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Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...becoming demotivated and disconnected, and heading towards lower wellbeing and perhaps even burnout? Employee Engagement [Tech start up office] Employee engagement may be a management approach that you are already familiar with, as it has become increasingly more mainstream over the last decade, with many organisations already promoting strategies to foster engagement, as...
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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...become deficit focused. It is useful when thinking about whether your child is normal to focus on their strengths. This can help ensure the ‘fullest possible picture’, because no one can be good at everything. A practical tip: Try to list all the things your child does well, or qualities within them that you admire. It’s important for your child to know that you...
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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...become an essential part of everyday life. According to Ofcom’s 2017 figures, 94% of adults in the UK own a mobile phone; and over three-quarters of those are smartphones. And while mobile phones were originally designed to facilitate phone calls on the go, Deloitte’s mobile consumer survey (2016) suggests a third of smartphone users don’t actually make traditional...
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The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...become more self-aware, and identify and dismantle limiting attitudes and beliefs, it becomes possible to replace restrictive emotional behaviours with enhancing ones. Emotions are also a particularly important social and adaptive function, increasing awareness of other people’s perspectives and needs, and how we interact with them. This enables greater openness, trust,...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...becomes more focused and impairs the working memory (Martin et al., 2012). While the focus can help to evaluate the situation, people can tend to focus on the most prominent information, which may not be the most helpful or significant information at that time (Rivera et al., 2014). The combination of the impaired working memory together with this tunnelled focus may also...
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Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...become a police officer Amount of education required to become a police officer varies across forces Educational requirements are standardised and follow specific guidelines for entry into the profession No national or federal oversight of police forces or police conduct National and governmental inspection and oversight of police forces and police conduct Difference in...
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Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...become a professional zoologist. But it was really the Wiltshire countryside that triggered it. I think if I’d been… I don’t know, I was lucky to grow up in the countryside in the thirties and to see… natural life at close quarters. My studies in animal behaviour Back in the 1950s I was working here in Oxford with Niko Tinbergen as a comparative ethologist. I was...
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A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...OU. Activity 4 Watch the video and try to identify the most important points. Make some notes in the text box below and save your answer. There is no comment for this activity. [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR It’s October 1599. Shakespeare has finished writing his history play, Julius Caesar, and is visiting a fair in his hometown of Stratford with his daughter....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs