Best-selling author Donald T. Phillips ("Lincoln on Leadership") demonstrates the highest qualities of leadership, and how to apply them, using the shining xample of the United States Coast Guard. Viewers of this informative and uplifting film will focus on three major strategies for exercising leadership that maximizes the productivity and smooth sailing of any organization. First, they will learn to create the culture of the organization. This culture of common values, customs, and beliefs determines how people interact with each other to achieve their ission. Second, viewers will learn to guide their charges to promote team over self. Studies have shown that when an average group works together as a team, they achieve one-third more productivity. Imagine what your above-average group can do! Third, viewers will learn to instill in their people a ias for action. Great leadership organizations are constantly changing. Through ongoing decisiveness, empowerment, and giving people in the field priority to act on their own initiative, leaders create a can do culture of optimism and action. 1)Along the way, your organization's leaders will: Understand that an organizations core values can lay the groundwork for an environment that nurtures eadership. 2)Identify qualities to look for when selecting team members. 3)Recognize the key elements of teamwork. 4)Appreciate that organizations can be successful by empowering people to make decisions. 5)Watch the United States Coast Guard put these leadership qualities into action and then apply them to your organization to maximize productivity and ffectiveness.

Empowerment is the ability to let others assume the responsibilities, risks and rewards associated with making their own decisions. Are your employees empowered? Can they make decisions without having to ask their supervisor? Do you feel comfortable with them representing your company? To help your company grow and thrive in today's competitive marketplace your employees need to play a major role in its success. They must make decisions that will enhance the productivity of your organization, and they must take ownership of both successes and problems. Discover how to make this happen with the DVD training program Empowering Employees. You'll learn: * What empowerment really means and how it can help your company grow * Which employees you can empower and why * The six key factors needed to empower your employees and motivate them for success * What really motivates your employees * When and how to provide needed feedback! The "Empowering Employees" training program comes complete with a DVD, CD audio and copy of the book "Empowering Employees" by L. Kristi Long, which is part of the Business Skills Express Series published by The McGraw-Hill companies.

Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead Now managers in your organization can benefit from the same principles found in the Warner Books best-seller, Flight of the Buffalo, with corVISION's 30 minute video Authors and management consultants James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer help America's top businesses and governmental agencies achieve unprecedented success by challenging traditional management practices. Using this video, viewers can learn to: -- Replace "top-down" management with employee empowerment -- Tap the capabilities of all the employees in your company -- Vest employees with responsibility for solving their own problems -- Create meaningful, face-to-face relationships

Being a supervisor is like moving to the front of the class: everyone around you is watching your moves and expecting the best. But it takes more than a promotion r job title to be a great supervisor. It takes leadership. The video focuses on two principals: You only succeed when they do, and "What do they need from me to succeed?" This video for first time supervisors is a classic. both motivational and instructional, combining a dramatization format with extremely high production values and quality acting.

Being a supervisor is like moving to the front of the class: everyone around you is watching your moves and expecting the best. But it takes more than a promotion r job title to be a great supervisor. It takes leadership. The video focuses on two principals: You only succeed when they do, and "What do they need from me to succeed?" This video for first time supervisors is a classic. both motivational and instructional, combining a dramatization format with extremely high production values and quality acting.

The first reaction of most new leaders is to take on more workits a natural reflex. How else can they be sure their project gets done right? But the more the eader takes on, the less motivated the team members become. The greatest challenge for team leaders is to let go of their work. The leader's job is to provide the tools, motivation and direction the team members need to do the work itself. Unfortunately, many leaders get no formal training in running a team. "Giving Leadership Away" can help both new and experienced leaders take on that challenge. In this video, a newly promoted team leader learns that giving leadership away is not as easy as it seems. Used to making decisions himself, he starts making decisions for the team, inadvertently preventing them from doing their jobs. And when he does try to share responsibility, team members are not always willing or able to take on the task. The solution comes surprisingly from a jar of Legos and ome unconventional advice. They provide him with the direction he needs to begin sharing leadership and fostering everyone's potential.

Inspiring quotes from some of historys greatest leaders set to dramatic music and coupled with classic footage. Let the likes of Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. inspire and motivate you to better leadership 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 for success. This DVD video contains quotes from Mark Twain, Winston hurchill, John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Vince Lomardi.

Renowned business management expert Dr. Margaret Wheatley, author of several best-selling books on organizational behavior, including Leadership And The ew Sciences, graphically illustrates astute insights into human behavior with poignant film clips from the film, Its A Wonderful Life. By recognizing innate positive behavior in heroes we admire -- in this case, the beloved George Bailey -- trainees will instantly internalize the fundamental ingredients of Service Leadership and help make your company even more wonderful... and successful!

The concept of leadership is changing. Joel Barker's LEADERSHIFT: FIVE LESSONS FOR LEADERS IN THE 21st CENTURY explores these shifts and offers five concepts that will improve the performance of any leader. Using bridge building as a metaphor, futurist Joel Barker teaches us that, more than anything else, the 21st century leader will build bridges... bridges built of hope and ideas and opportunities. Bridges that help us move from where we are to where we need to be. Using Inspiring locations and vivid stories, Joel Barker's LEADERSHIFT motivates every leader, and aspiring leader, to develop the skills needed to lead his or her organization into the 21st century. Five Lessons for the 21st Century 1) Focus the majority of your efforts on the future. 2) Understand the nature of fundamental change. 3) Appreciate complex systems and how they work. 4) Examine your leadership style to see how it effects productivity. 5) Create shared vision to build bridges to the future.

Joel Barkers The New Business of Paradigms retains the same powerful stories and examples from the original program, but repackages them with a current look and feel. When you purchase Joel Barkers The New Business of Paradigms, you will receive this timely new program that we call The Classic Edition, plus a second program, The 21st Century Edition, absolutely free! This edition offers all new examples and stories to illustrate recent paradigm shifts. With two new programs on change, your training opportunities are limitless. Key Learning Points: o Paradigms are common. o Paradigms are useful. o Dont let your paradigm become the paradigm. o Outsiders create new paradigms. o Shifting paradigms takes courage. o You can choose to change your paradigm