You are wasting a chance here by only presenting the failure side of things. The fun part of the 80s videos was to see the contrast between wrong and right plus the explanation for it. No one of your promotional stuff hints to that. As a customer one doesn't see/feel/understand a reason to purchase your product. A product from a company claiming to be experts in convincing. You failed there. How to improve? Just show two complete skids of your trainings, a Cleese one and a contemporary one, to convince future customers that it's worth to consider buying from you.
Hey there! Thanks for the feedback and we appreciate your point! As montages like this simply portray snippets of what we would deem the funniest or best bits of our content, they often tend to show more of what not to do rather than what to do! For a more in depth look at our full library, we would always encourage people to book a free demo via our website, or follow us on social media where we post clips of our more recent content and new releases :)
I live in Brazil and when I first saw the old version of this movie I got amazed by the way so many important lessons are taught in such a creative and didatic way. Congratulations for all the people envolved in this great job!
Absolutely brilliant training video originally from the 1980's? . A real blast from the past - 'Mann & Co'. days! Remarkable collection of top class actors and actresses, superbly scripted (by the great JC himself) and delivered. Quite hilarious but cleverly getting across crucial 'management' concepts at the same time. Almost in the category as Fawlty Towers, but rather less well known. Thanks for posting...
Just send a curiosity outside to punch in Mr haplas and this video came up. it was used in my customer service training when I worked at a retail store in Oregon back in the mid-90s. I don't know how I miss the fact that Dawn French was in this one! Corny movie but very effective in terms of training
Part of the reason for some many celebrities, is that Video Arts is (or at least was), very much a business i think started and ran By john Cleese. Secondly, you tend to learn more when you are emotionally engaged - and laughter is one of the easiest (and most pleasant) ways to achieve this. Most "training" consists largely of boring people telling boring facts & figures to more bored people. The ability to learn when you find the subject desperately desperately drab awful and dull is limited. However. If you can take a sprinkling of popular comedians and illustrate something with humour (usually showing how NOT to do something first), then you allow people to engage far more readily - as the pervasive boredom has been replaced by a relaxed, receptive group of people laughing, smiling and even exchanging thoughts of their own. Which would you remember more readily - a very funny 3 minute comedy skit (with a 5 minute good humoured chat afterwards) or 8 loooong minutes of some crushing bore in a polyester suit, banging on about something while you doodled pictures of flying earwigs with your pencil? So, in a globule, it is perhaps, not so much "celebrities" as "comedians" - because we learn more while we are happily emotionally engaged. Sadly, i have not seen their video on "How to be Succinct".
I started with the gas company in 1972 John Cleese did a 12 part video on how to treat the customer, it was hilarious, i have never been able to find it, hope one day somebody uploads it to You Tube.
Thank you so much for posting this in the quality and treatment it deserves. I have used this lecture thoroughly in my Graphic Design thesis and it is just amazing (not to say curiously mythical) that this has finally landed here as I'm on the verge of handing in my final essay. Long live John Cleese and the eternal quest for the balance between the open and closed mode! P.S.: Master Bobby McFerrin has a very similar way of thinking applied to music, as he beautifully puts here in this short video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fYXFxP8P23s.html
We had 4 engineering videos on my electrical training in 1981. Hilarious and unforgettable. They might seem dated now, but the principles covered were right to the point. I was amazed at how well the actors understood the subject beneath all that humour.
The videoarts link is broken ... which is a shame. When I was at DEC in 84, they used the Cleese series as part of our training. Would love to watch them all again
This is not the full original. Does anyone know where to find the original online for viewing? I'd like to schedule a meeting to determine when we can have a meeting to show the original "Meetings, Bloody Meetings!" during the meeting.
