An Inspiring Meeting Opener For Any Organization With More Than One Employee. We live in a world of differences. But when we refuse to acknowledge the value of differences, conflict can result. A team grows strong by acknowledging its members for their unique backgrounds and abilities. Without those unique differences, there would be no meaning to teambuilding. Everyone would have the same skills, the same point of view. This beautifully animated meeting opener communicates the message that living in a world of diversity is a rivilege, not a threat. A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE features the music of Sounds of Blackness, Vanessa Williams, and Grover Washington, Jr., as well as the voice of James Earl Jones as the Storyteller. NOTE: This program is not a product of the A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute of the Anti-Defamation League.

Age and Physical Ability Workplace Issues, begins by dispelling some of the mythology that surrounds people who are young, old or differently bled. We evaluate our fears and look at how we can integrate all qualified employees regardless of age or physical ability.

This easy-to-follow program features a series of workplace vignettes that illustrate disrespectful behavior and how to correct it. Both employees and anagers will be able to use the seven commonsense "Guidelines" to discuss issues of respect in a diverse workplace as it relates to their own experience and behavior. The "Guidelines" are further broken down into "Simple Steps," which makes this an especially effective and user-friendly program. The vignettes include healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and office settings. KEY LEARNING POINTS * Turn uncomfortable situations into learning opportunities * Religious or cultural beliefs don't justify disrespectful behavior toward coworkers * Just because expressions or words are commonly used, doesn't mean they are acceptable * Be careful not to display or send potentially offensive materials on your computer * Judging people's abilities by their appearance can lead to discrimination * Cultural or ethnic stereotypes are offensive * Speak up against disrespect

Building the Multicultural Team: Diversity in the Workplace will take you on an exciting journey to observe a global team in action. You'll watch a problem-plagued meeting between five managers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America, and discover powerful techniques for working effectively with other cultures.   Benefits of this training program include: * learning the secrets of effective cross-cultural leadership * finding out how to communicate effectively with other cultures * dealing effectively with differences in values and priorities * discovering how to build effective working relationships * understanding that awareness is a two-way street: all cultures need to adapt * learning how to bridge differences and create a balanced approach. With Building the Multicultural Team: Diversity in the Workplace, you will: * Enjoy turnkey solutions: just pop in a DVD or VHS! Support materials make training even easier * Create dynamic learning: break up live training with colorful, engaging visuals * Provide outside expertise: our real-life scenarios are backed by a whos who of content experts * Use visual learning: bring topics to life to achieve faster, more effective learning With this powerful yet easy-to-use training program, you'll find out how to foster effective multicultural teams and leadership, and how to overcome differences and benefit from cultural diversity. In this exciting dramatization, youll profit from valuable lessons for success as your employees gain essential skills for being effective with other people and cultures.

Building the Virtual Team: Communication Across Cultural Diversity observes a group leader and the problems she faces in managing a virtual team, while trying to lead her managers in Asia, India, Africa and Latin America. Benefits of this training program include: * realizing the importance of human relationships in many cultures * discovering how impersonal communication can backfire * learning how to balance high-tech and high-touch * finding out how to deal with language and translation issues * dealing effectively with time zones, response time, etc. * understanding that awareness is a two-way street: all cultures need to adapt * learning how to bridge differences and create a balanced approach With Building the Virtual Team: Communication Across Cultural Diversity, you will: * Enjoy turnkey solutions: just pop in a DVD or VHS! Support materials make training even easier * Create dynamic learning: break up live training with colorful, engaging visuals * Provide outside expertise: our real-life scenarios are backed by a whos who of content experts * Use visual learning: bring topics to life to achieve faster, more effective learning Designed to stimulate lively discussion and effective learning, this is an easy-to-use yet highly-effective team building training program. This cutting-edge dramatization will enable you to get maximum virtual team benefit, and an ideal training program for team building.

Cross-Cultural Communication: Managing Diversity at Work is a lively, engaging dramatization in which youll observe a manager failing to understand her employees and their culture. Her employees only make matters worse by concealing important information. Benefits of this training program include: * learning techniques for accurate, effective communication * discovering the importance of body language * finding out why some cultures might withhold important information * realizing how stereotyping can lead to ineffective communication * understanding that awareness is a two-way street: all cultures need to adapt * learning how to bridge differences and create a balanced approach Cross-Cultural Communication: Managing Diversity at work, you will: * Enjoy turnkey solutions: just pop in a DVD or VHS! Support materials make training even easier * Create dynamic learning: break up live training with colorful, engaging visuals * Provide outside expertise: our real-life scenarios are backed by a whos who of content experts * Use visual learning: bring topics to life to achieve faster, more effective learning Cross-Cultural Communication: Managing Diversity at Work is an easy-to-use yet highly effective program that will give your employees the skills they need to communicate with other cultures, understand body language, get accurate information, and much more.

Cross-Cultural Understanding de-mystifies the complex topic of culture,  and allows our teams to leverage differences and work effectively together. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, people need to develop greater cultural diversity skills. Its up to you to provide effective training to communicate effectively with and understand other cultures. Cross-Cultural Understanding investigates all the key omponents of culture and communication, including values and beliefs, social structure, perceptions of time, communication styles, proper etiquette and more.  Benefits: With this expert training program, youll get the answers to these essential issues and many more: * How to recognize and respect differences in values * How to work effectively with different views of leadership and teamwork * How to deal with different attitudes toward time and deadlines and how to keep things moving forward * How to communicate effectively with other cultures * How to respect different beliefs and viewpoints * How to show respect for cultural diversity with proper etiquette With the Cross-Cultural Understanding training program, you will: * Enjoy turnkey solutions: just pop in a DVD or VHS! upport materials make training even easier * Create dynamic learning: break up live training with colorful, engaging visuals * Provide outside expertise: our real-life scenarios are backed by a whos who of content experts * Use visual learning: bring topics to life to achieve faster, more effective learning Cross-Cultural Understanding is expertly designed for cultural diversity training, and questions and role play exercises are included for a complete training package.

In Cultural Awareness: Respecting Diversity and Beliefs, you'll discover what happens when an American manager collides with his Muslim counterpart. Find out how poor communication leads to bad feelings and damaged relationships. This powerful dramatization will help you gain the communication skills essential to avoid cultural conflicts. Plus youll gain the skills necessary for cultural sensitivity and respect. With Cultural Awareness: Respecting Diversity and Beliefs, youll be able to: * Enjoy turnkey solutions: just pop in a DVD or VHS! upport materials make training even easier * Create dynamic learning: break up live training with colorful, engaging visuals * Provide outside expertise: our real-life scenarios are backed by a whos who of content experts * Use visual learning: bring topics to life to achieve faster, more effective learning Benefits of this training program include: * Developing cultural sensitivity and respect * Recognizing differences in values and priorities * Learning how to bridge differences and create a balanced approach * Improving communication skills * Gaining sensitivity to religion, beliefs, holidays etc. * Understanding that awareness is a two-way street: all cultures need to adapt

What is dialogue - contrasting debate and dialogue. Iniating 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 com- municate across job functions, helping improve relations between people at different levels within the organization as well as between different departments or areas of expertise.

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