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Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...determines how they come across to other people. As Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, famously said: ‘Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.’ [A bearded man wearing glasses holds a Post-it note up to the camera.] Figure 1 You are your own brand When defining a personal brand, McNally and Speak (2009, p.4) start with this well-defined concept...
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Languages

How to learn a language

...determination to work hard.’ He lacks confidence He has no willpower He is easily discouraged a. He lacks confidence b. He has no willpower c. He is easily discouraged The correct answer is b. Select the answer for Question 1e here ‘I have all these books, and audio, and films, and apps… I start working on something, and then I give up and try something else. I...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...determine how long an individual is going to spend in prison. So we really have to think about these decisions. Are they fair? And we’ve seen that algorithmic bias doesn’t necessarily always lead to fair outcomes. So what can we do about it? Well, we can start thinking about how we create more inclusive code and employ inclusive coding practices. It really starts with...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...determined that it will usher in a new type of politics for the 21st century. David Cornock, BBC Wales Today, the National Assembly for Wales. Video 1 The Queen opens the first Welsh Assembly (1999)...Section 1: Designing devolution: 2.6 New politics - At the end of the clip in Section 2.5, reporter David Cornock mentions ‘new politics’. This was a phrase used at the...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...determines the mechanical properties, like strength and toughness, of the steel. We can change the structure of the iron: through alloying and heat treatment the grain size and structure can be altered, so tailoring the properties of the material that we make. [Figure 12(c)] Figure 12(c) Optical micrograph of steel Figure 12(d) zooms in still further, showing us more of...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...determine their psychological reactions. This allows two people to exhibit entirely different psychological responses to the same injury. Therefore, it is the perception of an injury that affects psychological responses, rather than the injury itself. Both cognitive appraisal models suggest that how an individual interprets or appraises their injury is influenced by two...
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...determining the factors that tend to lead to a miscarriage of justice. This is achieved by determining which elements the investigations had in common. West and Meterko (2015) analysed cases from the first 25 years of The Innocence Project and found that the most common factor by far was that of mistaken eyewitness identification, which was a feature present in 72% of the...
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...determine where the conversation goes. Watch the film now. WOMAN So as we discussed previously, I'm at a career crossroads now, and I really need to think about what direction to go in. I can stay where I am now and just progress in that area of project management. Or I can start to do something quite different, actually, which is to lead the people of a team and...