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Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...managing, caring....Approaching leadership with care: Introduction - This free course, Approaching leadership with care, explores our understanding of what it means to lead with care. It is made up of a series of six sections. Sections 1 and 2 explore why care is an essential component of effective leadership. Sections 3 and 4 invite you to reflect on your own perceptions...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Has London always attracted young Europeans to do its low-paid work?
History & The Arts

Has London always attracted young Europeans to do its low-paid work?

...manager told me this yesterday. These "clodhoppers", he says, are natural waiters. After a very few weeks experience they are perfectly capable of acting as assistants to older waiters and even, in a rush, of attending upon casual customers themselves. Their only fault is they are clumsy. They smash a lot of crockery, but then, as they hardly get any wages, and work for...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...management, 34(1), 89-126...Week 4: Leadership as process – conversations: Introduction - All leadership is created through process – through ‘doing’. It should be thought of like a verb, rather than a noun. An act, instead of a static ‘thing’ in the possession of any one person. Seen this way, all leadership is necessarily a process shared between more than...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reading communities
Education & Development

Reading communities

...project found that RfP is strongly influenced by relationships between children, teachers, families and communities. Where shared understandings were established about the changing nature of reading and the value of everyday reading practices, these supported children’s RfP. These reading communities generated new kinds of talk about reading. Reciprocal and interactive...
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Video 30 mins
Accessing genetic testing through the NHS
Science, Maths & Technology

Accessing genetic testing through the NHS

...involves, how the results are interpreted and used to support diagnosis and treatment, and what other considerations should be made. To understand what genetic testing can tell us about our health, watch our earlier video on Medical uses of genetic testing. Visit our YouTube playlist to watch more videos from the GRACE Project, or visit our website to find out more....
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Video 5 mins
How good were the pollster's predictions?
Science, Maths & Technology

How good were the pollster's predictions?

...projected that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour could end up with fewer than 210. In particular, an analysis of the favourite in each of the seats traded on the Betfair market gave the Tories 366 seats and Labour 208. The Predictwise betting aggregation site gave the Conservatives an 81% chance of securing an overall majority of seats, in line with the large sums of money trading...
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The value and progress of jury research in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

The value and progress of jury research in Scotland

...project...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. [A group of people engaged in a debate.] When the Scottish Government announced in 2015 that it had accepted a recommendation to commission research into the Scottish jury, an observer might have wondered why this was even necessary. In 2012, Dennis J Devine estimated that there had been 1500 jury research...
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...project and management teams. Many job applicants worry about their lack of experience of teamwork. Sometimes they undervalue the experiences they have already gathered. Where lack of teamwork experience is a problem, it can be remedied in surprising ways, for example by seeking unpaid voluntary work. Involvement in sports clubs, choirs and orchestras should also not be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs