Empowerment? What does it mean? Sometimes it means letting employees provide the best solutions based on frontline experience and first-hand knowledge of the situation. Sometimes it's a hollow phrase. What does mean to your organization? Is it a tool to improve your operations . . . or it is a catch-phrase used to appease. Take a look at our program selection here to improve the empowerment solutions in your organization.
They Did It Their Way: Retooling the Corporate Model
Item: PDDC-BVL11867
Format: VHS
List Price: $299.95
Item: PDDC-BVL11867
Format: DVD
List Price: $399.95
You may purchase Creative Management Skills for Doing Business in the Information Age Series on VHS for $299.95.
You may purchase Creative Management Skills for Doing Business in the Information Age Series on DVD for $399.95.
Empowerment: Promoting Employee Initiative - VHS/DVD
Empowerment has stood the traditional top-down business model on its head, placing decision-making power in the hands of the rank-and-file employee. Using examples drawn from McDonald’s, Land Rover, HarperCollins Publishers, a telephone banking service, and a natural food wholesaler, this program examines the value of empowerment and explores how it is put into practice in the U.K. Issues such as teamwork, motivation, performance monitoring, and the limits of empowerment are addressed, underscoring the ongoing need to temper managerial control with employee independence in order to achieve a company’s strategic goals. (25 minutes, color)
Part of the Series Creative Management Skills for Doing Business in the Information Age
Item: PDDC-BVL11868
Format: VHS
List Price: $199.95
Item: PDDC-BVL11868
Format: DVD
List Price: $249.95
You may purchase Empowerment: Promoting Employee Initiative on VHS for $199.95.
You may purchase Empowerment: Promoting Employee Initiative on DVD for $249.95.
They Did It Their Way: Retooling the Corporate Model - VHS/DVD
Shrinking time frames, increasing complexity, and globalization are hallmarks of the Information Age. What management practices and organizational structures are best suited to profit from them? In this program, officers of Dutton Engineering, in the U.K.; Oticon, in Denmark; and U.S.-based Digital address a wide range of creative business tools, including "spaghetti organization," telecommuting, virtual teams, positive peer pressure, kaizen, annualized hours, and salary increases by consensus. Additional insights are provided by Harvard Business School’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Charles Handy, author of The Age of Unreason and The Age of Paradox. (30 minutes, color)
Part of the Series Creative Management Skills for Doing Business in the Information Age
Item: PDDC-BVL11869
Format: VHS
List Price: $199.95
Item: PDDC-BVL11869
Format: DVD
List Price: $249.95
You may purchase They Did It Their Way: Retooling the Corporate Model on VHS for $199.95.
You may purchase They Did It Their Way: Retooling the Corporate Model on DVD for $249.95.
The Empowering Appraisal - Video/DVD
Using real-life situations, this program shows how organizations can make performance evaluations more effective. It shows managers and employees the communication skills required so that evaluations result in better-motivated employees. The program also demonstrates how to introduce performance appraisal systems in any organization. A dramatic re-creation takes us through the appraisal process and highlights the three steps of an Empowering Appraisal—preparing, discussing, and following-up. (30 minutes, color)
Item: PDDC-BVL6809
Format: VHS
List Price: $259.95
Item: PDDC-BVL6809
Format: DVD
List Price: $309.95
You may purchase The Empowering Appraisal on VHS for $259.95.
You may purchase The Empowering Appraisal on DVD for $309.95.
The Empowering Manager: Collaborating with the Team
Aim
To demonstrate how managers should work with their teams to improve results.
The video
Once it was accepted that managers told their staff what to do and they just went with it. These days people expect greater opportunity in their jobs and successful organizations encourage initiatives from staff.
Features and applications:
Video - $195.00/$295.00
Oftentimes, managers are not as empowering as they would like to believe. Improving Performance Through Empowerment will show even the most controlling micro-managers why empowering employees to take charge, make decisions and solve problems on their own will promote growth, strengthen skills… and produce better results. Produced by AMI.
Many sacred cows begin as good ideas. But, as the way we do business changes, what was once common sense can lose its relevance. Getting everyone involved in the hunt helps to develop a change-ready work environment. Every person in every department has a unique perspective to add insight on products, customers, vendors, services, policies, procedures -- wherever sacred cows can hide.
Almost daily you can hear disrespectful things said in the workplace. Sometimes they're said out of ignorance, sometimes out of malice. Step Up, Speak Up is a unique program in the area of respect and diversity. Not only is the question discussed of "WHY" tolerance is important but, for the first time employees observe an action that enables them to make a positive difference when issues of disrespect occur in their workplace.
