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Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...changes in skills and/or knowledge that can be directly attributed to the training intervention. Formal assessments, qualifications and exams are all examples of measuring achievement at this level of evaluation. Level 3 – behaviour Behaviour refers to the successful application of learning – that is, the transition from the classroom to the workplace. Level 3...
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...changing and evolving to meet the needs of the market. For many this constant change makes it an exciting profession, as summarised here by Ian Hunter, Head of Marketing at Fujitsu Services. What excites me most about marketing? Working in marketing means that you are in a privileged position, working across all parts of a business at all levels, for the good of the whole...
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...change in their DNA – a mutation in a gene called p53 that undermines their ability to resist cancer. p53 has turned out to be the most important single gene in cancer, and has been one of the most popular areas of study in the history of molecular biology. The gene was discovered in 1979 by David Lane, working at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, and...
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...change. (Selye, 1978 [1956]), p. 29) The distinction between eustress and distress is not current, but Selye and others found it helpful to understand how stress could be ‘good’ as well as ‘bad’. The critical point that Selye was making is that an understanding of biology by itself may not be enough to understand the effects of stress because the same...
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...change about.’ While the nuances may be different, the emphasis of all these definitions is on help and support, and the relationship between two people – common themes in almost all definitions of mentoring. Maybe you also highlighted those aspects in the sentence or paragraph that you wrote in Activity 1...Week 1: Where am I starting from?: 1.2 Defining coaching -...
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
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Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...change things, now that you are probably getting a better feel for the kind of notes you wish to make and how much space they take up. Discussion We can gain a lot from thinking back over things by ourselves. It is also valuable, at least occasionally, to think about other points of view or perspectives. One way of doing this is by getting feedback from others...Week 4:...
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...changing the signal so that the communication channel can be used more economically or more efficiently; or it might mean processing a signal so that it can be sampled satisfactorily in an analogue-to-digital converter. What is filtering? In the context of electronic signals, filtering means altering the signal so that some aspects of the signal are removed while other...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...changing him, she found herself unable to stop herself from shouting at him the things which the voice had uttered. She woke up the next morning with a bad cold, which she used as an excuse to take time off work. She has not been to work for the past two weeks, only leaving the flat briefly to run small errands. She has not told anybody about hearing the voice and has...