Implode! Building Communication, trust and Teamwork . . . with 10,000 tons of TNT

Produced

• 1999

Key Features

17-minute VHS or DVD video
This training package includes a workbook with the video.

Kaboom! Let's face it. People like to watch buildings coming down in controlled explosions. And if you can engage and motivate them as you inspire increased communication, teamwork and trust, you're way ahead!

Our cameras take you behind the scenes to one of the world's most dangerous jobs, imploding a steel framed building. Their goal is to effectively bring the building down into a nice "tidy pile" and you will see that the team at Controlled Demolition, Inc. accomplishes this with an extraordinary level of communication and trust. Whether your building new products or improving services, you'll be motivated by these colorful, and dynamic team members. 

COMPLIMENTARY REVIEW (from TRAINING MEDIA REVIEW)

Implode! is a blast. It's got an odd but winning combination of tongue-in-cheek humor, a sublime visual effect, and some down-to-earth lessons... This team has an unsentimental and increasingly unfashionable approach to trust: You earn it. Team members are trained in the field under close supervision. If they perform well, they receive trust. This isn't Internet time where in which you get raw recruits, give them a title and assume they'll do the job just fine.

This film is more visual than most. Yes, it has talking head interviews, all done in the field but with an undertone of humor, as if folks are about to burst out laughing and ask, "Can you believe we do this for a living?" The big visual appeal, though, is the sublime sight of large buildings, sometimes whole blocks of them, crumbling into neat piles. Implode! cleverly exploits the value of entertainment - in this case, the awesome sight of buildings collapsing after having their structural knees knocked out - to get the training message across.