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Welcome to our Ideas and Training newsletter. At least once a month we send out training information for our subscribers and visitors. Ideas and Training is owned by Don and Peggy Doman.
We have some great news. We are now one of the select distributors of training products from Ash-Quarry. Eve Ash and Peter Quarry offer some of the best performance management products on the world market today.
Eve and Peter met as vocational psychologists working for the Australian government back in the 70s, and now their company is now one of the most prolific producers of innovative training resources. Productions in the United States and Australia have given Ash-Quarry an easy to understand quality for the international scene.
We are also happy to announce four other new videos to our website: Who Cares? (Customer Service), Harassment - The Real Scene (Harassment), Diversity - The Real Scene (Diversity), and Documenting Discipline (Appraisals). With our next newsletter we will be introducing The Virtual Office and Meercat Manner.
For scrict budgets, we have to packages that should delight you. We have a brand new Sales Package featuring six DVDs with over six hours of training from the top sales training gurus: George Walther, Dr. Tony Alessandra, Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, Jim Cathcart, and Nido Qubein. The price: Only $99.95 for six DVDs. AND we also have a similar Leadership Package featuring six DVDs with about five hours of training from the top leadership training gurus: Chris Widener, Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel, Brad Worthley
Laura Stack, Bryan Dodge and Zig Ziglar. The price: Only $99.95 for six DVDs. Check them out! They are great for yourself as well as your co-workers and other people you care about.
Begining in November (2005) we began expanding our articles base. Don and Justin Tyme have over 110 articles availalbe online for your use. On these two links you'll find not only the title, but the first paragraph as well. These articles have been placed on www.ezinearticles.com where they have been read by almost forty thousand viewers. Enjoy.
In this issue we have an article entitled, Team Building Games and Adventures by Don Doman, which explains how you can use creativity in an already creative training environment. This article was written the 27th of November and has been viewed 466 times from www.ezinearticles.com, where it was published 7 more times on their ezine publishing software. With proper credit, you may use this article on your own website or within your own newsletter or ezine.
More Australian training videos on-board. In addition to Workplace Bullying, Achieving More with Less, Ploys, Gambits and Dirty Tricks of Negotiation, and Making Teams Work, we have added five more outstanding training videos from Business Essentials: Getting a Handle on Stress, Stop Sucking on Lemons, Angry Customers and Call Effectiveness, Telephone Skills and You, and Time to Make Time.
Enjoy!
Business Factoid
eTV News
Announcing a new website: eTVNews.us. The focus of the website is technology news surrounding television on the internet. Did you know you can download and watch full length movies now over the internet? Did you know that you can treat your PC like a TV? Did you realize that you can download and view your favorite TV shows over the internet? Are you aware that you can download games and play them over the internet as well? eTVNews.us hopes to bring you the latest information on eTV. There is updated technology news constantly as well as Celebrity News, too.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and you annoy the pig."
-- Dawn Steel
Team Building Games and Adventures
by Don Doman
Team Building Games and Adventures come with instructions, but to really get the most from each exercise you need to bring something a little extra: creativity.
The Team Building Adventure I recommend most is called Marooned. I probably recommend it the most, not because it is the best adventure, but it’s the easiest one to run for organizations that have not participated in game scenarios before. The adventures can train groups with hundreds of people, but participating groups break down into about six or seven people.
The basic premise of Marooned is that you have signed on for a cruise in the South Pacific. Your ship visits a small island where people are invited to wander around. The ship heads off to another island leaving a small group of people behind. As part of the group, you need to take inventory, discuss possibilities, and make plans for a stay from a matter of hours to what could be days. Since this is a team building adventure, the main goal is to get people talking, sharing and working together. One of the main lessons to learn is that there are times when people should lead and times when they should follow.
Team Building Adventures are good for combining rank and file employees and management. A good business should welcome input from everyone. These adventures are also great introductions to groups that perhaps have worked together via email, but never met. For example, a non-profit organization might have a Corporate Advisory Board that rarely meets in person. An adventure would be a great way to start a planning session for that group to learn more about each other and begin working together as a team.
The creativity part of team building adventures adds fun into the training recipe. Here are some creative touches to put people in the mood for their Marooned training adventure:
Encourage people to bring their favorite Hawaiian shirts.
Visit the local Goodwill store and buy extra Hawaiian shirts for people who don’t have their own.
At the Dollar Store buy enough leis for everyone to wear.
Serve luau foods for lunch or snacks.
Buy tropical fruits like pineapples, coconuts and guavas for decorations.
Put travel posters on the wall.
Play Tahitian or Hawaiian music on a CD player.
Use another CD player to play waves lapping on the beach.
Spray a tropical air scent in the discussion area (if no one is allergic).
I like to think of Team Building Adventures as a party. I want everyone to have fun, and to have fun they need to participate. Creativity makes connections with people. It draws in their interest and imaginations.
The best parties are those where people take ownership. The guests become the hosts. They want the other guests to feel as welcome as they do. The same goes for Team Building Adventures. As the members of the organization become involved, they share the adventure, they share the fun, and everyone becomes members of the team and enjoy the party.
You may publish this article in your newsletters, ezines, or website as long as you maintain the credit, do not alter the article, and provide a link to www.ideasandtraining.com.
Business Factoid
Handheld Movies Are Hot
In the May 23rd issue of USA Today, there is an article by Thomas K. Arnold concerning the popularity of handheld movies. Although most of the Universal Media Disc (UMD) movies sold are for users of PlayStationPortable, experts believe that with wider use of cellphones, personal digital assistants and other portable devices a good market is available for feature films . . . and one has to wonder about training videos as well.
"UMD movies are carried by all the big discount and electronic chains, from Wal-Mart and Target to Best Buy and Circuit City . . . Two UMD movies have now sold more than 100,000 copies," writes Arnold.
If training videos were available either from sources like Ideas and Training or retail outlets like Wal-Mart, Office Depot, and others, would there be general human resources interest? Please, let us know your opinion concerning training videos for portable devices via email.
Business Factoid
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
-- Ernest Hemingway
Theirs Is Not To Reason Why: The Story Of Lt. Wm. Sowden Sims
Based on a true story this is a historic, case study video. Applying to sales and non-sales persons, it deals with motivation, speaking up when you know you're right, tenacity, change, problem solving, and selling a concept.
In 1899 a very minor officer in the naval service, Lt. William Sowden Sims, has run the calculations and he's astounded. Because of the roll of the seas, the United States Navy gunnery during the successful Spanish-American war scored only 121 hits out of 9000 shots fired. Lt. Sims has found an admiral in the British navy who has instituted "continuous aim" gunfire that has improved his own hit ratio as much as 3000% AND the British navy is willing to share the information. Lt. Sims just knows that this information will be welcome news to his superiors and the War Department. After writing dozens and dozens of letters and confrontations about the horrid gunnery of the United State Navy Lt. Sims gets his reward: Court Martial. AND he's surprised.
Problem pointing out and solving and then sharing the news is called "whistle blowing." Not everyone wants to hear bad news or even recognize bad news, but sometimes you have to listen, acknowledge, accept, and then do something about it.
Somehow we have to learn to sell our ideas without insulting others and pointing the finger. This video is a great discussion starter to do that.
This video production has an online preview. Click Here to view it.
Length: 12 minutes
Item #PDDC-MONSIMS
You may rent Theirs Is Not To Reason Why: The Story Of Lt. Wm. Sowden Sims on VHS for $195.00 (Please, call with your training dates - 1-253-759-6639).
You may purchase Theirs Is Not To Reason Why: The Story Of Lt. Wm. Sowden Sims on VHS for $395.00.
Business Factoid
"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
-- Richard Branson
Business Factoid
"You get out in front - you stay out in front."
-- A. J. Foyt's answer to "How do you win?"
John Cleese’s Video Arts Business Training Resource Library
Self-Directed Training on CD-ROM
Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious but, always entertaining with clearly defined learning objectives. Video brings human resources and classroom training to life, conveying training messages and behaviours in an engaging manner that makes them memorable. This is the key to the success of John Cleese’s Video Arts Business Training Resource Library. We are proud to offer this library of training products on CD-ROM for only $495.00 each.
Most people know John Cleese as the professional writer, comedian, and actor-star of TV series like Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, and films like The Life of Brian and A Fish Called Wanda.
In training circles, however, Cleese is also known as the author and star of a series of effective and humorous management and sales training films like Meetings Bloody Meetings. A series that has been used effectively by businesses for over 30 years.
These new CD-ROMS offer the same fantastic videos from John Cleese, but with information you can look at under your own terms and pace. Click Here to try out the demo for Meetings, Bloody Meetings and see what we mean.
Here is an example of another self-directed product from John Cleese and Video Arts called The Balance Sheet Barrier starring John Cleese and Dawn French.
Balance Sheet Barrier – Basic Finance
Item# PDDC-ALGBAL265C
Course Description: Do you know the bottom line impact of your decisions? Do you know how key financial statements are calculated and what they mean?
The light-hearted approach of this world-famous video 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. Using the device of contrasting the apparent worldliness of a well-educated company director and the business acumen of the streetwise owner of a small factory, we’re shown the whole process of how business finance works.
The Balance Sheet Barrier: The Basics of Business Finance - Online Preview
Intended Audience: Essential for all employees for basic financial awareness
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this course, users will be able to:
Managers will appreciate how the key financial statements are calculated and what they mean They will have an insight into how their area of the business affects the figures Individual's will have more responsibility for their department's results and objectives The program is also available online, please call 1-253-759-6639 for more information concerning online training prices. Also, you may purhcase this product in Video or DVD format.
This Self-Directed CD-ROM is available with our Shopping Cart for $495.00.
If you will be purchasing more than five copies (there are discounts for multiple copy purchases over five), or you need special shipping accomodations, please call 1-253-759-6639 or use our Order Form.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
-- W. Edwards Deming
"There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning."
-- Christopher Morley
"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
-- Lao-Tzu
"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."
-- Denis Waitley
Business Factoid
Video On Demand Headlines
Global corporate training sales of U.S. based firms will grow 8% to $10.72 billion in 2005. Fueling that growth is e-learning which is forecast to grow by 30%.
"Corporate training used to be structured much like a grad school `field trip,' where employees and managers were uprooted from their desks and daily work scenarios and placed into a classroom or some other kind of structured learning environment either on or off premises," said Stephanie Fagnani, lead author of Simba's Corporate Training Market 2005. "But technology is making training much more seamless with quick tutorials right at a workstation."
-- Simba Information Inc. - May 10, 2005 "To increase competitive advantage, organizations need to look for opportunities to increase market impact, including value and agility, by investing in a high-performance workplace. Enhancing people's ability to discover and innovate drives business."
-- Gartner, Inc
Maturing Internet Markets Warrant Increased Web Globalization, Says Nielsen//NetRatings
"Shifts in media consumption, steadily improving online offerings, and growing broadband penetration are likely factors in growing the number of online user sessions on a global basis. As the Internet has officially become an important part of our lives, the U.S. is primed for the next ‘big thing’ to spike Internet usage."
-- Kaizad Gotla, senior Internet analyst, Nielsen//NetRatings
IPTV and IP VOD Poised as New Online Distribution Channel, Says RHK
"The next five years will see IPTV come into its own as a new distribution medium with its own new business rules and challenges. We forecast that IP VOD in all its incarnations will total revenues that equal over a third of DVD sales by 2009. Video will reach the $1.3 billion mark by 2006 and is growing at a CAGR of 100 percent, followed by music in 2007, growing at 66 percent."
-- Dr. Josette Bonte, Managing Director of RHK's Broadband Content and Video Services Practice
eLearning Plays An Increasing Role In Business Strategy, According To Forrester
"While many firms adopted eLearning technologies to educate their workforce to gain a competitive edge, savings on travel costs remains one of the largest benefits. Learning is no longer something employees do separate from their work -- it's becoming more closely tied to their work and to the success of the company meeting its goals."
-- Claire Schooley, senior analyst at Forrester Research
Partnership Opportunity Available
If you have numerous employees who need training, you may want to think about having your own co-branded Downloadable Training site. For less than $5000, you could have a partnership program with Brainware.TV that would reduce the cost of downloading business training programs by 20%. AND you could offer Downloadable Training to your own clients as well and make 20% from each sale just by having them download from your own co-branded partnership site.
FYI: The word is that Brainware.TV just last week received a new partnership confirmation from one of the largest office supply organizations in the United States AND confirmation from another office supply organization which is currently much smaller. Everyone sees the potential of Video On Demand for business training.
Call 1-253-759-6639 for details.
We have also begun a relationship with Seminars on DVD. This organization has an ever growing library of training seminars priced at under $100 each for sale on DVD. Great prices and Great Content! At Seminars on DVD, they pride themselves in paying out 40% commissions on all products, for life. If you start marketing our subscription plan, you will soon see true residual income.
"The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."
-- Joe Batten
"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."
-- Arab proverb
If we can answer any questions about products or services, please call 1-253-759-6639 or email us.
Thank you all for your continued support.
Don Doman
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