Travel the road to Abilene and you'll arrive at a place where deeply held, logical values fall victim to group dynamics. It's a bumpy ride culminating in meaningless utcomes and blame, but you can skip the trip if you know how to read the road signs. In this age of corporate scandals and lack of accountability, management expert Dr. Jerry B. Harvey's parable about a family trip to Abilene offers a timeless, compelling lesson on reading the road signs and knowing when you're headed toward Abilene. This classic training program has helped thousands of organizations increase profits and productivity. This completely updated second edition offers a fresh, new look and a faster, more engaging pace. The program includes additional exercises for a flexible design to help viewers learn: * The five psychological principles of the Abilene Paradox * How to avoid false consensus * How to overcome the fear of speaking out * Effective decision-making within a group

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!

This video combines key learning points with a dramatic case study. The video allows you to experience a virtual team that learns and uses the seven skills critical for virtual team success. They are:-Know and Nuture Tour Team - Stay in Touch with Co-Workers - Be Creatively Accessible - Master Effective Interaction Skills - Distance Delegate to Deliver Results - Reach Agreements that Foster - Establish a Foundation of Trust You'll also learn to address the dynamics of virtual team relationships, understand the communication challenges these teams face, and to develop the creative solutions remote teams must employ to achieve superior performance.

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.

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.

A dramatized dialogue shows us how the skills we learned in Program 1 can be used to overcome misunderstandings, break down gender stereotypes and mprove communications between men and women at work.

We demonstrate how the skills of dialogue can be used to bridge the personal and professional style differences that exist between employees of different ges. We uncover how divergent personal and world views common to people of different generations can lead to misunderstandings and distrust and how dialogue can help overcome age barriers and build more productive workplace relationships.

Hot! Hot! Hot!... NASCAR is the fastest growing spectator sport in the world. In racing as in business-- timing and teamwork are everything. Innolect Inc., an organization effectiveness firm (with lead offices in Charlotte and Manhattan), partner with The Richard Petty Driving School and Pit Instruction and Training 5 Off 5 On to capture core learnings from the NASCAR racing experience. Together, they develop leading-edge, team building experiences to offer business teams the same kind of challenge and learning that NASCAR racers and pit crew teams master on a daily asis. This action-packed approach is called Driven to Perform. Innolect offers two NASCAR-way Driven to Perform challenging and fun-filled opportunities to support team building in organizations: " The Richard Petty Driving Experience (RPDE); and, " The Pit Crew Challenge These two unique, live, on-site programs serve as platforms for placing people in unfamiliar terrain where uncertainty has to be managed and individual responses contribute to the success of the whole team. These expectations are not so different from real world demands for speed, immediacy, technical know how, accuracy, and results. It's fun, it's fast, it's immediate. That's NASCAR. Team members are trained to do their jobs with the same precision and expectations for excellence as professional athletes. They focus on learning to apply skills where spilt-second timing and doing one function extremely well as part of the whole team is what is required.