Following are good movies you can show for training:
1. Men of Honour (Its a man's dream come true about joining Navy)
2. Cast Away (Its the story about Hope, Courage and Survival)
3. Mother India ( A story of a woman and her two sons)
4. Do Ankhen Bara Haath (A cop's novel effort to change the criminals)
Regards
Ravikanth
From India, Hyderabad
1. Men of Honour (Its a man's dream come true about joining Navy)
2. Cast Away (Its the story about Hope, Courage and Survival)
3. Mother India ( A story of a woman and her two sons)
4. Do Ankhen Bara Haath (A cop's novel effort to change the criminals)
Regards
Ravikanth
From India, Hyderabad
Readers of this thread,
Thanks for contributions so far. I especially liked the suggestions to use "Life is Beautiful" (Himanshu) "Pygmalion" (Rajendra) and animal documentaries (Kusum). I am not familiar with some of the obviously classic Indian films.
For me the film has to capture something special to make a powerful learning metaphor. While Rocky, of course, taps into the universal mythology of the underdog prevailing against the odds (again and again again and soon to be again once more) it doesn't qualify (in my humble opinion) as a film that uniquely captures a powerful learning metaphor in the way that, say, Pymalion does. [The Pygmalion metaphor is so powerful that it has found its way into management-speak "the Pygmalion Effect".] For me to use up the participant's time the movie, or short clip, needs to do something more than ensure participants enjoy it. It needs to communicate a metaphor or exemplify something more powerfully or more succinctly than the alternatives available to the course designer.
Clarence Worley's (played by Christian Slater) speech to Alabama Whitman (played by Patricia Arquette) on the roof near the billboard in Quentin Tarantino's screenplay "True Romance" says something special about commitment, for example.
But I was really thinking about whole movies. A couple more I thought about since this thread began include:
The Flight of the Phoenix (the recent remake is no better than the original and, like the original, still lacks a decent effort at making the rebuilt aircraft look real) is a very good team dynamics case study and emphasises the imortant themes of planning, authorisation and hard won interdependence.
I have wondered about using Glengarry Glen Ross for sales training but ocncluded that it would be better for sales leadership training on the basis that it might depress sales staff. However, I did a google search using the search terms "Glengarry Glen Ross used for training (without the inverted commas) which yielded lots of ideas about the application of this film to training.
Sliding Doors is another film that invites the possiblity of alternative realities and self determination of one's life outcomes.
Thanks for the ideas.....let's keep them coming.
Bill
From Vietnam, Hanoi
Thanks for contributions so far. I especially liked the suggestions to use "Life is Beautiful" (Himanshu) "Pygmalion" (Rajendra) and animal documentaries (Kusum). I am not familiar with some of the obviously classic Indian films.
For me the film has to capture something special to make a powerful learning metaphor. While Rocky, of course, taps into the universal mythology of the underdog prevailing against the odds (again and again again and soon to be again once more) it doesn't qualify (in my humble opinion) as a film that uniquely captures a powerful learning metaphor in the way that, say, Pymalion does. [The Pygmalion metaphor is so powerful that it has found its way into management-speak "the Pygmalion Effect".] For me to use up the participant's time the movie, or short clip, needs to do something more than ensure participants enjoy it. It needs to communicate a metaphor or exemplify something more powerfully or more succinctly than the alternatives available to the course designer.
Clarence Worley's (played by Christian Slater) speech to Alabama Whitman (played by Patricia Arquette) on the roof near the billboard in Quentin Tarantino's screenplay "True Romance" says something special about commitment, for example.
But I was really thinking about whole movies. A couple more I thought about since this thread began include:
The Flight of the Phoenix (the recent remake is no better than the original and, like the original, still lacks a decent effort at making the rebuilt aircraft look real) is a very good team dynamics case study and emphasises the imortant themes of planning, authorisation and hard won interdependence.
I have wondered about using Glengarry Glen Ross for sales training but ocncluded that it would be better for sales leadership training on the basis that it might depress sales staff. However, I did a google search using the search terms "Glengarry Glen Ross used for training (without the inverted commas) which yielded lots of ideas about the application of this film to training.
Sliding Doors is another film that invites the possiblity of alternative realities and self determination of one's life outcomes.
Thanks for the ideas.....let's keep them coming.
Bill
From Vietnam, Hanoi
Hi Bill,
Thanx for enriching thoughts on movies for training. I agree with you that movies should have a very strong metaphor for making learning faster and productive. Taking the thread of thought forward I thing it would be a very good idea in designing a course along with the line of Film Appreciation Course, but with managment concepts in mind.
Several years ago I had enrolled myself in Film Appreciation Course, where we had a feast of classic and contemporary movies for 3 days. After each movie the particpants had to group together and discuss the nuances of filmmaking(editing, direction, Character development....) Most of the time the organizers brought in the Director ( for contemporary films) of the movie to spearhead the discussion. 3 days in the program was like getting 10 years of real life experience.
Why not design a workshop in similar lines and conduct a training program for different segments. Movies make training program interesting.
regards,
DK
From India, Mangaluru
1Thanx for enriching thoughts on movies for training. I agree with you that movies should have a very strong metaphor for making learning faster and productive. Taking the thread of thought forward I thing it would be a very good idea in designing a course along with the line of Film Appreciation Course, but with managment concepts in mind.
Several years ago I had enrolled myself in Film Appreciation Course, where we had a feast of classic and contemporary movies for 3 days. After each movie the particpants had to group together and discuss the nuances of filmmaking(editing, direction, Character development....) Most of the time the organizers brought in the Director ( for contemporary films) of the movie to spearhead the discussion. 3 days in the program was like getting 10 years of real life experience.
Why not design a workshop in similar lines and conduct a training program for different segments. Movies make training program interesting.
regards,
DK
From India, Mangaluru
:D
Hi,
"12 Angry Men" is the best pick I would suggest for conflict managment and group process. This is a master pice of Sidney Lumet.
I use this frequently (believe me- I have seen this more than 25 times) and I strongly advocate this for all group process facilitators.
Dr.R.Karthikeyan
From India, Bangalore
Hi,
"12 Angry Men" is the best pick I would suggest for conflict managment and group process. This is a master pice of Sidney Lumet.
I use this frequently (believe me- I have seen this more than 25 times) and I strongly advocate this for all group process facilitators.
Dr.R.Karthikeyan
From India, Bangalore
Hi EveryBody,
People who have used all these stuff(i.e) movies as training stuff ,if you all explain how you all have did it, will be useful for rest of the members so that they also will come to know how you have derived , through that some intiutive idea we will get to make more advanced.Will be helpful to make our to grow much high by sharing in detail.
Basically the KRA & KPI which you have taken as a part by seeing these movies & how you ppl have implemented it.
Cheers
Hari Prasad.
From India, Madras
People who have used all these stuff(i.e) movies as training stuff ,if you all explain how you all have did it, will be useful for rest of the members so that they also will come to know how you have derived , through that some intiutive idea we will get to make more advanced.Will be helpful to make our to grow much high by sharing in detail.
Basically the KRA & KPI which you have taken as a part by seeing these movies & how you ppl have implemented it.
Cheers
Hari Prasad.
From India, Madras
Dear Friends,
Recently I attended two days work shop on Relationship Strategies organised by AIMA,New Delhi, where a movie Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (Hindi remake of 12 Angry Men) was used as training module to depict behavioral styles. beside that clippings from Karan Thapar show,Big Fight,Simmi Grawal show on Star TV were also used effectively.
Regds,
Vikram Singh
09810102421
From India, Delhi
Recently I attended two days work shop on Relationship Strategies organised by AIMA,New Delhi, where a movie Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (Hindi remake of 12 Angry Men) was used as training module to depict behavioral styles. beside that clippings from Karan Thapar show,Big Fight,Simmi Grawal show on Star TV were also used effectively.
Regds,
Vikram Singh
09810102421
From India, Delhi
Thread readers,
Since this thread began, I asked one of the contractors working for me to come up with something to liven up his rather presenter-centred customer service training. I suggested he included a movie segment (at least) and he chose the customer service scene from "Pretty Woman"......which was a good idea, I thought, and he said it worked well.
Regards,
Bill
From Vietnam, Hanoi
Since this thread began, I asked one of the contractors working for me to come up with something to liven up his rather presenter-centred customer service training. I suggested he included a movie segment (at least) and he chose the customer service scene from "Pretty Woman"......which was a good idea, I thought, and he said it worked well.
Regards,
Bill
From Vietnam, Hanoi
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