Ethics Matters: Corporate Governance and CFOs,” the podcast where we dive deep into the critical intersection of corporate governance. Sustainability and ESG reporting have gained significant attention in recent years. How do CFOs incorporate these considerations into their financial strategies and decision-making? CFOs recognise that sustainable practices and ESG considerations are not only ethical imperatives but also critical for long-term business success. We incorporate these considerations into financial strategies by assessing the environmental and social impacts of our operations, supply chains, and investment decisions. By incorporating ESG factors into our financial analyses, we make more informed decisions that align with our company’s values and stakeholder expectations. Furthermore, CFOs play a pivotal role in ESG reporting. We collaborate with cross-functional teams to collect relevant data, establish reporting frameworks, and communicate the company’s sustainability initiatives to stakeholders. This transparency fosters trust and accountability while allowing investors, customers, and the broader community to evaluate our commitment to sustainable practices. Board engagement is essential for effective corporate governance. How can CFOs contribute to building a strong relationship between the CFO and the board of directors? Building a strong relationship with the board of directors begins with open and transparent communication. CFOs provide timely and accurate financial information, strategic insights, and risk assessments to the board. We actively participate in board meetings, present financial reports, and engage in discussions about financial performance, strategic initiatives, and potential risks. By demonstrating our financial expertise and ethical leadership, we contribute to a healthy and productive relationship with the board. It’s also crucial for CFOs to provide independent perspectives and challenge conventional thinking when necessary. By offering well-informed insights and raising critical questions, we contribute to robust board discussions and decision-making. This collaborative approach fosters an environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and ethical considerations are thoroughly examined. I would encourage fellow CFOs to prioritise ethics and corporate governance as integral components of their roles. Embed ethical considerations into decision-making processes, ensure robust governance structures, and actively engage with stakeholders. By doing so, we can drive sustainable, responsible, and successful organizations. https://www.fdcapital.co.uk/podcast/ethics-matters-corporate-governance-and-cfos/ Tags Online Events Things To Do Online Online Conferences Online Business Conferences #event #ethics #matters #cfos #corporategovernance
Learn effective strategies and leadership skills to thrive in today's remote work landscape. Elevate your team's performance, no matter where they are located. Course overview Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours) Remote teams present a specific set of challenges to their managers. Such challenges include communication, task allocation and performance management. This workshop is designed for managers who run teams that spread over more than one location, nationally or internationally, and who wish to find ways to enhance teamworking in these conditions. Objectives By the end of the course you will be able to: Identify key actions to take to manage team performance remotely Implement a communications plan for use within the team Allocate tasks to team members to build a culture of teamworking across the different locations Involve your team members in planning team activities Use visits to each location to maximum effect Content Communication to ensure inclusivity How do team members find out the latest news? Identifying what needs to be known by all A team communication plan Effective virtual meetings Manage performance from a distance Principles of Smart Working Involving the team in planning activities Allocating tasks and objectives across the team Identifying areas of expertise Deciding key areas of responsibility per location Identifying, and dealing with, the different levels of performance Maximising time in each location Setting the tone of a visit – from ‘inspection’ to ‘social call’ Considering what team members expect and need from your presence Identifying what needs to be prepared by the team for your visit Making contact with your team members while you are there Action planning Identifying and planning next steps
Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevSecOps Practitioner course are professionals including: Anyone focused on implementing or improving DevSecOps practices in their organization Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches Business Managers Business Stakeholders Change Agents Consultants DevOps Practitioners IT Directors IT Managers IT Team Leaders Product Owners Scrum Masters Software Engineers Site Reliability Engineers System Integrators Tool Providers Overview After completing this course, students will be able to: Comprehend the underlying principles of DevSecOps Distinguish between the technical elements used across DevSecOps practices Demonstrate how practical maturity concepts can be extended across multiple areas. Implement metric-based assessments tied to your organization. Recognize modern architectural concepts including microservice to monolith transitions. Recognize the various languages and tools used to communicate architectural concepts. Contrast the options used to build a DevSecOps infrastructure through Platform as a Service, Server-less construction, and event-driven mediums Prepare hiring practices to recognize and understand the individual knowledge, skills, and abilities required for mature Dev Identify the various technical requirements tied to the DevSecOps pipelines and how those impact people and process choices. Review various approaches to securing data repositories and pipelines. Analyze how monitoring and observability practices contribute to valuable outcomes. Comprehend how to implement monitoring at key points to contribute to actionable analysis. Evaluate how different experimental structures contribute to the 3rd Way. Identify future trends that may affect DevSecOps The DevSecOps Practitioner course is intended as a follow-on to the DevSecOps Foundation course. The course builds on previous understanding to dive into the technical implementation. The course aims to equip participants with the practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the organization involved in reliability through the use of real-life scenarios and case stories. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as implementing DevSecOps practices to their organizational structure, building better pipelines in distributed systems, and having a common technological language. This course positions learners to successfully complete the DevSecOps Practitioner certification exam. DevSecOps Advanced Basics Why Advance Practices? General Awareness People-Finding Them Core Process Technology Overview Understanding Applied Metrics Metric Terms Accelerating People-Reporting and Recording Integrating Process Technology Automation Architecting and Planning for DevSecOps Architecture Basics Finding an Architect Reporting and Recording Environments Process Accelerating Decisions Creating a DevSecOps Infrastructure What is Infrastructure? Equipping the Team Design Challenges Monitoring Infrastructure Establishing a Pipeline Pipelines and Workflows Engineers and Capabilities Continuous Engagement Automate and Identify Observing DevSecOps Outcomes Observability vs. Monitoring Who gets which Report? Setting Observation Points Implementing Observability Practical 3rd Way Applications Revisiting 3rd Way Building Experiments Getting the Most from the Experiment The Future of DevOps Looking Towards the Future Staying Trained Innovation What, and from Who? Post-Class Assignments/Exercises Extended advanced reading associated with Case Stories from the course Additional course details: Nexus Humans DevSecOps Practitioner (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 DevSecOps Practitioner (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.
Encourage people to think about how they can improve their performance through asking questions and coaching effectively. Course overview Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours) This workshop is suitable for anyone who is in a first line manager position looking to develop their coaching skills. The focus of the workshop is on understanding how coaching supports other management techniques, how it develops people and their performance, and how best to use coaching with your team. Objectives By the end of the course you will be able to: Define what coaching is and how it differs from and complements other management techniques State the benefits that coaching has for team members, managers and the business Use the key skills of coaching Implement strategies to deal with resistance to coaching Give feedback effectively while coaching Practice your coaching skills with real-life situations ContentWhat is Coaching How does coaching differ from mentoring, training, counselling? Giving advice vs coaching – The Power of 3 How does coaching support performance? Coaching as a leadership style Benefits of Coaching What are the benefits of taking a coaching approach for Team membersManagersThe wider organisation Key Skills How to build rapport for a positive coaching relationship Effective listening – understanding and practising the different levels involved in active listening Smart questioning The power of observation – reflecting back what isn’t being said Practical application throughout The GROW model for Coaching Understanding how to use the GROW model Types of questions to use at each stage Demonstration and practice Resistance for Coaching and Strategies Why might people be resistant to coaching? The role of “experts”, self-talk and self-concept in our thinking Expanding comfort zones Contracting and ethics Feedback/Directive Coaching Directive vs Non-Directive Coaching How and when to give feedback when coaching A feedback model Practice Action Planning
Understand the biases we all have and the impact they can have in the workplace. Look at how to minimise their impact on others and the organisation. Course overview Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours) The purpose of this course is to help individuals understand and recognise their own unconscious biases, and to provide strategies on how to minimise the impact of those biases in the workplace. The course will provide an overview of what unconscious bias is, its prevalence and impact, and ways to mitigate its effects. Objectives By the end of the course you will be able to: Define unconscious bias and recognise different types of bias Understand how unconscious bias affects decision-making and behaviours in the workplace Identify their own unconscious biases Understand the impact of unconscious bias on individual and team performance Apply strategies to mitigate the effects of unconscious bias in the workplace Content Module 1: Introduction to Unconscious Bias Definition of unconscious bias History and prevalence of unconscious bias Different types of unconscious bias (e.g. affinity bias, confirmation bias) Module 2: Understanding the Impact of Unconscious Bias How unconscious bias affects decision-making and behaviours in the workplace Examples of unconscious bias in the workplace Impact of unconscious bias on individual and team performance Module 3: Recognising Your Own Unconscious Biases Identifying personal biases Tools to recognise and minimise unconscious biases Module 4: Mitigating the Impact of Unconscious Bias in the Workplace Best practices for reducing unconscious bias in the workplace Strategies for managerial and executive leadership to combat unconscious bias Tips for creating a culture of inclusion and diversity
Duration 1.875 Days 11.25 CPD hours This course is intended for The job roles best suited to the material in this course are: team leaders, project managers, managers of scrum teams, teams transitioning to scrum, professionals intending to pursue the scrum master certification. Overview How to use the Scrum Framework to deliver products and services faster and with higher quality. How to leverage lean principles to identify waste in a system, process, or organization. Techniques and metics Scrum Masters use to improve. team happiness and performance. The patterns and practices of high-performing teams. How the Scrum Master role scales in an Agile implementation. This course is an adaptive, repeatable process that equips individuals and organizations in how to thrive in a world where change is the only constant. From Fortune 100 companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, etc) to nonprofits. Scrum has a proven record of reducing burnout, doubling throughput in half the time, and increase employee happiness. Core Scrum The Scrum Framework The Origins of Scrum (Optional) The Scrum Team Developers Scrum Master Leadership/Management Scrum Events The Sprint Product Backlog Re1nement Estimation Sprint Planning Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Daily Scrum Scrum Artifacts Lean Principles Describe a Kaizen mindset and explain how small, iterative changes can lead to revolutionary leaps. Describe the three pillars of Scrum ? Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation,? which implement the work of Ogunnaike and Ray. Explain the importance of reducing and eliminating waste in the system. Perform a root-cause analysis (e.g., using the ?5 Whys? technique). Assess the Process EZciency of their Scrum Team and recall that the de1nition of Lean is a Process EZciency of 25% or higher. Explain how the work of Takeuchi and Nonaka on Lean and the Toyota Production System paved the way for Scrum. Describe the origins of the name ?Scrum? from Takeuchi and Nonaka?s ?New New Product Development Game. Recognize that a Lean mindset suggests that you address a defect immediately after it is identi1ed as opposed to a mindset where defects are stored to be 1xed later. Agile Manifesto Recognize the four values of the Agile Manifesto and their signi1cance in the context of complex adaptive systems. Identify the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto and describe their function in guiding practices that support teams in implementing and executing with agility. Explain that Scrum is one of the driving forces that gave rise to the Agile movement and predates the Agile Manifesto. Explain why the majority of ?Agile? teams are late, over-budget, and with unhappy customers (i.e., not agile) and explain what needs to be done to 1x that. Patterns of High Performing Teams Yesterday?s Weather Happiness Metric Teams that Finish Early Accelerate Faster Stable Teams Swarming Interrupt Buffer Good Housekeeping (formerly Daily Clean Code) Scrum Emergency Procedure Scrum@Scale Descaling Scaling the Scrum Master Registered Scrum Master Credential Access and complete the Registered Scrum Master by Scrum Inc. exam. Download their Registered Scrum Master Credential (upon successful completion of the exam). Be Recognized in the International Registry of Agile ProfesstionalsTM State the renewal process. Additional course details: Nexus Humans Agile Scrum 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 Agile Scrum 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 Business professionals who are either at the managerial level, or are interested in becoming team leaders will benefit from this course. Overview Determine the roles that a manager must fill on a team, and explore the key areas of personal development. Discover how to detect silent messages through body language and other means of nonverbal communication. You will also bolster your listening skills through active listening. Discover ways of identifying problems, prioritizing problems, and implementing solutions effectively. Empower your workgroup through delegation and coaching. Discover the stages of team development and examine the need for regular team meetings. In this course, students will gain an understanding of the basic fundamentals of becoming an effective manager for their team. 1. Developing as a Manager Identify Effective Manager Roles Develop Personal Skills 2. Communicating Successfully Communicate Without Talking Manage Better by Listening Assert to Achieve 3. Cultivating Great Teams Create an Invincible Team Inspire Team Success Run Team Meetings Resolve Conflicts Positively 4. Empowering Your Workgroup Delegate For Results Coach for Achievement Optimize Staff Performance 5. Creating Successful Solutions Identify and Define the Problem Determine the Root Cause Identify a Solution Implement Solutions Decisively Additional course details: Nexus Humans Effective Management 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 Effective Management 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.
Managing Project Scope: In-House Training Although scope is just one part of a project's competing constraints, it has a direct bearing on your project's cost and schedule outcomes. In this course, you will explore and practice straightforward, specific tools and techniques required to effectively manage scope at each phase of the project life cycle. You will also discover common pitfalls and best practices that can significantly hinder or foster the probability of project success. Although scope is just one part of a project's competing constraints, it has a direct bearing on your project's cost and schedule outcomes. So effectively managing project scope is critical, requiring constant vigilance and discipline throughout the entire project life cycle. This especially includes the avoidance of scope creep, a major challenge to deliver successful projects. In this course, you will explore and practice straightforward, specific tools and techniques required to effectively manage scope at each phase of the project life cycle. You will also discover common pitfalls and best practices that can significantly hinder or foster the probability of project success. What you Will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Recognize the relationships among project management deliverables, scope management, stakeholders, and project success Explain the spectrum of interactive processes and documentation impacting scope during the project life cycle Generate an inventory of common pitfalls and best practices during scope management phases Create and develop realistic deliverables reflecting critical phases of scope management, based on a real-world case study Foundation Concepts What is project scope? Project scope management Progressive elaboration and project life cycle Stakeholder management and communication Progressive Elaboration of Scope Progressive elaboration and SDLC example Elaboration process before project initiation Elaboration process after project initiation Developing the WBS, requirements document, & PSOW Monitoring and Controlling Scope Why project control? Project control process & the PM role Control scope Validate scope Project Closeout Project closure overview Close project or phase & scope management Evaluation and lessons learned
Course Overview This course on Self Confidence & Self Esteem is designed to help individuals understand and enhance their self-belief. It focuses on practical methods and strategies to cultivate confidence and improve self-esteem. Learners will gain a deeper understanding of how confidence impacts personal and professional success, and they will explore tools to boost their confidence levels. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped with the knowledge and mindset needed to build lasting self-esteem and project confidence in various aspects of life. Course Description This course covers the fundamentals of self-confidence and self-esteem, providing a thorough understanding of the psychological aspects that influence these traits. Learners will explore various confidence-building strategies, with an emphasis on developing a positive mindset and maintaining self-belief in challenging situations. The course includes reflective activities to help individuals assess their current levels of confidence and implement effective methods to improve. Key areas of focus include overcoming self-doubt, setting personal goals, and learning how to build self-worth, all of which are integral to fostering lasting self-esteem. By the end of this course, learners will be able to apply their new skills to enhance their personal growth and professional success. Course Modules Module 01: Introduction Module 02: Understanding Confidence Module 03: Developing the Right Mindset to Gain Confidence Module 04: Build Confidence: Strategies That Work Module 05: Quick Activity to Build Your Confidence Module 06: Conclusion (See full curriculum) Who is this course for? Individuals seeking to improve their self-confidence. Professionals aiming to develop stronger self-esteem for career growth. Beginners with an interest in personal development. Anyone wanting to overcome self-doubt and embrace positive self-image. Career Path Personal Development Coach HR Professional Sales Executive Leadership and Management Roles Motivational Speaker
The Art of Delegation and High-Impact Feedback (Virtual) Whether you are a project manager, an executive, or simply someone involved in leading or helping others, a critical part of your work must involve delegating and giving feedback. These two skills, however, are not as simple as they seem. How do you know what to delegate? What kinds of feedback should you give? Knowing this and practicing this are two different things. Ultimately, delegating and giving feedback are skills that must be done mindfully, strategically, and meaningfully. They must be done in ways that not only positively impact performance, but also inspire growth, engagement, and motivation. When done poorly, they can create significant problems. But when done well, they can generate value for everyone and benefit future endeavors. In this course, you will learn to think more deeply about the importance of delegating and discover how to give better feedback. You will have opportunities to apply best practices and methodologies that you can use in the real world, ultimately paying off for you and for others. What You Will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Explain why common excuses for NOT delegating are short-sighted Identify what needs delegating by using a proven methodology Utilize best practices in real world scenarios, delegating in a way that benefits you and the individual to whom you delegate Summarize key lessons learned in brain science which enhance the feedback-giving process Recognize the critical connection between feedback and performance Apply a proven model to deliver feedback that inspires growth, engagement, and motivation Delegation What is delegation? What makes delegation hard? What do I delegate and why? How to delegate effectively