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We are delighted to share that we are now running our GP Admin Development Programmes Live Online! If your team have had enough of pre-recorded courses then this is perfect!  We are delivering the content online - Live!  Teams can get involved, interact with each other, and have great discussions. We deliver a suite of programmes to support the development pathway of GP admin staff.  Just £79+vat pp for a half day workshop with resources. The first in the series is: Positive & Proactive Communication for Effective Call Handling This workshop will provide an opportunity to look at how we positively communicate with others - taking into account patients expectations, stereotypes, our role, and how to have the best interactions! We add value by discussing the importance of their roles, exploring how change impacts us and patients, and how we can choose to respond. We couple this with a deeper exploration of communication techniques that leads to a greater understanding of how we can communicate using positive intention & language. It's suitable for all staff (new and more experienced). We also encourage the line manager to participate so that they can follow up on the content using our manager support pack - enabling staff to sustain and embed the learning. The programme will cover the following: The Heart Of The Surgery Changes & Choices Patient Experience Effective Communication Managing Other’s Emotions & Challenging Patients Importance of Signposting Keeping Motivated Creating New Habits We will be running multiple dates so that you can enrol small groups of staff any one time, leaving you enough people to man the helm!If you have any questions then please do get in touch,lucy@thedevelopmentpeople.co.uk

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for The primary audience for this course is someone who works, or has ambition to work, in a leadership role in data center operations such as a data center facilities manager, data center operations manager, who has the responsibility to achieve and improve the high-availability and manageability of the data center operations. Overview After completion of the course the participant will be able to: Perform the needs analysis translating business requirements to data center services Set-up and manage the data center operations team Implement and monitor safety- and security practices Identify a suitable maintenance program for the data center facility and its equipment Select the appropriate policies and procedures required for data center operations Monitor the data center availability, capacity and capability Manage and implement basic data center projects Set-up and implement an environmental sustainability program Select an appropriate back-up site to support organizational resilience Identify and respond to risk in the data center Manage and support the document life cycle Create a basic budget proposal Select and manage vendors and measure their performance Manage data center assets Managing the facilities of today?s high-end and high-availability data centers is an extremely demanding and complex task which is often underestimated. There is often very little appreciation and understanding of the complexities of managing today's mission-critical data centers where downtime is not an option, especially since many of the data centers are operating at, or near, their design limits. Operations management at the facilities layer makes all the difference. Even a data center designed to the highest redundancy level as per the ANSI/TIA-942 standard could still experience many unscheduled downtime events due to poor planning, operations, maintenance and management processes. Service Level Management Service Level Management Needs analysis Capability assessment Service portfolio Service catalogue Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Availability measurement Data points in SLA Service reporting Complaint procedure Customer satisfaction measurement Service Improvement Process (SIP) SLA content The Data Center Organization Operational issues Organization chart Roles and responsibilities Skills matrix Contingency / backup roles Shift management Performance management Career development Training and assessment Job rotation Succession planning Disciplinary program Managing Safety & Statutory Requirements Safety policies and regulations Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Safety awareness training Permit to Work (PTW) Lock-out / Tag-out Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Testing and tagging of equipment Emergency preparedness and response Reporting of safety issues Reviews / internal audit / external audit Managing Physical Security Security policies and procedures Security standards and guidelines Security staff Security awareness Security incident management Disciplinary program Reviews, internal and external audits Facilities Management Maintenance policies and procedures Various maintenance programs Outsourcing of maintenance activities Maintenance contract options Warranty Maintenance schedule Service situations Spart part management Contamination control Data Center Operations Policies and procedures for data center operations Service operations and the daily data center operations Monitoring / Reporting / Control Monitoring requirements Escalation procedures Reporting Trend analysis Reviews Project Management Project management Project organization Project manager Project phases Environment Sustainability The importance of sustainability Sustainability policies Environmental management Power efficiency indicators - Waste management - Water management ICT utilisation management Environmental performance measurements Renewable energy factor (REF) Organizational Resilience Business continuity Data center facility options Business Impact Analysis Type of facility Human resources Facility, equipment and consumables Governance, Risk and Compliance Management commitment Coordination, collaboration and integration Compliance Risk management Document management Financial management Vendor management Asset management Additional course details: Nexus Humans Certified Data Center Facilities Operations Manager (CDFOM) 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 Certified Data Center Facilities Operations Manager (CDFOM) 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.

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevOps Leader course are professionals including: Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program, Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches, Business Managers, Business Stakeholders, Change Agents, Consultants, DevOps Consultants, DevOps Engineers, IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Team, Leaders, Lean Coaches, Practitioners, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, System Integrators, Tool Providers Overview The learning objectives for DOL include a practical understanding of: - DevOps and time to market - The business and IT perspectives - Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT - Planning and organizing - Understanding performance and culture - Measurement differences - Designing a DevOps organization - Focusing on what matters - Ideas for organizing workflows - Sharing information - Defining meaningful metrics - Value stream mapping - The Spotify Squad model - Managing culture change - Popular tools and key practices - Putting it all together The DevOps Leader course is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organization by implementing DevOps. Leading people through a cultural transformation requires new skills, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across the IT organization must align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organization. The course highlights the human dynamics of cultural change and equips participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum through the use of real-life scenarios and case studies. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding Value Stream Mapping. Prerequisites DevOps Foundation 1 - DevOps and Time What Is DevOps? Why Do DevOps Companies Doing DevOps The Magic Equation 2 - Key Differences Between DevOps IT and Traditional IT What Sets DevOps IT apart from Traditional IT How DevOps IT is Organized Differently How to Perform to a Different Standard How to Use Different Measurements 3 - Becoming a DevOps organization Transformational Leadership Redesigning An Organization for DevOps Design Principles Focus Work Information Metrics 4 - Value Stream Mapping What is Value Stream Mapping? Why Do We Need to Use this Framework? Types of Maps How to Create a Value Stream Map? Types of Data to Collect How to Handle Exceptions 5 - Value Stream Mapping Exercise 6 - Squad Organizational Model Conway's Law The Problem with Silos Spotify?s Squad Organization Model (Structure, Roles) Squads Tribes Chapters Guilds How to Reorganize in Order to Move to this Model 7 - Managing Culture Change What is Culture and How Does it Impact Performance? Types of IT Culture Cultural Traits of a DevOps Organization How to Manage Change 8 - Culture and its Impact on Performance Types of IT Culture What is a DevOps Culture How To Manage Change The Three Phases Of Change Types of Changes That Need to be Implemented 9 - Popular DevOps Tools and Practices DevOps Tools Periodic Table Top DevOps Tool Categories Common and Popular Practices 10 - Building a Business Case 11 - Bringing it all Together 12 - Additional Sources of Information 13 - Exam Preparations Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List Sample Exam Review Additional course details: Nexus Humans DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute) 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 DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute) 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.

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Azure. This audience wants to learn about our offerings and get hands-on experience with the product. This course primarily uses the Azure portal and command line interface to create resources and does not require scripting skills. Students in this course will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications, such as Azure Administrator. This course combines lecture, demonstrations, and hands-on labs. This course will also help prepare someone for the AZ-900 exam. This course will provide foundational level knowledge on cloud concepts; core Azure services; and Azure management and governance features and tools. Prerequisites There are no prerequisites for taking this course. Familiarity with cloud computing is helpful, but isn't necessary. 1 - Describe cloud computing What is cloud computing Describe the shared responsibility model Define cloud models Describe the consumption-based model 2 - Describe the benefits of using cloud services Describe the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud Describe the benefits of reliability and predictability in the cloud Describe the benefits of security and governance in the cloud Describe the benefits of manageability in the cloud 3 - Describe cloud service types Describe Infrastructure as a Service Describe Platform as a Service Describe Software as a Service 4 - Describe the core architectural components of Azure What is Microsoft Azure Get started with Azure accounts Describe Azure physical infrastructure Describe Azure management infrastructure 5 - Describe Azure compute and networking services Describe Azure Virtual Machines Describe Azure Virtual Desktop Describe Azure Containers Describe Azure Functions Describe application hosting options Describe Azure Virtual Networking Describe Azure Virtual Private Networks Describe Azure ExpressRoute Describe Azure DNS 6 - Describe Azure storage services Describe Azure storage accounts Describe Azure storage redundancy Describe Azure storage services Identify Azure data migration options Identify Azure file movement options 7 - Describe Azure identity, access, and security Describe Azure directory services Describe Azure authentication methods Describe Azure external identities Describe Azure conditional access Describe Azure role-based access control Describe zero trust model Describe defense-in-depth Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud 8 - Describe cost management in Azure Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure Compare the Pricing and Total Cost of Ownership calculators Describe the Microsoft Cost Management tool Describe the purpose of tags 9 - Describe features and tools in Azure for governance and compliance Describe the purpose of Microsoft Purview Describe the purpose of Azure Policy Describe the purpose of resource locks Describe the purpose of the Service Trust portal 10 - Describe features and tools for managing and deploying Azure resources Describe tools for interacting with Azure Describe the purpose of Azure Arc Describe Azure Resource Manager and Azure ARM templates 11 - Describe monitoring tools in Azure Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor Describe Azure Service Health Describe Azure Monitor Additional course details: Nexus Humans AZ-900T00 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 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 AZ-900T00 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 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.

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for This class has something for everything, from beginners who wish to customise their data entry forms in SharePoint right up to advanced users who need to use advanced formulas to deliver more bespoke actions to their apps. Overview After taking this course, students will be able to: - Understand when to use PowerApp. - Describe the components of PowerApps and their correct use. - Create PowerApps from existing data sources. - Brand PowerApps. - Customize PowerApps beyond just using the automated wizards. - Connect to a range of data sources from Excel to Azure SQL. - Understand the difference between canvas apps and model-driven apps. - Integrate PowerApps with other Office 365 systems ? including Teams and SharePoint Online. - Administer and Maintain PowerApps Students will be taught how to design, test and publish new apps that work with a variety of data sources. We will take users through a selection of well-crafted lessons to help them build new applications for their business. 1 - AN INTRODUCTION TO POWERAPPS What is PowerApps? The benefits of apps How to get PowerApps Canvas Apps and Model-Driven Apps License Options and Costs Discover PowerApps with Templates Lab 1: Introduction to PowerApps 2 - GETTING STARTED WITH POWERAPPS Building a new app from a data source Add, edit and remove controls Intro to Formulas Testing an app App Settings Publish and Share Apps Version History and Restore PowerApps Mobile App Lab 1: Getting Started 3 - BRANDING AND MEDIA Less is more Duplicate Screens Fonts Screen Colours and Matching Colours Screen Backgrounds Buttons and Icons Hide on Timer Size and Alignment by reference Show and Hide on Timer Lab 1: Branding and Media 4 - POWERAPPS CONTROLS Text Controls for Data Entry and Display Controls ? Drop downs, combo box, date picker, radio button and more Forms ? Add and edit data in underlying data sources quickly Charts ? present information in pie, line and bar charts Lab 1: Build Apps from Blank 5 - DATA SOURCES AND LOGIC Data Storage and Services How do I decide which database to use? Connect to on-premises data - Gateway What is Delegation? Specific Data Examples Displaying Data Lab 1: Data Source and Logic 6 - MODEL-DRIVEN APPS What is a model-driven app? Where will my data be stored? How do create a model-driven app Canvas vs model-driven summary Lab 1: Model-Driven App 7 - POWERAPP INTEGRATION Embed PowerApps in Teams Embed PowerApps in SharePoint Online Start a Flow from a PowerApp Lab 1: PowerApp Integration 8 - ADMINISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF POWERAPPS Identify which users have been using PowerApps Reuse an app in another location (move from testing or development to production) Review app usage Prevent a user from using PowerApps Manage environments Lab 1: Administration and Maintenance Additional course details: Nexus Humans 55265 Microsoft PowerApps 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 55265 Microsoft PowerApps 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.

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for managers, team leads, and individual contributors on techniques and best practices for continual improvement of themselves as leaders. Overview Define leadership. Assess your own leadership traits. Establish your leadership development plan. Develop your communication skills. Build your reputation. You have transitioned from an individual contributor to a manager, or as an individual contributor, you\'ve acquired practical skills to enhance your leadership abilities. When you want to take your leadership skills to the next level, you assess your leadership traits, develop your communication skills, and build your reputation. These strategies can increase your ability to effectively influence others and get results. 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. Prerequisites Students taking this course should have completed the course: Practical Leadership (Second Edition) 1. Defining Leadership Topic A: Identify Leadership Attributes Topic B: Identify Leadership Responsibilities 2. Assessing Your Leadership Traits Topic A: Assess Your Leadership Characteristics Topic B: Determine How Colleagues View Your Leadership Topic C: Evaluate Factors that Affect Your Leadership 3. Establishing Your Leadership Development Plan Topic A: Identify Your Destination Topic B: Establish Your Map Topic C: Build a Leadership Development Plan 4. Developing Your Communication Skills Topic A: Upgrade Your Listening Skills Topic B: Improve Your Communication Effectiveness 5. Building Your Reputation Topic A: Establish Your Credibility Topic B: Use Influence to Get Results Additional course details: Nexus Humans Developing Yourself as a Leader (Second Edition) 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 Developing Yourself as a Leader (Second Edition) 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.

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for customer service professionals with any level of experience who want to expand their knowledge, improve their skill set, and increase the understanding of customer benefits. This course teaches basic communication terms and organization basics. Students will learn how to communicate effectively, motivate employees, overcome communication barriers, develop leadership habits, understand how communication flows within an organization, develop networks, and identify the roles that individuals fulfill in an organization. Course activities also cover applying technology to organizational communication, discussing innovation and change, examining how environmental context affects communication, and discussion how power and politics affect an organization. Students will also learn how to manage change, stress, conflict, and empower individuals. The manual is designed for quick scanning in the classroom and filled with interactive exercises that help ensure student success. Prerequisites This course is intended for customer service professionals with any level of experience who want to expand their knowledge, improve their skill set, and increase the understanding of customer benefits. 1. Communication basics Effective communication Organizational management Organization types and characteristics Communication flow 2. Leadership and motivation Communication and leadership Communication and motivation 3. Relational context and organizations Relational context Relationships and organizations 4. Technology in the workplace Workplace technology Impact of technology Technology guidelines 5. Context, stress, and managerial tools Environmental context Stress and communication 6. Innovation and change Aspects of innovation Aspects of change 7. Power, politics, and diversity Power and communication Diversity and communication Empowerment and communication Additional course details: Nexus Humans Organizational Communication 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 Communication 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.

About this Training Course This 4 full-day Maintenance and Reliability Masterclass course will provide Maintenance and Reliability personnel with a full explanation of the Award-winning Model of Excellence for maintenance. This is top tier training that has also been designed to equip participants with practical skills to take back to work. The course enables participants to develop a strategy to achieve outstanding maintenance and reliability performance for their own workplace. This course is aligned with SMRP* best practices and the CMRP exam. It provides an opportunity for participants to sit for an examination+ on the final day of the course. Your facilitator for this course is a fully qualified CMRP professional, an approved SMRP Proctor, authorised to conduct CMRP exams and a globally respected maintenance consultant and best practice trainer. +Exam fees are not inclusive in the course fees. *SMRP refers to Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals. PetroEdge is not affiliated with SMRP. Training Objectives By the end of this course, participants will be able to: Appreciate the content and underlying principles of our maintenance Model of Excellence o How to develop a strategy for outstanding maintenance and reliability performance o Developing reliability methodologies and programmes to drive performance o Options and tools to improve reliability at equipment level o Leadership skills and improving organisation and human performance o Work with management with an overview of the latest practice in planning scheduling and control Describe how maintenance can become a more strategic and influential function Use the Carcharodon model of excellence and class leading methodologies for improving maintenance and reliability Target Audience This course will benefit: Maintenance managers Reliability professionals Experienced supervisors Planners Project engineers Operations managers Functional specialists Course Level Basic or Foundation Training Methods Course methodology of this training course: Other than world-class visuals and slides, this course will include a high level of interaction between the facilitator and participants and group discussion among the participants themselves. There will be a number of case studies to demonstrate key points and also a minimum of one workshop exercise each day to give participants the chance to apply learning and appreciate key aspects of best practice. Participants will also have the chance to share examples from their own experience, discuss real problems they are facing and develop actions for improvement when they return to work. Examples of the exercises that are used in this course are as follows: Exercise: Understanding the challenges and seeing the opportunities Exercise: Developing a strategy Group Exercise: Selecting maintenance plans Group exercise: Case study failure Group exercise: Planning work Trainer Your expert course leader is an award-winning consultant and trainer with 30 years' experience in maintenance and reliability improvement. He has worked across five continents, in a wide variety of environments from the world's largest oil refinery to a small drinks production line. He has 10 years of maintenance management experience in the process industry, so he brings a very practical approach to training. He moved into consulting with ABB Eutech as their global maintenance specialist where he led maintenance and reliability best practice panels, delivered a wide range of maintenance improvement projects and trained other consultants. He is a fully qualified CMRP professional, an approved SMRP* Proctor, authorised to conduct CMRP exams and a globally respected maintenance consultant and best practice trainer. He founded his consultancy and training business in 2002 to focus on maintenance and reliability improvement. As part of this, he developed a range of maintenance 'models of excellence' with inputs from authors, international lecturers and some of the world's leading consultants and operators. His work has been recognised as being at the leading edge of industry best practice, winning independent awards such as the UK Chemical Industries Association 'Excellence in Engineering' award. He remains close to the industry as a respected specialist helping operating companies to achieve changes in performance. This ongoing field work enables him to continue to refine and extend best practice and the learning from this is continually fed into his training. His unique experience of facilitating two major turnarounds when the Coronavirus escalated into lockdown have given him a unique insight into how events of this type can disrupt maintenance. Moreover, his involvement in developing management processes and leading a Coronavirus response on a major industrial asset means he can talk with direct experience about how to cope and innovate in this global pandemic. He is also the expert course leader for the following courses offered by PetroEdge: Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Effective Plant Turnaround Management 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 Accreditions And Affliations

Effective Presentation Skills (Virtual) In today's results-oriented, global working environment, the ability to create and deliver presentations effectively is a necessary skill set for people at all levels of an organization. Regardless of your role, it's important to know how to synthesize your ideas into a coherent and focused narrative, add visuals that support and reinforce your message, and deliver it in a way that resonates with your audience. In this highly interactive course, we will unpack and practice some of the tools and techniques used by top speakers and influencers all over the world. In this engaging two-day course, you will plan, write, refine, practice, and deliver a presentation to the class. Your presentation will be filmed on both days, and you will leave the course with a flash-drive copy of your videos; participants of the virtual classroom workshop should be prepared to present via webcam. In addition to discovering and enhancing your own personal delivery style, you will learn how to create an overarching goal for your presentation and then organize and structure it for maximum impact. You'll gain insight into how to anticipate your audience's needs and tailor the content and delivery in a way that connects with them and sustains their attention and engagement. You will also learn skills that will help you control nervous energy, remain focused on and attuned to your audience, improvise under pressure, deal effectively with questions, and build a compelling call to action. What you will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Construct an effective presentation goal statement, opening, body, and closing that connect with an audience Analyze an audience's needs and style preferences, including relevant DiSC®-related elements Deliver a complete criteria-based presentation that will persuade others Align usage of visuals as well as verbal and non-verbal techniques to maximize the impact of your presentation Getting Started Introductions and social agreements Course structure Course goals and objectives Opening activities Planning and Organizing Video: 'The Art of Misdirection' Setting your presentation goal Writing a goal statement Analyzing your audience Applying the 'reality' test Creating and strengthening supports Structuring your presentation 5 components of an effective opening Presentation body Presentation closing Write your presentation opening Audience Analysis Video: 'How to Tie Your Shoes' Everything DiSC® introduction Audience DiSC® Styles Analyzing your audience Further audience analysis Effective Delivery Delivery challenges and in-person Keeping your audience engaged Your body as your instrument Verbal / paraverbal elements Body stance and nonverbal communication What are your 'tells?' Controlling nervousness Staying attuned to your audience Responding to questions Review and edit your opening Deliver your opening Visuals and Enriching Elements Using images in your presentation Guidelines for visual composition Using questions to engage your audience The power of the pause Practicing and Applying What You've Learned Preparation Delivery Feedback Opportunity to put into practice the program content and receive a video copy Summary and Next Steps What did we learn and how can we implement this in our work environment? Your personal action plan

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