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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This classic best seller vividly illustrates different management styles in action. Tony Spence is the epitome of the autocratic manager. Shouting and swearing, he bullies and generally humiliates his team of sales people. By contrast, supermarket personnel manager June takes a more bureaucratic approach, strictly applying the rules and regulations. Consultative manager Geoff believes in the human touch and says his door is always open. Marketing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Southwest Airlines started with a simple idea, and managed to stick with it through decades of unprecedented growth. According to Colleen Barrett, customers return because they like the experience and they like the way they are treated. And how do you keep them satisfied? By keeping your employees satisfied. Barrett spends 70-80% of her time ensuring that her employees are valued as people, and encouraged to do the right thing rather than doing things...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How do growth leaders such as Procter & Gamble, GE, and Amazon consistently achieve above-average organic growth? These companies pursue a disciplined, systematic process that distributes innovations across a spectrum of risk, ensuring that they balance incremental growth with breakthrough opportunities. For most companies, notes Professor Day, minor innovations make up 85% to 90% of their development portfolios. While necessary for continuous improvement,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Key topics: Leaders, Managers, Autocratic managers, Democratic managers, Laissez-Faire managers, Paternalistic managers, Theory X and Y managers. What's the difference between a leader and a manager? What kinds of managers are there? What are the problems of managing in the real world?
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The program gives kids five strategies to help them resolve the problems that they face in a safe and appropriate way. Children are taught that hitting is not a way to solve a problem and that fights can be avoided when they use their words to talk about the problem. The program also demonstrates how blaming someone else for the problem does not resolve the problem. It emphasizes that asking questions can lead to a satisfactory resolution for everyone...
Series
Accounting and finance clips volume 2
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
v. 1. How does a business choose between different sources of finance? Is it always better to get money from inside the company than get an overdraft or loan or to sell shares in the firm? And what are the pros and cons of selling assets to raise finance? --v. 2. Divine Chocolate found its funding in a novel way - by giving an ownership stake to the cocoa farmers which supply its beans. This source of finance fits well with the fair trade company's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Day-to-day routines in health care often involve issues in risk management. This program will provide your assistants with an understanding of their role and responsibility in recognizing, reporting and addressing risks in the different health care settings.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How can corporations get the most out of their employees? Charles O'Reilly challenges the prevailing wisdom that companies must chase and acquire top talent in order to remain successful. He argues that companies need to abandon the obsession with hiring highpriced stars, and instead motivate ordinary people to build a great company and achieve extraordinary results. According to Dr. O'Reilly, companies should start with a set of values and a culture...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Developing time management skills can make all the difference with day-to-day care. Learning the importance of managing your tasks and stress level, while still delivering excellent care to each patient. Your staff will be more effective and productive after viewing this program.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Southern Sea Otters are once again in peril, after having being brought back from the brink of extinction. Threatened investigates the history and potential causes for the otter’s decline, as well as the controversy over how best to protect the otter population. An unprecedented number of sea otter deaths have occurred along the California coast in the last few years. Like crime scene detectives, a team of scientists is anxiously searching for the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How can companies ensure that IT services are directed and optimized to implement critical business objectives? Wendell Jones of Cutter Consortium helps IT managers cope with what has become one of the most difficult -- yet exciting -- jobs in any organization. The program describes techniques that will help IT managers think and communicate like business executives, build relationships with key stakeholders, manage suppliers and providers, achieve...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An effective leader must be prepared to offer timely and honest feedback, both to employees and to other members of the management team. Whether positive or negative, such input shows concern for the growth of each individual. David Bradford examines what it takes to have a "feedback rich" organization, while an effective leader must be prepared to offer timely and honest feedback, both to employees and to other members of the management team. Whether...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Topics in this program include: recruitment, human resources, workforce, planning, selection, insurance and industry. Videos in this playlist include: --pt. 1: An Essential Guide to Recruitment & Selection. Recruitment should be seen not just as a process of filling vacancies, but as a part of workforce planning generally. The first stage in filling a vacancy is to define the vacancy the job description. The selection procedure varies from simply...
Publisher
Apogee Communications Group
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Learn how to obtain safe drinking water, what foods to store, and how to reduce the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, dirty bombs, swine and avian flu, and radiological dangers, plus what supplies to keep on hand, and more. All new 2012 version.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Key topics: Motivation, People problems, Worker participation, Human resource management, Personnel. This film includes case studies of people with a variety of motivational problems. In each case the viewer is left to consider what the problem is and what might be done to solve it.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program demonstrates how to use diplomacy to successfully communicate with co-workers, team members, and supervisors. Learn how to understand different conversational roles: the escape artist, the judge, the scientist, the beggar, the commander. Communicating With Tact, Candor and Credibility covers topics including: rephrasing: making "talking points" tactfully; what to say: the art of scripting; lightweight speech patterns; and jargon-filled...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Marx Brothers are the reigning kings of comedy and remain one of the most iconic comic teams of all time. The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection captures the very best of the comedy team and includes the only five movies to feature all four brothers. Filled with unforgettable comedy sketches, musical numbers, witty dialogue and plenty of gags, this must-own collection includes The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers.
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