Videos – Meetings & Interviews

From No to Yes (27 min.)

Getting everybody’s attention in a meeting is often just a matter of being prepared to listen to the others. The film presents The Art ofPersuasion, an art that must be mastered by each person involved in holding a meeting, where the road to agreement could be strewn with acrimony or conflicts. The film demonstrates that agreement can only be reached through active listening, inviting other ideas and building on them.

Meetings, Bloody Meetings (30 min.)

Meetings can be an instrument for solving problems and exchanging information – but they can also be boring and frustrating. This best selling film defines the five skills that transform a gathering into a professionally run business meeting: preparing each meeting, informing the others what is it about, planning the agenda, controlling the discussion and recording the decisions.

The Dreaded Appraisal (29 min.)

The goal of an appraisal interview is to analyse the past, consolidate the present and plan the future. The interview is, as you can imagine, a source of stress, both for the employee and for the supervisor. But if it is done properly it can have a very beneficial effect both on the participants and on the organization they belong to. The film shows what will happen if the discussion is not done properly, and also ways to prepare it in a way that it will be a success.

I’d Like a Word with You (28 min.)

In other words: discipline interview, talking about performance that needs improvement. The film starts by showing the wrong way to conduct a discipline interview, and later demonstrates, how the right attitude and approach of a manager during such an interview can keep people motivated and focused on reaching the agreed goals.