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Business Planning 101 is an online course that you can complete in your own time! By the end of the 6 modules you will have a business plan with a simple and trackable cashflow with support sessions along the way!

AgilePM® Foundation Passport: On-Demand AgilePM® Foundation Passport is your route to achieving AgilePM® certification at your own pace. This on-demand course is accredited by APMG to support self-study distance learning for the Foundation exam. This is SPOCE's award-winning online route to becoming accredited in AgilePM® Foundation. It is a straightforward and self-paced route. This is an accredited course eligible for CPDs / PDUs and prepares you for a qualification in AgilePM®. What You Will Learn You'll learn how to: Understand Agile Project Management based on the internationally recognized framework of DSDM Atern Become immediately productive in an agile project environment Identify the difference between simple lightweight agile approaches which typically operate at the solution delivery (or "work package") level and the greater holistic view of how multiple work streams are coordinated with the appropriate level of governance and control Getting Started Fundamentals and the Philosophy Principles Preparation Lifecycle and Products Team Structures Roles and Responsibilities Communication MoSCoW and Timeboxing Lifecycle Configuration Estimation and Measurement Quality and Maintainability Planning, Control, and Risk Implementing AgilePM Examination Approaches

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for Stop looking for those important items, and start knowing where they are by getting organized. Developing good Organizational Skill is an investment that will provide benefits for years. To be successful means to be organized. These skills will filter through all aspects of your participants professional and personal lives. 1 - Getting Started Housekeeping Items The Parking Lot Workshop Objectives Action Plans and Evaluations 2 - Remove the Clutter Just Do it You Don't Have to Keep Everything Three Boxes: Keep, Donate, and Trash A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place Case Study Review Questions 3 - Prioritize Write it Down Urgent/Important Matrix Divide Tasks 80/20 Rule Case Study Review Questions 4 - Scheduling Your Time Have a Master Calendar Setting Deadlines Remove or Limit the Time Wasters Coping With Things Outside of Our Control Case Study Review Questions 5 - To Do Lists Use a Day Planner Finish What You Start Focus on the Important Do Quick Tasks Immediately Case Study Review Questions 6 - Paper and Paperless Storage Find a System that Works for You Make it Consistent Make it Time Sensitive Setting up Archives Case Study Review Questions 7 - Organization in Your Work Area Keeping Items Within Arm's Reach Only Have Current Projects on Your Desk Arranging Your Drawers Organize to Match Your Workflow Case Study Review Questions 8 - Tools to Fight Procrastination Eat That Frog! Remove Distractions Give Yourself a Reward Break Up large Tasks Case Study Review Questions 9 - Organizing your Inbox Setting up Delivery Rules Folder and Message Hierarchy Deal with Email Right Away Flag and Highlight Important Items Case Study Review Questions 10 - Avoid the Causes of Disorganization Keeping Everything Not Being Consistent Not Following a Schedule Bad Habits Case Study Review Questions 11 - Discipline is the Key to Staying Organized Stay Within Your Systems Learn to Say No Have Organization Be Part of Your Life Plan for Tomorrow, Today Case Study Review Questions 12 - Wrapping Up Words from the Wise Review of Parking Lot Lessons Learned Completion of Action Plans Additional course details: Nexus Humans Organizational Skills training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Organizational Skills course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

