About this Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) Accredited by the United Kingdom Lubricants Association (UKLA), this 4 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course will provide an in-depth understanding of the principles, economics and flexibility of lubricant blending plants and how to operate a lubricants blending plant efficiently and economically. The latest developments and trends in lubricant blending and the advantages and disadvantages of lubricant blending equipment, facilities and operations will be discussed. The importance of testing components and products for each blend, lubricant blend quality control and product quality management will also be explained. The VILT course will also clarify the importance of lubricant product filling, packaging and warehouse storage, strategies for optimising existing lubricant blending plant facilities and how to avoid or minimise problems with lubricant blending and product quality. The VILT course is recognised under the UKLA Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme for Registered Lubricant Professional. *There will be an examination for this VILT. Training Objectives This VILT course will enable you to: Learn about Mineral Oil Base Oils; API Groups I, II and III: Properties and Characteristics Acquire the knowledge about Synthetic Base Oils; API Groups IV and V: Properties and Characteristics Learn about Lubricant Additives: Properties and Characteristics Know the Lubricant Formulation and Ease of Blending Explore the Blending Plant Design: Grassroots Plants and Upgrading Existing Plants Learn about Blending Plant Equipment and Facilities and Their Operation Understand the Lubricant Blending Issues: Avoiding Problems Test and Analyse Base Oils and Additives Test and Analyse Blended Lubricants Explore the importance of Product Quality Control Understand the process of Lubricant Packaging and Filling Understand the process of Lubricant Storage Learn about Product Quality Management Target Audience This VILT course will be useful and applicable for: Middle and Senior managers to understand how and why to design and operate an efficient and profitable lubricant blending plant. Blending plant operators and specialists to improve and optimise current blending plant operations. Manufacturers of lubricants will understand how and why high quality components and effective testing during the entire blending process are important to final lubricant product quality and performance. Lubricant formulators will understand the importance of close communication and co-operation with blending plant managers and operators to minimise blending costs and to thereby maximise product profitability. Course Level Intermediate Training Methods The VILT course will be delivered online in 4 half-day sessions comprising 4 hours per day, with 2 breaks of 10 minutes per day. Course Duration: 4 half-day sessions, 4 hours per session (16 hours in total). Trainer Your expert course leader (CChem, MRC) has worked as Sales, Technical Marketing Manager and Company Director with over 50 years of broad experience in the lubricants, fuels, petroleum additives, with four leading companies Chevron, Ethyl Petroleum Additives Ltd, Texaco Limited and Kuwait Petroleum (GB) Ltd. His major recent responsibilities have been concerned with leading the Oil Industry Association United Kingdom Lubricants Association, and acting in an advisory capacity as Technical Director to the Association. He has acquired a wide experience in technical, marketing and sales within the oil industry. The related experience gained with the oil additives industry has provided him with special additional insights. He has also led the Certificate of Lubricant Competence course for the United Kingdom Lubricants Association (UKLA) for 11 years. He is a Chartered Chemist and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 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 about post training coaching support and fees applicable for this. Accreditions And Affliations
DASA DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale: Virtual In-House Training DevOps embodies both cultural changes and practices through which organizations can facilitate the IT functions of software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The DevOps movement advocates automation and phase-based monitoring practices. Its objectives include: Decreasing development cycles · Increasing deployment frequency Improving the reliability of releases Developing a closer alignment with business objectives The DASA DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale course (formerly known as DevOps Practitioner) is designed to provide individuals with the core education necessary to put DevOps into practice. With the help of DevOps theory, pragmatic examples and exercises, and interactive group discussions, the course will help you understand how to apply the necessary skills to practice DevOps. Building on the knowledge learned on theFundamentals course (the 'why'), you will learn the 'how'. The DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale course focuses on improving the skill set of the DASA competency model, which includes competencies like Courage, Teambuilding, DevOps Leadership, and Continuous Improvement. On completion of the DASA DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale training and passing the exam, the certification is awarded. What you will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Explain the importance of DevOps culture and the aspects that can influence it Explain why courage, teambuilding, leadership, and continuous improvement are required in a DevOps environment Explain why courage is essential to enable trust, honesty, and experimentation Identify and evaluate different types of behavior in a DevOps environment Recognize the signals indicating impediments and/or team dysfunctions Describe how to form good DevOps teams and assess their maturity List the effects of happiness and motivation on team performance Identify how leaders encourage feedback and transparency Discuss the factors that leaders can influence to build trust Explain how and why leaders promote a 'safe to fail' environment Analyze value streams to improve throughput and flow Facilitate the tools for continuous improvement: structured problem-solving workshops, Story Mapping sessions, and retrospectives TEAMBUILDING Teambuilding is about understanding the other's point of view, collaboration, mutual accountability, common purpose, and the ability to integrally support the service/product. Design Teams Characteristics of a DevOps team Skills of a DevOps Team Self-organization and autonomy Rules to consider when designing DevOps teams Build Teams Effects of happiness and motivation on performance Feedback Creating high-performance teams Governance Governance within teams and between multiple teams Governance between organizations DevOps contracts DEVOPS LEADERSHIP This module describes how to facilitate teams to high performance, DevOps behavior, transparency, and a service lifecycle mindset. Build Culture Creating the right environment and providing vision and purpose Stimulating the right behavior Servant leadership: giving control, supporting, and inspiring Create Purpose Defining and aligning purpose Purpose of having a purpose Alignment versus autonomy Be a Servant Leader Give control to the team Inspire and support the team Focus on Success Output versus outcome Measuring and steering COURAGE The Courage module is about coaching courageous behavior, proactivity, reflection, trust, open discussions, experimentation, fail fast, and the courage to change. Build Courage The importance of courage Courage in relationship with leadership and feedback Enabling courage at the team level Dealing with failure Think Different Courage day to day Encourage critical thinking Techniques to promote courageous behavior VALUE CUSTOMER-CENTRIC ACTION This module describes the important aspects that are relevant to identify and deliver the required and expected value for all relevant stakeholders. Aspects of Value and Managing Expectations The different aspects of value Stakeholder management Customer collaboration and using customer feedback How to do prioritization CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Continuous improvement describes the importance of a Kaizen mindset, quality at the source, first time right, knowledge-sharing, and the ability to adapt. Build Flow Understanding the importance of flow Using Lean to optimize flow Kaizen as a mindset Radical change versus Kaizen Using Pull to optimize flow Continuous Improvement Tools Kaizen Event Value Stream Mapping Visual Management Retrospective Daily Standup Five Times Why
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Better Business Cases™ Foundation: Virtual In-House Training Better Business Cases™ is based on the Five Case Model - which is the UK government's best practice approach to structuring spending proposals and making effective business decisions. Using this best practice approach will allow organizations to reduce unnecessary spending and improve the decision-making process which gives you a greater chance of securing necessary funding and support for initiatives. The goal of the foundation course is to enable participants to work effectively with a team to develop a strong business case in their work environment. What You Will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Describe the philosophy and the underlying rationale of the Five Case Model Identify different types of business case, their purpose, who is responsible for them Recognize when the different types are required in the development of a spending proposal Develop the business case in relation to other recognized and recommended best practices for programme and project management Overview of the Five Case Model Five key components of a business case and the order in which they are presented Three key stages in the development of a spending proposal Definition of a programme / project and the key differences between programmes and projects Purpose of a Business Justification Case (BJC) and in what circumstances it should be considered Purpose of a Strategic Outline Case (SOC) Purpose of an Outline Business Case (OBC) Purpose of a Full Business Case (FBC) Relationship between policies, strategies, programmes, and projects and their deliverables Developing the Strategic Case Purpose and core content of a Strategic Case Purpose of SMART robust spending objectives and the key objectives for spend: economy, efficiency, effectiveness, re-procurement, and statutory or regulatory compliance Four main categories of benefits criteria and the parties involved in their development Three key categories of risk Purpose of identifying constraints and dependencies Difference between direct and indirect benefits Developing the Economic Case Purpose and core content of an Economic Case Purpose of critical success factors and the key critical success factors based upon the Five Case Model Purpose of the long list options and how to generate options and undertake SWOT analysis Minimum of four short-list options, how they are derived, and what they should include (Reference Project / Public Sector Comparator [PSC]) Difference between the preferred way forward and the preferred option Purpose, objectives, key participants, and outputs of Workshop Stage 2 - identifying and assessing the options Rules that should be followed for the treatment of costs and benefits Key differences between economic appraisals and financial appraisals Factors considered when selecting the preferred option Developing the Commercial Case Purpose and core content of a Commercial Case Guiding principles when apportioning risk between the contractual parties Purpose of payment mechanisms Purpose of Step 9 in the development framework: Contracting for the deal Developing the Financial Case Purpose and core content of a Financial Case The financial statements required for all projects The possible impacts to consider Developing the Management Case Purpose and core content of a Management Case Purpose of a programme / project management strategy, framework, and plan Purpose of a change management strategy, framework, and plan Purpose of a benefits realization strategy, framework, and register / plan Purpose of a risk management strategy, framework and register / plan Purpose of a post programme / project evaluation strategy, framework, and plan
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Attend our world class Kanban University accredited Certified Kanban System Design training course and learn to implement Kanban in your company
Attend our world class Kanban University accredited Certified Kanban System Design training course and learn to implement Kanban in your company
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This module aims to develop knowledge and understanding of customs procedures associated with international trade. The module includes trade agreements, tariffs and taxes, immigration, intellectual property rights, clearance procedures, transport regulations, sanitary and Phyto-sanitary measures, customs valuation, preference systems and anti-dumping measures.
Management of Portfolios (MoP®) Foundation: In-House Training In this MoP® Foundation course, participants will acquire the sufficient knowledge and understanding of the principles, cycles, practices, techniques, roles, responsibilities, documents, and organizational context within which portfolio management operates. MoP helps organizations ensure if the investments are done in the right change initiatives and implementing them correctly. This is achieved by: Prioritizing the programs and projects in terms of their contribution to the organization's strategic objectives and overall level of risk Managing the programs and projects consistently to ensure efficient and effective delivery Maximizing the benefit by providing the greatest return from the investment made What You Will Learn Individuals certified at the MoP Foundation level will be able to: Define the scope and objectives of portfolio management and how it differs from program and project management List the benefits of applying portfolio management Explain the context it operates in List the principles upon which successful portfolio management is based on List the different approaches to implement MoP List the factors required to maintain the progress and assess the success of portfolio management State the purpose and key content of the major portfolio documents Define the scope of key portfolio management roles Introduction: MoP Scenario Background of the Methodology The MoP Principles Senior Management Commitment Governance Alignment Strategy Alignment Portfolio Office Energized Change Culture The MoP Definition Cycle Roles and Responsibilities The MoP Delivery Cycle Management control Benefits management Financial management Risk management Stakeholder engagement Organizational governance Resource management The MoP Framework Recap