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Health, Sports & Psychology
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Employers increasingly use psychometrics in job shortlisting and assessment, to help them make recruitment decisions. Read on to find out more about why this is the case, what to expect and how to be more successful when taking these tests.
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Money & Business
Learn with Start Up Loans
A partnership designed to help UK businesses get off the ground and stay there.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Developing emotional intelligence skills can help us to be more successful in both our personal and professional lives: developing better ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Values are things that matter the most to you for the way you live and work. This article should help you to identify which ones are most important to you.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Self-limiting beliefs can often creep into our thoughts and lower our self-regard (respect and acceptance for ourselves, despite any shortcomings). However, even in challenging times, it is possible to consciously change how we think about ourselves, reframing unhelpful beliefs and building more confidence to achieve goals and positively move ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy which offers simple tools to help deal with everyday life challenges, and effectively handle difficult thoughts and feelings, accepting what is out of our personal control and committing to action that improves our lives.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Do you feel you don’t know where to start with coaching, or need to refresh your skills? The OSCAR Coaching Model is a solutions-focused coaching model, with a simple structure to keep the coaching process focused, structured and time effective.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Have you thought about how you give feedback? Giving feedback in a more structured way using the AID (Action, Impact, Desired outcome) model may help for both highlighting positive behaviour, and challenging behaviour that needs developmental action.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Workplace Survivor Syndrome
What is workplace survivor syndrome? Sharon Davis explores the psychology of this...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Recognising the positive and reciprocal link between employee engagement and wellbeing, may help organisations navigate post-pandemic challenges. Andrea Pearce investigates...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub
The Applying Psychology to Work hub is a collection of free resources (articles, videos, audios and courses) that have been curated by a team of applied psychologists within The Open University School of Psychology and Counselling. Read on and take part in activities to find out how it could be of benefit to you!
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Applying Psychology to Work Activity
Would you like to know more about the resources available in this hub, and how they could help you and/or your organisation? Have a go at this activity to explore new thinking and ideas.