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Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...based on Ehrich & English, 2012) Approaches to change Categories of change Conflictual Consensual Reforming Tactics of confrontation Requires conflict to build group solidarity and provoke the enemy’s response and possible overreaction. Collaborative/democratic distributive Tries and constructs a common ‘win-win’ agenda with the opponent on a common vision....
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...based on equality for all people is neither universal nor historically significant, and it continues to compete with a range of other functions (see Table 1). Table 1: Examples of driving forces of compulsory education (based on Benavot et al, 2006) COUNTRY/REGION SOME OF THE DRIVING FORCES France Trying to control a powerful catholic church. Prussia Supporting the...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...based on silly ideals about what we should wear and how we should look. I see certain people's eyes glaze over when I tell them this is the world in which I inhabit, the industry I spend my days writing about as a journalist and advising on as a consultant. It's seen as fluffy and fake, silly and superficial, vain and vacuous. And yet truthfully, it's a $3 trillion global...
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Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...based around the lifestyle of the owner. A medium-sized business is concerned with growth and scaling up, which requires a different mindset and managerial behaviours as a result...Session 2: From idea to reality: 3.1 Medium-sized businesses - Scaling up to a medium-sized business arguably results in one of the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs who have been successful...
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...base of the pan by conduction. As water in this layer warms up, it expands - this is called thermal expansion - and so becomes less dense than the water above. Because of this new buoyancy, the warm water begins to rise, to be replaced by cooler, denser water from above which is heated in its turn. On reaching the surface, the warmed water begins to lose heat to the air;...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...based on the intention to provide the support that coaches ask for. These roles are connected through this common intent but require slightly different approaches and methods that need time to have an impact. [Described image] Figure 3 What role do you fulfil as a coach developer? Do you have one role or many, and in what context do you fulfil them? In Figure 3, you can...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...based research work. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate study in Science...Health and safety in the laboratory and field: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the legal framework of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and Regulations associated with it understand the employers’, employees’ and...
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...based on Merrythought, n.d.; Manta, n.d.) Example of a large, shareholder-owned, public limited company: Reliance Industries Ltd Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is a conglomerate holding company with headquarters in Mumbai, India. It is the largest private sector business in India and operates in five major industry sectors: exploration and production, refining and...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs