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Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...energy operating rather than managing. Operating is often easier and more rewarding than managing, and it is usually less demanding and carries fewer risks. However, you need to maintain the right balance. To do this you need to be able to separate operating and managing very clearly. New managers can find the transition difficult. Older managers may have failed to make...
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...energy of sunlight trapped during photosynthesis became stored in vast amounts of plant litter that accumulated on the floor of the forests and in swamps. Eventually, this debris was buried, compressed and converted by heat and pressure into coal; 300 Ma later the energy from Carboniferous sunlight fuelled the Industrial Revolution. Not until Permian times did reptiles...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...energy, enthusiasm and commitment come into the evaluation? The activity you have just engaged in is the first of several such activities. It is an example of a pattern of activities that constitute reflective practice or reflective learning. This style of learning is based on the notion that the understandings most useful to us, and that most readily become part of us,...
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...energy and health sectors. These are sectors that are particularly important from the perspective of ensuring the security of the economy, as well as being sectors where the UK can be influential. There are many more that are important to the prosperity of the UK, including food and drink, clothing and textiles, and transport. In your own nation, there may be a slightly...
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...energy needs to be focused on making real improvement.’ I want to know why ways of working matter A Sense of Urgency Pattern 1: Focus on the outcomes Pattern 4: Leadership will make it or break it ‘We have talked about transformation for a long time and made a start. We’re making some progress in IT, but the wider organisation is not yet feeling the benefit. As a...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...energy shock to the heart to enable it to return to a normal rhythm. It is especially useful for someone who is experiencing cardiac arrest. The hypodermic needle: The hypodermic needle is a significant innovation enabling blood and poisons to be removed and insulin and anaesthesia to be inserted. While the Romans and Greeks used needles, the practice wasn’t always...
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...solar system. This revolutionary idea formed the alternative hypothesis. H0: All planets orbit around the Earth. H1: Not all planets orbit around the Earth. [Planets revolving around the Sun] Figure 2 Solar system The gold standard, a monetary system where the value of a country’s currency is directly linked to gold, was widely adopted in the late 19th and early 20th...
Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...energy within it that can be leveraged. (strategy&, 2018)...Hybrid working: skills for leadership: 1.5 Defining culture: the gold standard - Schein’s iceberg model (Schein, 1992), reproduced below, is a useful way of illustrating that some cultural aspects of an organisation are visible while others are hidden and difficult for outsiders or newcomers to interpret. [The...