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Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...attention to now in this next part of the course, injury prevention. Over the next two sessions, you'll be looking at how psychological factors can increase the risk of sports injury and how psychological strategies can be put in place to help minimise injury. We often find that injuries occur at times when people are experiencing a lot of stress in their lives. And the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...attention given to systemic failure, systems thinking is increasingly advocated as an alternative way of managing human interventions associated with socio-economic and environmental development. So what is systems thinking? Why might systems approaches provide better support for strategic planning? Moreover, how might such approaches support systemic success? This free...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...attentive, regarded as distinct from the performers)? If so, is the presence of the audience a necessary condition for the performance? Are the members of the audience socially distinct from the performers, and if so how? Which aspects of the music seem to be particularly important to those who attend the event (both audience and performers)? Some of these questions are...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...attention to technical excellence ‘We need to get better at benefits management. We don’t really know what value our change investments are adding; it’s just opinion. We have to get smarter at articulating, measuring and prioritising highest value!’ I want to optimise for highest value Pattern 1: Focus on the outcomes Pattern 5: Build the right thing Intelligent...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...attention to possible outliers in a data set. The other topic, which is covered in Sections 2 and 3, is that of dealing with data presented in tabular form. You are, no doubt, familiar with such tables: they are common in the media and in reports and other documents. Yet it is not always straightforward to see at first glance just what information a table of data is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...attention. Now he uses some of the profits to fund afternoon social events for local pensioners. Make your own notes in response to the following questions: What do you see as distinctively entrepreneurial about Fraser as an individual? What other factors do you see as significant in the success of his business? Read Case 1.1 Helen Child: an entrepreneur looks back in...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...attention to detail – which started with the firm’s founder, inventor Andrew Ritchie, when he created the company 20 years ago – is Brompton’s main differentiator. ‘They are built to last,’ he said. ‘We have to make sure that we don’t become so obsessed by growing that we lose sight of that quality. ‘The Brompton is not a commodity product. We don't want...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...attention to it again because the possibility of an Electoral College-popular vote split keeps widening in our forecast. While there’s an outside chance that such a split could benefit Clinton if she wins the exact set of states that form her “firewall,” it’s far more likely to benefit Donald Trump, according to our forecast. Thus, as of early Monday evening, our...
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