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Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...think it is something that you grow into. I think it's something that, like anything, you can learn the basics. You can learn the basics of skiing, but it's only by practicing it, I think, that you get to understand how you actually navigate your way down a slope or through sludgy snow, whatever it happens to be. And think I've developed my style over a number of years,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...thinking in a productive and conducive environment. Rapport is a key part of this process. We can all create rapport with those we instinctively respond to positively: usually with those people who are ‘a bit like us’. The challenge in performance coaching is to be able to create rapport with a wide range of people. How do we do this? How is it that some people seem...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Supply chains: healthcare
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: healthcare

...systems function smoothly? This album focuses on the different roles of B.Braun, a large supplier of medical equipment which also provides customised services for patients. In this time-critical setting, their supply chain processes must be organised with scrupulous efficiency. This material forms part of The Open University course T882 Supply chain innovation, strategy...
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Video 50 mins
Open Mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Open Mathematics

...systems are in place. The material forms part of the course MU120 Open Mathematics... Open Mathematics A short introduction to this album. Running Trains Safely Steam trains in the valley of the River Severn - ensuring the train service meets customer demand and ensures safety. Journeys as Graphs The timetable in action and the practical challenges a timetabler faces....
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Audio 25 mins
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...system. Rebecca Earle explains how...What we eat matters to us – but we’re not sure whether it ought to matter to anyone else. We generally insist that our diets are our business and resent being told to eat more fruit, consume less alcohol and generally pull our socks up when it comes to dinner. The efforts in 2012-13 by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban...
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Article 5 mins
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...think about a lot. We know that some areas of Mars have a higher probability of having sustained life in the past. Studying analogue sites on Earth is valuable because it helps us gather information that we can use to develop hypotheses about the habitability of Martian environments. Life has all sorts of survival strategies; on Earth we have seen organisms that survive...
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Article 10 mins
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...thinking about what subject you might choose, what you want your talk to achieve, and what audience you'll be aiming at. Let's get started, and watch some experienced speakers, think about how their talks are structured and what makes them work. Marshal Anderson will be your guide through the course. An Open University Associate Lecturer and occasional stand-up comedian,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...think that Life on Earth, Trials of Life, those early series in the late seventies and early eighties, they actually linked, if you like, a great communicator with the natural world; for once you saw ants crawling up Attenborough’s legs, you had a sense of how big things were, how wondrous things were. And they were very informative for me and, I think, actually for the...
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Video 30 mins