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Communication is at the center of multi-national organizations, business negotiations, training and education. This program provides a comprehensive, clearly illustrated introduction to communicating in the global community, leading the audience through the initial stages of self-awareness and awareness of others in all interactions.
Dr. Milton Bennett, co-founder of the Intercultural Communications Institute explores and illustrates the following topics: ·culture, acculturation ·verbal, non-verbal communication ·cultural values, cultural variation ·stereotyping ·stages of ethnocentrism ·intercultural competence.
Here is a fantastic Black History celebration resource for your organization. This CD-ROM contains Black History biographies (use in your ezines or newsletters) of 38 African-American men and women who have made a contribution to the United States, 3 in-depth biographies, Quotations from Black History icons, dozens of Black History images, and the complete texts of Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, and Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery.
CD-ROM Details:
Ralph Abernathy
Richard Allen
Benjamin Banneker
Ida Wells-Barnett
Mary McLeod Bethune
George Washington Carver
Alexander Crummell
Paul Cuffe
Charles Drew
W.E.B. Du Bois
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
James Farmer
Jessie Fauset
E. Franklin Frazier
Lorraine Hansberry
Benjamin Hooks
James Langston Hughes
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Zora Neale Hurston
Jesse Jackson
Harriet Jacobs
Joe Louis
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Cynthia A. McKinney
Carole Moseley-Braun
Colin Powell
A. Philip Randolph
Jackie Robinson
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Margaret Walker
Booker T. Washington
Ida Wells-Barnett
Roy Wilkins
August Wilson
Malcolm X
Andrew Young
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
3 In-depth biographies:
Benjamin Banneker - Inventor and writer
Charles L. Reason - Mathematician
Thomas Fuller - Human Calculator
Quotations on Life from Blacks
Nearly 200 quotations for ezines, newsletters and reading enjoyment.
Dozens of Black History images & photographs
2 complete Books:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
This is a great companion piece to Hope Deferred, a binder of articles, speeches, and documents.
Video - Purchase $350.00 (Item#PDDC-IRCCCVHumanMind)
Cultural values are an intrinsic part of all Chinese business relationships. Successful business with the Chinese are contingent upon developing an understanding of the essential ethics of life and work in the Chinese culture. These values influence interactions, relationships, associations with authority, patterns of thought and styles of communication.
In this thoughtfully constructed program, Dr. George Renwick, a well-known management consultant, leads the audience into the mind and world of Chinese culture and its close relationship with business practices. Through conversations with Hai Yan Zhang, a Chinese woman, Renwick illustrates that traditional Chinese culture and values interwoven in business practices.
Video - Purchase $550.00/$450.00 (Item#PDDC-IRCCrossCulture)
The Cross-Cultural Conference Room program provides unique and timely insight into the global business world. The program demonstrates how teams of experienced managers from the United States, South America, and Japan, all working for the same multi-national company, attempt to solve a product failure dilemma.
At first, each work team tries to reach agreement on the best course of action. However, because of the great disparity in their decisions, two of the teams come together to reach a final recommendation. The non-scripted deliberations bring out striking ethical and cultural differences in decision-making, teamwork, and management styles. By viewing how the management teams discussed the same problem, and came to sharply different conclusions, you will observe cultural differences that are rarely recognized and seldom understood.
One of the beauties of this exceptional program is that it is designed to be used with or without an on-site trainer, with or without your participants coming together as a group, and with or without individualized (at-home) learning modules. This means you may mix or match any of the program's components to meet your needs.
The package includes one resource guide, business case study, videotape, DVD, and CD-ROM. The CD-ROM, which can be used by individuals as a self-directed learning and/or in a group setting, outlines fundamental concepts in intercultural relations and explains the dynamics of the management team's deliberations through exercises, text, animation, and video.
For Purchase $550.00
For Non-Profit and Individual Trainers Purchase $450.00
This powerful two-part video program, with an accompanying comprehensive instructional guide and an extensive bibliography, addresses difficult situations in contemporary U.S. educational institutions. Educators, trainers and managers have found this unique program an essential tool in meeting the challenges posed by diverse groups.
Part one is a docu-drama that depicts a classroom where conflicts occur based on cultural clashes. In this scenario, differences are often perceived as deficiencies, while notions of cultural variation go unexamined. Neither the students nor the professor are able to embrace the diverse classroom as an opportunity, but instead all of the participants feel dissatisfied and frustrated. The result: American students and the professor are annoyed and often combative and many of the international students become discouraged and withdrawn. Expectations about learning and teaching are not addressed. Historical and personal experiences are not explored. The cultural gap widens and the educational impact is lowered, rather than enriched. An opportunity is lost.
Part two provides an analysis of the incident depicted in part-one: the communication patterns, learning styles, mutual negative perceptions and differing assumptions that lead to conflict. An interdisciplinary team of experts comment on the behaviors and values in the classroom that are neither recognized nor examined. this program explores problems, and challenges the audience to seek ways to resolve them. Viewers are guided through the challenging process of bringing the reflective self into consciousness.
