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Earth's physical resources: rocks for roads
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth's physical resources: rocks for roads

...managers talk about extraction and road laying processes, bulk aggregate transportation and ways to limit the impact of quarries on their surroundings. This material forms part of the course S278 Earth's physical resources: origin, use and environmental impact... Rocks for Roads An an introduction to this album How a quarry works Quarry managers explain how rock is formed...
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Audio 14 mins
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...managing time and stress, and working in teams or groups...This free course, Developing your skills as an HR professional, will help you to develop some of the skills you will need to be effective as an HR professional. You will practise learning reflectively and you will also develop the skills of organising yourself, managing time and stress, and working in teams or...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Being Sustainable(ish)
Nature & Environment

Being Sustainable(ish)

...manageable in their lives to help the environment. Jen's inspiring session is all about ‘progress not perfection’ – the idea being that a lot of people making a manageable change and doing them well, has greater impact than a few people doing them perfectly. Jen's own words: 'We're often short on time, energy, and sometimes sanity, and to top it off eco-anxiety is...
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Video 40 mins
Sustainability
Education & Development

Sustainability

...Manager...I work as a Senior Manager in the Access, Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team. The reason why I really like YXM130 is the flexibility, allowing you to study what interests you from a wide range of subject areas. I have always been a keen environmentalist and been fortunate to support and work alongside the OU academics who author the Environment...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...manage change and complex, competing demands (Grant and Kinman, 2015, p. 5). In this free course, Supporting and developing resilience in social work , you investigate how you, as a social work practitioner, can be supported to enhance your emotional resilience. In the first section you explore the idea of resilience and begin to develop your own ‘emotional resilience...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...Management...Developing high trust work relationships: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the broad roles of trust in modern economics explain the changes in organisational dynamics that have led to a focus on trust within organisations understand and discuss the consequences of trust within organisations...Developing high...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...manager interested in developing a better team, as you will hear from the audio below (a transcript is also provided). Meetings often descend into all-out war! We never seem to get anywhere with everyone at each other’s throats. I can hold my own in that kind of contest; I sometimes come out on top – winning the argument – but it doesn’t calm things; I leave the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Environment: habitat and conservation
Nature & Environment

Environment: habitat and conservation

...managed biodiversity at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, and the search for sustainable forms of development along the River Severn. This material forms part of the course U216 Environment... Environment: habitat and conservation A short introduction to this album. Blackwater: A Threatened Habitat Change on the Blackwater Estuary. As the sea level rises this unique landscape...
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Audio 1 hr 17 mins