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Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...careful to involve members of your team in making decisions about matters that affect them, they will be more likely to cooperate with you and with each other. Creating ‘stability zones’. These are areas of work over which you and members of your work group have some control, or a measure of control. Being alert to the actual demands being made on you and those in...
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...careful to include that the automaton can be a human or it can be a machine. After all humans compute, we may not be as fast as machines but in fact there is some ways humans are much, much better computers, than machines. In other words there are still some tasks that humans can solve better than machines. Vision is one example. Speech, natural language processing. A lot...
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...care of the web browser.) From the beginning, Brin and Page had a more technological approach and had been friends since their studies at Stanford, whereas Schmidt brought his business experience as he had been already a CEO of another large organisation in the IT (information technology) industry. Another way of looking at collective leadership is through the lens of...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...careful bonding. I And the whole idea is to give the plant strength so that it's able to remain upright. AK Strength and resistance. The cell wall is actually a very clever structure. But for us it's difficult because it means that we have a complex series of fibres which are all kind of interlaced and locked together. And in order to get the one fibre we want, we have to...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Careful management of trade payables can result in suppliers funding the business in the short term. After startup, a business uses its existing cash to support future growth by increasing its investment in non-current assets. Further sources of finance may be necessary to supplement equity finance. This process increases the size of a company's balance sheet. Debt...
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...careful consideration of where boundaries might most appropriately be placed. You would need to consider each element in relation to others in the context of a system of interest as a whole. In other words systems literacy – your ability to follow the rules of using systems maps – must be underpinned by your systemic sensibility – your capacity to think and act...
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Internships and other work experiences

...Adult career progression & advancement: a five year study of the effectiveness of guidance. Available at: https://warwick.ac.uk/ fac/ soc/ ier/ publications/ 2008/ eg_report_4_years_on_final.pdf (Accessed: 21 March 2020). Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) (2015) Internships that work: a guide for employers. Available at: https://www.cipd.co.uk/...
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Languages

How to learn a language

...adult, the only way I knew how was to get a textbook and start memorising words. Needless to say, I didn’t learn much at first. Over the years, as I learned more languages, I began to notice new things that worked – often discovering them by accident. When I trained as a language teacher, I discovered many formal language teaching methodologies, such as the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs