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Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...research suggests these should include: Building rapport – Lai and McDowall (2014) identify the relationship between coach and coachee as being key to successful coaching outcomes, with the coach having the responsibility for initiating a comfortable and positive coaching experience. Listening, understanding and encouragement all contribute to a deeper and more...
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...children of Dutch men and Asian women were counted as Dutch. There are also systems where ‘intermediate’ or mixed racial categories are formally recognised as separate races. The third criterion I’ll turn to is self-awareness of ancestry. This is different from what someone’s actual ancestry is. For example, individuals might have one idea of what their ancestry...
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...research may be conducted to assess, for example, awareness of the message. Poor choice of medium/media Possibly because of resource constraints, or again because of lack of knowledge of the consumers’ media habits, the incorrect medium or media may be chosen. Media may include impersonal sources such as television, newspapers, magazines, etc. and personal sources such...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...centred’ decision-making process! (d) I subscribe to the view that ‘You can tell whether it’s the “right” decision by how you feel about it’. I decided recently that I could not go to a conference I was invited to attend – lack of both time and money meant that I felt the only rational decision was to decline the offer. I then realised I was disappointed...
Who is Justin Trudeau - and how did he become Canada's new Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Justin Trudeau - and how did he become Canada's new Prime Minister?

...centred around Trudeau’s lack of gravitas. One such repeatedly aired ad took the form of a hiring committee reviewing Trudeau’s resume and deciding “he’s just not ready” – a committee member patronisingly, “nice hair though”. The constant streams of attack ads against Trudeau may well have backfired in. Public expectations about him were so lowered that...
What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?

...centre-left Republican People’s Party (CHP) on 25.7%, the far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) on 12.1% and the pro-Kurdish left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on 10.5%. The AKP is predicted to take 312 seats in the 550-seat parliament, the CHP 135 seats, the HDP 60 and the MHP 43. This result is a big surprise, since pre-election polls forecast a result not...
Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...Centre reopens as a charity shop Left out of the deal Education and income were the big dividing lines between pessimists and optimists. Graduates were much more likely to think leaving the EU would make the economy worse off and reduce Britain’s influence. Among those with no or little education, few thought the economy would deteriorate or that Britain’s influence...
Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries
History & The Arts

Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries

...many political prisoners to sentences similar to Mandela’s. These are the riddles at the centre of Fidel Castro, resolved conventionally by taking opposing sides: Fidel the saviour, Castro the monster. Reality is more complex; some riddles are not to be solved.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....