Although the setting is a university, the program's application extends beyond the confines of the classroom to the boardroom and multiple international settings. Participants have found that reactions to the material facilitate provocative discussions that bridge communication gaps, resolve conflict and expand perspectives of interactions and relations.
Video - Purchase $695.00, Rental 7 Days $195.00 (Item#PDDC-COADIV004-VTK)
Welcome back to Diversity Diner! This follow-up to the best-selling and multi-award-winning Diversity: Food for Thought further emphasizes the need to understand diversity. While Diversity: Food for Thought stressed valuing differences among employees, The Diversity Advantage: Food for Thought explores the positive economic benefits of a diverse workforce. Get reacquainted with the diner’s owner Dom, waitress Toni and short-order cook Phil from Diversity: Food for Thought. As Dom and some of his patrons become involved in discussion we learn valuable lessons about diversity and how “differences” create the “strengths” that every organization needs to grow and succeed.
This program will engage and enlighten all employees by focusing on these key points:
Diversity is not a “trend” but the new “reality”
Common ground
Cultural differences
Open communication and constructive feedback
Respectful disagreement.
This Trainer’s Toolkit contains the video program, The Diversity Advantage: Food For Thought, 50 employee handbooks, an expanded leader’s guide, and a laminated poster (Call 1-253-759-6639 for purchase of additional handbooks, guides, and posters).
Video - Purchase $695.00, Rental 7 Days $195.00 (Item#PDDC-COADIV002-VTK)
This new Trainer’s Toolkit® will teach your managers and employees that when differences are valued, discrimination decreases and productivity increases. The unique video program, which takes place in a diner, uses the conversations between the owner and his diverse customers to emphasize the importance of understanding and accepting individual differences.
Respecting individual differences
Importance of open communication
Dealing with conflict
This Trainer’s Toolkit contains the video program, Diversity: Food For Thought, 50 employee handbooks, an expanded leader’s guide, a laminated poster, and 5 menu reminder cards (Call 1-253-759-6639 for purchase of additional handbooks, guides, posters, and reminder cards).
Item #COADIV002-VTK; 20 minutes; purchase $695; 7-day rental $195; additional menu reminder cards available ($5.00/pack of ten). CD-ROM also available.
Establishing a comprehensive diversity vision is the first step to an innovative, supportive, and profitable multicultural environment. Including people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds is absolutely critical to business success. In this group training video program, the participants explore the strategic components of a diversity program. They learn the process of creating a vision for diversity in your organization and, when the vision has been endorsed, how to implement diversity training.
Video - Purchase $595.00, Rental 7 Days $125.00 (Item#PDDC-COADIV001-VHS)
Internationally-known diversity speaker Hattie Hill-Storks explores the barriers and misunderstandings which impede the development and success of our increasingly diverse workforce. This program combines unique video vignettes and seminar discussions to create a lively training format.
Today’s changing workforce requires that managers understand how to harness the resources of human diversity. This manual explores the multiple aspects of diversity, including cultural and gender differences.
Item #COADIV000-MAN; 80 pages; purchase $135.
Purchase with video: $95.
For Purchase with the video Diversity in the Workplace $95.00
Video - Purchase $595.00, Rental 7 Days $165.00 (Item#PDDC-COADIV005-VHS)
Diversity Now tells the story of a small group of diverse co-workers confronting concerns and fears associated with people from cultures different from their own and reconfirming the importance of maintaining a culture free of biases and false assumptions. Their lessons and realizations provide the training points for an updated and inspirational diversity training session.
Diversity Now discusses the following important topics:
If you want to receive the benefits of diversity, this book will help you understand what is necessary for diversity training and how to implement a workable plan.
This book works alone or as a nice campanion piece to the video Diversity Dynamics (above).
Like the feature film Glory, this movie tells the story of the much decorated 442nd Regiment through the eyes of its white commander played by Van Johnson. The 442nd Regiment, comprised of Nisei - loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry - exhibits heroism far beyond the call of duty, overcoming the Nazis as well as the extreme prejudice of white Americans who cannot accept "Japs" on their side.
In the entire course of the war, only 10 people were convicted of spying for the empire of Japan -- and all of them were Caucasian. The video comes with a information on the Japanese internment and context questions about fear and hatred.
During World War II the U.S. Government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These individuals, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, were sent to ten concentration camps built throughout the western interior of the United States.
The dollar loss suffered by Japanese-Americans is unknown. After the war Congress permitted victims to seek compensation from the government, but failure to produce any documentary records demanded by the government was punishable by a $10,000 fine and five years imprisonment. Victims who had already lost thousands of dollars and several years of liberty to the federal government did not rush to take advantage of the offer. Those who did make claims often received compensation far below actual loss. Nearly fifty years passed before the U.S. government formally made applogies and redress.
The video comes with a information on the Japanese internment and context questions about fear and hatred. This video is a great teaching tool that utilizes the entertainment medium to enlighten.
This practical resource provides guidelines to ensure that managers make correct decisions about affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, age and sex discrimination, and sexual harassment.
Here is a collection of articles, documents, and speeches with limited reprint rights that you can duplicate and distribute throughout your organization. These instruments offer an exciting way to educate Americans about their history in general and about Black History specifically.
3-RING BINDER of 12 Articles/Documents/Speeches w/ limited reprint license
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Ain't I a Woman
Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign (1853)
An address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States of America
Blood Red Record
Exploring the Buffalo Soldiers
Hope Defered
World War I African American Historical Record
African Americans as Infantry Replacements in WWII
Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights by President John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy's speech on the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is a great companion piece to Black History, a CD-ROM filled with African American biographies, books, images, and quotations.
This feature film on DVD starring Jackie Robinson (as himself) and Ruby Dee chronicles the rise of Robinson from UCLA to his breakthrough as the first black man to play baseball in the major league. The film deals honestly with racial issues of the time. The movie lets us realize how far we've come, by showing us what passed for racial enlightenment in 1950.
The video comes with a biography of Jackie Robinson and black history context questions. This video is a great teaching tool that utilizes the entertainment medium to enlighten.
Before there was Muhammed Ali, there was Joe Louis. Here was a fantastic boxer who was a hero to millions of Americans in the 30s and 40s. This feature film stars real life boxer Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms, and James Edwards. The DVD features actual fight footage of the real Louis in action.
The video comes with a biography of Joe Louis and black history context questions.
This video is a great teaching tool that utilizes the entertainment medium to enlighten.
Video - Purchase $695.00, Rental 7 Days $195.00 (Item#PDDC-COARSP000-VTK)
This NEW Trainer’s Toolkit® will demonstrate to your employees how prejudgement, mistaken assumptions and fear can contribute to malicious situations, leading to hurt relationships, lower production and high employee turnover.
Disabilities
Sexual orientation
Stereotypes
Racial discrimination
This Trainer’s Toolkit contains the video program, Respect in the Workplace: Avoiding Discrimination, 10 desk references, an expanded leader’s guide, and a laminated poster (Call 1-253-759-6639 for additional purchases of references, guides, and posters).
This program is an essential tool for any manager or human resources director who has to deal with and pull diverse individuals together to function together as a productive team. Strong individuals from diverse backgrounds are often challenged when the need to pull together and function as a productive team. This program confronts audiences and educates them about negative stereotyping and racial conflict in the workplace, helping them to understand varying perspectives and to take advantage of their differences. A poignant and honest discussion of real-life workplace conflicts, this program helps audiences, including corporate management, develop awareness in cross-cultural team building and creating an effective and efficient workplace.
With candor and humor, Joan Fountain, a leading management consultant, brings the audience into some of her own experiences as an African-American woman, trainer and teacher. Thoughtful and concrete suggestions for teaching and training are interwoven with provocative personal stories. Fountain addresses topics including: ·racism and cultural identity ·the power of words ·post-discrimination trauma ·nonverbal communication ·sexual orientation ·the power of healing.
For an organization to be successful, people need to understand and value the unique cultures of people from different backgrounds. Your organization should be aware of the positive economic impact diversity can bring.
This best-selling group training video program helps participants understand what makes people different. As participants learn to value differing cultures, they will take the first steps toward changing their perceptions and improving their interactions with others.
New skills will be needed as the future brings more cultural diversity and with it the need to build a shared culture of mutual respect and understanding. Complementing the best-seller, Working Together I, this group training video program takes participants beyond valuing diversity and into building diversity skills.
Participants learn more about the value of managing diversity at work. They also learn skills to work more effectively with people of differing backgrounds and how to put newly discovered values about cultural diversity into practice.
Like the feature film Glory, this movie tells the story of the much decorated 442nd Regiment through the eyes of its white commander played by Van Johnson. The 442nd Regiment, comprised of Nisei - loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry - exhibits heroism far beyond the call of duty, overcoming the Nazis as well as the extreme prejudice of white Americans who cannot accept "Japs" on their side.
This feature film on DVD starring Jackie Robinson (as himself) and Ruby Dee chronicles the rise of Robinson from UCLA to his breakthrough as the first black man to play baseball in the major league. The film deals honestly with racial issues of the time. The movie lets us realize how far we've come, by showing us what passed for racial enlightenment in 1950.
Before there was Muhammed Ali, there was Joe Louis. Here was a fantastic boxer who was a hero to millions of Americans in the 30s and 40s. This feature film stars real life boxer Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms, and James Edwards. The DVD features actual fight footage of the real Louis in action.
