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Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...Leadership coaching – working with leaders in any profession or field. Positive psychology coaching – integrating coaching and positive psychology to enhance performance and wellbeing. Throughout this course, you’ll be focusing mainly on career coaching, although executive and leadership coaching also relate directly to the workplace...Week 1: Where am I starting...
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...leadership. Activity 4 What are the components of excellent care? Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Watch this short animation about the Quilt of Excellence. As you watch, think about the following questions: What does living well mean to you? What does ageing well mean to you? Do you have experience of working in a nurturing and caring environment? If so, what made it feel...
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...leadership and change management approaches, with their increasing emphasis on facilitating and enabling, rather than directing and mandating. One of the motivations for these developments is a heightened focus on the ethics of organisational and institutional life, especially in the wake of recent corporate scandals. As Vince (2011, p. 344) puts it, instructional...
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...leadership for governors and Teamwork: an introduction for school governors. Regardless of the type of school in which you find yourself, their approach to inclusive education will be a determining factor towards the culture that identifies their learning and teaching environment. Over the next few hours, you will be introduced to some of the principles and arguments that...
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...leadership contender Jacob Rees-Mogg has called Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, an ‘enemy of Brexit’ and also accused the BBC of an underlying pro-remain agenda. In a democracy it should be possible to lose a vote and still be able to put forward arguments contrary to the majority. Or else, we fall into what deTocqueville called the ‘tyranny of the...
The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...leadership role,” McCain said of Washington’s involvement in Northern Ireland. “I need the Irish American vote,” the Arizona senator concluded, while describing himself as the underdog in the coming November general election. McCain secured quite a few of those votes, but he would lose the election to Barack Obama. As president, Obama would maintain the Irish...
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...leadership of the Black Panthers (Kelley, 1997). Subsequently, there was a negative reaction to Black women wearing Afros with the connotation and lasting stereotype of the political, dominant, aggressive and counterculture Black woman. Kelley surmises this created a dynamic where Black women began to experience pressure to straighten their hair to be a Europeanised ideal...
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...Leadership, Vol. 54, No. 6, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Copyright © 1977 by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Wilson, L. O. and Spears, A. (2003) ‘Overview of brain-based learning’. www.uwsp.edu/education/1wilson. National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (2002)...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs