Tertiary Catalogue

In this video, 4 Career Enhancers, psychologists Peter Quarry and Eve Ash provide excellent strategies to immediately to galvanise your career and job prospects. This is critical for those who want to develop their careers, change jobs or feel anxious about the future of their current job. In challenging times, having a satisfying career seems harder than ever. You really have to work at it, especially if you are looking for a new job or want to stand out in your team or organisation. Your profile is a living document, a record of who you are and what you're doing. No matter which stage of work life you're in, you will always be ready to enhance your earning and vocational prospects when you energise your profile, extend your network, enrich your skillset and have a plan B. Show Less

The world around us is complex, dynamic and continually changing, and so too is the workplace. This video introduces the chaos theory of careers, discussing how the butterfly effect and chance events influence jobs and explaining how to practically apply chaos strategy to your own life. Featuring expert interviews, this video is ideal for students thinking about career choices and future work pathways. Show Less

What work will be like in five years may be beyond our wildest dreams. This video discusses how work might look in the future, considers the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the importance of lifelong learning and the changing nature of career decisions. Featuring expert interviews, this video is ideal for students thinking about career choices and future work pathways. Show Less

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a unique form of workplace change: one that impacted every person on the planet at the same time. This video discusses the effect of coronavirus on the types of work we do and the ways in which we work. Featuring expert interviews, this video is ideal for students thinking about career choices and future work pathways. Show Less

Change is natural and constant, but disruptions have significant impacts on the types of work we do and how we work. This video explores the factors that trigger change, discussing the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the use of computing technologies and artificial intelligence in the workplace. Featuring expert interviews, this video is ideal for students thinking about career choices and future work pathways. Show Less

To write a recipe that’s easy to understand and follow, it’s important to show the relationships between a series of individual instructions or directions. This video covers how to combine simple commands into compound sentences, using the coordinating conjunctions ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’ and ‘or’, to improve the flow of ideas. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills in writing informative texts. Show Less

When writing a biography, article, report or instruction manual, delivering information in a clear and engaging way is crucial. This video introduces the two most common sentence types found in informative texts—statements and commands—and how to vary their length and detail so your text flows smoothly and is interesting to read. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills for writing informative texts. Show Less

A good instructional text needs to get your message across clearly and be easy for readers to follow. This video explains the difference between two sentence types commonly found in informative texts—statements and commands—and how to use them to deliver information more simply and with clarity. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills in writing informative texts. Show Less

For letters to the editor, online discussions and essays, being able to express your point of view effectively is very useful. This video highlights that you don't have to use complicated sentences to write a good persuasive text—clear and concise simple sentences, whether statements or questions, can be impactful and get your point across. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills in writing persuasive texts. Show Less

A well-written narrative, such as a short story, poem or script, can be exciting, tense and suspenseful. This video illustrates how short, simple sentences can be used to create a different pace and mood in narrative writing, compared to longer and more detailed sentences. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills in writing imaginative texts. Show Less

When writing a movie review, it is important to be able to express your opinions and conclusions precisely. This video reinforces that sometimes, it can be more effective to use simple sentences, rather than compound or complex sentences, for stronger impact and more persuasive power. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills in writing persuasive texts. Show Less

When writing a recount, such as a diary entry, you might find yourself needing to show the relationships or connections between ideas. This video explains how to use compound sentences to describe a series of events, using the coordinating conjunctions ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’ and ‘or’. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills in writing informative texts. Show Less

There's a skill to writing great science reports that are both clear and easy to understand. This video identifies the sections of a report where it can be better to use simple sentences, rather than more detailed ones, to make it easy for readers to understand the goals and conclusions of an experiment. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills in writing informative texts. Show Less

Being able to give your reader an insight into your character's mind is a valuable skill in writing narratives. This video explains how questions can be used to reveal what characters are thinking, whether genuine or rhetorical, and from a first-person or third-person perspective. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills writing Imaginative texts. Show Less

Characters are an essential component of many narrative texts, such as a novel or a short story. This video shows how you can use a variety of sentence types—statements, questions, and commands—in your narrative writing to develop characters that are memorable and interesting to read about. Highly recommended for students looking to establish key basic skills in writing imaginative texts. Show Less

Stop 4 Time Wasters is a video that helps us recognise our own time wasting behaviours mistakes. We all feel overloaded on occasion, but this doesn't mean we can't be more efficient in our use of time. This video helps learners identify strategies to overcome their time wasting habits. Stop 4 Time Wasters is a useful video for anyone feeling stressed and overloaded and wanting to use their time more effectively. Find out whether you are a procrastinator, an equaliser, a meeting zombie and/or a socialiser. Discover your own individual poor habits, because then you can start to fix them. Show Less

Solve Problems in 4 Steps is a step by step easily-remembered program providing learners with essential problem-solving skills. In this video, behavioural expert Peter Quarry shows you how to solve problems effectively. Solve Problems in 4 Steps is a video showing that no matter how complex a problem appears, breaking it into four steps very often presents you with a solution, or a huge step that's close to the solution! Show Less

Recover from my Mistake is a video to help anyone feeling bad about a making a mistake, to stop wasting time beating yourself up about it, and learn to recover gracefully and thrive. We all make mistakes and can recover, and learn from them, as Peter Quarry, behavioural expert explains. Recover from my Mistake is a video in which you will learn to take responsibility, acknowledge the mistake, apologise and make amends. You will learn the value of openly sharing your insights with your team. It enhances your reputation. Show Less

How to Study Effectively is a video to change studying from being considered painful and something to avoid, to being a positive experience. In this video, psychology expert Peter Quarry, shares excellent tips for putting in the effort and being rewarded as a result. How to Study Effectively is a short but powerful video offering simple but effective ways to make study memorable, productive and rewarding. Show Less

Answer Tough Interview Questions is a video that prepares you for challenging interview questions. A job interview is always nerve-wracking, no matter how many times you've done this. In this video, psychology expert Peter Quarry offers ways to address tough questions during job interviews, positively and properly. The Answer Tough Interview Questions video will help you build confidence by answering interview questions with specific examples, constructive approaches, thorough research and demonstration of resilience. Show Less

GOALS to Results is designed to help learners to achieve desired results with the GOALS formula. Goals are what you see in the distance, what you're aiming for. The problem with setting goals is that sometimes they seem unattainable or overwhelmingly large. Psychologist Eve Ash explains how to generate aspirations, organise manageable steps, activate the right attitude, learn new skills and share success. Once this video is completed you will have learned to generate your key aspirations, organise these goals into manageable steps, and activate a positive attitude by visualising the results of your endeavours. Learning new skills along the way brings your goals closer to fruition and you will share your success, recognising those who supported you while mentoring others as they pursue their goals. Show Less

Overcome a Writing Block is a video addressing a common problem of writer's block. For many of us, it's fear of staring at a blank page and wondering what to say. In this video, behavioural expert Peter Quarry explains how to overcome a writing block. Overcome a Writing Block is a video, in which you will learn to start by dumping words and ideas on a page, as a mindmap or like a lump of clay, and you can begin to shape it however you like. You will learn that gradually your writing momentum will build and you will discover an exciting opportunity to unlock thoughts and expressions you never realised you had within you. Show Less