About This VILT This 3 half-day course is designed to give a clear businessperson’s summary of the technological, market and economic/competitive issues around the key commodities which can be decarbonised through the use of clean hydrogen in their production. It will examine direct derivatives such as ammonia, methanol and synfuels, along with the impact clean hydrogen may have on the production and trading of other products such as green steel. Clear explanations will be given on technological pathways and key terminologies, in language accessible to non-engineers and commercial businesspeople. The positioning of these hydrogen derivatives in both current and potential future markets will be presented, framed with discussion around the economic and competitive factors which will determine market growth As well as explaining key concepts, the presented content will draw on current market examples, published models, scenarios and forecasts, and on fundamental physical and chemical constraints (for example illustrated by utilising simple calculations and quantifications). Download your brochure Email me the brochure TRAINING OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this VILT course, the participants will be able to: Review the key derivatives of hydrogen, with their market drivers Understand common terminology and technologies within the sector Quantify essential metrics and constraints to the production and trade of hydrogen derivatives Assess the role of clean ammonia in the future hydrogen supply chain Analyse the pathways to combine clean hydrogen with captured CO2 Understand how different policy mechanisms and end-use drivers will influence the growth and competition between different hydrogen derivatives Examine market and project examples, both current and planned Assess the impact of decarbonisation in key sectors such as shipping, aviation and power TARGET AUDIENCE This VILT course has been specifically designed for: Business developers Company strategy developers Investors Product and project management executives Policymakers and regulators Other commercial roles (e.g. marketing, regulatory etc.) Engineers or technical people entering new roles / new to the subject COURSE LEVEL Intermediate TRAINING METHODS The VILT will be delivered online in 3 half-day sessions comprising 4 hours per day, including time for lectures, discussion, quizzes and short classroom exercises. Additionally, some self-study will be requested. Participants are invited but not obliged to bring a short presentation (10 mins max) on a practical problem they encountered in their work. This will then be explained and discussed during the VILT. A short test or quiz will be held at the end the course. TRAINER Your Expert Course Instructor is an internationally renowned energy communicator and business educator, focused on the interconnected clean energy transition topics of renewable power, energy storage, energy system electrification and hydrogen. His own independent technology tracking, market assessment and opportunity/risk analysis is delivered to clients through a mix of business advisory work, commissioned content, small-group training (online & in-person), and one-to-one executive coaching (online). In the hydrogen sector, he is currently lead consultant and trainer to the World Hydrogen Leaders network, and writer of their ‘This Week in Hydrogen’ news column. He is also co-presenter of the ‘New Energy Chinwag’ podcast, which regularly covers hydrogen-related issues. During more than 15 years as an independent energy expert, he has helped companies from large multinationals to innovative start-ups – totalling assignments in over 30 countries across 5 continents. Most recently, he has presented clean energy training in locations as diverse as Singapore, the UK, South Africa, The Philippines, the USA, Mexico, Spain and Dubai – and, in recent times of course, online to international audiences from across the world. Prior to this, he was Research Director for over 10 years at Informa, a $9 billion business intelligence provider; where he drove new market identification, analysis and project deployment work, and managed teams in the UK and US. He has a strong science background, holding a 1st Class Honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, a PhD in Earth Sciences and a further Diploma in Economics & Sustainability from the UK’s Open University. Download your brochure Email me the brochure POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL) To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized “One to One” coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster. Request for further information post training support and fees applicable
Who is this course for? Sketchup Artificial Intelligence Training Course. Mastering SketchUp Artificial Intelligence (AI) is essential for designers, offering automation, efficiency, and innovative solutions. It saves time, enhances visualizations, fosters collaboration, and future-proofs skills, ensuring a competitive edge in the design industry. Click here for more info: Website How to Book? 1-on-1 training. Customize your schedule from Mon to Sat from 9 am to 7 pm Call to book Duration: 16 hours. Method: In-person or Live Online Sketchup and (Artificial Intelligence) Stable Diffusion Rendering Course (16 hours) Module 1: Sketchup Fundamentals (2 hours) Sketchup software overview and interface navigation Introduction to basic drawing tools and fundamental geometry creation techniques Module 2: Texturing and Material Mastery (2 hours) Application of textures and customization of materials Exploration of texture mapping and comprehensive material libraries Module 3: Illumination and Shadows (2 hours) Comprehending lighting principles and strategic light placement Crafting realistic shadows and reflections Module 4: Advanced Modeling Techniques (3 hours) Creating intricate shapes and harnessing advanced modeling tools Efficiently managing groups, components, and modifiers Module 5: Stable Diffusion Rendering (2 hours) Initiating stable diffusion rendering Optimizing rendering settings for superior outcomes Module 6: Scene Composition and Camera Configuration (2 hours) Exploring composition principles and camera perspectives Scene management and creation of captivating walkthrough animations Module 7: Rendering Optimization Strategies (2 hours) Techniques for optimizing models to expedite rendering Application of render passes and post-processing methods Module 8: Real-World Projects and Portfolio Building (1 hour) Application of acquired skills in completing authentic projects Professional portfolio presentation techniques Optional: Stable Diffusion and Python Installation (Additional 10 hours) Module 1: Introduction to Stable Diffusion and Python Comprehensive understanding of Stable Diffusion and Python's significance Module 2: System Prerequisites Hardware and software requirements for successful installation Module 3: Python Installation Guide Step-by-step installation process for various operating systems Module 4: Configuring Python Environment Configuration of environment variables and package managers Module 5: Stable Diffusion Installation Downloading and installing the Stable Diffusion package Module 6: Setting Up the Development Environment Configuration of integrated development environments (IDEs) for Python and Stable Diffusion Module 7: Troubleshooting and Common Issues Identification and resolution of common installation errors Module 8: Best Practices and Recommendations Effective management of Python and Stable Diffusion installations Module 9: Practical Applications and Projects Hands-on exercises exemplifying the practical usage of Stable Diffusion and Python Module 10: Advanced Topics (Optional) Exploration of advanced features and techniques Stable Diffusion https://stablediffusionweb.com https://stable-diffusion-ui.github.io https://stability.ai/stable-diffusion Upon successful completion of the Sketchup and Stable Diffusion Rendering Course with a focus on AI image rendering, participants will achieve the following: 1. Mastery of AI Image Rendering: Attain expertise in employing AI-powered rendering techniques to produce realistic and top-quality visualizations. 2. Proficiency in Sketchup for 3D Modeling: Navigate the software adeptly, utilize drawing tools with proficiency, and craft intricate 3D models. 3. Enhanced Rendering Optimization: Implement AI-based rendering to enhance model visuals, resulting in faster rendering times and superior image quality. 4. Application of AI-driven Lighting and Shadows: Employ AI algorithms for precise lighting placement, shadows, and reflections, elevating the realism of renderings. 5. Development of a Professional Portfolio: Present AI-rendered projects within a polished professional portfolio, highlighting advanced image rendering capabilities. 1. Mastering Sketchup: Attain proficiency in Sketchup, a renowned and user-friendly 3D modeling software, equipping you with the skills needed to adeptly create and manipulate 3D models. 2. Advanced Rendering Expertise: Explore stable diffusion rendering, an avant-garde technique that simplifies the creation of realistic and high-quality renderings. Broaden your rendering capabilities, producing visually stunning representations of your designs. 3. Practical Industry Applications: Cultivate practical skills relevant to diverse industries, encompassing architecture, interior design, product development, and visualization. Elevate your professional portfolio with captivating renderings that showcase your design prowess. 4. Interactive Learning: Participate in hands-on exercises and projects that promote active learning and the practical application of concepts. Benefit from personalized feedback and expert guidance, ensuring your continuous progress throughout the course. 5. Career Advancement: Elevate your career prospects by adding valuable skills to your toolkit. Proficiency in crafting detailed 3D models and impressive renderings through stable diffusion techniques opens doors to diverse job opportunities within the design and visualization sector. 6. Flexibility and Convenience: Access course materials online and learn at your own pace. Enjoy the flexibility of tailoring the coursework to your schedule, allowing you to harmonize your learning journey with other commitments. Course Advantages: Tailored Learning: Enjoy personalized 1-on-1 sessions, accommodating your schedule from Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 7 pm. Mastery of Sketchup: Develop proficiency in the widely-used and user-friendly 3D modeling software, enabling efficient creation and manipulation of 3D models. Advanced Rendering Proficiency: Acquire expertise in stable diffusion rendering for producing realistic, high-quality renderings that enhance the visual appeal of your designs. Practical Applicability: Develop practical skills applicable across diverse domains, including architecture, interior design, product development, and visualization, enriching your professional portfolio. Interactive Practical Experience: Engage in hands-on exercises with personalized guidance from seasoned instructors, ensuring consistent progress in your skillset. Career Progression: Boost your career opportunities by gaining valuable skills in 3D modeling and generating impressive renderings through stable diffusion techniques. Comprehensive Support: Benefit from free portfolio reviews, mock interviews, and career advice, providing additional resources to enhance your professional journey.
R&D work is often carried out in entrepreneurial companies with the aim of developing solutions to scientific or technological problems for a wide range of customers. Projects can include longer term 'frontiers of science' research, medium term product development/manufacturing or more immediate troubleshooting or contract research assignments. In all these contexts, the ability to create innovative solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner is the essence of successful R&D. Whilst R&D groups typically excel in technical expertise, those involved often recognise that there is scope for improving the way that projects are managed. The aim of this training programme is to address this need whilst ensuring that the creative, entrepreneurial spirit that is fundamental to good R&D continues to flourish. MODULE 1: Creating the foundations for success Off-line video tutorials and exercises Total time ~ 1 - 1.5 hours Video 1: Making the most of project management in R&D Characterising R&D projects Applying project management to R&D work Exploiting the potential of project management in R&D Video 2: Promoting success in R&D project management Modelling successful project management Evaluating performance and promoting success The role and skills of the project manager/leader MODULE 2: Initiating and defining R&D projects Live interactive sessions (via Zoom): Session 1: 10:00 - 12:00 Session 2: 14:00 - 15:30 Session 1: Selecting and initiating projects Recognising worthwhile opportunities; initiating projects Identifying stakeholders and their goals Characterising and engaging stakeholders Session 2: Defining goals and agreeing deliverables Establishing the full scope of the project Clarifying and prioritising project deliverables Defining and agreeing deliverable specifications MODULE 3: Planning R&D projects Live interactive sessions (via Zoom): Session 1: 10:00 - 12:00 Session 2: 14:00 - 15:30 Session 1: Identifying and organising activities Creating effective plans; avoiding planning pitfalls Identifying tasks and assigning responsibilities Sequencing tasks and estimating durations Session 2: Developing the timeline and resource plan Identifying the 'critical path'; creating a resource plan Dealing with estimating uncertainty Accelerating the programme MODULE 4: Leadership and teamwork in R&D projects Off-line video tutorials and exercises Total time ~ 1 - 1.5 hours Video 1: Working effectively in project teams Building teamwork in contemporary organisations Recognising each other's skills; building synergy Building good working relationships; handling conflict Video 2: The role of the R&D project team leader Building teamwork: the role of leadership Creating an effective team culture Delegating work and motivating team members MODULE 5: Managing uncertainty in R&D projects Live interactive sessions (via Zoom): Session 1: 10:00 - 12:00 Session 2: 14:00 - 15:30 Session 1: Characterising uncertainty; identifying risks Exploring uncertainty; applying risk management Focusing the risk management process Identifying and defining risk events Session 2: Managing and controlling risks to the project Evaluating risk events Selecting between risk strategies; setting contingencies Updating and controlling exposure to risk MODULE 6: Implementing and controlling R&D projects Live interactive sessions (via Zoom): Session 1: 10:00 - 12:00 Session 2: 14:00 - 15:30 Session 1: Initiating assignments and managing changes Creating a pro-active implementation and control culture Establishing effective implementation and control procedures Assigning work and managing changes Session 2: Monitoring, managing and developing performance Adopting meaningful monitoring techniques Responding to problems; building performance Managing and controlling multiple project assignments
The Proactive Safeguarding Practitioner (Adults) Spanning 6 weeks, this course is designed to be interactive and fun, with minimal time spent on legislation and maximum time getting to the detail of why effective safeguarding must focus on being proactive and prophylactic to the warning signs of safety NOT responsive and reactionary after an event! Delivered across 6 weeks through a mix of: Pre-course preparation (2 weeks before first Zoom session) 2 x 5 hour Zoom sessions (2 weeks apart) PLEASE NOTE, BOOKING OPTIONS SHOWN, ARE DATE OF FIRST ZOOM Post zoom course work and final coursework submissions Approximately 20 hours total Anticipated learning objectives: Delegates will have a strengthened understanding of, obtained through worked examples of real case studies: 1. The importance of good complaint management 2. When a complaint should be escalated to a safeguarding 3. The difference between a quality concern and a safeguarding 4. Red flags to raising a safeguarding alert 5. What proactive practice looks like and why this is vital to better quality and safer service delivery 6. Understanding the onus on providers in better managing issues including safety incidents
Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM): Virtual In-House Training Is your team treading water using waterfall? Do you feel trapped in an agile framework? Would you like to find solutions to the problems you've been wrestling with? Are you looking for ways to enhance your team's agility? Break free from your old ways by choosing a way of working that fits your team's context. Find strategies to improve your processes and strengthen your team with the Disciplined Agile® tool kit. Disciplined Agile Scrum Master is a nine-lesson, instructor-led course that shows you how to use Disciplined Agile (DA™) to improve your team's way of working. In just two days, you will become familiar with foundational agile and lean practices that DA supports, practice using the tool kit to solve problems, and learn how to build high-performance teams. Filled with activities, animations, supplemental reading, and more, this course will prepare you to take the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) exam and, equally important, start using Disciplined Agile immediately. #BBD0E0 » What You Will Learn After the completion of this course, you will be able to: Apply foundational agile and lean practices in your own team setting Describe what business agility is and how it is core to value proposition of Disciplined Agile® Describe the significance of the Disciplined Agile mindset Define the DA™ principles, promises, and guidelines and how they set Disciplined Agile apart from other frameworks Explain how people are organized into DA teams Define the primary DA roles and how they each are key to the success of a self-organizing agile team Explain how to help your team work well together using the Lean principle of 'respect people' Analyze your team's context to make better process-related decisions Select the best-fit DA life cycles for your teams Apply the five DA steps of choosing your team's way of working (WoW) Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to successfully initiate your team Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team producing business value Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team releasing their work into production Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team on an ongoing basis Recognize when to be resilient List and define the principles of Lean Significance of the Disciplined Agile® Mindset Business agility and how it is core to value proposition of Disciplined Agile Eight DA principles and how they are core to what sets Disciplined Agile apart from other agile frameworks Which situations each of the DA™ life cycles is best applied DA Practice of choosing a team's way of working (WoW) Foundations of Agile How people are organized into DA teams Primary DA roles and how they each are key to the success of a self-organizing agile team Help your team work well together (Lean principle 'Respect people') Inception phase and why it is important DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context Agile techniques and ceremonies relevant to Inception Construction phase and why it is important Agile techniques and ceremonies that take place during Construction Eliminate Waste and Build Quality (Lean principles) Deliver Value Quickly (Lean principle) Transition phase and why it is important Ongoing phase and why it is important Learn Pragmatically (Lean principle) Elements of the process blade (onion) diagram Principles of Lean When to be resilient Benefits of explicit workflow Kaizen loops and PDSA techniques for continuous improvement Options for cross-team learning: "community of practice" and "center of excellence"
This one-day course introduces the field of user experience and provides an excellent entry point to our other specialised training courses. UX processes and practices have become a central component of product design, service design and web design.
InDesign is the professional choice for creating brochures, posters, magazines, e-books and apps. Through this Zoom delivered, online introductory course, you will receive expert InDesign training in how to create documents and prepare them for print or export as a PDF. Professional colour management, typography and advanced graphics and effects are all explored. This course covers all you need to know to get started with the application.
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Designed to help individuals and their organisations develop new products, services and ways of working to create sustainable value. The EFQM Innovation Leader Training is designed to help individuals and their organisations understand what innovation means for them and challenge them to focus on developing new products, services and ways of working to add new value. The training will focus on how to: Develop your understanding of innovation and how it can be successfully implemented using a structured innovation management approach Demonstrate the ability to effectively manage innovation activities to achieve the intended outcomes Course Content Overview of the EFQM Lens Concept Introduction to Innovation Lens Groupwork – Megatrends and how they impact on you Innovation Lens Framework – Structure and Content Groupwork – Completion of Innovation Questionnaire Discussion – Feedback on the Questionnaire and Outcomes How to manage the Innovation process Using Assess Base to baseline performance/conduct a gap analysis Pre-course Work Pre-reading on the new EFQM Model. Delivery The course is delivered through virtual trainer led live workshop. Upon registration, you will receive a link to the workshop. Cost £450 + VAT which includes the training course, the Innovation Lens e-book and your EFQM Innovation Leader Certificate. If you are not yet a member but are already thinking about joining CforC, you can find more information on how to become a member and the benefits by clicking here.
Designed to help individuals and their organisations develop new products, services and ways of working to create sustainable value. The EFQM Innovation Leader Training is designed to help individuals and their organisations understand what innovation means for them and challenge them to focus on developing new products, services and ways of working to add new value. The training will focus on how to: Develop your understanding of innovation and how it can be successfully implemented using a structured innovation management approach Demonstrate the ability to effectively manage innovation activities to achieve the intended outcomes Course Content Overview of the EFQM Lens Concept Introduction to Innovation Lens Groupwork – Megatrends and how they impact on you Innovation Lens Framework – Structure and Content Groupwork – Completion of Innovation Questionnaire Discussion – Feedback on the Questionnaire and Outcomes How to manage the Innovation process Using Assess Base to baseline performance/conduct a gap analysis Pre-course Work Pre-reading on the new EFQM Model. Delivery The course is delivered through virtual trainer led live workshop. Upon registration, you will receive a link to the workshop. Cost £450 + VAT which includes the training course, the Innovation Lens e-book and your EFQM Innovation Leader Certificate. If you are not yet a member but are already thinking about joining CforC, you can find more information on how to become a member and the benefits by clicking here.