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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...communication. When communicating with individuals that belong to a different cultural milieu, you should be aware of cultural differences, but it is also important to acknowledge the fact that there is usually a great number of overlapping similarities. It is natural to register what you find surprising, rather than what you find normal, and this creates unconscious...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...las yn gallu arwain i'r corff yn gynhyrchu llai o felatonin, sy’n amharu ar ein rhythmau circadaidd (hynny yw patrymau cysgu-deffro), gan ei gwneud yn fwy anodd i ni fynd i gysgu ac aros ynghwsg. Yn anffodus, mae cwsg gwael yn tueddu i olygu llai o wytnwch a lefelau uwch o bryder a straen. 3: Cydbwysedd rhwng Bywyd a Gwaith [Work life balance in Welsh] Yn y gorffennol...
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Article 10 mins
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Money & Business

Risk management

...communication with the others involved. Ensure that lasting systems for oversight and scrutiny are in place. Contribute to public awareness of risk. Indeed all UK companies listed on the Stock Exchange are expected to apply effective risk management as part of their compliance with the UK Corporate Governance Code...Session 1: Living in a world of risk: 3 Risk in everyday...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...Community and Government (CG) schools in the Kathmandu Valley, with a focus on children from low-income families and girls. [Map of the locations] One of the key emphases of the programme was in fact on encouraging gender equality in the STEAM sector of Nepal by allocating more than half of the available seats to female students, who still face an opportunity deficit in...
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Article 5 mins
28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...communities has been raised with us. There is a responsibility on society to ensure that there is no re-occurance of the pogroms of 1969 and the early 1970s. There is also a universal responsibility to tackle sectarianism in all its forms. The IRA is fully committed to the goals of Irish unity and independence and to building the republic outlined in the 1916...
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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...communicated with the intention of changing the other person’s behaviour or thinking to improve learning and performance. It is usually given to the person in response to behaviour, processes, or effectiveness: on the ‘how’ things have been done or ‘what’ has been done (Besieux, 2017). Shute (2008) also highlights that feedback is not only crucial to improving...
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Article 10 mins
A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...communities, arts, sports, and lives...Find out about The Open University's Politics courses. Episode 1: The role of the Arts in a post-conflict society Episode 1 host and guests [Photograph of our host, Jordan Keeny.] Host: Jordan Kenny, BBC Radio 1 Jordan Kenny’s a TV and radio presenter/reporter, normally heard on BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme. Originally from...
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Article 5 mins
Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...communicating ‘certainty’ about `objective facts’ there was a need for discussion involving openness, transparency and the uncertainties around scientific knowledge. The stress was now on how a ‘crisis of trust’ required a new era of dialogue between scientists, experts, policy makers and the public and the modality switched from ‘pubic understanding of’ to...
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Article 15 mins