Movie of the Week: Next Steps
Football season has just begun and so our feature film is from the locker room…a scene from the movie Any Given Sunday.
This is a good one to show your team if they need encouragement to keep on pushing, inch by inch, toward the goal.
In case football isn’t your thing or in case showing a movie with this message is not the best next step for your team…
don’t worry! There are many other options in our cineplex. Scroll below to see all the choices. You can watch one or all for the same price.
So grab some popcorn and enjoy!
Movie of the Week: What about Bob?
“There’s NO way!”
That’s what we heard Wilma say as she stood at the bottom of that uncountable number of steps to be climbed. And all in those high heels.
She has been standing there for quite some time now.
Is she frozen with fright?
Or indecision?
Maybe she doesn’t know how?
Everyone is talking about how she is procrastinating.
Whatever it is, she feels bad about herself – morale and productivity at rock bottom.
How can her manager or leader help? Read more
Movie of the Week: Mastering BIG ROCKS
The BIG ROCK Theory is a powerful tool for staying on top of the never ending avalanche of material and ideas and options and tasks and networking opportunities and on and on. But like all tools, it takes practice to use skillfully. And of course, it does no good if left in the drawer.
So grab some popcorn and enjoy one or more of these quick movies to introduce or reinforce the concept; use as a discussion starter or to deepen the conversation if you’ve already started it. And to reinforce the important work of not just knowing about The BIG ROCK Theory…but mastering BIG ROCKS. Doesn’t it look like fun (at left)?! Read more
Movie of the Week: Stop the Busy-ness
Busy busy like a bunch of ants.
But they have a purpose. Each has a role. And responsibility for filling it. All the activity is for a reason.
What are WE busy about? What a great question posed in our Quote of the Week.
Have you thought about it? Discussed it with your coach? And your team?
Use one or both of these movie clips as a discussion starter. Read more
Movie of the Week: On leaving things undone
Well – look at this!! From Studio 5 in Utah – hosts Brooke Walker and Darin Adams talking with Julie Hanks, LCSW, Owner and Director of Wasatch Family Therapy, sharing tips for simplifying your day and mastering the art of leaving things undone.
The examples are from the more personal side of life but they can serve as triggers for ideas in the business world. So grab some popcorn and enjoy! Read more
Movie of the Week: Too Much To Do
This is a perfect video for our Theme for the Week: Doing Too Much. It’s a fun but all too real depiction of office life these days. Share this movie to raise awareness and kick off a discussion about what it’s like in your office and ways to take “corrective” action for improved morale and productivity.
Grab the popcorn and enjoy this just over three minute movie. Read more
Movie of the Week: Help Good Dogs Win
Today’s double feature provides reinforcing ideas to help the good dogs win.
The first feature helps with the mean dogs inside our heads. Operation Mindcrime: Getting the Edge Over Your Head features C.J. and Todd, the Metal Motivators. An excerpt from their description of the video:
Disciplining your mind is like bridling a beast—and taming the beast requires consistent control of your own head.
Warning: Preview for language.
Then grab the popcorn and enjoy this under three minute movie. Read more
Movie of the Week: Dead Poets Society
Our Movie of the Week puts a perfect wrapper on our theme this week: New Eyes for Discovery.
If you know about the movie, skip the overview, grab the popcorn and push play.
Overview: Dead Poets Society is set in 1959 at a conservative (and boring) prep school. Robin Williams plays the role of a new English teacher with a very unique teaching style. He inspires his students to think for themselves which requires them to have “new eyes”. He tells the students that they may call him “O Captain! My Captain”(the title of a Walt Whitman poem) when and if they feel daring. He is eventually asked to leave the school but boy! has he made an impact on his students!
Grab the popcorn and enjoy. Read more
Movie of the Week: The Replacements
Our Movie of the Week puts a perfect wrapper on our theme this week: New Starts and New Endings.
If you are just tuning in this week, take a quick look at our Quote of the Week: Time for a New Start?
For how-to resources, we offered: 10 Lists Leading to New Endings and Simple Question. New Ending.
Here are two more ways to start now to make a new ending - demonstrated in these two clips from the movie, The Replacements. Read more
Movies for Independence Day
My son spent the last five weeks in Spain. I joined him for the final week. It was a wonderful place – full of beauty, rich history and kind, passionate people. Even so – we were both very glad to return home to America today. Made us even more appreciative of Independence Day.
I was pleased to be welcomed by these two videos recommended by Mark Young at Baby Boomer Talk Online….
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