Building Productive Workplaces is a dynamic, interactive video-assisted workshop for total quality through participative change.

Marvin Weisbord's broad experience in the field, together with the cohesive design of the workshop, make this an excellent, cost-effective way to bring productivity to any workplace.  Specific skills that participants will learn include:

• New guidelines for managing whirlwind technological change in a global marketplace
• How to apply whole systems thinking to improving total quality

Its modular structure and flexible format serve equally well as a series or one-day training program, or for inclusion into a longer conference or training event.

The workshop integrates principles and theory with the opportunity for participants to explore their own workplaces from a whole systems perspective.  It offers an ideal way for people to :

• Understand why economics, technology, and people are inseparable ingredients of quality improvement programs
• Discover the Who and What of continuous improvement in your organization

Experience what happens when they work together to improve the whole system

In five fast-paced videos, Weisbord sets the stage for each segment of the workshop.  The videos are richly illustrated with documentary footage, interviews with key workplace innovators, live action filmed at actual workplaces, and summaries of key concepts.

• Module 1-Introduction
• Module 2-Scientific Management
• Module 3-Origins of Participative Management
• Module 4- Systems Thinking
• Module 5- 21^st Century Managing

Workshop participants select and work on their own cases, applying the "Learning Curve" to devise action strategies for continuous improvement.

A comprehensive Leader's Guide and Participant's Workbook make case selection and workshop management easy and fun.  People experience dignity, meaning, and community as they enlarge their ability to use technologies for improving economic results.

"The workshop was excellent. The team produced a groundswell of issues that were embedded in the organization. It wouldn't have happened without the structure of the workshop."

George Gammon, Exxon Chemical, Baton Rouge

"The workshop helped them unlock their problems and move forward in a way notheing else could."

Gregory Forsythe, The Leadership Bridge

"I am glad the Building Productive Workplaces is being received so well, it certainly derserves to be, given the incredible wealth of knowledge and understanding that Marv Weisbord imparts on five short videotapes.  What intrigues me most is that the workshop takes no more than a single day to create a state of readiness in groups."

Bob Fournier, Esso Chemical Canada