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for profiles and testimonials
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Look out for MBA Graduate Rob Parker's testimonial
in a UK press campaign starting this January. If, like Rob, you would be
prepared to be contacted by our Marketing and Communications teams regarding
future ad campaigns and media activity, please contact Armelle
Griffin. It would be very useful if you could enclose a short paragraph
about yourself, including your sector of activity and job title, what inspired
you to join the Open University Business School, and what difference your
qualification has made to your professional and/or personal life.
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Regional
events:
Guests
welcome, Certificate of attendance available. For more
information or to make a booking, click on the events below or
ring Janet or Sarah on +44(0)1908 652874
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Chatham House event -
Self-Determination and Territorial Integrity: Awkward bed-fellows, 2 February
(9h-17h30)
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This conference has been
designed for Academic Institutional Members of Chatham House
as a benefit of membership and 15 places have been reserved
for Open University Business School MBA Graduates. Places are
free and will be allocated on a first come-first served basis.
For more information and to make a booking, visit http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/Self-Determination/
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Alumni
Professional Development Friday Workshops
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6 February (Full day), OU Campus, Milton
Keynes, Inspired Influence - Understanding and using unconscious motivators to
get your message across. The real clues to what motivates people lie in
how they speak. People use a number of simple language patterns whenever they
communicate. Once a pattern is identified it becomes possible to understand
others better, predict their behaviour in a given context and influence them
with empathy and integrity. It is said that "The Language and Behaviour
Profile (LAB Profile) can help you learn more about someone in 20 minutes of
conversation than 20 years of marriage" and the LAB Profile is now being
used in a variety of contexts from coaching, marketing, sales and business
meetings to personal relationships, health and education. In this session you
will discover simple ways to identify people's 'Hot Buttons' and the most
appropriate ways to deliver information to them in order to motivate them.
Once you have had a go at asking some of the very specific questions from the
LAB Profile you will begin to hear the language patterns in the answers and
transform the way you listen to people. There will be plenty of opportunities
to practice and develop your linguistic influencing skills. We will also be
looking at how to present your ideas to sceptical people in a way that ensures
that you can open their minds… For more information or to make a booking,
Click here or ring Janet or Sarah on +44(0)1908
652874
3rd April, Manchester (half day or full
day), Strategy Update and Powerful Presentations. 'A la carte' workshop,
made of two very distinct but complementary sessions - Strategy Update
(Presented by Paul temple) in the morning and Powerful Presentations
(presented by Peter Kennedy) in the afternoon. You can choose to attend both
sessions as part of a full-day workshop, or to attend the morning session or
the afternoon session only. For full details, click
here
24 April, OU Campus, Milton Keynes, Less
Pain - More Gain: Do you want to create change that is successful and
lasting? Do you want to do it with less pain and more gain? This workshop will
provide you with an insight in to Solutions Focus (SF), an approach to change
that is simple, effective and subtle. You will take away practical tools to
help you create change at an individual, team and organisational level… For
more information or to make a booking, Click
here or ring Janet or Sarah on +44(0)1908 652874
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Course
news: 2 Courses to Earn an MIFM
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Do you have an OU MBA? Did you know you that
if you have studied B821 or an equivalent course, you can earn an MSc in
International Finance and Management (MIFM) by just studying two more courses?
B854 Issues in International Finance and Investment starts in May 2009.
You can then study B853 Issues in International Financial Reporting starting
in November 2009 to complete your MScIFM.
MIFM(Award F39) is a specialist masters
degree designed for people working in finance who want to broaden their
perspectives by adding international accounting and finance knowledge and
wider management skills. To find out more, contact Pauline Gleadle on m.p.r.gleadle@open.ac.uk.
Alternatively, if you have the equivalent of
a UK honours degree, you can study for the Postgraduate Certificate (Award
C59) by completing B853 and B854.
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Professional
Development - Learn while you earn
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The OU's Centre for Professional Learning and
Development has developed an extensive range of short online courses which
allow people to develop their skills and can be used towards their continuous
professional development (CPD). These courses cover over 50 topics in
strategy, leadership, people management, and communications as well as more
specialist areas such as travel planning and food science and technology.
Recently launched CPD courses include Mentoring
at Work, How to Use Coaching at Work and Effective Virtual Teams,
which are open for registration. For more information, visit www.open.ac.uk/cpd
which features online courses in the section called 'Flexible Online courses'.
OU Alumni are entitled to a 10% discount on course fee
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News
(Click here for the News section of
the Alumni website)
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Book releases - MBA graduates Bridget
Grenville-Cleave, Jo Salter and Andrew Humphries have new books out. For more
details, click on the following titles:
The
Happiness Equation, Bridget Grenville-Cleave
Energize,
Jo Salter
Strategic
Alliances and Marketing Partnerships, Dr Andrew Humphries and Richard Gibbs
MBA Fairs - The Open University
Business School is on the road again! We will have representatives at
forthcoming fairs in New York (22nd February), Washington (24th February),
Boston (26th February), Moscow (23rd March), St Petersburg (25th March).
Following some successful meetings in the autumn, we will organise reunions
between our visiting academics and the local alumni
10 Funniest exchanges from the British
courts: Professor Gary Slapper lists 10 of the funniest exchanges from the
British courts. Times
online article
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Quick
Links
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My Personalised Alumnus Library
(MyPal)
of online library resources continues to expand in number and
quality.
New databases: Source OECD,
Open Research Online and Best of Biz have been added. Major new
journals including Management Today and the British Journal of
Management will also be accessible. The OU Business School are
financing this package which remains free access to alumni. This
new package continues to put the OU Library in the forefront of
service provision – most universities offer no online resource
access to their alumni. If you don’t use it we might lose it!
Go to the secure Members' area
of the alumni website www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
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OU
Business School group
2079
members |
Your MBA alumni association has
launched a dedicated OU Business School group on Linkedin. Linkedin
is an online professional networking service, used by over 8 million
professionals worldwide. It allows members to connect with each
other and expand their business contacts. Through this website you
are able to search and view OU Business School group members'
profiles as well as their networks. You see much more than a
name. All connections are controlled by you, this is an opt in
only.
How to join: Joining
LinkedIn is free, as is membership of the OU Business School group
in Linked In. You are pre-approved as a member of the OU MBA
alumni association and can join the group immediately by clicking on
this link:
https://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/2297/739F3E3270B6/
You will need to use the same e-mail address with Linkedin as the one to which
this e-newsletter is sent. You can add this address
additionally to your existing
LinkedIn profile.
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The OU Business School is an Academic
Institutional Member of Chatham House, Europe's leading
independent international affairs think tank.
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Founded in 1920 in the aftermath
of the First World War. MBA alumni can benefit from a 20% individual
membership discount paying only £205 pa which includes access to more than
100 events a year with speakers ranging from international leaders, UK
politicians, senior diplomats, international business leaders, leading
academics, Chatham House researchers and other experts. Alumni can also access the Chatham House website with its forward events
calendar, archive of speech recordings and transcripts, articles from the
monthly magazine The World Today and bimonthly journal International Affairs,
briefing papers, research reports and other publications.
To join http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/membership/academics/members_list/
click on OU Business School and enter password OUBS
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