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Diversity works director John Twitchin was for 25 Years Senior Producer in charge of BBC TV management training output, and responsible for all BBC TV programming concerned with equal opportunities and responses to cultural diversity. Currently he is an independent Consultant / Trainer and Training DVD Producer.

From over 300 programmes he made for BBC TV, for SBS Channel in Australia, and as an independent producer, these were designed as training packs for use in Public Services, Business, Broadcasting, Education (Schools, Universities).

Unlike most training films, these DVDs/videos feature only authentic documentary case-studies. They bring to the training room the power and credibility of real-life interactions - not over-simplified, stereotypical scripted scenes with actors. 

These videos tackle subjects which have often proved difficult for trainers. They are very rich in terms of content ….The design is very good because principles of good training practice apply to every aspect of the package.”

Training Media Awards

Click link for theme in which you are most interested:

à   Cross-Cultural Communication: domestic and international

à   Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity:  gender, race and cultural awareness, anti-discrimination

à   Stereotyping of minority ethnic groups and the effects of the media - addressed to Broadcasters and Journalists; also for secondary school Teachers and Media Studies courses

à      Education (multicultural approaches) – addressed to teachers and teacher trainers

à      Management in business and public services

Cross-cultural communication

These comprise a unique corpus of training materials, featuring only documentary case-studies for analysis of cross-cultural interactions in workplace settings.

Made with world-leading authority Professor John J. Gumperz, of University of California, Berkeley, as consultant.

Worktalk

4 films with trainers’ manual on skills of cross-cultural communication in business and industry

§         Asians on the Shop Floor

§         Singh 171

§         Fred Barker goes to China

§         Tain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it

Crosstalk    Cross-cultural communication, with training manual

This is the most widely used visual aid introduction to the subject, and BBC’s longest-selling training DVD.

Man Alive: multi-cultured talk swap   Cross-cultural communication

50 minute documentary with training notes.

Crosstalk at Work     2-part documentary series with manual

     Prize-winner Training Media Awards

Counselling and Advice across Cultures MOSAIC series   50 minute documentary with manual

Recruitment Interviewing Across Cultures MOSAIC series    Documentary with manual

    Prize-winner Training Media Awards

Performance Appraising Across Cultures MOSAIC series   Documentary with manual

    Prize-winner Training Media Awards

What makes you say that? Managing Cultural Diversity

3 x 60 minutes training documentaries broadcast on SBS TV, Australia

Includes international cross-cultural communication in joint ventures and negotiations in Asia; and managing intercultural team meetings. Accompanied by manual by Dr Margaret Byrne, contact www.ugmconsulting.com

Virtual Teams, Virtual Management

Director of 45 minutes documentary with accompanying manual, for Dr. Margaret Byrne, contact www.ugmconsulting.com   This DVD includes case-study of virtual communication internationally across cultures filmed within Hewlett Packard. 

Funded by Australian Federal Government, Telstra, Westpac.

Evidence Unseen MOSAIC

Training film with manual, including cross-cultural misunderstandings involving African-Caribbean British young people.

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Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity

Women at Work     Issues of gender equality: 5 films with training notes

Multi-racial Britain (1)   Race relations: 5 films with book.

§         Race and the Inner City (Prof. John Rex)

§         Racism and Reaction   (Prof. Stuart Hall)

§         Asians in Britain: Problem or Opportunity?  (Prof. Bhikhu Parekh)

§         Schools and Race (Prof. Alan Little)

§         Third World Perspective (Bishop Trevor Huddleston)

Multi-racial Britain (2)   Initiatives to improve race relations: 10 films plus notes. Including:

§         Action Now + We Are Our Own Liberators    self-help organisation

§         Home Away From Home + Where People Live  housing policies                       

§         I Can't Talk to my Parents   "generation gap" / identity issues for British Asians

§         Black and Blue   police relations with Asian and black communities

§         Hands Across the Sea  joint organisation, African-Caribbean British with Surinamese Dutch

Trade Union Studies

30 programmes in 3 annual series, each with a book, trainers’ notes and correspondence course. Formal collaboration BBC, TUC, WEA.

Year 1: The Bargaining System includes

§         Equal Pay

§         Sex Discrimination at Work

§         Minority Ethnic Workforces

Year 2: Unions and the Economy includes

International Negotiating

Year 3: Democracy at Work includes

§         The History of Collective Bargaining

§         Health and Safety

§         Job Satisfaction

§         Gender Equality at Work

§         Public Services

§         Making Union Democracy Work

MOSAIC

BBC's major training film initiative (50 programmes) on tackling racial discrimination, and on responses to cultural diversity. Project made with minority ethnic advisory / monitoring committee.  All films accompanied by published training manuals.

§         Rights of Passage   U.K. Immigration Law

§         Here to Stay  Post-entry effects of immigration controls

§         All in the Mind?  Mental health provision in a multicultural society

§         A Roof Over Our Heads  Tackling discrimination and harassment in housing

§         Equal Before the Law? The nature of direct and indirect discrimination under the Race Relations Act 1976 and the operation of employment tribunals

§         Recognising Racial Discrimination at Work Interviewing employees raising issues of race discrimination

§         Just the Job  Equal opportunities in employment

§         The Health Gap  Community health services

§         Evidence Unseen  Training film for magistrates

§         Attitudes to Islam MOSAIC  (BBC and VSO)

§         Training documentary with manual with case-studies of community health, mental health providers and teachers.

MOSAIC

§        Black and White   discrimination exposed by 2 reporters in Bristol

§         Black    history of racism in Britain

§         What’s in a name?  Asian responses to term “Black

§        Action on racial harassment

§        Language is the key

Police Powers

Three films plus trainers' notes covering police training and attitudes towards Asian and Black minority ethnic groups:

§       A Question of Discretion

§       Blue and Black

§       Schoolbeat

Breaking the Silence

Best practice for identifying and handling complaints of sexual harassment (UNISON and CLLC)

Tackling racial discrimination and valuing diversity

60 minutes training documentary on race and culture, with manual, for The Employment Service

Managing Diversity

60 minutes training documentary with manual for The Employment Service. Gender, race, sexual orientation, disability

Leadership

Director of 45 mins training documentary for Dr. Margaret Byrne, author of manual on gender diversity in leadership

Teams and meetings

Director of 45 mins training documentary for Dr. Margaret Byrne with manual on gender diversity in team working/meetings

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Portrayal of minority ethnic groups, and the effects of the media

The Black & White Media Show Part 1

Documentary for Panorama slot commissioned by Controller BBC 1

Television as image-maker, reflecting stereotypes of African-Caribbean and Asian British people in comedy, drama, news and documentary output.  50 minutes. With book ‘The Black and White Media Book’ (Trentham Books)

The Black & White Media Show Part 2 commissioned by Controller BBC 1

Second 50-minute documentary for Panorama slot

Investigation of stereotypical thinking in TV News, Current Affairs and factual programmes. With book.

 

The Black & White Media Show Part 3

60-minute documentary commissioned by Controller BBC 1. With notes.

Third "self-examining" documentary on racism and the media (including report on BBC's equal opportunities in recruitment)

Racism and Comedy

Illustrating the issues of stereotypes on television. For Media Studies, with training manual

The way we see it

Portraying Diversity (made for BBC TV News). For Journalism training and Media Studies, with manual

Focus  (for schools and Media Studies)

§         What’s the Angle? (on the Nature of News)

§         Points of View (on fact vs opinion in news media)

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Education: training DVDs/videos addressed to teachers

Multicultural Education   8 in-service training documentaries plus book and notes, including:

§         Your Community School

§         Languages for Life

§         School Report

§         Teacher Examine Thyself !

§         Does School Hurt?

