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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...work goals but are still unfulfilled. You are stuck: the normal way of doing your job isn’t working anymore, or you cannot get that next promotion. These situations then often lead to feelings of worry, stress and anxiety, and even hopelessness and frustration, leaving us unable to move forward. These difficult feelings can then start to drive behaviour, including...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...worked for NASA. But on paper neither of those facts would make her stand out from the crowd. Add a few more facts – she was a woman, she was black and working in the US in the 1950s to early 1960s – and the scale of her success becomes more apparent. The film [Hidden Figures] shed slight on the status of black people in society and the role of women in the...
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...work with organisations of all shapes and sizes, all around the world, to bring you free educational resources. Here's just a few of our brilliant partners who help support millions of people take their first step into learning..._Find out more about The Open University's Open degree. _ [This is the logo for Dangoor] The provision of accessible education for all is...
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Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...working with others and decision-making, in the context of policing within a community. We advise strongly that you do not start this course until you have completed the other 9 courses. This last course is to be used to bring all of these ideas together and partly text your knowledge by making you apply those skills in a practical way to a given situation. You take the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...Introduction to business agility: Introduction: why improve ways of working? - With the latest technology-led revolution, we have gone from the Age of Oil and Mass Production, where work was mostly repetitive and knowable, to the Age of Digital,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Skills for life
Education & Development

Skills for life

...of thinking and solve problems. They can also build your confidence both in spoken skills and for group collaboration and co-operation...Below is a selection of courses which are not focused directly on work, but rather helping you understand and build skills which are useful in everyday life. Discover the key skills for life Learn new skills to help you with finding work...
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Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...work space, gazing out of the window or even sharpening your pencils, you have fallen into the trap of procrastination. When it comes to finding the time to study, just do it and make the most of the time you have available. Reflection Timing: Duration 10 mins Having completed the activity, if there are any things that you are worried about when it comes to finding the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...work in education, there are still ways for you to volunteer your skills and knowledge beyond your day job. Below, be inspired by three colleagues who are contributing to education in their communities. Kerrie - School governor and Chair of the PTA [Kerrie] “My volunteering is an investment in my community and an opportunity to model the values I want my children to...
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