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Training in Tough Times: Ideas and Resources to Use Many organizations in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world are currently facing very threatening economic conditions due to the financial crisis at Wall Street. This gives rise to an important question: What kind of training should you give to support employees during tough times? But “tough times” does not refer just to the economic conditions. It is actually any situation that exerts more than the usual degree of stress on employees. This could be a result of difficult challenges the organization is facing, from loss of market share to loss of jobs. It could also be a result of major external or internal changes, a crisis situation such as a natural disaster, a lingering internal strife, union problems, low morale, or other situations. During these kinds of tough times, it does not make sense to ignore the way people feel and just continue to deliver your regular series of training workshops in a business as usual mode. Doing so risks losing your audience’s attention and even respect. You will need to re-examine your offerings and consider delivering workshops that address the impact of the current situation and help people cope with it and come out of it stronger. Below we offer a number of possible training workshops and tools to consider during tough times: Emotional Intelligence at Work: A workshop on emotional intelligence can equip participants with awareness and skills to understand and manage their emotions as well as the emotions of others they interact with. Participants will gain a deeper self awareness and empathy. They will build self confidence as they tackle difficult challenges. For a workshop on this topic see: http://www.humanext.com/eq-at-work.html    Employee Engagement for Change: This workshop engages employees in a cause larger than themselves and offers them a way to create a new vision and values for the organization. It inspires people to work together to change the culture in a way that turns any negativity into positive action. For a workshop on this topic visit: http://www.humanext.com/employee-engagement-for-change.html   Creativity and Innovation at Work: Most tough times demand a different kind of thinking from people to enable them to come up with novel ideas to meet the challenges at hand. A workshop that helps them tap into their creative thinking abilities will be very appropriate. You may consider our “Creativity and Innovation at Work” here: http://www.humanext.com/creativity-at-work.html    Uplifting Training Videos: A great video with a powerful and inspiring positive message that can uplift the morale of employees is “Celebrate What Is Right with the World.” I have used this video to support topics like emotional intelligence and creativity and it worked very well. See: http://videos4training.com/attitude-training-videos.html   Training and Tools on Stress Management: Visit our dedicated page: http://videos4training.com/stress-management.html   Workshops and Assessment on Change: Most of the training materials on change will be helpful during tough times since in most cases the tough times are caused by some major external or internal change. See the many products on this page.

Portable Conference on Change Management - $99.95   This resource contains real world expertise and techniques for developing an organization-wide ability to create and embrace fundamental change. It contains details you'll need for planning a major transition, diagnosing a specific problem, putting a presentation or training session together, or just looking for leading edge practices to benchmark. It also offers a systematic method for diagnosing your change planning or implementation needs. Includes 94 reproducible pull-out tools and models you can use in your own work! Presented in a unique "conference" format, this book contains texts from actual sessions, and presentations by more than two dozen of today's leading change management experts, including their hands-on tools and models. 575 pages /3-ring binder / $99.95

A Unique Workshop that Combines Change Acceptance and Team Transformation for Breakthrough Results   Intensive half-day or full-day training workshop that is significantly different from traditional change management training. Purpose: Empowering People to accept and manage personal and team change while shifting to higher levels of collaborative Relationships at Work. This unique experience enables participants to create a dramatic change in the way they relate to their work, their colleagues, and their organization. The result is a totally rejuvenated team that accepts change and works on a higher level of commitment to achieve extraordinary results. Click here for details: http://www.humanext.com/team-building.html

Change Management Effectiveness Profile - Facilitator's Guide and Diagnostic Assessment The Change Management Effectiveness Profile provides a detailed process for assessing an individual's capacity to handle minor or major change. This is done by measuring change management ability in several categories. Leader's Guide Plus a Diagnostic Assessment Profile $99.95 Additional Assessment Profiles are sold in packs of 5 Profiles each for 5 users: $39.75

The New Workplace: Leading the Change. Making the Change video training programs   LEADING THE CHANGE. MAKING THE CHANGE - Two powerful video based training programs: 'Leading the Change' for leaders, and 'Making the Change' for employees to help organizations manage and accept changing workplace realities and relationships. $625 Each.(Government and non-profits get discounts) These extraordinary 2 video training programs bring together a distinguished collection of practitioners and researchers who are leading private and public sector organizations through these fundamental transformations. CEO's, managers, line workers and consultants discuss why changes are occurring and how they impact employees and managers alike, sharing their visions of how we can most benefit from the turbulence we find ourselves in. The 'Communicating Change' segment below offers one of the metaphors used in this training program.  Flexible Training: Each segment of the video can be viewed separately and the suggested questions, exercises and activities in the guide used as part of a facilitation process. If all the material contained in the guide is used with The New Workplace videos, it can constitute a two day training program. Support Materials: The videos are accompanied by a 46 page Facilitator's Guide which includes 9 participant handouts, a bibliography, a dictionary of new business terms, activities, exercises and questions for discussion. With the purchase of The New Workplace series, you are granted license to make as many copies of the Facilitator's Guide or the handout pages as your organization needs. Available in versions for unionized and non-unionized workplaces. Leading the Change is also available in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese. Purchase Leading the Change For $625.00 Rent Leading the Change for $295.00 Purchase Making The Change for $625.00 Rent Making The Change for $295.00 Purchase the two videos for $1062.50

50 Activities for Achieving Change - $139.95   Training Objectives: - Outline the process of accepting change; Demonstrate the need for change; Reduce conflict; Improve communication skills. Activities Cover:- Change in the workplace; Developing goals for change; Change and self-development; Accepting change; Understanding change; Training Methods: 25 activities involve group discussions; 13 questionnaires and instruments highlight current; perceptions and identify resistance to change; 6 role-play scenarios aid the transfer of learning from the workshop to the workplace; 6 written exercises provide an opportunity to express personal thoughts, and reactions to change. 420 pages /3-ring binder / $139.95

The Disappearing Sand Beach : A Story for Communicating Change Want to Help Employees Accept Change? Tell Them About 'The Disappearing Sand Beach.' Far off in the sea is an island, born of the erupting volcano, with the wind and rain and the pounding waves. And on this island is a wonderful, wide, white sand beach. Since the birth of the island, this beach would not stay put. The sea would take back the white sand when a big storm struck and leave only rough-black volcanic rock. Then the winds would die down, and the surf settle and the white sand would return to the shore and become once again a beautiful, wide beach. It would be wider and whiter than it was before, and the storm would bring more fish to the island, to feed the birds and the animals. It was like this every few years after a storm, for ten thousand storms. The storm would be frightening. Everything would look different for a while. But the beach would always come back, bringing more fish than before. All of the living things of the island understood and accepted. Until the humans came. A Question for Reflection: How is the storm a metaphor for the change that we are experiencing in many aspects of our lives (i.e., global changes, economy, careers and family)? This metaphor is just one of many utilized by the video-based training programs: Leading the Change (for managers) and (Making the Change) for all employees. See this page for more information. (c) Quality Media, Inc. Printed with permission.

Ready. Set. CHANGE!™: Reacting Smarter. Adapting Faster. Engaging Together As organizations change with increasing speed, so does the pace in which employees must respond. Employees need the skills to react smarter, adapt faster and engage together in the face of change. Ready. Set. CHANGE!™ powerfully equips employees with the ability to positively and productively respond to any change—big or small. This must-have training program features classroom materials with multiple agenda options, video behavior modeling and a Change Response Assessment. Learning Point Highlights: Explain how their reactions to change impact those around them Identify feelings, concerns or issues that might inhibit their effectiveness or decision making around a change Apply The Change Response Strategy™ to proactively analyze and navigate any change Communicate effectively and appropriately to get the information they need to engage in change Complete Training Kit Components: DVD (full length video with individual vignettes (without narration), SMART-START® Change: Responding Better Together and bonus materials) Click here for minimum requirements for playing DVD on computer. VHS video (28 minutes) Facilitator Guide Facilitator Resources Reproducible Participant Materials Reproducible Self-Study Guide (available as an Online Resource) Online Program Resources Trainer Pack Change Response Strategy™ Job Aid (10/pack): Provide each of your participants with their own visual of The Change Response Strategy™ and the descriptions of clarify, communicate and commit with these helpful job aids. Printed on water-resistant stock, these job aids are 5½" (width) x 8½" (length) and are sold in packs of ten. One pack of ten is included in your Complete Kit purchase of Ready. Set. CHANGE!™. Order additional packs of 10 Guides for $14.95 Change Response Strategy™ Wall Chart (1): Help your participants learn more about The Change Response Strategy™ with this useful wall chart. Made of Tyvek material, this full-color, 3-hole drill wall chart measures 24” (wide) by 36” (length) and is perfect for a classroom training visual of the The Change Response Strategy™ as well as a great reminder beyond the classroom as participants apply this learning to their everyday responsibilities. One wall chart is included in your purchase of the Ready. Set. CHANGE!™ Complete Kit. Order additional Wall Charts for $19.95 Each Save $100: Order before end of 2008 and save $100. The Complete Prograg Package of Ready, Set, CHANGE is now only $895   Change Response Assessment (purchased separately): Reveal predominant behavior when interacting with others and responding to change! This highly-recommended online social styles assessment tool (purchased separately) has been designed to align specifically with Ready. Set. CHANGE!™. The Change Response Assessment is based on a 40-item survey consisting of adjectives and adjectival phrases, which measure behavior in assertiveness and responsiveness to provide four distinct patterns of behavior: Driving behavior / Expressive behavior / Amiable behavior / Analytical behavior After completing the assessment, participants receive the Change Response Profile (written in objective third person) providing them valuable information about their own style of behavior. As a result of carefully reviewing their own profile, participants will be able to: Understand their style and its impact on others Recognize the style differences of others Learn techniques that better meet the relationship and leadership expectations of others Order this online assessment at $35.95   To preview Ready. Set. Change! video, please send your information along with your request to: service@communicationideas.com

At Last: A Simple, Yet Powerful Way to Engage Employees and Change the Culture Nothing ignites employee engagement like change. And no change takes place without employee engagement. We offer an off-the-shelf Employee Engagement for Change package: http://www.humanext.com/employee-engagement-for-change.html

The Change Management Readiness Survey How can you ensure that the major organizational change you are planning—to your structure, strategy, operations, production, or culture—will be successful? Begin the change process with this intense diagnostic of your organization's capacity to change. You can bring problems to light, build commitment to change, gain company-wide support, improve communication and increase your chances of success—quickly and cost-effectively. Do your homework upfront so that your change dollars pay off. The user-friendly survey is designed for change leaders, organizational leaders and managers, and consultants who are not simply tinkering, but changing organizations in powerful ways. Often these change leaders only see part of the picture. This tool will give you a valuable "big picture" view of how a cross-section of senior managers, middle managers and staff throughout your organization view the change process. Participants will be asked to respond to a brief, 50-statement questionnaire. The results will clearly reveal your organization's strengths and weaknesses in five critical areas of successful change management: • Collaboration • Leadership • Implementation and execution • Culture • Organizational alignment Do your employees believe your organization is focused on the most important priorities? Do they see senior leadership as a well functioning team? Do they think you currently have the talent in place to successfully accomplish this change initiative? By gathering and synthesizing input into these and other issues, this survey will be an essential ingredient in your change effort process. Survey / Pack of 5 / $75.00

ChangeAbilitator: Leader's Guide plus 5 Questionnaires to assess and develop Action Plans $74.95   The ChangeAbilitator identifies six types of concerns people often experience when a change is introduced into their team or organization. The results will give both employees and managers a clear picture of the obstacles they need to overcome to successfully implement change in their organization. The Program includes a Questionnaire with guidlines to help participants develop a personal Action Plan, as well as a comprehensive Leader's Guide, which provides information on implementation and scoring. ChangeAbilitator is a powerful tool for: Organizational development - identify employee concerns in order to prepare for the obstacles of change Team building - gain insight into the dynamics of a group and its ability to accept change  Leadership development - learn to implement changes effectively by understanding employees' concerns One complete Leader's Guide Plus one questionnaire for $34.95 Additional Questionnaires in a pack of 5 for $39.95

25 Training Activities for Creating and Managing Change Training Objectives Illustrate the need for change Develop a strategy for implementing change Understand the effects of change on the organization Equip managers with the skills they require to ensure a smooth transition Training Methods Case studies / Surveys / Questionnaires / Discussion sessions Order for $69.95

Surviving Workplace Change-Workshop In order for individuals to be successful in today's environment, they have to come to understand their own reactions to change and develop practical techniques to constructively deal with the personal impacts of change. This workshop is appropriate for all levels of employees and explores topics like natural resistance to change, differing individual reactions to change, and developing tools to cope with change. By learning about four thinking preferences, participants learn how specific changes affect individuals differently. Performance Objectives: Utilize appropriate tactics for coping with change Develop strategies for dealing with loss Identify benefits and opportunities associated with change Implement change support systems This Workshop Includes: Instructor's Guide with lesson plans and activities Participant Coursebook Transparency masters Workshop $495.00 Participant Workbook $50.00

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The Man Who Wanted to Change the World In my workshop on change and transformation, I tell the following story: In the Chinese folklore, there is the story of an ambitious young man who, on his twentieth birthday, became consumed with the desire to change the world. He spent the next 20 years trying to do that but couldn’t. At age 40, he settled for trying to change China. He spent the next 20 years trying to do that but couldn’t. At age 60, he settled for trying to change his village. For the next 20 years he strived to do that but failed. At age 80, he decided to focus on changing his family. He spent the next 20 years trying to do that but couldn’t. At age 100, he decided to focus on changing himself. But the next day, he died. The lesson? If you want to change the world, you better start with yourself. Ghandi said, “We must become the change we want to see in the world” So the question to ask ourselves is: In what ways can I become the change I seek to see happening around me? (c) 2006 HumaNext LLC. From RelationShifts, our workshop on team transformation and organization change. See details on this page.

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