Library Guides @ VIU: Workplace Essentials Skills Training (WEST): Videos

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Accessing and Viewing Videos

LibrarySearch searches all of VIU Library's video content, both physical and online.

To limit your results to online videos, select Streaming Video in the list of content types (in the grey bar at the left of your search results). To view online videos off-campus, you will need to log in with your student number and Library PIN. See the Photo ID & Accounts pages of this guide for information about Library PINs.

Most DVDs and videos are available for two week loans. The Nanaimo and Powell River campus libraries have viewing stations (with headphones) available in the library. Headphones may be borrowed from the Cowichan Library Service Desk.

Video Databases

Films on Demand
Transcripts accompany videos in the Films on Demand database.
Curio.ca (CBC online video)
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Curio.ca provides access to thousands of programs and documentaries from CBC and Radio-Canada. English and French-language content is included and updated weekly.
Criterion on Demand
Online feature films from Criterion Pictures. Includes feature films & documentaries from 20th Century Fox, Dreamworks SKG, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Alliance Films, The Weinstein Company, Mongrel Media, and more. Criterion on Demand includes English, French and subtitle film versions.

Selected Library Resources: Videos

Back to the Basics: A Five-Part Series on Business
Back to the Basics is a five-part video series designed to introduce young adults to the work world. It addresses the issues of problem solving, conflict resolution and etiquette, communication skills, stress management, and professional image. A diverse group of young adults share their experiences in the workforce, giving the viewer a look at what works and what doesn’t.
Communication Excellence Series
Talent, ambition, and great ideas won’t amount to much if they’re not supported by good communication. This four-part series helps high school and college students improve their communication skills in four critical areas: listening, speaking, writing, and reading.
Employment Relations and Conflict Resolution
Teamwork and good relationships with colleagues are both key to the productive operation of most organizations. Conflict is inevitable though, and all personnel should know how to deal with it appropriately. Filmed in Australia and the U.K., this program examines employee relations and workplace conflict, using interviews with experts to explore the nature of workplace disputes, the role of managers and the human resources department in handling them, and effective strategies for their resolution. The video is an ideal resource for anyone preparing for employment or studying workplace relations.
Person-to-Person Skills: Excellence in Customer Service
This series of workshops-on-video is designed to improve employees’ success and work satisfaction. These programs teach viewers to listen, understand, and accept the needs, wants, and feelings of customers; to communicate their own thoughts and feelings to customers; to neutralize and resolve conflicts, both in person and over the phone; and to face and resolve problems resulting from failure of communication, inadequate service, and errors.
Playing Your Part: Keys to a Successful Workplace Environment Series
This two-part series explores ways in which the workplace can be made more enjoyable for employees, and hence more productive for the business as a whole. Focusing on communication skills and teamwork, the programs use dramatizations to illustrate concepts of sensitivity to diversity, and good coworker relationships.