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Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...think trust is absolutely crucial to the way in which all organisations function. All organisations thrive and rely on the relationships that they have internally and the relationships that they have externally. Without trust, you have no business. Feedback The interest in the concept of trust within organisations has not occurred in a vacuum. A number of specific...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...think critically and challenge ideas and received wisdom. ...This free online course, Contemporary issues in managing, introduces three contemporary approaches (managing through organisational culture, managing through internal marketing, and managing through collective leadership). These approaches require you to think critically and challenge ideas and received wisdom....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...think that ‘voice’ is used literally here, too. But since people (plural) can’t actually speak with one voice (singular), I think we’re in the realms of comparison: several or many people are speaking as if they just have one voice between them – that is, unanimously. In sentence (d) we have a clear connection with sound – but this particular sound isn’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...thinking. My application of psychosocial methods draw on psychoanalysis because it posits, theorises and utilises the idea of dialogues of affect not occurring through language, calling up the ‘unthought known’ (that which we know without knowing we know it). In psychoanalysis, these are counter/transference dynamics. Psychosocial methods offer ways of using such...
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Article 5 mins
Time to look again at HIV and relationships
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time to look again at HIV and relationships

...think. These experiences show how HIV stigma continues to shape the participants’ relationships, even if day-to-day they felt the virus has no impact. [Screenshot from Time to look at HIV and relationships animation] More positively, some participants use their relationships as an opportunity to raise awareness among friends, family and the wider public about U=U and...
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Video 5 mins
What is emotive language and why is it used?
History & The Arts

What is emotive language and why is it used?

...thinking clearly, with the aim of presenting good, clear, logical arguments - in order to achieve your desired effects...Find out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. [Talking with a forked tongue? A snake] Speaking with a forked tongue? Ever wanted to convince an audience of your point of view – maybe at an office presentation, or even...
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Article 5 mins
Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace

...thinking about how to support those living with someone facing a terminal illness. These tips are informed by ethnographic research with people of working age who are terminally ill, research about job quality and wellbeing, and personal experience of working whilst living with a terminal illness. Below is an image of factors that research has shown makes a ‘good...
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Article 5 mins
What have big meals got to do with Christmas?
History & The Arts

What have big meals got to do with Christmas?

...think that Christmas feasting is a distraction from the “glad tidings” they associate with Jesus’ birth. Some of these people question the association of big meals and glittery decorations with questions of salvation. This is not a new concern. It has vexed some Christian preachers since this midwinter festival was added to Christian calendars sometime in the third...
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Article 10 mins