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Overview Any business life is completely dependent on Sales and Marketing. It delivers a significant business benefit. Providing effective training in Sales and Marketing helps boost sales, increase profit, create a brand image and also improve customer satisfaction.  The role of a sales director is crucial in improving an organization's revenue and sales. A good sales director can affect the overall performance of a business. The course is designed with a lot of practical exercises, and modern techniques, taking the delegates' skills to an advanced level. This will help the delegates to attain the skills they require and implement what they learn in their work efficiently and to their highest potential. This course will help review overall sales strategies and how they can contribute in order to achieve a desired positive outcome. It will set measurable objectives and standards within the team and will boost the confidence in their performance and achieve the objectives. 

Portfolio, Programs, & Project Offices Practitioner: Virtual In-House Training P3O® is the AXELOS standard for the design of decision-making processes regarding changes in organizations. P3O provides a guideline for the design of portfolio, programme, and project offices in organizations. The P3O Practitioner Course is an interactive learning experience. The P3O Practitioner-level content provides you with sufficient knowledge and understanding of the P3O guidance to design, implement, manage or work within any component office of a P3O model. It enables participants to successfully complete the associated P30 Practitioner exam and achieve the qualification. In this course, you will be prepared to successfully attempt the P3O Practitioner exam and learn how to implement or re-energize a P3O model in their own organization. What you will Learn At the end of the P3O Practitioner course, you will be able to: Define a business case to get senior management approval for P3O Build a right P3O model to adapt to the organization's needs, taking account of the organization's size and portfolio, programme and project management maturity Identify the elements, roles, and functions deployed in a generalized P3O model Use tools and techniques in running the P3O and advising those who shape the portfolio of programmes and projects Introduction to P3O What is the purpose of P3O? Definitions What are P3Os? Portfolio, programme, and project lifecycles Governance and the P3O Designing a P3O Model Factors that affect the design Design considerations What functions and services should the P3O offer? Roles and responsibilities Sizing and tailoring of the P3O model Why have a P3O? How a P3O adds value Maximizing that value Getting investment for the P3O Overcoming common barriers Timescales Why have a P3O (Extension)? The P3O Business Case The P3O Model Blueprint Vision Statement Demonstrating the Value KPIs The Benefits of Claimed Capabilities Benefit Realisation and Strategic Objectives Benefit Profile How to Implement or Re-Energize a P3O Implementation lifecycle for a permanent P3O Identify Define Deliver Close Implementation lifecycle for a temporary programme or project office Organizational context Definition and implementation Running Closing Recycling How to operate a P3O Overview of tools and techniques Benefits of using standard tools and techniques Critical success factors P3O tools P3O techniques

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for This class is intended for PMP?s looking to earn PDU's, or for Project Managers looking to learn more about Project Scope and Schedule Management techniques. This course provides participants with tools and techniques to help them determine and deliver products, services, and results that meet requirements, expectations, and deadlines. NOTE: This course will earn you 14 PDUs. 1 - PROJECT SCOPE AND TIME MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW Project Scope Management Overview Project Scope Mgt. Processes and Key Outputs Project Time Management Overview Project Time Mgt. Processes and Key Outputs Case Study Selection Requirements, Scope, and Negotiations 2 - PLAN SCOPE AND SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT Plan Scope and Schedule Mgt. Overview The Scope Management Plan The Requirements Management Plan The Schedule Management Plan 3 - COLLECT REQUIREMENTS Collect Requirements Overview Types of Requirements Effective Product/Solution Requirements Other Stakeholders and Requirements Collect Requirements Techniques Voice of the Customer Requirements Traceability Matrix 4 - DEFINE SCOPE Define Scope Overview Project Scope Statement Sections Create a Project Scope Statement 5 - CREATE WBS Create WBS Overview WBS by Deliverable WBS by Phase When to Subdivide a Work Package Further Effective WBSs General Process for Creating the WBS Create a WBS 6 - DEFINE ACTIVITIES Define Activities Overview Practical Considerations for Defining Activities Activities and Steps Milestones Create Activities and Milestones 7 - SEQUENCE ACTIVITIES Develop Schedule Overview Critical Path Resource Optimization ? Resource Leveling Resource Optimization ? Resource Smoothing Resolve Overallocations Critical Chain Schedule Compression Techniques 8 - ESTIMATE ACTIVITY RESOURCES Estimate Activity Resources Overview Resource Breakdown Structure Estimate Activity Resources Assign Resources to Activities 9 - ESTIMATE ACTIVITY DURATIONS Estimate Activity Durations Overview Expert Judgment Ratio Estimating Analogous Estimating Parametric Estimating Forecasting Three Point Estimating and PERT Estimating Reserves Estimate Activity Durations 10 - DEVELOP SCHEDULE Develop Schedule Overview Critical Path Resource Optimization ? Resource Leveling Resource Optimization ? Resource Smoothing Resolve Overallocations Critical Chain Schedule Compression Techniques 11 - VALIDATE SCOPE Validate Scope Overview Verify Scope Best Practices Create a Scope Validation Form 12 - CONTROL SCOPE AND SCHEDULE Control Scope Overview Control Schedule Overview Control Scope Best Practices Change Control Stakeholders Determine Change Control Stakeholders Change Control Process Change Request Form

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Leaders and professionals who manage teams or groups and are responsible for their outcomes will benefit from this course. Overview Apply techniques to encourage participation and reach consensus Utilize facilitative questioning techniques Recognize indicators to facilitate each stage of the team process Deal constructively with disruptions and typical problem behavior Implement interventions appropriately Plan and run a focused discussion, meeting or event Students will learn how to develop and apply facilitation techniques to support their team at every stage of the team life cycle. Students will enhance their interpersonal competencies and observational abilities to deal with disruptions and more. Private classes on this topic are available. We can address your organization?s issues, time constraints, and save you money, too. Contact us to find out how. 1. The Importance of Facilitation Being an Effective Facilitator Harnessing Knowledge, Experience, and Diversity Encouraging Group Motivation and Commitment Observing the Team Process 2. Facilitating Process and Content Identifying Process and Content Elements Managing the Flow Resolving Tensions and Disagreement 3. Setting the Stage for Facilitation Laying the Groundwork, Educating Participants, and Securing Support Selecting the Right Facilitator Planning for a Facilitated Meeting 4. Facilitating Team Development Encouraging Participation Recognizing Stages in the Team Life Cycle Supporting the Team through the Stages 5. Building Consensus and Reaching Decisions Gathering and Presenting Data Synthesizing and Summarizing Identifying Options and Brainstorming Facilitating SWOT Analysis Creating a Short List Using the Multi-Option technique 6. Disruptions, Dysfunctions and Interventions Handling Disruptions and Difficult Behavior Addressing Dysfunction Agreeing on Ground Rules Restating and Reframing

Overview Understanding the Global Foreign Exchange (FX) has become an important part of the financial system. Today many financial institutions and organisations are more focused on enhancing the skills of the management and modification of their source of liquidity, re-organising their funding system and studying the benefits of short-term investment and trading strategies. This diverted focus brought the money market in the limelight thereby giving more opportunities for understanding the different ways of funding, trading and many more investment opportunities. The course is specially designed by the financial experts in FX and Money Market thereby building a strong foundation on the tools and techniques of the FX market and international money market. It gives detailed insight into the financial crisis that happened to take place and what we have learned from that including the development in the FX and Money Market. The course highlights the unified nature of FX, money markets and derivatives and examines the liquidity features and risks of diverse instruments and funding strategies.

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"

Advanced Python training course description This course caters to network engineers aiming to enhance both their Python proficiency and network automation skills. Delving deeper into key areas such as netmiko, Nornir, and ncclient, we also focus on automating network testing and validation. Participants gain greater confidence working with Python functions, classes, objects, and error handling. The course additionally introduces more libraries like Scrapli, TTP, pyATS, Genie, pybatfish, and Suzieq, which cover parsing strategies, automation testing, validation, network analysis, observability, and telemetry. The curriculum also encompasses concurrency techniques. What will you learn Write Python modules and functions. Evaluate techniques to parse unstructured data. Use NETCONF filters. Handle Python errors effectively (try, assert…). Use postman. Automate testing and validation of the network. Use scrapli, Genie, batfish and Suzieq. Advanced Python training course details Who will benefit: Network engineers. Prerequisites: Python for network engineers Duration 5 days Advanced Python training course contents Review CLI, NETCONF, RESTCONF, structured versus unstructured data, gNMI and when to use which. PEP 8. Naming conventions. Packages, modules, Classes and methods. The scrapli library. Netmiko versus scrapli. Hands on: scrapli, Dictionaries versus Regular Expressions. Modules and Functions Writing your own modules, containers versus packages, virtual environments. Best practices, calling functions, writing your own functions. Parameters, arguments. Named arguments, dictionaries as arguments. Builtins. Docstrings. Main. __name__, __main__ . Program arguments. Hands on: Getting interfaces, showing interface status using Netmiko and functions. Using dictionaries as arguments. Writing your own modules. Parsing strategies Turning unstructured data into structured data. textfsm, PyATS Genie parser, NAPALM getters, Template Text Parser. Hands on: Genie parser, TTP. Accessing structured data with lists and dictionaries. Classes, objects and Python Python classes in Genie, PyEZ and others . Hands on: studying network automation classes, objects, methods and attributes. Configuration management - more nornir, ncclient, requests Nornir tasks. Nornir results, Nornir functions, Nornir plugins. Nornir processors. YANG, YANG models, pyang. NETCONF hello. Capabilities. Schemas. Filters. Subtrees. XPATH. Exploring available YANG data models. NETCONF and network wide transactions. Asserting NETCONF capabilities. Configuration types. Locking configurations, commits. NETCONF data stores. Netconf-console. RESTCONF differences from NETCONF. URI construction. Postman. More XML and JSON. Git and configuration versions. Hands on: Nornir and Jinja2. Exploring available models, NETCONF filters. Using postman. Python error handling and debugging Context handlers, try, assert, logging, pdb, pytest, unit testing, chatgpt. Hands on: Writing code with each of the error handling methods, investigating what happens on an error. Use chatgpt to debug your code. Python Automation Testing Testing and validation. pyATS, Genie. Testbed file. Genie parse, genie learn, genie diff. Genie conf, Genie ops, Genie SDK, Genie harness. Xpresso. Hands on: Using Genie for state comparisons of the network. Network analysis Batfish, pybatfish, configuration analysis, analysing routing, analysing ACLs. Pandas. Pandas dataframe. Filtering and selecting values of interest. Hands on: Use Batfish to analyse network snapshots, find network adjacencies, flow path analysis. Network observability Suzieq, using docker, using as a package. Sqpoller, suzieq-gui, suzieq-cli, sq-rest-server. Namespaces and seeing devices, network state and Asserts. Time based analysis, snapshots and changes. Hands on: Suzieq: Gathering data from the network, analysing data from the network. Network state assertion. Telemetry gRPC, gNMI. CAP, GET, SET. Subscriptions. Model Driven telemetry. Hands on: Analysing telemetry data with Python. Concurrency asyncio, threads, processes. Nornir concurrency. Scrapli and netmiko concurrency. Hands on: Multiple SSH connections to devices at same time. Scarpli asyncio.

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

Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM): 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"

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