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Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...business Woman with Headache on the sofa] Disbelief or difficulty in accepting a loved one’s death is greater when people are unable to be physically present either at time of death or at a funeral service after the death. Individuals may feel guilt and remorse about unwittingly infecting the deceased if they were a health worker or a family member who had been unwell....
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Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...business management and technology, which they can do within an Open degree. SPEAKER 1 When people ask me what I do at the Open University, I go design technology, and childcare. And it's a look on their face, and they go, really? My end goal is to be a design technology teacher, so to me it flows and it works quite well. SPEAKER 4 I started with the Introduction...
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...business issue. By looking at different perspectives/approaches to issues and phenomena, different research methodologies and ethical considerations this course will sustain the development of a research study, from the initial idea of what to investigate; to the elaboration of specific research questions; the research design, strategy and methodology...This free course,...
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...business, public sphere, civil society – you need to understand and adapt to the changing world that brings many challenges. Successful leadership requires you to reconsider what it means to lead in turbulent and precarious times. In this short course you will have the opportunity to understand and explain how leadership changes in accordance to the needs of turbulent...
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...business event. What do we do? Mostly unconsciously we search around the room making judgements! We might not like to admit this intellectually, but at an unconscious level we look to see who looks safe or possibly threatening, or who might be attractive or otherwise, or who might be ‘like us’ in some way. We then gravitate only towards the people who pass our...
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...businesses. Power can challenge these institutions from outside with a view to disrupting and changing them. At other times power can be exerted from within, working inside structures and systems of existing power to change them. However, power can also be built independently of existing formal institutions, with groups deciding to create their own institutions, resources...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...business practice (Roslender and Hart, 2003). SMA is still not clearly defined, so writers emphasise different perspectives and techniques or avoid defining it altogether. Examples of different definitions are provided below. Box 1 Definitions of strategic management accounting SMA refers to a variable portfolio of mainly financial information geared towards aiding...
Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?
Society, Politics & Law

Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?

...business for Britain. Of course, it will affect a small number of migrants on very low wages and their children, but they will still benefit from working in the UK. There is little evidence that welfare is the main attraction of the UK. In short, benefit doesn’t matter much to migrants themselves, to the British economy or to the inflow of migrants to the UK. The fact...