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The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...management you need good interpersonal skills, you need to understand how to deal with other people. This free course, The importance of interpersonal skills, will help you gain an awareness of your own skills and understand that an awareness of the interpersonal skills of others can help us enormously in dealing with the work tasks we are responsible for...To succeed in...
Stories of Change Introduction
Nature & Environment

Stories of Change Introduction

...project. This has been supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and we’ve got the goal of trying to loosen up public and political conversations about energy transitions. We asked the BBC’s Environment Analyst, Roger Harrabin, to go out to capture interviews with leading figures from research, business, politics, from a wide range of views, but we...
How to find invisible black holes
Science, Maths & Technology

How to find invisible black holes

...project. In citizen science projects, we ask volunteers – you! – for help figuring out things that computers can’t solve for us! Black Hole Hunters is the Open University’s second citizen science project using data from the SuperWASP All-Sky Survey. The first of these projects was SuperWASP Variable Stars, which is searching for regular, repeating changes in the...
Dangoor Education
Science, Maths & Technology

Dangoor Education

...projects that Dangoor Education has sponsored. David Dangoor David Dangoor studied physics at Imperial College London before working as a systems analyst for IBM. He has been a long-term supporter of the OU, and this support is demonstrative of David’s transformative and forward-thinking attitude towards education, providing chances for people – regardless of faith,...
Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...project – Walking the Walk – was born out of the need to improve the experience of distressed and grieving carers as their loved ones were approaching the end of life. The project has been undertaken in over 25 care settings and although each environment is different, they all have an opportunity and a responsibility to consider the needs of the carer in terms of the...
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...project review [and] at the management structures. For example, if there were issues in relation to face-to-face delivery, which managers could or should be involved in unravelling some of those issues. At the end of the project we would produce a report where we would evaluate not only what we have produced but also what we have learnt from each other and the partnership...
Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems

...managers spent a lot of time and effort in finding a suitable source population. Many arguments were taken into account. Prevalence of diseases need to be known and selecting individuals for the translocation cannot negatively influence the source population. One of the guidelines for this is that priority should be given to a source population in close geographic...
Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...projected revenue streams, in the form of future water bills paid by Thames Water’s customers, to be packaged together, and for bonds to be issued against these revenue streams and then sold to investors. All this with the expectation that projected revenue streams would maintain their value. The bonds bought by investors were ‘backed’ by projected payments from...