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Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for This class is designed for experienced BizTalk Server Developers who have at least one year of hands-on experience developing BizTalk Server applications. Overview In this 5-day course, you will learn how to apply best practices and design patterns to build smarter BizTalk Server applications. Furthermore, this course provides extensive coverage of BizTalk Server's extensibility, including such topics as: custom functoids, custom pipeline components, and invoking external .NET methods. This course is designed specifically for experienced BizTalk Server developers and focuses on best practices & pattern-based design while pulling back the curtain on some of BizTalk Server's eccentricities. Review of BizTalk Server Fundamentals The BizTalk Server Architecture Inner Workings of the Messaging Engine Messaging Engine Deep Dive Two-way Messaging Without Orchestrations Designing and Testing Schemas Schema Design Enabling Unit Testing for BizTalk Projects Data Translation and Transformation Custom Data Transformation Creating Custom Pipeline Components Working with Message Interchanges Debatching Message Interchanges Advanced Concepts of WCF Adapters Connecting to External Systems Using WCF LOB Adapters in BizTalk Server Publishing and Consuming WCF and RESTful Services Overview of Service Integration Using WCF Implementing WCF Services Preprocessing Messages with IIS Modules Consuming Services Advanced Orchestration Communication Patterns Orchestration Engine Deep Dive Splitting and Aggregating Messages using Orchestrations Orchestration Communication Bridging the Synchronous/Asynchronous Gap Across Multiple Channels Correlating Messages in Orchestration Instances Building Convoy Orchestrations Handling Orchestration Faults and Exceptions Exception Handling in Orchestrations Implementing Transactions and Compensation Creating Transactional Processes Designing Custom Tracking Models for BizTalk Applications Introduction to Business Activity Monitoring Enabling Business Activity Monitoring Extending BAM Beyond BizTalk Building Declarative Logic Using the Business Rules Engine Concepts of Declarative Logic Fundamentals of BizTalk BRE Integrating Policies with BizTalk Advanced Concepts of the Business Rules Engine Advanced Business Rule Concepts Working with Advanced Facts Integrating Across Business Boundaries Using Parties, Roles, and EDI Port Binding Option Review Role-Based Integration What is EDI? Enabling EDI-Based Messaging

In today's fast-moving competitive environment, sales are often made or lost on the strength of a telephone conversation or a brief email. This means that not only is customer service everyone's responsibility - so is sales. Customer service staff are failing the customer if they don't think about sales. And sales staff are failing customers if they don't think about service. And anyone failing a customer is failing both themselves and their employer. Too often, customer service staff feel neither capable nor empowered to recognise or capitalise upon a sales opportunity. Too often, sales people pursue the short-term opportunity at the expense of the bigger picture. The good news is - it doesn't have to be this way! Sales and customer service skills can be acquired, developed and polished just like any other skill. This tried-and-tested programme shows you how to do it. As a result of this course, participants will be able to: Take control of a customer conversation, with confidence Refresh and polish their customer service and sales performance Recognise and develop a sales opportunity Engage the customer and build rapport Identify a customer's needs Match the customer's needs to the organisation's products or services Handle objections confidently Ask for the order At the end of the workshop each participant will have developed their own action plan for developing and using their skills in the workplace. 1 Introduction Course overview, objectives and introductions 2 Serving or selling? Feelings and attitudes - How we can affect the outcome by our feelings and behaviour What is selling? - Selling is helping people to buy, identifying the opportunities that exist within the conversation to develop the customer's interest in our products or services 3 Developing the right skills Communication- The impact of body language, voice tone and words- How to make the best impression on the customer and create a 'buying environment' Rapport-building- What makes a good working relationship?- What do customers look for when they call us?- How can we match their expectations in terms of our own interpersonal skills? Relating to different types of people by identifying and matching their communication style on the telephone 4 Making it easy for the customer Starting it right- Opening the conversation positively- Building rapport- How to develop interest in our products or services Gaining and clarifying information- Questioning skills and questioning style- What do we need to know from the customer?- How can we use that information in the conversation? Active listening- The most under-rated skill of all- Picking up on the 'Golden Moments' when a customer shows they may be interested Presenting information confidently- Knowing the benefits of our products or services- How to tell the customer what they need to know in order to enable them to buy Closing on a positive note- When and how to ask for commitment Dealing with the customer's objections and concerns in a positive manner 5 Course summary and action plans Review of main learning points Presentation of personal action plans

The practice of Shamanic Healing invites us to reunite with our sacred path, and remember the journey of our Soul. Through the practice we have the chance to expand our connection with the Earth and the Cosmo, and experience oneness with all of life. The Level 1 is a nine months programme scheduled across one year. It is offered online via Zoom, over weekends, 10am - 4.30pm.

VoIP and IP Telephony training course description A concise overview course for management covering voice communications using IP networks. The course focuses on how VoIP works at a simplified level enabling delegates to recognise the key decisions to be made when implementing VoIP. What will you learn Describe the key buzzwords used in the VoIP arena. Explain how VoIP and IPT work (at a simplified level). Describe the issues of providing a converged architecture. Recognise the key decisions to be made when implementing VoIP VoIP and IP Telephony training course details Who will benefit: Anyone, although the course is particularly aimed at non-technical personnel needing some knowledge of VoIP. Prerequisites: Network fundamentals Duration 1 day VoIP and IP Telephony training course contents Introduction What is VoIP, brief review of IP, brief review of telephones, voice and signalling. VoIP issues Bandwidth, Delay, Jitter. Voice coding and compression, packetising voice, comparison of techniques, MOS.IP performance and QoS. The need for QoS, prioritising voice. Architectures Hard phones, soft phones, video phones, desktop, backbone, gateway, integrating analog phones and PCs, carriers, Softswitches. VoIP protocol stack RTP, RTCP. H.323 vs SIP, other signalling protocols. H.323 Architecture, Call setup, Gatekeepers. SIP Comparison with H.323, SIP proxy, proxy servers, redirect servers, location servers. MGCP and MegaCo Carrier networks, PSTN breakout, SS7 gateways, MGCP, Megaco. IP PBXs Integrating IP into 'normal' PBXs, IP PBXs, Asterisk. UM, other telephony applications.

Network automation training course description This course concentrates on the technical side of tools and languages for network DevOps rather than the soft skills. These tools include Python, Ansible, Git and NAPALM By the end of the course delegates should be able to recognise the tools that they can use to automate their networks and be able to use the knowledge gained to feel confident approaching network automation. What will you learn Describe network DevOps. Choose network automation tools. Explain the role of various network automation technologies including: Python Ansible Git NAPALM Network automation training course details Who will benefit: Those wishing to learn about the tools of network automation. Prerequisites: Introduction to data communications. Duration 1 day Network automation training course contents What is DevOps and network automation Programming and automating networks, networks and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for network operations. Unit testing. Hype vs reality. Benefits and features. Network monitoring and troubleshooting Traditional methods, SNMP. Netflow and xflow. Traditional automation. Streaming telemetry. Event driven automation. gRPC, Protocol buffers. Configuration management Catch 22 and initial configuration. ZTP, POAP. Traditional automation. TFTP. Ansible vs the rest (chef, salt, puppet). Jinja2 and templating. How ansible works. Network programmability Programming languages. Linux, shell scripting. Python vs the rest. Off box vs on box automation. Python network libraries Sockets pysnmp, ncclient, paramiko, netmiko, pyez, NAPALM. APIs Proprietary APIs, CLI, NETCONF, RETCONF. YANG, XML, YAML, JSON. Other tools Git, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and others.

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for business users and knowledge workers in a variety of roles and fields who have competence in a desktop-based Microsoft Office productivity suite, and who are now extending Microsoft Office to a collaborative cloud-based Office 365 environment. Overview In this course, you will build upon your knowledge of the Microsoft Office desktop application suite to work productively in the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 environment. You will: Sign in, navigate, and identify components of the Office 365 environment. Create, edit, and share documents with team members using the Office Online apps, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Teams Collaborate using Teams. Configure Teams. This course introduces several productivity apps including SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams that can be used in combination by teams for communication and collaboration. Outline for Teams About What is Microsoft Teams? Overview How to Access Microsoft Teams Etiquette for using teams Integration Capabilities SharePoint OneDrive Interface Storage ? OneDrive & SharePoint Permissions & Access Owner, Member & Guest Communication and Collaboration Team Conversations Private conversations Mentions Inviting people Search Settings and Customization Use the search tool to find specific messages, files or people Working with Files Create new files Upload files Attaching or sharing Files Edit and Collaborate on files Open files in SharePoint OneDrive for personal files Administration (Champions) Add members to a Team Access administrator settings Meetings and calls Initiate a meeting on demand Schedule a meeting and invite attendees Meetings and Outlook Introduction to SharePoint What is SharePoint Understanding your permissions Logging into SharePoint Working with SharePoint sites Working with SharePoint sites Navigate, browse and search in a site Follow a site Working with documents Navigate a library Open and edit a document Upload or create a document in a library Share a file Set alerts for files Use checkout and check-in Team collaboration Versioning Getting Started (OneDrive Outline) Sign in, access and navigate Working with files and folders Upload files Organize files and folders Rename. Copy and download files Delete and recover files Search Use OneDrive with Office Save an office file online to OneDrive Use OneDrive with desktop office Versioning Share files Co-authoring

Learn effective strategies and leadership skills to thrive in today's remote work landscape. Elevate your team's performance, no matter where they are located. Course overview Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours) Remote teams present a specific set of challenges to their managers. Such challenges include communication, task allocation and performance management. This workshop is designed for managers who run teams that spread over more than one location, nationally or internationally, and who wish to find ways to enhance teamworking in these conditions. Objectives  By the end of the course you will be able to: Identify key actions to take to manage team performance remotely Implement a communications plan for use within the team Allocate tasks to team members to build a culture of teamworking across the different locations Involve your team members in planning team activities Use visits to each location to maximum effect Content Communication to ensure inclusivity How do team members find out the latest news? Identifying what needs to be known by all A team communication plan Effective virtual meetings Manage performance from a distance Principles of Smart Working Involving the team in planning activities Allocating tasks and objectives across the team Identifying areas of expertise Deciding key areas of responsibility per location Identifying, and dealing with, the different levels of performance Maximising time in each location Setting the tone of a visit – from ‘inspection’ to ‘social call’ Considering what team members expect and need from your presence Identifying what needs to be prepared by the team for your visit Making contact with your team members while you are there Action planning Identifying and planning next steps

Learn the skills of being more confident and assertive in the workplace plus be able to influence people to do the things you would like them to do. Course overview Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours) This ‘Assertiveness and Influencing Techniques’ workshop is interactive and practical and facilitated by a subject matter expert via a virtual platform. Exercises and breakout rooms will be used during this training. Delegates are encouraged to login from a location where they feel safe to turn on their camera, use their microphones and engage in conversations as required. Objectives  The aim of this course is to introduce delegates to a variety of influencing skills and techniques to deal with aggression and challenging situations. These skills and techniques will improve confidence and personal effectiveness when working in groups / meetings. By the end of the course delegates will be able to recognise and define what assertive behaviour is and its benefits, the impact of non-verbal communication and how to use it to enhance influencing behaviours. Content What is influencing and assertiveness? Sources of power Influencing skills and choosing the right approach When to be assertive and alternative behaviours Assertive behaviour Behavioural styles and their impact on working relationships Identifying different behaviour types; assertive, aggressive, passive Building confidence and negotiating a win/win result Developing Skills Communication skills – the language of influence and communication dynamics Different influencing techniques and when to use them The art of saying ‘No’ - having the confidence to challenge Receiving criticism assertively and assertiveness behaviour analysis The language of assertion Meeting skills Giving and receiving feedback Dealing with confrontation, aggression and challenges in a confident manner Practical Exercises and Action Planning Practical exercises will be used throughout the training and the training will culminate with the creation of a personal action plan

