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Money & Business
Are you an entrepreneur and don't know it?
Entrepreneurship is around you everyday and can take many different forms. Maybe YOU have entrepreneurial skills and you just don't know it yet.
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Money & Business
Build your personal brand
Discover tools to help you to understand what makes you uniquely you - and how to share it with the world.
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Money & Business
Think like an entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship isn’t just about starting a business - it’s about spotting opportunities, solving problems, and creating value in ways others haven’t imagined.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Abortion stigma and the workplace
There is almost no prior scholarship on abortions as a workplace issue. A recent survey provides some insights on this topic and suggestions for workplaces.
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Education & Development
Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Have you considered using your professional skills or personal experiences to volunteer and develop your skills further? Read stories from OU staff on why they volunteer, what it means and how others can get involved.
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Money & Business
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
How is your workforce doing? What impact did the post-COVID-19 ‘pivot to online’ and the processes and practices that have followed have on staff wellbeing? This course will explore what workplace wellbeing means in a hybrid working world – whose responsibility it is, the challenges involved in creating and maintaining it, and the benefits it ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
This free course provides an overview of what nursing entails. Focusing on nursing in the UK specifically, but also looking at its place globally, you will learn about the four fields of nursing in the UK, what nurse training involves, as well as what makes a great nurse. This course offers a brief introduction to the nursing profession and ...
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Money & Business
Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit
Free online courses and other resources to help you thrive in an ever-changing digital hybrid world.
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Education & Development
OpenLearn with Working Wales | OpenLearn gyda Cymru'n Gweithio
Free online courses and other learning resources to support Working Wales customers.Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim ac adnoddau dysgu eraill i gefnogi cwsmeriaid Cymru'n Gweithio.
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Money & Business
Hybrid working: planning for the future
In 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic organisations had to plan and adapt within a week to move almost their entire workforce to remote working, and those who had to remain in ‘onsite’ environments had to quickly implement safety measures. This was an unprecedented global response that many organisations would not have foreseen and had to adjust ...
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Digital & Computing
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
The future of the workplace is continuing to evolve, and digital transformation is accelerating, requiring new digital capabilities, behaviours and understanding. There has been a widening of the digital divide and data shows that in the UK the skills gap is growing with a shortage of people with digital skills. Nearly all jobs have some ...
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Money & Business
Introduction to business agility
This short course is designed for anyone leading change in their organisation at any level. It provides an introduction to core principles of business agility, with practical exercises, and is a base that can be built on with reference to the associated textbook and global public community of practice.