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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...thinking it also requires the ability to understand and manage trust and recover and repair trust it has been breached. Content on trust in the hub When we began this work, there were few assets on OpenLearn about trust in the workplace, mostly assets that briefly mention it. However, what we do not have in the volume of individual assets we have in the scope of the...
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Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...think that running is popular because it has its feet in both camps of sport and exercise. It is a permissible public activity because of its associations with sport (unlike Zumba or Body Pump, for example). The industrial revolution has swept away most of our forests and green spaces, and in doing so changed completely our ways of working, leaving us desperately...
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The first geological map of the UK
History & The Arts

The first geological map of the UK

...Appropriately, given the hanging of his map in the Sedgwick Museum, it was Adam Sedgwick who presented Smith with his medal. We are, we think, the only museum, library or art gallery in the world to have one of Smith’s legendary maps on public display – and we want as many people as possible to come and see this enormous, iconic and beautiful map for themselves.”...
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So you've written your novel, what now?
History & The Arts

So you've written your novel, what now?

...think particularly about genre or about who you are writing for other than yourself. But by the end of the process, before you send your finished manuscript out to literary agents, these things need to be clear and you need to be able to communicate this to the agent. Where would your book sit on the bookshelf in a bookshop? What kind of person would enjoy your story?...
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The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
Nature & Environment

The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators

...systems. The slow motion photography used to film their hunts gives a sense of both nimbleness and speed but also their astounding power – 120 watts per kg of muscle – twice that of greyhounds and four times that of racehorses. Usain Bolt generated just 25 watts/kg during his 100 metre world record. It’s not just big mammals The series also explores the tactics of...
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The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?
Money & Business

The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?

...System from 1979. Then in 1999 eleven EU countries formed an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), adopting a common currency, and forming a Euro Area (Eurozone) that has since expanded to 17 of the 28 member states. Why they did it The main advantages of a single currency were believed to be: Promoting cross-border trade and investment by shielding consumers and businesses...
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The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...system allowed them to absorb the continued Anglo-French attacks both during the battle of the Somme and in the battles of 1917. Additionally, the battle forced the German high command to face up to at least some of their deficiencies in the technical realm. Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, the team that took command of the German army after the Romanian entry...
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Dinasyddiaeth Weithgar yng Nghymru
Society, Politics & Law

Dinasyddiaeth Weithgar yng Nghymru

...system rybuddio i roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i chi am weithgarwch eich AS. Full Fact Sefydliad gwirio ffeithiau annibynnol a all helpu i gadarnhau dilysrwydd darllediadau newyddion a straeon cyfryngau cymdeithasol. Snopes.com Ffynhonnell gyfeirio ddefnyddiol ar gyfer ymchwilio i chwedlau trefol byd-eang, gwerin, mythau, sibrydion, a chamwybodaeth. Rhagor o gasgliadau...
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