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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...system’ in a different way from the general sense, to think in terms of systems. For now, you should note that it was possible to focus on some different systems, boundaries and environments in the different definitions, even though they started with the same word. Consider these further examples of systems from Sir Geoffrey Vickers, who was ......
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...systems. Think about getting dressed in the morning. Mom is trying to get your shoe on. You’re playing with the Cheerio. Your mom takes a Cheerio away because it’s three days old. She puts your other shoe on in an attempt to get you dressed. The dog runs through. Everybody’s distracted for a moment. What does the naming of objects in that look like? It looks like a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...think of this ratio as Pareto’s law. For example, in a computer system there will be frequent but minor failures in disk accesses: these failures are normally overcome simply by retrying the access. Far more rarely, a disk’s read head will touch the delicate magnetic surface, and then the disk is effectively destroyed and access is impossible under any circumstances....
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...systems thinking and social learning for adaptive management’, Conservation Biology, 26(1), pp. 13–20. DFID, Whitty, C. and Dercon, S. (2013) ‘The evidence debate continues: Chris Whitty and Stefan Dercon respond from DFID’, From Poverty to Power. Available at: https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/the-evidence-debate-continues-chris-whitty-and-stefan-dercon-respond/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...systems thinking and ecopsychology. It explores our anxieties and defences associated with the climate and ecological crisis, considers forms of support and aims to help individuals and communities cope and adapt. In essence it aims to provide a psychosocial understanding by exploring the ‘interactions between the personal and the political, the psychological and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...thinking. ‘System 1’ is fast, instinctive, often unconscious, and requires comparatively little effort. However, it tends to take shortcuts. System 1 is a necessary survival mechanism because staying alive requires making a continuous series of rapid decisions. But, at the same time, it is illogical and risks reaching conclusions that are mistaken. ‘System 2’, on...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...thinking hard about the system of work. How to really visualise from strategy through to execution how to regularly re-prioritise based on knowledge and lessons that have been learnt and pivoting to focus on the right thing. NATASHA DAVIES: So I think, as businesses, but also from the government, we absolutely need to have investment in basic digital skills to make sure...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...Think outside the box – dyslexic and neurodiverse employees might seem hard to fit into a traditional system because they can often struggle with boundaries. They excel in lively, interactive environments, typically more so than with abstract, theoretical work. They need to see the meaning or importance of a task in order to truly engage with it. Recognise and utilise...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs