Understand how key financial statements are calculated and what they mean.
Increase business acumen by expanding awareness of all financial aspects of any company
Learning chapters:

Julian and Rita introducing themselves
Money
Working Capital
Profit and loss account
Reserves
Balance sheet
Cash flow forecasts
Summary"
World-Class Qualty: The Customer Will Decide by Tom Peters
Video Running Time(min): 72:00

Description: "What can you do today to propel your company onto the world stage as an important competitor? In this insightful program, Tom Peters takes viewers behind the scenes in four outstandingly successful mid-sized companies in the United States and Germany:
* Rational,
* Trumpf,
* Playmobil, and
* Hurco Companies.

Viewers will discover the six common elements that make them such powerful global competitors. Candid interviews with key executives and line employees demonstrate how a focus on customers plus a commitment to quality is the road to riches.

The program also helps viewers: understand the importance of quality as defined by the customer; translate quality concepts into workable ideas for improvements in work situations; and identify specific actions that will lead to entry into the global market. AWARDS: Honorable Mention, American Film & Video Assn.; Finalist, Int'l TV Assn."
Supply Chain Management by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min): 31:00

Description: The video defines the new partnership characteristics and goals found within a thriving manufacturing supply chain. Through Case Studies of supply chain management at * Hewlett Packard * Saturn and * Case IH organisations can learn what to expect from the effort required to manage a successful supply chain.
Managing Your Own Productivity: A TrainingBytes Solution by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min): 11:00

Description: "TrainingBytes™ is a collection of short, to-the-point training modules or “bytes” that have been grouped into three sets-each focusing on a different area of how to improve interpersonal effectiveness. The “beauty of the byte” is that each one is a complete course that can be delivered in one-hour or less — perfect for organizations that are short on time, yet still dedicated to learning.

The three titles in TrainingBytes™ are:

Set 1. Achieving Communication Excellence
Set 2. Increasing Emotional Intelligence
Set 3. Managing Your Own Productivity

Set 1: Achieving Communication Excellence

Give your emerging leaders new insight into why individual responsibility and initiative are essential to personal and team success. In three, straight-to-the-point modules, leaders will experience focused learning on how to plan, organize and manage priorities while working effectively with others to achieve results.

Learning Point Highlights:

Provides guidelines for results-oriented planning and organization
Outlines effective approaches for managing priorities
Highlights the benefits of working with others to achieve results
Emerging leaders take individual responsibility for the results produced by themselves and their. This program gives them a framework for demonstrating accountability and managing their own success."
How to Set and Really Achieve Your Goals by MMHRD (Provider)
Video Running Time(min): 35:00

Description: "Reaching your goals can be extremely difficult. Even more difficult may be determining what your goals really should be. To help you and your company learn to set and then reach your goals, JWA/Video has produced How To Set And Really Achieve Your Goals, with noted lecturer and trainer Jeff Blackman.
Nearly all companies and individuals say goals are important. Whether they are sales goals, production goals, personal finance goals, or weight loss goals they are deemed important. Yet many times we set our goals without much real thought. ""Our new sales goal is to increase last year's sales by 10%."" Why? Maybe it should be 20%. But without any real thought no one is really sure.

In this new DVD training program you'll learn:

Why it's important to set accurate goals
How to set goals so they mean something
The GRASP IT goals achievement system
Why planning is critical to both your business and personal life
The six key elements to change
""Decide upon your goals and then set your mind, body and world into motion. As a worthwhile being, you deserve success. Demand it. Require it. Insist upon it,"" says Blackman.
Divided into segments, this DVD is perfect for group training or may be used for individual instruction.
This how-to training program comes with a DVD and goals-setting booklet. It is a must for any individual and organization."