This course focus is the management process and leadership skills necessary to anticipate, plan for and manage your organization's communications through a crisis. The course is built around the Crisis Communications section of ISO 22361, the new international standard for Crisis Management. This course includes the CCCM (Certified Crisis Communications Manager) exam and designation for free ($ 500 value). The course does not take you step-by-step how to fill in a template. Instead, you will learn how to protect and manage your organization’s reputation, how to identify and influence the ways organizations represent themselves to various stakeholders, how to prepare your organization for any media or social media crisis, and the best principles and best practices for developing an effective Crisis Communications Program for your organization. This course is designed first and foremost for executives, marketing managers, communications staff, business continuity practitioners, emergency managers, Crisis Management Team and Business Continuity Management Team members and their support staff. It is highly useful for health and safety staff, first responders, line managers, auditors, administrative and professional staff. At the conclusion of this course, participants should: - have a solid understanding of the overall Crisis Management lifecycle - know how to create an effective Crisis Management Communications structure within their organization - understand the key components of a Crisis Communications program including social media - successfully challenge the CCCM (Certified Crisis Communications Manager) exam The CCCM is one of the professional designations offered by the National Institute for Business Continuity Management (NIBCM.net). The exam is comprised of 100 Multiple Choice and T/F questions. You have 90 minutes to complete the exam. In order to obtain the CCCM designation, you must obtain a pass mark of at least 70%. This online course has content equivalent to our 3-day in-person CMC-601 course. The course is comprised of 23 lessons, each being 1/2 hour or so in length, plus additional, optional 'homework' assignments, activities, and downloadable tools including templates. The course also provides for regular asynchronous interaction with the course instructor for assignments and any questions that may arise. CONTENT INTRODUCTION TO CRISIS MANAGEMENT Lesson I - Introduction to Crisis Management Lesson 2 - Evolution of Crisis Management Lesson 3 - Towards a Crisis Management Standard Practice Test 1 CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS Lesson 4 - Pre-Crisis Communications Lesson 5 - Pre-Crisis Communications (cont'd) Lesson 6 - Managing Relationships and Reputation Lesson 7 - Key Roles Practice Test 2 Lesson 8 - Crisis Communications Strategy Lesson 9 - Crisis Communications Strategy (cont'd) Lesson 10 - Key Principles and Activities of Crisis Communication Lesson 11 - Key Principles and Activities of Crisis Communication (cont'd) Lesson 12 - Key Principles and Activities of Crisis Communication (cont'd) Practice Test 3 Lesson 13 - Consistency of Message Lesson 14 - Barriers to Effective Commnication Lesson 15 - Barriers to Effective Communication (cont'd) Lesson 16 - Social Media - Opportunities and Threats Lesson 17 - Social Media - Opportunities and Threats (cont'd) Practice Test 4 Lesson 18 - A Crisis Communication Plan BEST PRACTICES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND CMMUNICATIONS Lesson 19 - Crisis Management Best Practices Lesson 20 - Crisis Communications Best Practices BONUS LESSONS Bonus Lesson 21 - Pandemic Planning Bonus Lesson 22 - Cyber Security and Crisis Management Bonus Lesson 23 - Cyber Security and Crisis Management (cont'd) CCCM EXAM CCCM Practice Exam CCCM Exam COMPLETION RULES You must complete the test "CCCM Exam"

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours Overview Students will come away with knowledge and skills to become a top-notch team performer. This workshop will encourage you to explore the different aspects of a team, as well as ways that they can become a top-notch team performer. 1 - GETTING STARTED Icebreaker Housekeeping Items The Parking Lot Workshop Objectives 2 - DEFINING SUCCESS What is a Team? An Overview of Tuckman and Jensen's Four-Phase Model 3 - TYPES OF TEAMS The Traditional Team Self-Directed Teams E-Teams 4 - THE FIRST STAGE OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT-FORMING Hallmarks of This Stage What To Do As A Leader What To Do As A Follower 5 - THE SECOND STAGE OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT-STORMING The Hallmarks of This Stage What To Do As A Leader What To Do As A Follower 6 - THE THIRD STAGE OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT-NORMING The Hallmarks of This Stage What To Do As A Leader What To Do As A Follower 7 - THE FOURTH STAGE OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT-PERFORMING Hallmarks of This Stage What To Do As A Leader What To Do As A Follower 8 - TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES The Benefits and Disadvantages Team-Building Activities That Won't Make People Cringe Choosing a Location for Team-Building 9 - MAKING THE MOST OF TEAM MEETINGS Setting the Time and Place Trying the 50-Minute Meeting Using Celebrations of All Sizes 10 - SOLVING PROBLEMS AS A TEAM The Six Thinking Hats Encouraging Brainstorming Building Consensus 11 - ENCOURAGING TEAMWORK Some Things to Do Some Things to Avoid Some Things to Consider 12 - WRAPPING UP Words from the Wise Review of Parking Lot Lessons Learned Completion of Action Plans Additional course details: Nexus Humans Teamwork and Team Building training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Teamwork and Team Building course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

