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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...Introduction - A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. (John C. Maxwell, cited in Dempsey and Forst, 2011, p. 35) Are you a leader? Do you – as Maxwell asserts in the quote above – know the way, go the way and show the way? In recent years the concept of leaders and leadership has become increasingly popular, but what exactly is leadership?...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria

...Introduction: English In Austria, there are local and regional variations in baking. Home baking is quite popular. Sweet baking in Austria was influenced by other cultures: Bohemia golatschen, Hungary strudel and Italy polentaschnitten. Different words are used to refer to bread brot, white bread and rolls weißgebäck and konditorwaren are more luxurious bakery goods....
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Activity 5 mins
Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...Introduction to polymers available at http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/chemistry/introduction-polymers/content-section-0 Smith, J. (2014) UNEP Year Book 2014 emerging issues update ‘Plastic Debris in the Ocean’, [Online].Available at http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2014/PDF/chapt8.pdf (Accessed 10 August 2016). Welden, N., How your pile of...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...Introduction - This course will introduce you to some ideas about how information and communiction technologies (ICTs) systems work. We will look at how ICT systems convey, store and manipulate data, and how they process data. Finally, using the example of a supermarket, we will analyse how ICT systems are used. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...Introduction - This course aims to develop the digital transformation skills for hybrid working as an individual or a team rather than focussing on how digital capabilities relate to organisations. For organisations to build digital capabilities it starts with their people having the confidence and competence to develop their skills and behaviours, so that they can make...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...managed data storage in computer systems? This free course, The database development life cycle, has been designed to give you an overview of the developmental lifecycle for a database system, explaining the importance of data analysis and highlighting how database development differs from traditional software development...No idea how relational database systems are...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...management as it implements change in the organisation (Waraich & Bhardwarj, 2012). Often, destructive survivors portray fear and pessimism towards the reduction process, a perception that negatively impacts their productivity. Constructive survivors do not perceive the reduction process as a threat to their job and, therefore, support management by actively taking part...
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Article 10 mins
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...manage. We ask some questions about the challenges it faces to remain successful in a competitive marketplace...[Oxfam at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit] Oxfam at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit Starting a new job is often daunting, but can you imagine what it must be like taking over at Oxfam? How do you manage an organisation with 5000 paid staff,...
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Article 10 mins