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Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...accountability, but you have colleagues who seem to get away with making mistakes and blaming someone else, that can make you angry, unhappy or demoralised. If you are self-employed and your values include freedom and independence, that should be a good match. If you plan to use your personal branding to find a job that gives you greater satisfaction, clearly...
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...account of the key stakeholders within your environment and their needs in relation to organisational development. You need to understand organisational requirements, the context, connections, and requirements for key areas of focus and how these relate to the needs of your stakeholders. You need to consider your ways of working for the wellbeing of future generations....
Working in teams Badge icon
Money & Business

Working in teams

...accountable. Breaking Katzenbach and Smith’s definition down: For a group to be a team, it needs to have a shared goal or ‘common purpose’ that all the members are working towards. Another important point is the concept of ‘complementary skills’. A key difference between a group and a team is that team members work together to achieve the goal. Completing the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...account of their terrestrial plant communities, are considered to have been damaged by eutrophication. This has been identified as a factor in the decline of some important UK habitats, including some identified for priority action under the UK’s Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP). Wet woodlands, for example, occur on poorly drained soils, usually with alder, birch and...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...account to supervise under 13s on the course, and assisting with the experiments. You can read more in the OpenLearn FAQs...Week 1: Why does science need numbers?: 1.1 Water, water everywhere - NARRATOR 1 Bottled water is ubiquitous in our daily lives. Every year in the UK, we each consume some 70 litres of purchased bottled water, whether it's fizzy, mineral, or just...
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...account for around two-thirds of global warming since pre-industrial levels. Whilst governments and fossil fuel producers have started to make commitments to reduce methane emissions, the main focus of climate change policies and action to date has been to reduce CO2 emissions. These initiatives are yet to see global CO2 emissions fall significantly, but there is some...
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...accountability of the Scottish Parliament and that would continue to secure the position of Scotland within the United Kingdom (Holden, 2010) Following wide-ranging consultations the Commission made a number of recommendations in its final report Serving Scotland Better: Scotland and the United Kingdom in the 21st Century (Commission on Scottish Devolution, 2009)....
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...account of Climate Psychology. This might seem counterintuitive, even shocking: how else can we save the planet when the threat is anthropogenic? There is an important distinction to be made in where the emphasis is placed when it comes to how consumer behaviour needs to be altered. Have you ever been plagued by a feeling that, however hard you try – recycling the...