It is important for Officers to understand the roles and responsibilities, processes and procedures involved when working with Elected Members. They also need to appreciate the significance of Elected Members as the decision-makers in local government. Officers have a responsibility to work and communicate with Elected Members effectively. This very successful course is designed to help Officers with this. Note: this is very much an indicative outline. The programme is tailored to the needs of each particular organisation. To provide managers with the knowledge and understanding they need to have productive working relationships with Elected Members and provide appropriate support. By the end of the course participants will: Understand the roles, responsibilities, processes and procedures in place for working with Elected Members Be able to identify the best way to approach potentially sensitive issues Understand the skills and behaviours required for working effectively with Members Be able to deploy their influencing skills more successfully Review their learning and have an action plan to take back and implement at work Note: this is very much an indicative outline. The programme is tailored to the needs of each particular organisation. 1 Introduction Welcome and introductions Objectives and programme overview 2 Working in a political environment What is political awareness? Contact and experience with Members Importance of the role of Members 3 Why be an Elected Member? Perceptions of what Elected Members are and do Values of Members and their motivations for doing what they do 4 Political decision-making in local government Current challenges and drivers affecting the organisation / the council Roles and responsibilities of Officers and Members Centrality of Members' strategic role 5 (Option) A day in the life of an Elected Member An Elected Member gives a talk about what they do 6 Having a beneficial relationship between Officers and Members 7 Member / Officer communication Discussion of the formal processes, service procedures, etc (whether enshrined in a protocol, Memorandum of Understanding, etc) Response times and requirements Procedures required by Heads of Service [if appropriate] 8 Influencing styles and strategies Different forms of power and how they impact Developing an appropriate 'influencing style' Exploring strategies for improving communication and influencing at work 9 Review and evaluation Review and evaluation of learning Personal action plans

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for The primary audience for this course is as follows: Network Video Engineer Voice/UC/Collaboration/Communications Engineer Collaboration Tools Engineer Collaboration Sales/Systems Engineer In this 3 Day Cisco Course, students will learn how to deploy Voice Gateways/CUBE and setup Cisco Unified Communication Manager (CUCM) to deploy SIP Trunking. The course starts out with an overview of Cisco gateways and their uses. Next, students learn about MGCP and SIP and how to implement each protocol. Students will then learn how to use Cisco CUBE to connect CUCM, Gateways and Service Providers together. This course details how to connect a Cisco environment to a Service Provider using a Cisco CUBE. Introduction to Voice Gateways Cisco UC Networks and the Role of Gateways Gateway Call Routing and Call Legs Configuring Gateway Voice Ports DSP Functionality, Codecs, and Codec Complexity Router Requirements for CUBE SIP Protocol Overview Gateway Dial Plans VoIP Call Legs Dial Plan Implementation Configuring (CUCM) Cisco Unified Communication Manager 12.5 Cisco UCM Audio Codec Preference List Cisco UCM Region Configuration Device Pool Configuration Annunciator Configuration Conference Bridge Configuration Media Termination Point Configuration Music on Hold Server Configuration Music on Hold Service (IP Voice Media Streaming App) Parameter Settings Music on Hold Service (Duplex Streaming) Parameter Settings Media Resource Group Configuration Media Resource Group List Configuration UC Service Configuration Service Profile Configuration End User Configuration SIP Trunk Security Profile Configuration used by SIP trunk to Cisco UBE SIP Profile Configuration used by SIP trunk to Cisco UBE SIP Trunk to Cisco UBE Configuration Route Pattern Configuration Configuring Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) Deploying Cisco VCUBE CUCM to CUBE Integration Configuration Steps to connecting to a SIP Trunk Provider Interworking Security and Call Admission Control Media Manipulation, Enhancement & Optimization SIP UA Translation Rules VoIP Dial Peer SIP Registration SIP attributes of CUBE Transcoding services Creating and configuring Sip Trunks CUBE Configuration CUBE Call Flow CUBE Dial-Peers Call Routing CUBE Advanced Call Routing Media Manipulation External/PSTN Call Recording Call Admission Control Multiple Non-Authenticated SIP Trunks on a CUBE Multiple Authenticated/Registered SIP Trunks on a CUBE Configuring High Availability High availability on ISR G2 High availability on ISR 4k High availability on ASR Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) Security Five Layers of Security in CUBE SIP TLS Support with SRTP Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco CUBE Dialed Number Analyzer (DNA) for CUBE SIP Profile Test Tool Troubleshooting Serviceability