§         Education Versus Prejudice

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Multicultural good practice and anti-racist education:

50-minute documentary for teachers, with book (‘Multicultural Education’ BBC)

Languages for Life

The case for "mother-tongue" teaching in schools: in 4 versions Panjabi, Bengali, Italian, English

Attitudes to Islam MOSAIC

Training video and manual  (BBC in collaboration with VSO)

Children Without Prejudice MOSAIC

Formation of attitudes in early years. With manual

 

Education for All?  MOSAIC

Multicultural teaching

European Awareness and Exchanges in Primary Schools

Video and manual. (Central Bureau, European Commission and BBC)

Schools across Europe

Cultural exchanges at secondary level

Video with manual. (Central Bureau, European Commission and BBC)

InterTalk

Plurilingual education across Europe

(University of Jyväskylä, Finland, funded by European Commission)

Teaching with Foreign Languages

3 part-series + notes

(British Council, European Commission and BBC TV)

Bringing Languages Alive

Cultural exchange across Europe

(British Council, European Commission and BBC TV)

Multiracial Britain

2 films with manual on multicultural approaches in schools:

§         Multicultured Swap Shop

§         Great Expectations

Nothing but the Best

10 films with hand-book on teacher-parent relations

A College for All

Equal Opportunities: gender, disability and race in Higher Education. With training manual

(University of Wales, Institute Cardiff)

Overseas Students

Training video on cross-cultural teaching and training

Mind Your Language MOSAIC

Issues of multi-lingualism

Marked for Life?  MOSAIC

Pre-school attitude formation

The Education Programme MOSAIC

Multicultural approaches for ‘all-white’ schools

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Management in business and public services

Virtual Communication

Director of 45 minutes training documentary for Dr. M. Byrne at www.ugmconsulting.com on working in and managing a virtual team

Teams and Meetings

Director of 40 minutes training documentary for Dr. M. Byrne on handling diversity of gender and culture difference

Leadership

Director of 40 minutes training documentary for Dr. M. Byrne, focusing on leadership and diversity

Tackling racial discrimination and valuing diversity

60 minutes training documentary on race and culture, with manual, for Employment Service

Managing Diversity

60 minutes training DVD with manual for Employment Service. Gender, race, family friendly, sexual orientation, disability

State of Training

60 minutes documentary on Information Technology and how to develop as a “learning organisation”

Case-studies from London Underground; Liverpool University Dept. of General Practice; Lucas Aerospace subsidiary (winner of National Training Award)

Business Club Series 1

Training and advice on running small business:

5 filmed case-studies with training notes.

Business Club Series 2

Advice for surviving in small business:

10 studio / films with book and training notes including:                          

§         Dedicated Marketing

§         Raising Finance

§         Thinking Ahead – the Business Plan

§         High and Not So High Technology

§         Using IT

§         Forms of management

A Case of Timing

Training video on advocacy skills in employment tribunals

The World of UB40: Jobless not Worthless

50-minute special documentary on psycho-social effects of long-term unemployment (including case-studies of new enterprises in N. Ireland)

A Question of Education

Five training documentaries on education and employment, including:

Exams - Could do Better?

Exploration of employers' valuation of school examinations

Conflict at Work

10-part Management training series with book and trainers' notes.  Includes filmed case-studies on:

§         The Supervisor's Role  (Warwick Engineering, IMI Subsidiary)

§         Redundancy Procedure Agreements  (Delta Metal)

§         Reforming Payment Systems  (Thames Wharves; Massey Ferguson)

§         Disclosure of Information  (Transport)

§         White-Collar Union Recognition  (Commercial Union)

 

People at Work Series 1  Social / industrial issues, including:

§         Asians on the Shop Floor   cross-cultural understanding in industry

§         Negotiating Pay

§         Who's Watching Your Health?  case-studies of occupational diseases

§         Moving Where the Jobs Are   mobility of labour

 

People at Work Series 2  Remuneration issues. 5-part series with notes, including:

§         Making the Grade  consensus job evaluation of grading structures

§         What's the Job Worth?  pay differentials

§         Fringe benefits

People at Work Series 3  The role of trades unions: 10-part series with training notes

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