Library Career Development Videos

18 min.  2002 1/2" VHS

We've heard about the importance of emotional intelligence - the ability to make our working relationships grow and develop to their full potential. This video will illustrate the practical skills required to build solid relationships based on mutual respect with customers, co-workers, family and friends. 

15 min.  1/2" VHS

Although individuals need to take primary responsibility for their careers, they also need help from their managers as "career coaches". This video will explain why growing, developing and nurturing your people is one of the most important management functions. You will learn 5 main skills to develop your own people: listen, level, look ahead, leverage and link. A good manager will learn to coach all of the time by seizing "coachable moments" and building them into their everyday work style. By doing this, you will be amazed at the talent below your fingertips.

14 min. 1/2" VHS

Every employee needs to have a career and personal development plan. Today, companies can no longer plan a person's career path B they must take responsibility for it themselves. This video will provide the 5 P's to managing your own career: Person, Perspective, Place, Possibilities and Plan. You will learn about having contingency plans and how the "learning journey" can work for you, and will hear from an expert on how to keep your career moving at all times.

13 min. 1998 1/2" VHS

This program helps young people realize that an employee's relationship with their immediate supervisor is crucial to success on the job. It clearly explains how to form a solid relationship with the person in charge. Also discussed are the seven sins that poison a worker's relationship with their boss - lying, trying to cover up mistakes, making excuses, making assumptions, failing to ask questions, brown-nosing, and failing to follow instructions - are discussed and illustrated.

1993 1/2" VHS

This new video program de-mystifies the often puzzling world of grammar, word usage, sentence structure and punctuation with wit and style. It is designed to help you and your team improve both written and spoken communication.

25 min. 1996 1/2" VHS

This program demonstrates to managers and supervisors the extent of their responsibility for developing their people. The video shows how to carry out an effective interview which will help the learner think about their overall objectives and what skills, attitude and knowledge they need to achieve those objectives. Learn step-by- step all the elements of a successful interview.

37 min. 1997 1/2" VHS

This video is a continuation of the "Learning Needs Interview" and captures the awkwardness and difficulties managers often encounter when discussing development plans with an employee. This unique program shows how to put together a realistic and achievable plan, using an understanding of the learner's preferred learning style to ensure that the most appropriate learning experiences are selected. A clear and straight forward framework of steps gives the manager a reliable process to follow.

25 min. 1998 1/2" VHS

This program will help to motivate and encourage people to take responsibility for their own development. It also assures managers that it is not their sole responsibility to review progress. The video shows how to develop the communication skills required to do this.

25 min. 1999 1/2" VHS

This program is about one of the fastest growing trends. By zeroing in on six young entrepreneurs from across the country, the video examines why so many youth are venturing into their own business; how today's business realities affect their hopes and dreams; what it takes to be successful entrepreneur and where they find the courage to follow their dreams.

23 min. 1999 1/2" VHS

Based on the book by Chip R. Bell. At the core of this program is the transformation of the age-old concept of mentor as expert to a newer model of mentor as partner. Mentors are most effective when the mentor-protégé relationship is one of reciprocal learning - two people growing together. As a mentor, being real is more important than being right, acceptance more treasured than authority. The most effective vehicle for transferring knowledge and skill is openness, authenticity, and vulnerability.

15 min. 1/2" VHS

There is no such thing anymore as a "career for life". Change at work is being driven by globalization, technology, and customer requirements. Each individual will have to look at what they will have to do to earn a living and what they will need to change to make it happen. This video provides valuable advice to help you with your next career move. Organizations too, will gain insight to help both the people who are leaving, as well as those left behind.

22 min. 2000 1/2" VHS

Scenarios demonstrate specific techniques for improving emotional intelligence: how self- awareness can bring about change, how feedback helps, how to create good work relationships and how to settle conflicts at work.

1993 1/2" VHS

This program is designed to be a grammar "brush-up". It deals with the basics of proofreading, grammar and punctuation and also with the most common misspelled words and words often misused.

18 min. 2003 DVD

Successful employees have learned that career success often depends on "where your head's at and how you act", rather than what you know. It's our attitude, our approach and our interactions with others that can matter most and set us apart as extraordinary employees. This program encourages employees to adapt four straight forward strategies, Be positive and proactive, Be accountable and flexible, Be cooperative and respectful and Communicate and listen, and promotes the idea that if they really give their best effort daily they will see results right away.

24 min. 1997 1/2" VHS

This program is a compelling look at four Canadian women who dispel one of the fundamental myths that have dogged women entrepreneurs: the myth that they are only involved in retail operations, cottage industries, or home-based businesses. Each of these women is self made and started with very little but her vision, her wits, and lots of hard work. This program gives an inside look at how they established their businesses, how they manage them today, how they integrate their personal values into the corporate culture and how they define risk and face challenges.