Managing People: Training Videos for Managers and Supervisors

Manager's Collection

Develop your leadership and supervisory skills with these high-impact productions. Nine management training top-selling titles provide proven techniques that are guaranteed to improve productivity and people skills for new managers and seasoned veterans.

Leadership at Every Level

This leadership video begins by demonstrating successful management styles: direction, influence, collaboration, and delegation. It then explains how your setting and your subordinates determine which management style is most appropriate for your situation -- and the need to adapt to changing circumstances.

The Power of Positive Discipline

This award-winning employee discipline DVD gives managers six steps of positive, progressive discipline which begin with coaching and escalate to stronger measures only as needed to solve the problem. In many cases, employees will respond early in the process. But if not, the later steps help managers address continuing performance shortcomings calmly and professionally.

Harassment: Sex, Religion, and Beyond — Manager Version - Spanish

The Manager version of our newest harassment program teaches supervisors and managers their obligation to be on the lookout for harassment in any form, and their need to step in earlier rather than later, before the situation escalates and creates a more serious problem.

Spanish Manager Version

Performance Coaching

Your staff needs direction and feedback. That's where employee coaching comes in. This management training video shows you how to communicate specific expectations and remove any obstacles that get in the way. Inspire employees who are doing well—by pointing out what they can be doing even better!

Managing People: Key Skills for Great Managers

Effective management is concerned with the goals of the workforce as well as the goals of the organization. This management training video reminds you that motivation doesn't just come from money or prestige. You can line up your employees for success by figuring out what they're naturally best at, and then giving them a chance to do more of that.

Motivating Your Employees

This management training DVD shows how recognition can help bring out the best in your people, energizing them to strive and accomplish more. You'll learn the importance of thinking about what exactly gets rewarded in your organization. See how, through rewards and recognition, you can build a strong and vital workplace.

Time Management

All of us are looking for success and satisfaction, one way or another. But that's not so easy nowadays, with more and more demands on you, both at work and at home. This time management training video helps you strike a balance by first figuring out how to control the way you spend your time.

Harassment: Sex, Religion, and Beyond — California Manager Version - Spanish

The California Manager version of this new harassment training video includes required California state publications and can be used as part of a two-hour class led by a qualified trainer to meet the standards of California's AB 1825 regulation.

Performance Appraisals: Getting Results

Effective performance appraisals add value to your organization. They motivate your top employees to do even better. And they tell underperformers exactly what is expected and how to improve. This supervisor training video shows that effective performance reviews can increase productivity, resolve problems, and improve work satisfaction—both for employees and their managers.

Workplace Violence for Managers

The manager version of this video covers the ten warning signs seen in the employee version while offering additional content, such as how to hold information-gathering meetings, confront a bully, or terminate a problem employee.

A Positive Approach to Discipline

The old formula Discipline = Punishment may be a waste of time and money. What supervisors really need to focus on is solving the problem behavior. This employee discipline training video shows how to focus on respect and responsibility, creating a platform where the employee who's creating a problem agrees to be the one who solves it.

Successful Termination

Terminating employees can be the hardest part of management. In this termination training video, you'll learn to set expectations for job performance, utilize job descriptions and performance management, institute progressive discipline for problem employees, and dismiss employees fairly and legally.

Conflicts in the Workplace

While acknowledging common sources of conflict, this entertaining video provides eight specific, reliable solutions... Skills that help you put aside your differences, control your emotions, and move forward.

The Well-Managed Meeting

Proven methods that have a dramatic impact on holding effective business meetings. Effective meeting planning allows for engagement and teamwork while keeping the meeting on time and on track. We're all busy and can't afford to waste time with nonproductive meetings.

Breakthrough Listening

Communication is a critical part of every business environment. When there's a breakdown, we usually think the solution is to speak more clearly. But the solution is often in the listening. This communication video will teach your staff the skills that will make them better listeners—and better communicators.

Be Prepared for Meetings

You and your staff probably spend hours in meetings every week. With a little preparation, business meetings can be used as a tool to unify members of your team. Regaining control of your meetings can help you regain control of your entire workweek. This meeting management training video provides a detailed overview of how to prepare for—and conduct—effective meetings.

The Team Approach

Good teams build involvement, improve communication and cooperation, and generate innovative business solutions. They streamline decision making and expand competencies. Use this business training video to ensure that each successful goal your employees meet will increase confidence, allowing team members to understand their own skills and trust the skills of others.

Criticism: Giving and Taking

We all need criticism. It's a part of learning. This is a guide to taking criticism professionally, without defensiveness, and without feeling humiliated. Use this communication training video to establish a spirit of cooperation and growth, and create a more effective organization.

Legal Survival Skills for the Modern Manager

As a manager, you are expected to treat all of your employees evenhandedly and in compliance with the law. Every day, it seems, situations come up that challenge your good judgment and require you to make decisions that may be unpopular with one or another of your subordinates. This management training video explains critical legal issues that every manager needs to understand.

Be Prepared to Lead

Leadership development, a crucial part of business training, is a process of gaining self-awareness and confidence. Use this business training video to identify your own leadership style, how to capitalize on your strengths, and how to adapt your style to changing circumstances. Build essential business leadership skills and learn to avoid costly leadership errors.

Supervising for Quality

Your managers will learn to build supervisory skills that maintain discipline and command respect, without creating resentment. This management training video will help managers recognize their strengths and weaknesses, and will provide a benchmark for their improvement.

Avoiding Common Discipline Mistakes

Workplace discipline is difficult—not to mention legal issues, including potential accusations of discrimination, defamation of character, or wrongful discharge. This employee discipline training video helps you learn proper discipline techniques that help you stay out of legal hot water and focus on resolving the problems caused by underperforming employees.

It Won't Happen Here

This disaster preparedness video shows what happens in the hours and days after a major fire threatens a company's ability to do business. Stressing the importance of having a disaster preparedness plan, you'll learn the types of decisions that need to be made in a crisis in order to get your business running again.

Getting Things Done Through People

If you're totally swamped with work—or know other managers who need encouragement to delegate—this management training video gives you practical advice on how to leverage the increased productivity that comes with delegation, while improving morale.

How Supervisors Should Appraise Employee Performance

Employee reviews are probably the toughest aspect of a supervisor's job. But they are also one of the most important tasks a supervisor does. This management training video shows that commonsense rules, consistently applied, are the keys to an effective review process.

ADA & Disability Law

This management training video will teach your supervisory staff about the guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Managers will learn to overcome stereotypes when interviewing and hiring disabled individuals, supervise disabled employees, and develop reasonable accommodations that fit both the individual and the job.

EEO Compliance for Supervisors & Managers

There's a lot that managers need to know when it comes to EEO regulations. This management training video provides an introduction to major legislation and offers an action plan for keeping your employment decisions legal and unbiased.

Courage to Coach - Retail

Retail can be one of the hardest jobs there is. And supervising retail employees must be the hardest part of retail. This management training video will arm supervisors with the know-how to coach staff consistently and thoroughly. Although the scenarios take place in retail environments, the lessons apply to any supervisory situation.

Preventing Liability: The Leader's Role

What managers say and do in everyday situations can leave them and their companies open to costly lawsuits. This supervisor training video shows specific instances where careful thought would have averted serious consequences. Supervisors will learn that it is not only their actions but their inactions, errors and omissions that can lead to an expensive liability claim.

Cornerstones of Quality

Quality management programs can be boiled down to four cornerstone principles: continuous improvement, customer focus, employee involvement, and commitment to measurement and evaluation. This business training video bridges the gap between trendy phrases and actions that improve quality and help your business's bottom line.