The CAIA Association is a global professional body dedicated to creating greater alignment, transparency, and knowledge for all investors, with a specific emphasis on alternative investments. Course Overview At the start of any career, gaining a solid understanding of key business skills is extremely valuable. These qualifications and courses are designed to blend core skills with key finance knowledge, to give you essential business skills. This Level 1 qualification covers a range of skills and relevant supporting knowledge to help prepare students for applying numbers in business and working in a business environment. It will give students an understanding of: • How different organisations operate • How to contribute effectively in the workplace • How businesses process sales and purchases, and the documents and procedures associated with this. Students will also be equipped with the basic numerical skills needed in the workplace, such as decimals, percentages and fractions, and applying proportions and ratios. The jobs it can lead to: • Data entry clerk • Accounts administrator • Administrative assistant Entry requirements: Students can start with any qualification depending on existing skills and experience. For the best chance of success, we recommend that students begin their studies with a good standard of English and maths. Course Content: Working in the business environment: This unit introduces students to the skills needed in the workplace, including the importance of teamwork, communication, effective time management and professional behaviour. They’ll also learn about some of the core finance processes linked to sales and purchase orders. Learning outcomes: • Develop skills for the workplace. • Understand how organisations operate. • Understand how sales and purchases support businesses. • Apply business procedures to sales and purchases. Using numbers in business: Numeracy is an essential business skill. This unit will introduce students to the basic skills needed when working with numbers in a business environment, developing confidence and skills to use and apply numbers to a wide range of situations. Learning outcomes: • Perform simple business calculations. • Calculate decimals, fractions, percentage, proportions and ratios. • Use tools and techniques to present numerical data.

OVERVIEW DIAD is a one-day, hands-on workshop for business analysts, covering the breadth of Power BI capabilities. The course focuses on five practical Labs and at the end of the day, attendees will better understand how to: Connect and transform data from a variety of data sources. Define business rules and KPIs. Explore data with powerful interactive visuals. Build stunning reports. Share their dashboards with their team business partners and publish them to the web. The course content is managed by the Power BI engineering team at Microsoft. There is no exam associated with the course. COURSE BENEFITS: Learn how to clean, transform, and load data from various sources Create and manage a data model in Power BI consisting of multiple tables connected with relationships Build Measures and other calculations in the DAX language to plot in reports Manage and share report assets to the Power BI Service WHO IS THE COURSE FOR? Data Analysts and Management Consultants with little or no experience of Power BI who wish to upgrade their knowledge to include Business Intelligence Analysts looking for a quick introduction to Power BI who don’t have the time for the full three day PL-300 course Marketers in data-intensive organisations who need new tools to build visually appealing, dynamic charts for their stakeholders to use LAB OUTLINE Lab 1 Accessing & Preparing The Data Load data from Excel and CSV sources Manipulate the data to prepare it for reporting Prepare tables in Power Query and load them into the data model Lab 2 Data Modelling And Exploration Create a range of different charts Highlight and cross-filter Create new groups and hierarchies Add new measures to the model Lab 3 Data Visualization Add conditional formatting to a report Add logos to a filter Import a custom visual Apply a custom theme Add bookmarks to the report to tell a story Lab 4 Publishing A Report And Creating A Dashboard Create a Workspace in the Power BI Service Publish a report to the Service Create a Dashboard and pin visuals to it Generate and view insights Lab 5 Collaboration Share a Dashboard Access a Dashboard on a Mobile Device

OVERVIEW Prerequisites—DIAD training or equivalent working experience This one-day course will cover using Power BI Desktop to import and shape data from a variety of sources. It will also walk through Power BI capabilities you can use to enhance the data model for your business users. The course covers key aspects of how to create a great data model to meet your business needs, various features in Power BI used to enhance data models so you can build great reports, and an introduction to DAX to create calculations. After completing this training, the attendees should be able to import data from a variety of data sources into Power BI, shape the data, create the data model, and write DAX functions to the Power BI model. COURSE BENEFITS: Understand the Power BI Desktop data model, its components and most effective schemas Describe concepts of calculated columns and measures Create queries using M Create calculations with DAX Understand the use of functions Create and optimize a data model Understand the consequences of data model design decisions WHO IS THE COURSE FOR? Power BI report developers who wish to improve the structure of their data models Power BI report developers who wish to use advanced features like parameters and M coding in Power Query Power BI practitioners who wish to optimise their models more effectively Attendees wishing to prepare thoroughly for the DAX In A Day course COURSE OUTLINE Module 1 Getting And Shaping The Data Understand what is meant by data model in the context of Power BI Understand the consequences of data model design decisions Understand consequences of Power BI’s data type handling Understand data connection options Module 2 Basic Data Modelling Understand basic data modelling Understand basic data model types Explore dimension tables and fact tables Explore data connections Module 3 Getting Started With M (Power Query Language) Get introduced to M Understand key components and syntax Module 4 Understanding Logic Operators Understand Transformations Understand Join operation Module 5 Introduction To DAX Get introduced to DAX and how can it be used Understand working with parameters and DAX (lab combining the previous module) Module 6 Working With Functions - DAX CALCULATE And More Understand working with functions Understand the basics of the CALCULATE formula Module 7 Modelling With Power BI & DAX Best Practice Gain familiarity with basic data modelling for business scenarios Learn some best practices for working with Power BI

OVERVIEW Prerequisites—DIAD training and Advanced Data Modeling and Shaping training or equivalent working experience This course has been designed specifically for experienced model developers and gives a more advanced treatment of DAX formulas than either DIAD or the PL-300 course. We recommend that attendees have prior experience working with Power BI Desktop to create data models. During this course you will review: Writing DAX formulas. Defining calculated tables and columns. Defining measures. Using DAX iterator functions. Modifying filter context. Using DAX time intelligence functions. After completing this training, the attendees should be able to work with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), perform calculations and define common business calculations for use in reports, address performance and functionality concerns. COURSE BENEFITS: Understand Analytic queries in Power BI Create calculated tables, calculated columns and measures Use DAX functions and operators to build DAX formulas Use DAX iterator functions Create formulas that manipulate the filter context Use DAX time intelligence functions WHO IS THE COURSE FOR? Analysts with experience of Power BI wishing to develop more advanced formulas in DAX Power BI developers who wish to deepen their understanding of the process of calculating formulas so as to make development faster and more reliable LAB OUTLINE Lab 1 Setup Connect to data and understand the objectives of the future labs Lab 2 Write DAX Formulas For Power BI Create a measure Use variables in the measure definition Lab 3 Add Calculated Table And Columns Duplicate a table Create a hierarchy Create a date table Add calculated columns Lab 4 Add Measures To Power BI Desktop Models Add an implicit measure to a report Add an explicit measure Add a compound measure Add a quick measure Lab 5 Use DAX Iterator Functions In A Power BI Desktop Model Complex summarization Higher grain summarization Create ranking measure Lab 6 Modify DAX Filter Context In Power BI Desktop Models Apply Boolean expression filter Remove filters: use ALL Remove filters: use AllSelected Preserve filters: use KeepFilters HASONEVALUE ISINSCOPE Context transition Lab 7 Use DAX Time Intelligence Functions In Power BI Desktop Models TOTALYTD SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR Calculate new occurrences Snapshot calculations

OVERVIEW Prerequisites—this is a day of supervised revision for anyone who wishes to take the PL-300 exam so we expect you to have attended a PL-300 course, either taught or on your own, before attending this day of revision. We are happy for attendees to join the course if you have taken the PL-300 with us or with another provider. In the morning we look at questions from the PL-300 exam, grouped by subject area. For each question we show you the correct answer and then explain why that is the correct answer. After lunch everyone tries a practice exam under exam conditions and we finish the day with clarification on the subjects or specific questions that the class is finding hard. The cost of the course includes a free voucher to take the exam, so please don’t buy your own separately. If you do so we cannot reimburse you with the cost of the exam. COURSE BENEFITS: Discover the parts of the course on which to focus most attention Become familiar with the styles and formats of the exam questions Alert yourself to some of the particularly tricky questions Familiarise yourself with the style of the 'case study' question Practice an exam under real exam conditions Get a feel for the time you need to devote to the normal questions and to the case study WHO IS THE COURSE FOR? Power BI report developers who need PL-300 Certification to apply for a job Business Intelligence specialists who wish to enhance their career prospects with a PL-300 Certification Anyone who wishes to maximise their chances of passing the PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst exam COURSE OUTLINE Module 1 Structure Of The Exam Registration for the exam and setup of your workspace The percentage of marks devoted to each subject area Types of questions used in the exam Advised timing for the normal questions and for the case study question Module 2 Individual Exam Question Practice The exam questions are divided into subject areas and for each question… We consider the question and try to answer it We view the answer Where necessary, we look at an in-depth explanation of why that is the correct answer Examine case study questions and how to treat these differently from the normal questions Module 3 Practice Exam Under Exam Conditions Attendees take a practice exam Attendees receive a mark, broken down into subject areas Module 4 Exam Question Practice Focussed On Tricky Areas Together, based on the results of attendees’ exam results we decide which areas on which to focus More practice on individual exam questions using the same style as in Module 2