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Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...technique is to keep your mouth physically closed and lean slightly back in your seat (but not too far, you still want to demonstrate your interest). If you find it difficult to stop yourself saying something, rest your chin lightly on your hand. Some interruptions can be helpful. For example, if you are not clear about something then you need to let the speaker know. You...
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...techniques for listening to and understanding music? This free course provides a general introduction to how to understand a musical score, and insights into what professional musicians do with the notation that these contain. You'll learn how to connect the notation you see with the music you hear, from short familiar melodies to a full orchestral score. Focusing on...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...techniques). But then after that, I was kind of being let loose into the wild, so to speak. It’s kind of funny, my original plan was just to do retail, save some money up, and buy a camera. But it turned out, that where I’d planned to go they didn’t want me . So I had to go early and do it. Looking back on it, I’m glad I did because obviously it gave me...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...techniques, such as isotherms, for displaying his observations and they allowed him to recognise patterns in the data he had collected. In doing so, Humboldt turned his back on the prevalent religious explanations for phenomena seen in nature and instead sought process-based scientific explanations for the patterns he saw in his observations. Such a quantitative approach...
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...techniques that tend to compel students to make ongoing decisions in constructing simulations of real-life contexts. (Cain, 2013, p. 77)...Teaching secondary music: 3.4 Informal learning in the classroom - In the video that forms the core of the next activity, Professor Lucy Green of the Institute of Education in London talks about how her interest in informal learning in...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...techniques. Some techniques are important and necessary, but managerial effectiveness is more complex. It is influenced by a range of factors – you, the job you do, the people you work with, and the organisation you work in...Managing and managing people: 4 Your job - Did you find your management job hard to describe? This section should provide you with some of the...
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...techniques to promote desirable and sustainable change for the benefit of the client and potentially for other stakeholders.’ (Cox, Bachkirova and Clutterbuck, 2024, p. 1). ‘The art of facilitating the performance, learning and development of another.’ (Downey, 2003, p. 21). In his book, An introduction to coaching skills, Christian van Nieuwerburgh (2020, p. 6)...
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...techniques that can be used to analyse financial statements...Do you want to be introduced to various techniques of financial statement analysis including ratio analysis, horizontal analysis, segmental analysis and the analysis of historical data as key tools in the analysis of financial statements? This course explains the information needs of various stakeholder groups...