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Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...energy of the group on its task – the facilitator’s role is to ensure that the group is working well together to achieve its objectives. suggests alternative methods of working – the facilitator helps the group by offering alternative ways of solving the problem or of looking at the situation. protects individuals and their ideas from attack – the facilitator acts...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...energy with which the reluctance of the indolent stream is sometimes overcome. I do not suppose that anywhere else, when the wind is low, is a vessel madly hurled through the water at a mile an hour by means of a rope tied to its mast and pulled by a fatherly old horse under the intermittent drivership of two boys whom he could hardly keep to the work. I loved the banks...
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Article 10 mins
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...energies. He made the unimaginable seem possible. Engineers were thrilled at the prospect of creating huge trains to run on wide-gauge tracks, so-called ‘travelling hotels’ that would carry German holidaymakers to the Crimea. Doctors relished the chance to experiment not just on animals, but on humans. This was, of course, the reality behind the fantastic vision. It...
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Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...energy available to us as food and the spread of human populations across the Earth demonstrates our ability to migrate from one ecosystem to another in search of new resources. Since the nineteenth century in the industrialised west, improved hygiene and the development of medicine have also led to fewer infants dying, and people living longer. But population growth and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...energy suppliers. Reconsider your gym membership, if you have one, and look into ‘pay as you go’ instead. Depending on how often you go, you could save money. Think about whether a branded item is really value for money. Cut down on the number of takeaway meals you have. Cutting from two to one a week would save typically over £250 a year. Call your phone supplier...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...energy to think about change. Resilience is also often discussed in a general context, but there are times when developing your capacity for resilience might be in response to a very specific need. In the next section you will look at one person’s experience of building mathematical resilience...Week 2: Personal resilience – born or made?: 4.2 Growing resilience – a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...Energy - Build momentum Questions: How can you create and sustain the energy? Has the resource been identified and agreed? Has a programme office been established? Has backfill been agreed is necessary? Has the resource been freed up? What are you doing well? What do you need to do? Control - Execute discipline Questions: How much central control is required? Is ‘Go...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...energy that should be devoted to the tasks of reproduction. Equally, men's behaviour has been interpreted as the product of biological forces and drives. For instance, biologists have developed an approach known as ‘parental investment theory’ to explain why women are monogamous home-builders while men are philandering adulterers. According to this theory, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs