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Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care which has aided me now to progress and develop within my own role. Lucy What about you, Natalie? Natalie Hi, Lucy. I am a social worker working with older people in Powys in a statutory social work team with older adults and my role is working with individuals and their families to empower them really to look at what...
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...leadership...Manufacturing: 1.6 A PDS checklist - The product design specification, or PDS, should contain all the facts relating to the product. It should not lead the design by presupposing the outcome, but it must contain the realistic constraints on the design. This list is one attempt to cover the principal questions that need to be answered in formulating a PDS....
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...Leadership skills Try to do too much at once Find uncertainty quite difficult to manage Can be too single-minded OPPORTUNITIES THREATS Good position at work Commitment to further study Support from work for further training Supportive family Balancing work and home Uncertain commercial market, especially in IT What are the priorities? Now you need to do your own analysis...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...leadership and surveillance (ATLAS) (Pfizer, 2017). E. coli bacteria were isolated from infections and tested to determine whether they produced ESBLs and whether they were resistant to cephalosporins. Figure 6 shows the percentage of ESBL- and non-ESBL-producing E. coli isolates that were resistant to the cephalosporin cefepime between 2004 and 2016. Note that this...
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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...leadership in an increasingly secular, internationalised, technology-driven fast changing world? [Credits:] Centre for Research, Innovation & Future Development. Produced by Alex Browning. Thanks to Scenario Planning Team. The changes seem dramatic, but are they more dramatic than the changes we have seen in the previous ten years? Think about: What will be the main...
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...leadership. NARRATOR This film has shown that, despite their very different economic contexts, there are some striking similarities in the way the strongest Italian and German firms compete on the global market. FERNANDO ALBERTI We notice that those companies that are much more performing compared to others, they have the same kind of patterns. So first of all, they [are]...
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...leadership – adequate; teamwork – okay; information technology skills – okay; but, understanding of the nature of globalisation, working with cross-cultural sensitivity and sensitivity to different ethical positions were not okay. It seems there is recognition of the need for individuals with many of the skills I have attributed to the aware systems practitioner....
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...leadership, where a firm with market power sets a price level that other firms follow. Other firms have used tacit collusion in different ways, for example using an intermediary to set pricing, or to share price intentions with others. Activity 4: A cartel game Timing: 5 minutes This activity models cartel behaviour using a technique from mainstream economics called game...