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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...leadership may have had consequences for your practice. These ideas reflect theories, for example about how people learn, about children’s and young people’s lives and identities, about individual rights, or about power relationships in society. Ideas of this kind are the subject of constant debate, societal influences and continuing change, but are important because...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...leadership that has prescribed how this will happen, common terminology, common knowledge, common training, and so on. Video 2: Dr Gavrill Xanthopoulos, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems, Athens INTERVIEWER Can you tell me what lessons have been learned from 2007. And how has it affected what you do today? [TEXT ON THE SCREEN: GEORGE KONSTANTAKOPOULOS, Fire...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...leadership and board level. Local organisations must ensure effective management of their technology infrastructure, systems and services (Smart, 2018). Although these points are explicitly about the NHS’s failure to prepare itself for the WannaCry attack, similar reasons may also lie behind the failures of many other large organisations who fail to protect themselves....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...leadership and followership in social networks. You would even participate in a peer review exercise, where you will use presentation software to draft a poster on which you'll exchange feedback with other students on the module. Finally, you will learn about organizational business to business buying behavior, relationship mobilizing, and branding in an organizational...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...leadership of the organisation. For example, if the CEO is highly supportive of environmental initiatives, all individual departments must consider this in their decision-making processes. External pressures come from outside the organisation so there may be governmental regulations to reduce waste or conserve resources such as water, or customer demand for more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...Leadership, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 30–35. Open Systems Group (2004) Systems practice: a distinctive competence with the Open University. Unpublished discussion paper containing notes by Morris, D. about the Anglia Schumacher Conference in 2003. Reynolds, M. and Holwell, S. (2020) Chapter 1: Introducing systems approaches. In: Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell (eds.) Systems...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...leadership brand, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing...Week 1: Where am I starting from?: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Liz Smith. It was first published in May 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...leadership, passion, integrity, accountability, collaboration, innovation and quality. Similar lists can be found on the websites of virtually all organisations. The challenge is establishing what they mean and how stakeholders can ensure they are being lived and embodied, not just espoused. (Alfred, 2013) Activity 5 Mission statements Timing: Allow approximately 10...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs