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Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...studies, plus Gifford and Young (2021) engagement evidence review for the CIPD, suggest that organisations need to pay attention to: each employee’s self-efficacy (belief in being able to succeed in the workplace, based on skills they have and circumstances they face), resilience (ability to recover quickly from difficulties) and personal resources (such as time,...
Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...studied for a long time and had a lot of self-doubt. Caroline was determined to make it work. On taking up the training role, Caroline acknowledges that she was fortunate that whilst she couldn’t choose where she went to, the Trust picked up on her interest in vascular medicine and she was able to develop her knowledge through her apprenticeship. Now qualified, Caroline...
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...studies where researchers wanted to listen to young children’s talk and opinions about their play. In Sections 2 and 3, you are encouraged to think about children’s play experiences in different contexts. First, you will read about Elodie (aged three years) and how she plays at home as observed by Mia, her mother. You will then read an account by Michael, the father...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...studying this course, you should be able to: know the differences in opinion about what Initial Teacher Education (ITE) is trying to achieve understand the differences in perception of the student teachers’ role in ITE recognise some of the ways in which these differences manifest themselves in the UK understand effective student teacher learning and how students...
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...studies historically focused on the individual. It then builds on what is meant by Collective Leadership, using real-life case studies as examples....Collective leadership: Introduction - Welcome to the free course, Collective leadership, which explores the traits and skills of an effective leader in an organisational setting. There are many practices that could be...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
NILGA Learning Hub
OpenLearn Ireland

NILGA Learning Hub

This OpenLearn Hub, prepared in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA), features a collection of free online resources designed to support learning and skills development for councillors. [NILGA logo]
The birth of a word
Health, Sports & Psychology

The birth of a word

Just like acquiring any other skill, learning language requires a lot of practise. Listen to how the son of researcher Deb Roy homed in on the pronunciation of ‘water’ over six months...Transcript.
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...skills, as have many of the studies looking at ToM in humans (for example, the vast body of work in developmental psychology that has considered when various ToM skills develop in children). Activity 10 Do you think animals understand others’ minds? Timing: Allow 10 minutes for this activity Stop and reflect for a moment on how you might decide whether an animal has an...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs