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Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...account the political context of your TNA? Are there any ways in which self-interest or organisational conflict might influence your conclusions? e.What are the strengths and limitations of this formal training-based approach to understanding learning and talent development requirements? Keep hold of your notes, because you will need to refer to them in the next activity....
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...account. This study shows the ways in which rights and entitlements are not simply emanating from one’s citizenship status, but are built up through processes of claims-making...Social psychology and politics: 5 The politics of psychology - So far in this course, you have looked at the different ways in which social psychology can be used to understand the political....
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...accounts, and hospital medical records. Graphics and image editing software allows you to create and edit drawings and images. Digital photography has become very popular and image-editing software allows you to crop and resize your photos, touch-up blemishes and then print the results. Education and training software is intended to help children and adults learn. There...
Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...accountable. The benefits to me are potential career development and the satisfaction of doing interesting and rewarding work. What are the influences you can think of, internal and external, that affect the exchange? Internal influences include our immediate priorities and preferences as individuals. My priorities include developing my reputation outside the...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...account for all these factors. And what we think is that the kind of model that people like Nick Lewis use is actually systematically biased low, so it really just gives us the lower limit of how sensitive the earth’s climate is, and when you look at other evidence, not just from climate models but actually if you look into the distant past, if you look at the...
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...account, or pay a subscription to make full use of sites like this, which might not be practical for you. If you find the researcher on the database but the paper you want isn’t there, use the database’s facilities to contact the researcher. Again, tell them why you want to read the article. Collections Universities and research institutions are increasingly bringing...
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...accounts of people’s first attempts at mindful meditation include words like ‘boredom’, ‘pain’, ‘frustration’ and ‘anger’ more often than they do words like ‘calm’, ‘peace’ and ‘wisdom’, which we often associate with such practices. Quietly attending to ourselves doesn’t always bring peace. It often brings us face to face with things that...
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...account for the fact of the change that saw these landscapes become considered as things of beauty, we can unpick a few historical trends. The military conquest of the Highlands meant it was much safer to travel in. The emergence of geology as a science saw an increased interest in wild places. As we conquered and subdued 'wild' nature, making it into agricultural...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs