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Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...careful testing, the direct mail industry has established a number of rules of thumb for how this can be done: The envelope matters – A simple message printed on it gives the recipient a reason to open the envelope. Make it personal – Direct mail packs are far less successful if they do not include a letter, and the more like a ‘real’ letter it is, the more...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...careful thinking about roles and the work to be done. Leadership may at times require influencing a partnership ‘team’ where you don’t have line-management authority over those you have to lead. Sometimes you may need to lead the public, helping them to think through difficult issues and choices. Your leadership will be helped by understanding the dynamics of...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...care to cultivate. In response to criticism of the Lancet paper, he said: ‘the approach of the clinical scientists should reflect the first and most important lesson learnt as a medical student – to listen to the patient or the patient's parent, and they will tell you the answer’ (Wakefield, 1998). In the battle for hearts and minds that characterises the MMR...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...care unit in a hospital is not in itself a core capability. The capability of providing intensive care to patients is well developed, with both the necessary people and technologies freely available to employ or purchase. However, provision of an intensive care facility is supplemental to a more core capability such as expertise in heart surgery. In the context of the RBV...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...care to try to ensure ‘balance’ in the materials provided, and is keen to respond to feedback that suggests otherwise. Using cards, rather than having ‘experts’ present their perspectives face-to-face, might help to maintain that ‘neutrality’. However, keeping steady feet on the balancing beam is not a straightforward matter and, as you'll have noted, like all...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...Care Professions Council. For counsellors and psychotherapists, it means accreditation by a professional body, such as the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy or United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists. Practice-related courses These may be training courses lead directly to a practitioner qualification, such as an accredited counselling or...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...careful because the enemies were tracking them down by means of her credit card numbers, which they knew because they had her purse … And Will got more and more frightened himself. He realized how clever his mother had been to make this real danger into a game so that he wouldn’t be alarmed, and how, now that he knew the truth, he had to pretend not to be frightened,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...adult skill development. Find out more here cpdstandards.com/research. By participating in this high profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill development and how we can develop successful future careers. Participation is confidential, voluntary and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: Where am I starting from?:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs