Audio Packs - Allan Bonner Communications Management Inc.

Available audio packs:

• The SOCKOs® System
• Risk & Crisis Management
• Graduate Research & Writing Skills
• Unfolding Disasters: The Valdez Oil Spill and Other Case Studies
• The SOCKO® System: Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
• Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
• The Original SOCKOs® System
• Bonner Radio: The Best of Allan Bonner
• The Best of @Issue with Allan Bonner: The Environment and Health
• Sachez vous affirmer

SOCKOs® System Format: CD $19.95 Twenty per cent of all business communication is designed to clear up the confusion that the last piece of business communication created. The shop floor doesn't know what to do after reading mission, vision & value statements. Customers don't understand bullet point presentations and legislators and regulators are not reassured. The SOCKO^® communication system is the antidote. A SOCKO^® is a Strategic Overriding Communications and Knowledge Objective. A SOCKO^® is a way of thinking about complex topics and ordering information in a way that makes sense to both you and your audience. SOCKO^® is a way of editing, writing and prioritizing your messages. Once you make SOCKOs^®, you'll never go back to Qs & As, key messages, press lines, mission, vision or value statements again. This program can be augmented with a half-hour DVD on the topic. See approximately 30 minutes of video of the SOCKO system. Watch the dos, don'ts, tricks and tips in use in front of a live, network television studio audience. Excerpts from the author's radio and television appearances show media venues and techniques in the US, Canada and Europe in both public and private broadcasting. Our English and French language introductory videos show you how we use the SOCKO system in training high need clients.
Risk & Crisis Management Format: DVD $29.95 A risk is a threat that may or may not happen. Prudent managers distinguish between high frequency risks that have little impact, and low frequency risks that can have a devastating impact on people and organizations. Find out how to learn from past incidents and keep your organization safer. Risks can be physical threats such as fire, explosions and spills. Or risks can be threats to your reputation, supplies and market. Good security or loss prevention is not just perimeter security. It's secure supply and delivery chains, image and reputation. Fascinating case studies and an upbeat presentation make this audio learning system informative and enjoyable. Whether you're in loss prevention, writing a crisis plan for the first time or updating your plan to take pandemic planning into account, these materials are a great start. A crisis involves injury, loss of life or lasting effect on the environment. It taxes your response system, people and tools to the point where you may not be able to keep up. More importantly, a crisis causes people to question the legitimacy of your systems or even your organization. A disaster changes the world and creates new ways of doing business. You will often be blamed more for how you responded than what actually happened. Legislators, regulators, publics, media and victims ask, "What did you know, when did you know it, and what did you do." You must be able to answer. This audio learning program draws heavily on the curriculum Dr. Bonner covered as he studied to be the first North American to be awarded a post-graduate degree in risk, crisis and disaster management. This program is augmented with a half-hour DVD. Watch Allan in action during a 30 minute network TV special, recorded to celebrate 20 years in business. Here case studies and proven solutions. Recorded in front of a live studio audience, Allan leads the group through the principles that reduce risk in our lives and our organizations. Listen to a 90 minute audio course on risk and crisis management too. This audio track captures the curriculum Allan studied in his MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management at Leicester University in the UK. He was the first North American to be awarded this qualification, just before 9/11. There are four bonus interviews. Hear Manchester Inspector Lawrence Foster, Msc, in charge of public safety and counter terrorism. Lawrence's specialty is stadium safety to prevent soccer hooliganism. Bill Akerley speaks about safety at air shows, including a crash and lightening strike while he was on duty. You will hear how lightening can strike twice. 5th Dan Karate Sensei Patrice Williams speaks about risk and crisis management from a Martial Arts perspective. Here how the lessons of self-defense are also the lessons of corporate defense. General Ron Cheritan has been stationed in Washington, Cairo and Pakistan. He headed Canada's Counter Terrorism Task Force has been deployed during civil unrest . Allan and General Cheriton were under contract to the Department of National Defense on several occasions. They travelled to most military bases in the country and worked at DND HQ in Ottawa. They became good friends and subsequently worked together for other clients including international diplomats. General Cheriton takes risk and crisis management into listeners' daily lives. He also addresses how crisis responders should interact with military responders, if it comes to that.
Graduate Research and Writing Skills Format: DVD $29.95 The modern office is swimming in written documents. email, transcribed voice mail, print-outs of web pages, faxes, letters, reports and other documents cover the desks of managers. Despite our oral culture and instant email, good writing is still at a premium. Clear writing saves time and money. Good writing is also a statement about your abilities, seniority and how seriously colleagues and customers should treat your communication. Tips, tricks, dos & don'ts will save you time and money. Learn editing skills and ways to break through writers' block. The companion audio pack deals with turbo writing, the dining room table strategy and the dressing gown strategy. The 3-hour video features clips from network television programs and tips on research skills. Watch approximately three hours of video lecture on research techniques. This law school lecture is augmented with video clips on negotiation, dispute resolution, crisis management and clear communication. Listen to about 90 minutes of audio lecture on writing skills for communicators in business and government. This is backed up by our web-based workbook and diagrams.
Unfolding Disasters: The Valdez Oil Spill and Other Case Studies Format: DVD $39.95 More than twenty years after this major environmental incident, this case study is still core curriculum at colleges, universities and in key-note speeches at conferences. But what really happened in Alaska and what lessons should crisis management professionals take from the event? Dr. Allan Bonner trained some of the responders who handled the event in Prince William Sound, and then ran major simulations in the oil and chemical industry to help prevent the next spill. Allan has spent hundreds of hours speaking with dozens of responders and reflecting on their experiences of the event. Allan also wrote his MSc thesis on what really happened. This research included a comprehensive review of scientific literature on the effects of oil in water. This powerful lecture also makes reference to prominent case studies from Europe and North America to show listeners what they may experience in their own event. Better yet, the lecture shows how to prepare for the unforeseen. This program can be augmented with a half-hour video and 20,000 word written analysis of the event. How does a risk or a threat become a crisis? What turns a crisis into a disaster? All events are not made the same. Why do some events that have little impact and no loss of life make the news, change legislation and linger in our minds, and other events that had devastating effects come and go and fade from memory? The best way to find out is with this chronicle of unfolding disasters-the case method of learning from past events. More than two hours of audio narration draws heavily on the Valdez oil spill, in part because the author has been to Alaska and trained workers who responded to the spill there. Allan has also conducted training, wrote crisis plans and ran simulations in the resource sector for 20 years. On this DVD you'll also hear of many other crises and disasters in order to capture principles and lessons for your own organization. There are bonus video clips and two very special audio interviews. One is with the late Charles Gaines, Deputy Fire Chief of Oklahoma City who was second on the scene during the bombing. Charles and Allan spoke at a conference in Dubai together and became friends. Allan had Charles visit Toronto and Ottawa to speak with clients, so they could learn from this generous and knowledgeable man. The other is with Ken Kansas who worked with Exxon for 34 years and was Manager of Communication during the Valdez Oil Spill. Responsible for the Exxon energy pavilion at EPCOT Centre at Disneyworld, known for handling the energy crises in the 1970s, the name change from Esso to Exxon, philanthropy, advertising, the Exxon Energy Cube educational project and attitudinal research. It's rare to get to speak with a corporate communications professional with this varied experience and a $60 million annual budget.
The SOCKO® System: Public Speaking & Presentation Skills Format: DVD $29.95 Public speaking is said to be the number one fear among North American adults. This fear results in wasted time for both the speaker and the audience. This is too high a price to pay in business and government. Here's an opportunity to start with the basics—the invitation to speak. This course deals with research, brainstorming and writing remarks that work for you. Then there's the boardroom. How to keep your interest and energy up so that your argument persuades? The tips and tricks in this course can make the difference between getting invited back or getting stalled in your career. You'll be encouraged to rehearse—in the mirror, on audio or video, and in front of friends and colleagues. Non-verbal communication is responsible for 50 to 75% of your impact. This audio course and the companion DVD show you how to achieve full marks for positive body language. This course is personally delivered by Dr. Allan Bonner who has coached 12 heads of government, senior Ambassadors in 30 world capitals, military officers, peacekeepers and countless senior industrialists. Now you can have access to the same information at a fraction of the cost of a private course. The is the SOCKO system on network television, recorded in real time, live to tape, in front of a studio audience. This also contains 90 minutes on audio instruction in Speaking and Presentation Skills, backed up by our web-based workbook of diagrams and checklists. . You'll see dozens of bonus video clips and hear a full length interview with veteran journalists Hal Jones, Washington, London and Moscow bureau chief and Joe Cote, one of the longest-serving morning show hosts in the world. This program can be augmented with a half-hour video and/or CD on the topic.
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Format: DVD $29.95 Watch approximately 30 minutes of Allan's network television program and see distributive bargaining in action. See the live studio audience grapple with the problem of dividing $1000 between a rich and poor person who have different uses for the money. What's fair? Watch Allan mediate the class case of two negotiators who want the same lemon and how he satisfies at least 24 people in a two-party negotiation. Learn what your "I Quit" position is in a negotiation. Find out how setting your "range of settlement" can enhance your bargaining power. This is inspired by the curriculum from both the Harvard Program on Negotiation and the Osgoode Hall Law School dispute resolution program. Allan is a graduate of both. If your dispute has the potential to become a crisis you'll benefit from the bonus 90 minute Crisis and Disaster Management distance education course. If your event may become public, you'll need to use the 90 minute Public Affairs and Media Training distance learning course too. These distance education course were originally sold at $129 and included a workbook, wallet card and pocket guide. They've been re-bundled in celebration of our 20 year in business. This DVD also contains dozens of bonus video clips and a surprise interview with an international diplomat whose job was to respond to crises everywhere in the world.
The Original SOCKOs® System Format: CD $19.95 This is the original and first SOCKO program, just transferred to CD and edited for your use in the car, while exercising or anywhere you can play a CD. Hear about 75 minutes of how the SOCKOT system can apply to speaking, writing and presenting, on camera, on mic and on the record. Strategic-because you thought about it, practiced it and rehearsed it Overriding-because it's the big picture, tip of the iceberg and elevator pitch Communications-simplicity, brevity, clarity, repetition is the key to oral communication Knowledge-the facts, data, statistics, expressed in an understandable way Objective-applause, handshake, nodding head, media clip, headline, cutline, picture, lead, sidebar, cutline-you decide and then execute.
Bonner Radio: The Best of Allan Bonner Format: CD Radio is a sleeper medium. It's in the car, on in the kitchen and portable. Here's excerpts from Allan's analysis and commentary on some of the world's great networks. Hear the difference between public radio in the US, Canada and the UK. Hear long-form commentary on US private radio and short hits on all-news formats. This CD is not for sale, but given away for review, commentary and educational purposes.
The Best of @Issue with Allan Bonner: The Environment and Health Format: DVD Whether you trace environmental history to the photography of Ansel Adams, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Barry Commoner's four environmental laws, the founding of Greenpeace, the Brundtland Report or any other time or event, it is surely one of the most important public policy issues of our time. Environmental matters are linked to health. It's appropriate that Allan devoted several hour-long TV talk shows to environmental and health matters. As a young teenager, he participated in Greenpeace protests in Vancouver, before the organization was officially founded. He was a delegate to an early UNESCO conference on the environment. Later, Allan studied environmental issues in his MSc and LLM programs. As a consultant, Allan has worked on controversial plans to build municipal landfills, hospitals, petrochemical plants and on overfishing off the east coast and trans-border air quality issues. He has coached clients to appear in front of the energy board, and regulatory hearings on oil sands expansion. This DVD is not for sale, but is complimentary for those who want to review how media spokespeople present environmental issues and learn from their approaches.
Sachez vous affirmer Format: DVD $49.95 (includes one of our free DVDs) Here's the complete SOCKO® system in French. Three audio courses on one DVD. You will receive three, roughly 90 minute courses on: The SOCKO System Speaking and Presentation Skills Media Training and Public Affairs This is over four hours of instruction with visual aids and web-based workbook, pocket guide diagrams and wallet cards. Each course originally sold for $129 each and now all three are on one DVD.
Our Original Audio Courses are Still Available: 1. Speaking of Writing 2. Public Affairs and Media Training 3. Speaking and Presentation Skills Each package contains about 90 minutes of instruction on CD, a workbook, laminated wallet card and pocket guide. Ask about how to reduce the original retail price of $129.00 when you bundle just one of these with your other purchases. For example, you only need either numbers 2 or 3, not both, when you couple that purchase with other books, CDs or DVDs. That gives you reusable support materials, and will reduce the price to $99.00.