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Money & Business

Risk management

...leadership role. Adopt a systematic and holistic approach to risk identification, assessment and management. Comply with legislation and codes, but be prepared to seek further improvements. Ensure good communication with the others involved. Ensure that lasting systems for oversight and scrutiny are in place. Contribute to public awareness of risk. Indeed all UK companies...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...leadership and intercultural interactions. Part 3 Timing: 15 minutes Now compare these quotes with your own definitions. Answer the following questions: What aspects of culture do these quotes highlight that you might have not considered in your definition from Part 1? Which aspects of the authors’ definitions have you also come up with in your own summary? Part 4...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...leadership, learning, public pressure)? What practices does an innovative organisation engage in with respect to environmental management? Systems ideas are used to explore and develop critical perspectives on innovation in relation to environmental management by organisations. A systems approach raises the question of perspective: who decides what is innovation, what...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...leadership).’ At this point it is worth reiterating my earlier contention that the RBV approach has far wider utility than simply commercial organisations. However, as innovation is typically seen as of most importance to commercial enterprises, it is unsurprising that ‘firms’ and ‘companies’ – commercial entities – are the focus of attention rather than...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...Leadership on Climate Change: What Can We Learn from Child-Led Initiatives in the U.S. and the Pacific Islands? Children, Youth and Environments, 28: 1, pp. 90–103. Donnelly, J. (2003) Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd edition. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press Kraftl, P. (2020) ‘Plastic Childhoods’, in V. Cooper and N. Holford (eds)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...leadership of a Roman Catholic barrister, Daniel O’Connell (1775–1847, depicted in Figure 9). In 1823, O’Connell and Richard Lalor Sheil (1791–1851) founded the Catholic Association, an organisation that was remarkably successful in gaining support across the social spectrum in Ireland, from landed Catholics and the middle classes, to the illiterate, Irish...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...leadership and communicate effectively. Case study: Tom’s roles in life Look at Tom’s list below. It shows some of the roles he plays and what these roles demand of him. Student representative: attending meetings to give the views of my class to teachers and lecturers, communicating with people on the same course as me. Volunteer at Samaritans’ helpline: listening...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...leadership) announces what he expected and hoped for in the way of leaves and blossoms and will provide publicly accepted beliefs and values to justify the outcome. The farmer may or may not be consciously aware that the outcome is really a result of how the seeds, the root system, the quality of the water in the pond, and the fertilizers he put in combined to create the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs