The BEAR Essentials of Business Paws and learn The Bear Essentials of Business! Travel to Shelburne, Vermont and take an inside look at what makes the Vermont Teddy Bear Company one of the nation's most famous and successful companies. See how it really cares about its customers and its employees. Bear with us and learn: * Why the customer comes first and is always number one. * Why it's important to be dynamic and creative to ruly make a difference. * Why it is important to have a "Yes, we can," attitude. * How teamwork can really make a difference. * Why it's critical to recognize the worth of your customers and fellow employees. * How having fun really makes a difference...right down to the bottom line! * And this is just the bear beginning! Loaded with humor, animation and critical information this training program includes: * 19 minute videocassette * 60-page Facilitator's Guide * DVD with the full training program * CD-ROM with a PowerPoint presentation and reproducible training materials * Mouse pad (oops, make that Bear pad) for constant reinforcement of The BEAR Essentials of Business The BEAR Essentials of Business is educational, entertaining and is truly repeatable. Make it part of your training library today!

EVERYDAY CREATIVITY is a video-based training program about how we all have the ability to make the ordinary, extraordinary. Everyday, we are all presented ith the opportunity to come up with the next solution, the next right answer to our problems. Our ability to search for new ideas can mean the difference between success and failure. Creativity is often thought of as a phenomenon that is larger-than-life or out of the ordinary. Something reserved for a few "artistic" types. In EVERYDAY REATIVITY, National Geographic photographer, Dewitt Jones, challenges such thinking and shows us that we have the ability to be more creative in everything we do. Using memorable stories and his own inspirational photos, Dewitt Jones shows us how an open mind, a solid understanding of our craft, and the willingness to venture beyond what is expected, can change our ability o live more creatively everyday. EVERYDAY CREATIVITY is a valuable program for any organization that believes that its people can accomplish the extraordinary. KEY LEARNING POINTS: * Creativity is a matter of perspective * There's always more than one answer * Don't be afraid to make mistakes * Learn to break the pattern

Inspiring quotes from some of historys greatest minds set to dramatic music and coupled with classic footage. Let the likes of Thomas Edison, Frank Lloyd Wright, lbert Einstein and Franklin Delano Roosevelt inspire you, motivate you and teach you through their own words, pictures and video. A great way to start any meeting or training session, the Great Minds will put your group in the right frame of mind to focus on Innovation and Creativity. This DVD video contains quotes from Albert Einstein, ranklin Delano Roosevelt, Marie Curie, Mark Twain, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Neil Armstrong, Orville Wright, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, Frank Lloyd Wright and Abraham Lincoln.

The aim To stimulate creativity as a tool for enhancing an organisation's success. About the programme 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 Programme includes: DVD (10 mins) Guide Book 'The Dinosaur Strain' by Mark Brown

The aim To provide individuals with the right frame of mind for generating new and workable ideas. About the programme This complementary video to Mark Brown's Ideas into action focuses on the idea-generating phase of the creative-thinking process. In a striking style of animation and live action, it highlights the largely self-imposed limitations of our thinking and how to overcome them: -Creating a frame of mind conducive to innovative thinking -Knowing when to use one-,two- and three-dimensional thinking. The video can be used to develop an open-minded, motivated atmosphere at the start of any session where people are trying to think up innovative, effective ideas, to boost courses on creative thinking and problem solving, and to run an idea-generating workshop, prompted in the accompanying guide. The benefits To make anyone think more creatively in their work Versatile, inspiring and highly watchable creative resource Programme includes: DVD(12 mins) Guide

The aim To dispel the belief that fast decision-making is best and to show the importance of allowing the unconscious thinking process time and space to flourish. About the programme In this lecture recorded live at the Training 99 conference in Chicago, John Cleese challenges the basis of the decision-making processes prevalent in most of today's organisations. He argues that unless organisations are brave enough to reject the notion that business managers should think and act fast they will lose the ability to come up with innovative ideas and solutions and consequently put their futures in jeopardy. Cleese proposes that there is a pressing need to harness the power of unconscious thinking. Allow the 'tortoise mind' to overtake the 'hare brain' and more fresh and unusual ideas will be the result. Programme includes: Video (46 mins)

Aim To arm individuals with the skills to make reasoned, good decisions. The video More and more people at work are being asked to make decisions for themselves - at increasing speed and under pressure. Set in the 'decision lab', this video illustrates Mark Brown's 'red-thinking' phase. It will get an audience thinking about how they make decisions, and how they go wrong. But it also provides a series of four fundamental tests to ensure future decisions are right: -Fire: gauge whether you're spending the right amount of time on your decision -Water: Clarify your goal and criteria -Earth: Check the quality of your information -Air: detect hidden agendas, negative emotions and things that influence the process. Features and applications -Gets every level of staff focused on the quality of decision-making -Useful as a 15-minute energiser or to support a full course Programme includes: DVD(16 mins) Guide

The aim To enable people to turn good ideas into effective action. About the programme The green stage of Mark Brown's creative-thinking process enables people to translate ideas into action - making things happen. It introduces a framework for empowerment - people taking the initiative and being motivated to be responsible for their own ideas - with his 'four-box model for situational empowerment'. The video is targeted at managers and individuals. For individuals it will let them happen to the world, not let the world happen to them. They will understand when and how to apply initiative and creativity. For managers who are anxious about empowering their people it will help them hand over responsibility without losing control, and give people space to realise their creative potential. This will release the dynamism and creativity in the organisation. The benefits Inspirational video for managers and their staff Includes an activities manual to direct creative thinking Enables motivation through putting ideas into workable solutions Programme includes: DVD(15 mins) Guide Activities manual