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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...autonomous is important to me. I enjoy setting my own timetable each day and using my creativity to solve problems and come up with innovative ideas. My ideal workplace would encourage and celebrate innovation. I have strong family values, so work needs to fit around my commitment to my children. Strengths: My two biggest strengths are 1) my ability to interact with...
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...Autonomous Republic of Crimea and two cities with special status – Kyiv and Sevastopol...Week 3: At home: 3.1 The land - The geography of Ukraine is very varied. As well as steppes and fertile arable lands, ideal for grain farming, there are two mountain ranges, the Carpathian and Crimean Mountains. The river Dnipro flows through the centre of Ukraine. Sadly, at the...
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...autonomous action at a local level...Hybrid working: Planning for the future: 7.3 What do you need to progress the plan? - Once there is executive approval to progress with the programme of change, following the formal governance often associated with strategic programmes of this nature, the initiative can begin to be implemented. If approved what happens next? This takes...
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...autonomous grassroots groups’, Organization, 21(6), 759-781...Week 5: Leadership as process – storytelling: Introduction - Stories play an important role in leadership process and in human communication generally. They can reach people emotionally in a way that dry facts cannot – stories can make us laugh, cry or even make us angry. Anchoring us in specific...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled enterprise (International Co-operative Alliance definition). There are many types of co-operative: – worker co-operative – co-operative owned and run by its workers – housing co-operative...
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...autonomous action. [A cartoon of a man running. He is contained in a bubble.] Figure 7 A metaphor for the technological framings of our existence from which it is sometimes difficult to escape. This perspective, it is claimed, builds on the study of non-linear feedback networks, complex adaptive systems and what Stacey and his colleagues now call 'complex responsive...
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...autonomous or age-appropriate decisions as might be the case for someone with severe learning disabilities, for example. Some people may need to have their liberty constrained, such as in a locked or restricted care home. They may not have a mental illness that is treatable. For children and young people under 16, those with parental responsibility are usually in a...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...autonomous practices managed by a network of formal and informal leaders across an organization’ (Ancona, quoted in Somers, 2022). Another, more radical approach, known as ‘Holacracy’, attempts to distribute leadership between all employees, removing the traditional leader–follower relationship altogether. You’ll find out more about this in Week 7. Even within...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs