Harpenden

<p>In today's competitive business world firms are under unprecedented pressure to deliver value to their shareholders and other key stakeholders. Senior executives in all parts of the organisation are finding that they need some degree of financial know how to cope with the responsibility placed on them as business managers and key decision-makers; monitoring and improving business performance, investing in capital projects, mergers and acquisitions: all require some degree of financial knowledge. The key financial skills are not as difficult to learn as many people believe and in the hands of an experienced senior executive they can provide a formidable competitive advantage.</p>After completing this course delegates will be able to:<ul><li>Understand fundamental business finance concepts; understand, analyse and interpret financial statements: Profit Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow Statement</li><li>Understand the vital difference between profit and cashflow; identify the key components of working capital and how they can be managed to generate strong cashflow</li><li>Evaluate pricing decisions based on an understanding of the nature of business costs and their impact on gross margin and break-even sales; managing pricing, discounts and costs to generate strong business profits; understand how lean manufacturing methods improve profit</li><li>Use powerful analytical tools to measure and improve the performance of their own company and assess the effectiveness of their competitors</li><li>Apply and interpret techniques for assessing and comparing investment opportunities in capital projects, business acquisitions and other ventures; understand and apply common methods of business valuation</li><li>Understand the role of business finance in formulating and implementing competitive business strategy; the role of budgeting as part of the planning process and the various approaches to budgeting and performance measurement</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Basic principles</h3><ul><li>Delivering value to key stakeholders</li><li>Accounting concepts, GAAP, IFRS and common terms</li><li>Understanding and using the balance sheet</li><li>Understanding and using the profit statement</li><li>Recognising the vital difference between profit and cashflow</li><li>Understanding and using the cashflow statement</li><li>What financial statements can and cannot tell us</li></ul> <h3>2 Managing and improving cashflow</h3><ul><li>Sources of finance and their advantages and disadvantages</li><li>What is working capital and why is it so important?</li><li>Managing stocks, debtors and creditors</li><li>Understanding how working capital drives business growth</li><li>Understanding and avoiding the over-trading trap</li><li>Unlocking the funds tied up in fixed assets: asset backed loans and leasing</li></ul> <h3>3 Managing and improving profit</h3><ul><li>Understanding how profits generate cashflow</li><li>The fundamental nature of costs: fixed and variable business costs</li><li>Understanding gross margin and break-even</li><li>How common pricing methods affect gross margin and profit</li><li>Effective strategies to improve gross margin</li><li>Using value chain analysis to reduce costs</li><li>Lean manufacturing methods<ul><li>Understanding Just-in-time, 6 Sigma and Kaizen methods</li></ul></li><li>Improving profit<ul><li>Effective and defective strategies</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>4 Measuring and managing business performance</h3><ul><li>Measures of financial performance and strength</li><li>Investor behaviour: the risk and reward relationship</li><li>Return on investment (ROI): the ultimate measure of business performance</li><li>How profit margin and net asset turnover drive return on net assets</li><li>Why some companies are more profitable that others</li><li>Understanding competitive advantage: cost and differentiation advantage</li><li>Why great companies fail<ul><li>What happened to Kodak?</li></ul></li><li>Using a 'Pyramid of Ratios' to improve business performance</li><li>Using Critical Success Factors to develop Key Performance Indicators</li></ul> <h3>5 Budgeting and forecasting methods</h3><ul><li>Using budgets to support strategy</li><li>Objectives and methods for effective budgets</li><li>Using budgets to monitor and manage business performance</li><li>Alternative approaches to budgeting</li><li>Developing and implementing Balanced Scorecards</li><li>Beyond Budgeting</li><li>Forecasting methods and techniques</li><li>Identifying key business drivers</li><li>Using rolling forecasts and 'what-if' models to aid decision-making</li></ul> 


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The In House Training Company

Financial Modelling & Analysis

Finance Cert & Exam Prep

Financial Analysis

Corporate Finance Level 1

Finance For Non Finance Managers

Corporate Finance

Advanced financial analysis (In-House)

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>3 Days</p><p>18 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>This course is intended for: Intermediate software developers</p>Overview<p>In this course, you will learn to:<br />Set up the AWS SDK and developer credentials for Java, C#/.NET, Python, and JavaScript<br />Interact with AWS services and develop solutions by using the AWS SDK<br />Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for service authentication<br />Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon DynamoDB as data stores<br />Integrate applications and data by using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and AWS Step Functions<br />Use Amazon Cognito for user authentication<br />Use Amazon ElastiCache to improve application scalability<br />Leverage the CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS</p><p>In this course, you learn how to use the AWS SDK to develop secure and scalable cloud applications using multiple AWS services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and AWS Lambda. You explore how to interact with AWS using code and learn about key concepts, best practices, and troubleshooting tips.<br /></p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h4>Module 0: Course Overview</h4><ul><li>Agenda</li><li>Introductions</li><li>Student resources</li></ul><h4>Module 1: Introduction to AWS</h4><ul><li>Introduction to the AWS Cloud</li><li>Cloud scenarios</li><li>Infrastructure overview</li><li>Introduction to AWS foundation services</li></ul><h4>Module 2: Introduction to Developing on AWS</h4><ul><li>Getting started with developing on AWS<br />Introduction to developer tools<br />Introduction to management tools</li></ul><h4>Module 3: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management</h4><ul><li>Shared responsibility model</li><li>Introduction to IAM</li><li>Use authentication and authorization</li></ul><h4>Module 4: Introduction to the Lab Environment</h4><ul><li>Introduction to the lab environment</li><li>Lab 1: Getting started and working with IAM</li></ul><h4>Module 5: Developing Storage Solutions with Amazon Simple Storage Service</h4><ul><li>Overview of AWS storage options</li><li>Amazon S3 key concepts</li><li>Best practices</li><li>Troubleshooting</li><li>Scenario: Building a complete application</li><li>Lab 2: Developing storage solutions with Amazon S3</li></ul><h4>Module 6: Developing Flexible NoSQL Solutions with Amazon DynamoDB</h4><ul><li>Introduction to AWS database options</li><li>Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB</li><li>Developing with DynamoDB</li><li>Best practices</li><li>Troubleshooting</li><li>Scenario: Building an end-to-end app</li><li>Lab 3: Developing flexible NoSQL solutions with Amazon DynamoDB</li></ul><h4>Module 7: Developing Event-Driven Solutions with AWS Lambda</h4><ul><li>What is serverless computing?</li><li>Introduction to AWS Lambda</li><li>Key concepts</li><li>How Lambda works</li><li>Use cases</li><li>Best practices</li><li>Scenario: Build an end-to-end app</li></ul><h4>Module 8: Developing Solutions with Amazon API Gateway</h4><ul><li>Introduction to Amazon API Gateway</li><li>Developing with API Gateway</li><li>Best practices</li><li>Introduction to AWS Serverless Application Model</li><li>Scenario: Building an end-to-end app</li><li>Lab 4: Developing event-driven solutions with AWS Lambda</li></ul><h4>Module 9: Developing Solutions with AWS Step Functions</h4><ul><li>Understanding the need for Step Functions</li><li>Introduction to AWS Step Functions</li><li>Use cases</li></ul><h4>Module 10: Developing Solutions with Amazon Simple Queue Service and Amazon Simple Notification Service</h4><ul><li>Why use a queueing service?</li><li>Developing with Amazon Simple Queue Service</li><li>Developing with Amazon Simple Notification Service</li><li>Developing with Amazon MQ</li><li>Lab 5: Developing messaging solutions with Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS</li></ul><h4>Module 11: Caching Information with Amazon ElastiCache</h4><ul><li>Caching overview</li><li>Caching with Amazon ElastiCache</li><li>Caching strategies</li></ul><h4>Module 12: Developing Secure Applications</h4><ul><li>Securing your applications</li><li>Authenticating your applications to AWS</li><li>Authenticating your customers</li><li>Scenario: Building an end-to-end app</li></ul><h4>Module 13: Deploying Applications</h4><ul><li>Introduction to DevOps</li><li>Introduction to deployment and testing strategies</li><li>Deploying applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk</li><li>Scenario: Building an end-to-end app</li><li>Lab 6: Building an end-to-end app</li></ul><h4>Module 14: Course wrap-up</h4><ul><li>Course overview</li><li>AWS training courses</li><li>Certifications</li><li>Course feedback</li></ul></div>

Nexus Human

AWS Certification

AWS Certified Developer

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Lambda

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Developing on AWS

<h2>Better Business Cases™ Foundation and Practitioner</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The goal of the combined foundation and practitioner course is to develop a candidate's ability to deliver a comprehensive business case through encouraging expanded knowledge to guide the practical application of theoretical foundations. Upon the completion of this course, a candidate will be able to start applying the model to a real business case development project.</p>
<p>The outline presented in the course overview will be addressed in the first 2 days, with the Foundation exam conducted on the morning of Day 3. Then the topics will be revisited at a deeper level, for 2 more days, with the Practitioner exam conducted on the afternoon of Day 5.</p><h3>What you will Learn</h3>
<p>At the end of this program, you will be able to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Develop the lifecycle of a business case and establish the relationships between the five cases</li>
<li>Apply the steps in the business case development framework, in order to support the production of a business case, using the Five Case Model, for a given scenario.</li>
</ul><section>
                    <h3>Overview of Better Business Cases</h3><ul><li>Alignment with the strategic planning process</li><li>Importance of the Business Case using the Five Case Model</li><li>Overview of the Five Case Model</li><li>Purpose of the key stages in the development of a spending proposal</li><li>Purpose of a Business Justification Case</li><li>Business Case Development Process</li><li>Purpose of project / programme assurance and assurance reviews</li><li>Responsibility for producing the Business Case</li></ul><h3>Determining the Strategic Context and Undertaking the Strategic Assessment</h3><ul><li>Scoping the Scheme and Preparing the Strategic Outline Case</li><li>Planning the Scheme and Preparing the Outline Business Case</li><li>Procuring the Solution and Preparing the Full Business Case</li><li>Implementation and monitoring</li><li>Evaluation and feedback</li></ul><h3>Making the Case for Change</h3><ul><li>Agree on the strategic context</li><li>Determine spending objectives, existing arrangements, and business needs</li><li>Determine potential business scope and key service requirements</li><li>Determine benefits, risks, constraints, and dependencies</li></ul><h3>Exploring the Preferred Way Forward</h3><ul><li>Agree on critical success factors</li><li>Determine long list options and SWOT analysis</li><li>Recommend a preferred way forward</li></ul><h3>Determining Potential Value for Money</h3><ul><li>Revisit the short list</li><li>Prepare the economic appraisal for short-listed options</li><li>Undertake benefits appraisal</li><li>Undertake risk appraisal</li><li>Select preferred option and undertake sensitivity analysis</li></ul><h3>Preparing for the Potential Deal</h3><ul><li>Determine the procurement strategy</li><li>Determine service streams and required outputs</li><li>Outline potential risk apportionment</li><li>Outline potential payment mechanisms</li><li>Ascertain contractual issues and accountancy treatment</li></ul><h3>Ascertaining Affordability and Funding Requirement</h3><ul><li>Prepare the financial model</li><li>Prepare the financial appraisals</li></ul><h3>Planning for Successful Delivery</h3><ul><li>Plan programme / project management</li><li>Plan change and contract management</li><li>Plan benefits realization</li><li>Plan risk management</li><li>Plan programme / project assurance and post-project evaluation</li></ul><h3>Procuring the Value for Money Solution</h3><ul><li>Revisit the case for change</li><li>Revisit the OBC options</li><li>Detail procurement process and evaluation of best and final offers (BAFOs)</li></ul><h3>Contracting for the Deal</h3><ul><li>Set out the negotiated deal and contractual arrangements</li><li>Set out the financial implications of the deal</li></ul><h3>Ensuring Successful Delivery</h3><ul><li>Finalize project management arrangements and plans</li><li>Finalize change management arrangements and plans</li><li>Finalize benefits realization arrangements and plans</li><li>Finalize risk management arrangements and plans</li><li>Finalize contract management arrangements and plans</li><li>Finalize post-project evaluation arrangements and plans</li></ul>


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IIL Europe Ltd

Better Business Cases Foundation and Practitioner

<h2>Better Business Cases™ Practitioner: Virtual In-House Training</h2>
 <p>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.</p>
 <p>The goal of the practitioner course is to develop a candidate's ability to deliver a comprehensive business case, through encouraging expanded knowledge to guide the practical application of theoretical foundations. Upon the completion of this Practitioner course, a candidate will be able to start applying the model to a real business case development project.</p><h3>What You Will Learn</h3>
 <p>At the end of this program, you will be able to:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Develop the lifecycle of a business case and to establish the relationships between the five cases</li>
 <li>Apply the steps in the business case development framework, in order to support the production of a business case, using the Five Case Model, for a given scenario</li>
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Overview of Better Business Cases</h3> <ul> <li>Alignment with the strategic planning process</li> <li>Importance of the Business Case using the Five Case Model</li> <li>Overview of the Five Case Model</li> <li>Purpose of the key stages in the development of a spending proposal</li> <li>Purpose of a Business Justification Case</li> <li>Business Case Development Process</li> <li>Purpose of project / programme assurance and assurance reviews</li> <li>Responsibility for producing the Business Case</li> </ul> <h3>Determining the Strategic Context and Undertaking the Strategic Assessment</h3> <ul> <li>Scoping the Scheme and Preparing the Strategic Outline Case</li> <li>Planning the Scheme and Preparing the Outline Business Case</li> <li>Procuring the Solution and Preparing the Full Business Case</li> <li>Implementation and monitoring</li> <li>Evaluation and feedback</li> </ul> <h3>Making the Case for Change</h3> <ul> <li>Agree on the strategic context</li> <li>Determine spending objectives, existing arrangements, and business needs</li> <li>Determine potential business scope and key service requirements</li> <li>Determine benefits, risks, constraint, and dependencies</li> </ul> <h3>Exploring the Preferred Way Forward</h3> <ul> <li>Agree on critical success factors</li> <li>Determine long list options and SWOT analysis</li> <li>Recommend a preferred way forward</li> </ul> <h3>Determining Potential Value for Money</h3> <ul> <li>Revisit the short list</li> <li>Prepare the economic appraisal for short-listed options</li> <li>Undertake benefits appraisal</li> <li>Undertake risk appraisal</li> <li>Select preferred option and undertake sensitivity analysis</li> </ul> <h3>Preparing for the Potential Deal</h3> <ul> <li>Determine the procurement strategy</li> <li>Determine service streams and required outputs</li> <li>Outline potential risk apportionment</li> <li>Outline potential payment mechanisms</li> <li>Ascertain contractual issues and accountancy treatment</li> </ul> <h3>Ascertaining Affordability and Funding Requirement</h3> <ul> <li>Prepare the financial model</li> <li>Prepare the financial appraisals</li> </ul> <h3>Planning for Successful Delivery</h3> <ul> <li>Plan programme / project management</li> <li>Plan change and contract management</li> <li>Plan benefits realization</li> <li>Plan risk management</li> <li>Plan programme / project assurance and post project evaluation</li> </ul> <h3>Procuring the Value for Money Solution</h3> <ul> <li>Revisit the case for change</li> <li>Revisit the OBC options</li> <li>Detail procurement process and evaluation of best and final offers (BAFOs)</li> </ul> <h3>Contracting for the Deal</h3> <ul> <li>Set out the negotiated deal and contractual arrangements</li> <li>Set out the financial implications of the deal</li> </ul> <h3>Ensuring Successful Delivery</h3> <ul> <li>Finalize project management arrangements and plans</li> <li>Finalize change management arrangements and plans</li> <li>Finalize benefits realization arrangements and plans</li> <li>Finalize risk management arrangements and plans</li> <li>Finalize contract management arrangements and plans</li> <li>Finalize post-project evaluation arrangements and plans</li> </ul>


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Better Business Cases Practitioner: Virtual In-House Training

Packt

Programming

This course will help you become familiar with the implementation of creational design patterns. Featuring real-world examples written in modern C++, each pattern is explained in detail to help you to understand how the pattern can be implemented efficiently using language features.

Creational Design Patterns in Modern C++

General Admission

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Become a career leader by taking this course online.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><h3 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 24px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px;">Accredited by</span></h3><p style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);">This course is <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">CPDQE&nbsp;</strong>accredited, which serves as an impactful mechanism for skill enhancement.&nbsp;</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Continuing Professional Development (CPD) stands as a crucial, widely acknowledged method that aids individuals, organisations, and entire industries in staying current with their skills and knowledge.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CPD not only facilitates the elevation of global standards and benchmarks, aligning with the growing forces of globalisation and consumer expectations but also transforms learning into a deliberate and proactive process. 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box-sizing: border-box;">Module 17: Strategy Implementation and Thinking</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-weight: bold;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 18: Talent Management</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-weight: bold;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 19: Lean Management</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-weight: bold;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 20: International Business</strong></li></ul>

LearnDrive UK

Leadership

Business Leadership

Leadership Skills

Leadership Development

Leadership and management course teaches you the essential skills you need to succeed as a leader and manager.


























Leadership & Management

<p>Businesses that don't control their costs don't stay in business. How well are you doing? Is everyone in your organisation sufficiently aware of costs, managing them effectively and maximising opportunities to reduce them? If there is scope for improvement, this course will help get you back on track. It will demonstrate that cost reduction is so much more than cost control and cost cutting. True cost management is about being aware of costs, seeking to reduce them through good design and efficient operating practices whilst taking continuing action on overspending.</p>This course will develop the participants' skills in:<ul><li>Being aware of costs at all times</li><li>Seeking cost reduction from the start (including life-cycle costing)</li><li>Appraising projects / production to identify and take out risk</li><li>Understanding real budgeting</li><li>Using techniques such as ZBB and ABC where appropriate</li><li>Ensuring cost reports lead to action</li><li>Managing a cost reduction process that delivers</li></ul><p>Benefits to the organisation will include:</p><ul><li>Identification of cost reduction and business improvement opportunities</li><li>Better reporting and ownership of costs</li><li>Greater awareness and control of everyday costs</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction - the cost management process</h3><ul><li>The risks of poor cost control</li><li>Capital and revenue costs</li><li>The importance of cost awareness</li><li><em>The importance of cost reduction</em></li><li>Cost management - the key aspects</li><li>How to build a cost management and control process checklist for your areas of responsibility</li></ul> <h3>2 Cost removal - taking out costs</h3><ul><li>Cost awareness</li><li>Costs of poor design / poor processes</li><li>Value engineering</li><li>Removing redundant costs</li></ul> <h3>3 The need for commercial, technical and financial appraisals</h3><ul><li>Understand the problems before cash is committed and costs incurred</li><li>Making the effort to identify commercial and technical risk</li><li>The time value of money - DCF techniques for long term projects</li><li>Cost models for production processes and projects</li><li>Costing models - project appraisals</li><li>The use of spreadsheets to identify sensitivity and risk</li><li>How to focus on risk management</li></ul> <h3>4 Budgeting - proper budgeting challenges costs</h3><ul><li>The philosophy of the business - are costs an issue?</li><li>The importance of having the right culture</li><li>The need for detailed business objectives</li><li>Budgetary control measures</li><li>Designing budget reports - for action</li></ul> <h3>5 Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) - the principles</h3><ul><li>Much more than starting with a clean sheet of paper</li><li>What ZBB can achieve</li><li>The concept of decision packages - to challenge business methods and costs</li><li>Only necessary costs should be incurred</li><li>A review of an operating budget - demonstrating what ZBB challenges and the costs it may lead to being taken out</li></ul> <h3>6 Awareness of overheads and other costs</h3><ul><li>Definitions of cost - direct and indirect</li><li>Dealing with overheads - what is meant by allocation, absorption or apportionment?</li><li>The apparent and real problems with overheads</li><li>Different ways of dealing with overheads</li><li>Review of overhead allocation methods and accounting and reporting issues</li></ul> <h3>7 Overheads and product costing</h3><ul><li>Activity-based costing (ABC) - the principles</li><li>Where and how the ABC approach may be helpful</li><li>Know the 'true' cost of a product or a project</li><li>Should you be in business? Will you stay in business?</li><li>Identifying weaknesses in a traditional overhead allocation</li><li>How ABC will help improve product or service costing</li><li>Identifying which products and activities should be developed and which abandoned</li></ul> <h3>8 Cost reduction culture</h3><ul><li>The need for cost reports</li><li>What measures can be used to identify over-spends as early as possible</li><li>Cost control performance measures and ratios</li></ul> <h3>9 Design of cost control reports</h3><ul><li>Reports should lead to action and deliver</li><li>Selecting cost control measures which can be acted upon</li><li>Practice in designing action reports</li></ul> <h3>10 Course summary - developing your own cost action plan</h3><ul><li>Group and individual action plans will be prepared with a view to participants identifying their cost risks areas and the techniques which can be immediately applied to improve costing and reduce costs</li></ul> 


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Business Analysis

Business Case Development

Manager Training

Management Skills

Practical Accounting

Cost reduction (In-House)

<p>Many organisations find that project teams struggle to create and maintain effective plans. Estimates are often overly optimistic and risks go unmanaged until the inevitable happens. Resource managers also find it hard to forecast the likely loading on their departments and requests for support are not provided in a consistent format. This programme has been developed to address these needs in a very practical, hands-on format. Case study work can be based on simulations or on the organisation's current projects for maximum benefit to participants.</p>The aim of this training is to develop and enhance participants' planning and risk management skills in order to maximise the success of project work undertaken by the organisation.<p>The principal training objectives for this programme are to:</p><ul><li>Provide a structured, integrated approach to planning and risk management</li><li>Demonstrate practical tools and techniques for each stage of planning</li><li>Show how to organise and involve relevant people in the planning process</li><li>Explain how to use the plan for forecasting and pro-active project control</li><li>Identify ways to improve planning, both individually and corporately</li></ul><p>The course will emphasise the importance of participative planning techniques that improve the quality of plans whilst reducing overall time and cost of planning.</p><p>The course will encourage discussion of internal procedures and practices and may be customised to include them if required.</p><section>
                    DAY ONE <h3>1 Introduction (Course sponsor)</h3><ul><li>Why this programme has been developed</li><li>Review of participants' needs and objectives</li></ul> <h3>2 Projects and planning</h3><ul><li>Why plan? The benefits of good planning / penalties of poor planning</li><li>Planning in the project lifecycle; the need for a 'living' plan</li><li>The interaction between target setting and the planning process</li><li><em>Team exercise: planning the project</em></li></ul> <h3>3 Planning the plan</h3><ul><li>Defining the application and structure of the plan</li><li>Impact of planning decisions during the project lifecycle</li><li>Using available time to create an effective plan</li></ul> <h3>4 Defining deliverables</h3><ul><li>Assessing the context; reviewing the goals and stakeholders</li><li>Developing the scope and defining deliverables; scope mapping</li><li>Understanding customer priorities; delivering value for money</li><li><em>Case study: defining the project deliverables</em></li></ul> <h3>5 Creating the work breakdown</h3><ul><li>Building the work breakdown structure</li><li>Detailing the tasks and sub-tasks; structured brainstorming</li><li>Defining task ownership; the task responsibility matrix</li></ul> <h3>6 Creating and using a logical network</h3><ul><li>Developing the logical network; task boarding</li><li>Determining the critical path and calculating float</li><li>Accelerating the plan; concurrent programming and risk</li><li><em>Individual and group exercises</em></li></ul> DAY TWO <h3>7 Developing resource schedules</h3><ul><li>Deriving the Gantt chart from the network</li><li>Developing the detailed resource schedules</li><li>Calculating the expenditure profile ('S' curve)</li></ul> <h3>8 Estimating task durations and costs</h3><ul><li>Understanding estimates: effort, availability and duration</li><li>Estimating tools and techniques</li><li>Application of estimating techniques during the project lifecycle</li></ul> <h3>9 Case study</h3><ul><li><em>Developing the project plan</em></li><li><em>Refining the project plan</em></li><li><em>Team presentations and discussion</em></li></ul> <h3>10 Managing risks and refining the plan</h3><ul><li>Awareness of contractual issues associated with risk</li><li>Identifying and evaluating risks; deciding ownership</li><li>Managing risks: determining levels of provision and contingency</li><li>Controlling risks: maintaining an up-to date risk register</li></ul> <h3>11 Planning for pro-active control</h3><ul><li>The earned value analysis (EVA) concept and its predictive value</li><li>Deriving the measures needed for cost and delivery performance</li><li>Practical issues associated with implementing EVA</li></ul> <h3>12 Using and maintaining the plan</h3><ul><li>Tracking progress and updating the plan</li><li>Publishing and controlling the plan</li></ul> <h3>13 Course review and transfer planning (Course sponsor present)</h3><ul><li>Identify ways of implementing the techniques learnt</li><li>Sponsor-led review and discussion of proposals</li><li>Conclusion</li></ul> 


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Project Management Institute (PMI)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management

Project Risk Management

PRINCE2

Google Project Management

Project planning and risk management (In-House)

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176); font-size: 24px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176); font-size: 24px;">Supervising First Aid for Mental Health</span></strong></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;">NUCO certified course&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); font-size: 18px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); font-size: 18px;"><u fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</u><a href="https://www.mindmapswellbeing.com/brochure-request/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;"><u fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Download full brochure here</u></a></span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">FAA Level 3 Award in supervising First Aid for Mental Health (RQF) Award in Leading First Aid for&nbsp;</strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Mental Health at SCQF Level 6.</strong></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This course builds on the Level 2/5 Award in First Aid for Mental Health and covers a wider range of mental health conditions. Goes into detail on the range of therapy and professional support that a person may be given by professional bodies during treatment for a mental health condition.<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The course is suitable for all persons within a workplace but is aimed at those who hold a supervisory/managerial level position. With responsibility for implementing a positive mental health culture or for First Aid for Mental Health within an organisation.</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">A range of subjects are covered, including: What is First Aid for Mental Health?</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identifying mental health conditions Providing advice and starting a conversation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Drugs and alcohol</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">First Aid for Mental Health action plan First Aid for Mental Health in the&nbsp;</li>workplace.<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A broad range of Mental Health conditions covered in detail</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">This course is available for closed groups of 6&ndash;16 learners only.&nbsp;</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Course Fee</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">6&ndash;10 learners &pound;3000</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Additional learners up to sixteen at &pound;290pp</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Suitable for all above 14 years to attend.</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Available for online delivery or in-person (In-person training may incur additional fees to cover instructor expenses and room hire, if applicable).</strong></p>

Mindmaps Wellbeing

Approved Training Organisation (ATO)

Accredited Mental Health First Aid

Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)

Supervising First Aid for Mental Health
FAA Level 3 Award in supervising First Aid for Mental Health (RQF). Award in Leading First Aid for Mental Health at SCQF Level 6.
This course builds on the Level 2/5 Award in First Aid for Mental Health and covers a wider range of mental health conditions. Goes into detail on the range of therapy and professional support that a person may be given by professional bodies during treatment for a mental health condition.

Closed Groups 
First Aid For Mental Health FAA Level 3 Award NUCO

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>2 Days</p><p>12 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>A prior understanding of EU Data Protection legislation is recommended. Candidates are typically management professionals and decision-makers who already have responsibility for data protection compliance within their organisation.Co-Requisite Subjects Candidates should have a good understanding of their own organisation?s data management activities through the life cycle from initial acquisition, through the various areas of processing and usage, to eventual removal or destruction.</p>Overview<p>To equip the learner with a foundational understanding of the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and to provide constructive suggestions on implementing compliant processes.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h4>The social, historical and legal background leading to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)</h4><ul><li>The scope and global context of the GDPR</li><li>The key concepts within the GDPR</li><li>The definition of all key words and phrases relating to this Data Protection regulation</li></ul><h4>Principle One: The criteria governing fair, open and transparent processing of personal data</h4><ul><li>Principle Two: Purpose Limitation, the challenge of limiting the processing within the context of specified and lawful  purposes</li><li></li><li>Principle Three: Minimisation of processing, and ensuring that only that data is processed which is necessary to achieve the purpose.</li><li>Principle Two: Purpose Limitation, the challenge of limiting the processing within the context of specified and lawful  purposes</li><li></li><li>Principle Three: Minimisation of processing, and ensuring that only that data is processed which is necessary to achieve the purpose.</li><li></li><li>Principle Four: Ensuring that any personal data held by the organisation is kept accurate and current, and that any processing of such data is appropriate</li><li></li><li>Principle Five: Management and storage of personal data in a manner that meets regulatory obligations, while minimising the time that the individual remains identifiable</li><li></li><li>Principle Six: The criteria governing safe, secure and confidential processing of personal data in order to protect its integrity</li><li></li><li>Principle Seven: The key roles, responsibilities and accountabilities of those involved in Data Management within an organisation</li><li>Establishment within a single Member State</li><li>Joint Controllers</li><li>Privacy by Design and by Default</li><li>Nominated Representatives</li><li>Third-party Contracts and shared liability</li><li>Logging of data management processes</li><li>Data Breach Notification obligations</li><li>Privacy Impact Assessments</li><li>Overseas transfer of personal data</li><li></li><li>L2.8 The Data Subject Rights, and their implications for the Data Controller and the Data Processor</li><li></li><li>L2.8.1 The ?right to be forgotten?</li><li>L2.8.2 The right to restriction of processing</li><li>L2.8.3 The right to object to certain processing</li><li>L2.8.4 The right to have inaccurate data amended or erased</li><li>L2.8.5 The right to data portability</li><li>L2.8.6 The right of access to one?s personal data</li><li>L2.8.7 Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling</li></ul><h4>The role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO)</h4><ul><li>The role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO)</li><li>Criteria for designating a DPO</li><li>Tasks of the DPO</li><li>Position of the DPO within the organisation</li><li></li><li>The role of the Supervisory Authority within the Member State</li><li></li><li>The Lead Supervisory Authority and independence</li><li>Investigative, corrective and advisory powers</li><li>Independence of the Supervisory Authority</li><li>Collaboration with other Supervisory Authorities</li><li>Codes of Conduct and Certification</li><li></li><li>The role, powers and tasks of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)</li></ul><h4>The remedies, liabilities and penalties available under the GDPR</h4><ul><li>Right to raise a complaint</li><li>Right to representation</li><li>Right to effective judicial remedy</li><li>Right to compensation and liability</li><li>Administrative fines of up to ?10m or 2% of GAT</li><li>Administrative fines of up to ?20m or 4% of GAT</li></ul><h4>Provisions for specific processing situations</h4><ul><li>Freedom of Expression</li><li>Processing of official documents</li><li>Processing of National Identification Numbers</li><li>Processing regarding employment</li><li>Processing for archiving purposes</li><li>Processing under obligations of official secrecy</li><li>Processing of data by religious organisations</li></ul><h4>Preparing for implementation of the GDPR</h4><ul><li>Review of data management policies and procedures</li><li>Review of data assets and security structures</li><li>Training and Awareness-raising</li><li>Data management governance structures</li><li>Embedding Privacy By Design and Default</li><li>Codes of Conduct and Certification against standards</li><li>Breach detection and notification procedures</li><li>Review of third-party agreements, contracts</li></ul></div>

Data Protection

GDPR

Data Protection Officer

Data Privacy

Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Certified in Data Protection (CDP)

The GDPR Primer for Data Protection Officers

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>2 Days</p><p>12 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional who works in and around the data centre and who has the responsibility to achieve and improve the availability and manageability of the data centre.</p>Overview<p>After completion of the course the participant will be able to:? Choose an optimum site for mission-critical data centre based on current and future needs? Describe all components that are important for high availability in a data centre and how to effectively setup the data centre? Name and apply the various industry standards? Describe the various technologies for UPS, fire suppression, cooling, monitoring systems, cabling standards, etc, and to select and apply them effectively to cost-efficiently enhance the high-availability of the data centre.? Review the electrical distribution system to avoid costly downtime? Enhance cooling capabilities and efficiency in the data centre by using existing and new techniques and technologies for the increased cooling requirements of the future? Design a highly reliable and scalable network architecture and learn how to ensure installers apply proper testing techniques? Create effective maintenance contracts with equipment suppliers ensuring the best return on investment? Setup effective data centre monitoring ensuring the right people get the right message? Ensure proper security measures, both procedural and technical, are established to safeguard your company's valuable information in the data centre</p><p>The course will address how to setup and improve key aspects such as power, cooling, security, cabling, safety, etc., to ensure a high available data centre. It will also address key operations and maintenance aspects.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h4>The Data Centre, it?s Importance and Causes for Downtime</h4><h4>Data Centre Standards and Best Practices</h4><h4>Data Centre Location, Building and Construction</h4><ul><li>Selecting appropriate sites and buildings and how to avoid pitfalls<br />Various components of an effective data centre and supporting facilities setup</li></ul><h4>Raised Floor/Suspended Ceiling</h4><ul><li>Uniform, concentrated and rolling load definitions<br />Applicable standards<br />Raised Floor guidelines<br />Signal Reference Grid, grounding of racks<br />Disability act and regulations<br />Suspended ceiling usage and requirements</li></ul><h4>Light</h4><ul><li>Standards<br />Light fixture types and placement<br />Emergency lighting, Emergency Power Supply (EPS)</li></ul><h4>Power Infrastructure</h4><ul><li>Power infrastructure layout from generation to rack level<br />ATS and STS systems<br />Redundancy levels and techniques<br />Three-phase and single-phase usage<br />Power distribution options within the computer room<br />Power cabling versus bus bar trunking<br />Bonding versus grounding<br />Common Mode Noise and isolation transformers<br />Distribution boards, form factors and IP-protection grades<br />Power quality guidelines<br />Real power versus apparent power<br />How to size and calculate load in the data centre Generators<br />Static and dynamic UPS systems, selection criteria, how they operate and energy efficiency option<br />Battery types, correct selection and testing<br />Thermo-graphics</li></ul><h4>Electro Magnetic Fields</h4><ul><li>Electrical fields and magnetic fields definitions and units of measurements<br />Sources of EMF<br />Effects of EMF on human health and equipment<br />(H)EMP<br />Standards<br />EMF shielding solutions</li></ul><h4>Equipment Racks</h4><ul><li>Rack standards, properties and selection criteria<br />Security considerations<br />Power rail/strip options</li></ul><h4>Cooling Infrastructure</h4><ul><li>Temperature and humidity recommendations<br />Cooling measurement units and conversion rates<br />Sensible and latent heat definitions<br />Differences between comfort and precision cooling<br />Overview of different air conditioner technologies<br />Raised floor versus non-raised floor cooling<br />Placement of air conditioner units and limitations to be observed<br />Supplemental cooling options<br />Cold aisle/hot aisle containment</li></ul><h4>Water Supply</h4><ul><li>Importance of water supply and application areas<br />Backup water supply techniques</li></ul><h4>Designing a Scalable Network Infrastructure</h4><ul><li>The importance of a Structured Cabling System<br />Planning considerations<br />Copper and Fiber cable technology and standards<br />ANSI/TIA-942 Cabling hierarchy and recommendations<br />Testing and verification<br />SAN storage cabling<br />Network redundancy<br />Building-to-building connectivity<br />Network monitoring system requirements</li></ul><h4>Fire Suppression</h4><ul><li>Standards for fire suppression<br />Detection systems<br />Various total flooding fire suppression techniques and systems, their benefits and disadvantages<br />Handheld extinguishers<br />Signage and safety<br />Regulatory requirements and best practices</li></ul><h4>Data Centre Monitoring</h4><ul><li>Data centre monitoring requirements<br />EMS versus BMS<br />Water leak detection systems<br />Notification options and considerations</li></ul><h4>Operational Security and Safety Practices</h4><ul><li>Data centre security layers<br />Physical, infrastructure and organisational security<br />Safety measures and essential signage</li></ul><h4>Labelling</h4><ul><li>Choosing a labelling scheme<br />Recommended labelling practices<br />Network labelling</li></ul><h4>Documentation</h4><ul><li>How to setup proper documentation<br />Document management policies and procedures</li></ul><h4>Cleaning</h4><ul><li>Cleaning practices for the data centre</li></ul><h4>MTBF/MTTR</h4><ul><li>Standards and definitions<br />Calculation models<br />The ?real? value</li></ul><h4>Maintenance Contracts/SLA/OLA</h4><h4>EXAM: Certified Data Centre Professional</h4></div><div id="course-pills-3"><h4>Additional course details:</h4><br /><p>Nexus Humans Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. </p><p></p> This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. <p></p>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.  <p></p>While we feel this is the best course for the Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) 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.  <p></p>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.<p></p></div>

IT Certifications

Construction Design & Management (CDM)

Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

Certified Cyber Professional (CCP)

Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP)

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LOOKING FOR:</strong> ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Sian Ellis-Martin joined Blake Friedmann in 2018 and is building a list of fiction and non-fiction at the agency.&nbsp;</span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">With regards to fiction, Sian is looking for commercial, upmarket and accessible literary novels. She always wants to be completely absorbed by the world of the novel, to jump into the character&rsquo;s life and be swept into the narrative as if she&rsquo;s been there all along. She&rsquo;s drawn in by compelling characters and relationships, and loves stories with a mystery or question at the heart of them. She&rsquo;s open to these ideas being explored in a variety of ways, but at the moment, she&rsquo;d particularly like to find an epic love story, a fun, queer rom-com with an unusual setting or pitch, and/or a sweeping family saga. She leans more towards contemporary settings but does enjoy a historical backdrop too.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">In non-fiction, she&rsquo;s looking for narrative non-fiction, history from different perspectives and books that make complicated ideas around things like politics and literature more accessible. Her favourite type of non-fiction book is the one that makes you interested in something or someone you&rsquo;d never thought you would be. She&rsquo;d also love to find cookery and food books too, particularly cuisines that are less visible in the book world, or budget cooking.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">She&rsquo;s not currently taking on YA, children&rsquo;s, fantasy or science fiction projects.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sian would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 - 2 page synopsis and the first three chapters (or 5,000 words) of your manuscript in a single word document.&nbsp;</strong></p><p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">In addition to the paid sessions, Sian is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">discretion of&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Pr</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">int</em> prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline 20and note that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Please prepare to submit your manuscript immediately you book as the submission deadline is now: Monday 8 July 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: PB, CHAPTER BOOKS, MG, GRAPHIC NOVELS, CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION
Millie van Grutten joined Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency in 2021 and as of early 2024 Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency was acquired by Rogers Coleridge & White. Millie is thrilled to be building the children’s illustrated division at RCW and is actively looking for authors and illustrators of picture books, chapter books, young fiction, graphic novels and is particularly interested in children’s non-fiction presented in any guise. Millie loves working collaboratively with authors and illustrators whether it’s brainstorming a title, building a portfolio, trying out new genres and age groups or simply chatting ideas through. She relishes the opportunity to champion the work of illustrators and authors alike and is open to anything from 0-9 whether texts, illustrations or both. She loves anything with strong and engaging characters at its heart, quirky stories, and books that make you laugh and/or books that can make you laugh while you learn…
Apart from the ever enduring and absolute classics like Quentin Blake’s Mrs Armitage, Millie has recently enjoyed Mariajo Ilustrajo’s Lost, Ed Vere’s The Artist, The Secret Beast Club (Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson), Dave Pigeon (Swapna Haddow and Sheena Dempsey), How to Be A Genius Kid (Jim Smith) and anything by Lauren Child.
Among many other talents, Millie represents Swapna Haddow, Zehra Hicks, Sandra Dieckmann, Jobe Anderson, Marilyn Esther Chi, Emma Clarke, Jim Smith, Gabriella Szendrey, Helen and Thomas Docherty.
Millie would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the opening three chapters (max 5,000 words) of your novel. For picture books please send up to three texts split into 12 spreads each and a covering letter. For non-fiction please supply a cover letter and proposal with up to 5,000 words of your sample text.
Please send EITHER picture books OR another genre, not both in one submission.
(In addition to the paid sessions, Millie is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 
By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.
Submission Deadline: Monday 28 October 2024

I Am In Print

Fiction Writing

SOLD OUT! 4th November Millie van Grutten #Agent121. Looking for: PICTURE BOOKS / CHAPTER BOOKS / MG / CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">*INTENSIVE* &ndash; 5 full days over three weeks &ndash; inclusive of exam after the course.</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The training programme for Data Protection Officers, Data Protection Managers, Compliance Managers or anyone with a responsibility for Data Protection. The Data Protection <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">(GDPR) Practitioner Certificate</strong> is an internationally recognised qualification, endorsed by TQUK, which is regulated by Ofqual, a UK Government department. It equips current and aspiring data protection officers and data protection managers with knowledge and skills to undertake data protection compliance activities throughout an organisation. It is a valuable course for anybody with data protection compliance responsibilities.</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The scheduling of this course allows you to reflect on each day&#39;s training before the next day and to integrate into your work commitments.</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Click <a href="https://computerlaw.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CLT-Practitioner-Cert-Flyer.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">here</a> to download a full 3 page e-brochure for more details.</p>
<h3 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Attendees will:</h3>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the importance of data protection legislation and compliance in the EU</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Interpret key terminology of the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) in a practical context</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the key obligations of the GDPR and DPA</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Create policies and procedures necessary for data protection compliance and accountability</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Carry out a data protection audit and gap analysis</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Develop an action plan to address a data protection gap analysis</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Respond appropriately to data protection issues arising in an organisation</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Carry out the duties of a data protection officer</li>
</ul>
<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The course will comprise of lectures, discussion and practical exercises. The exam will comprise of MCQ. The course content has been assessed as RQF Level Equivalent = 5 and endorsed by TQUK Ltd.</p>
<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">*TQUK is regulated by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual).</p>
<h4 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why this course is different:</h4>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Examines all aspects of GDPR in detail;</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Teaches essential DPO skills including: Data Protection Impact Assessments and Privacy Impact Assessments;</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Comprehensive learning materials designed to help delegates during the course and in their job;</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Modern and practical assessment methods &ndash; delivered in a friendly and &lsquo;un-stuffy&rsquo; way.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Small groups</li>
</ul>
<h5 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Additional Information</h5>
<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">5 days of interactive training with a &lsquo;friendly&rsquo; GDPR/DPA specialist</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Comprehensive notes, together with copies of slides, provided</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Digital copies of relevant legislation and guidance</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Delivered live, online allowing interaction</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">TQUK endorsed course certification</li>
</ul>

*INTENSIVE* – 5 full days over three weeks – inclusive of exam after the course.
The training programme for Data Protection Officers, Data Protection Managers, Compliance Managers or anyone with a responsibility for Data Protection. The Data Protection (GDPR) Practitioner Certificate is an internationally recognised qualification, endorsed by TQUK, which is regulated by Ofqual, a UK Government department. It equips current and aspiring data protection officers and data protection managers with knowledge and skills to undertake data protection compliance activities throughout an organisation. It is a valuable course for anybody with data protection compliance responsibilities.
The scheduling of this course allows you to reflect on each day's training before the next day and to integrate into your work commitments.
Click here to download a full 3 page e-brochure for more details.
Attendees will:
Understand the importance of data protection legislation and compliance in the EU
Interpret key terminology of the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) in a practical context
Understand the key obligations of the GDPR and DPA
Create policies and procedures necessary for data protection compliance and accountability
Carry out a data protection audit and gap analysis
Develop an action plan to address a data protection gap analysis
Respond appropriately to data protection issues arising in an organisation
Carry out the duties of a data protection officer
The course will comprise of lectures, discussion and practical exercises. The exam will comprise of MCQ. The course content has been assessed as RQF Level Equivalent = 5 and endorsed by TQUK Ltd.
*TQUK is regulated by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual).
Why this course is different:
Examines all aspects of GDPR in detail;
Teaches essential DPO skills including: Data Protection Impact Assessments and Privacy Impact Assessments;
Comprehensive learning materials designed to help delegates during the course and in their job;
Modern and practical assessment methods – delivered in a friendly and ‘un-stuffy’ way.
Small groups
Additional Information
5 days of interactive training with a ‘friendly’ GDPR/DPA specialist
Comprehensive notes, together with copies of slides, provided
Digital copies of relevant legislation and guidance
Delivered live, online allowing interaction
TQUK endorsed course certification

Computer Law Training

Data Protection (GDPR) Practitioner Certificate - live, online

General admission

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LOOKING FOR</strong>: YA, ADULT FICTION</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Laura Bennett </strong>developed a love of writing early, attending her first Creative Writing course at college. She then decided to study Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, obtaining a BA before pursuing a career in teaching. She began work at a college for young adults with special needs, and then moved to a vocational college while studying for a post-compulsory PGCE. Laura taught English for a few years, and also ran several Creative Writing courses before returning to LJMU to obtain an MA in Writing. She then worked as a teaching assistant at a local secondary school, before leaving that job to pursue a career at the <a href="https://www.liverpool-literary.agency/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">Liverpool Literary Agency</a>. She has also worked as a private tutor, written for tabletop roleplaying games, and is the narrative writer for an Indie video game.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Laura is looking for adult and YA science fiction and fantasy of all stripes, including steampunk, post-apocalyptic, urban fantasy, supernatural, and dystopian. She loves diverse casts and complicated relationships. Stories that focus on realistic characters with strong voices are a definite hit, no matter how fantastical their worlds.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Laura would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">In addition to the paid sessions, Laura is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">discretion of&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Pr</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">int</em> prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline and note that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The submission deadline is: Thursday 2 May 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: YA, ADULT FICTION
Laura Bennett developed a love of writing early, attending her first Creative Writing course at college. She then decided to study Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, obtaining a BA before pursuing a career in teaching. She began work at a college for young adults with special needs, and then moved to a vocational college while studying for a post-compulsory PGCE. Laura taught English for a few years, and also ran several Creative Writing courses before returning to LJMU to obtain an MA in Writing. She then worked as a teaching assistant at a local secondary school, before leaving that job to pursue a career at the Liverpool Literary Agency. She has also worked as a private tutor, written for tabletop roleplaying games, and is the narrative writer for an Indie video game.
Laura is looking for adult and YA science fiction and fantasy of all stripes, including steampunk, post-apocalyptic, urban fantasy, supernatural, and dystopian. She loves diverse casts and complicated relationships. Stories that focus on realistic characters with strong voices are a definite hit, no matter how fantastical their worlds.
Laura would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.
(In addition to the paid sessions, Laura is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 
By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.
The submission deadline is: Thursday 24 October 2024

ONE SPACE LEFT! 5th November Laura Bennett #Agent121. Looking for: YA, ADULT FICTION

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>3 Days</p><p>18 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>The ITMLE Certification class is ideal for seasoned IT Managers and IT Directors (Managers of Managers).</p>Overview<p>Developed by an experienced CIO, and then vetted by a board of senior industry executives, ITMLE certifies that those who successfully complete the ITMLE Final Exam bring credible and validated industry knowledge to the organizations they serve appropriate to a senior-level IT executive.</p><p>This three-day, fast-moving and highly interactive workshop contains topics specifically designed to prepare mid-level IT executives in large IT shops for higher levels of management responsibility and provide CIOs of smaller IT shops (about 40 people or less) with additional tools to help maximize their business impact.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h4>Knowledge, Roles, Methodology, and Change</h4><ul><li>Thinking Like a CIO</li><li>IT?s (and Your) Four Roles in the Organization</li><li>Living in a Waterfall, Agile, Wagile World</li><li>IT as an Agent of Change</li></ul><h4>Process, Productivity, and Governance</h4><ul><li>IT Strategic Planning and Thinking</li><li>IT and Organizational Productivity</li><li>IT and Data Governance</li></ul><h4>Innovation, Staff Growth, and Negotiation</h4><ul><li>Fostering IT Innovation</li><li>Coaching, Mentoring, and Team Development</li><li>IT Project and Vendor Negotiating</li></ul></div>

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Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM)

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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">LOOKING FOR</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">: PICTURE BOOKS, CHAPTER BOOKS, MG, YA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Lil is an editor with over 15 years experience in the publishing industry. She&rsquo;s currently freelancing and is in direct contact with many of the big publishing houses: Hachette, Bonnier Books, and book packager, Working Partners Ltd, among others. She also works with the Caroline Wakeman Literary Agency, assessing their authors&rsquo; work for commercial viability, as well as scouting for new talent.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">For twelve years, Lil was a Senior Commissioning Editor at Working Partners Ltd &ndash; the creatives behind massive commercial hits such as Beast Quest, Warriors and the Daisy Meadows series. There she created globally successful concepts for every age group and developed storylines so the books were unputdownable. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Lil is also an author in her own right: she has written 6 books under her own name, and ghost written many others under various pseudonyms.&nbsp;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In every age level, Lil would like to see originality - particularly in voice. A strong character with depth, venturing on a quest that&#39;s never been undertaken before will get her excited. The &#39;quest&#39; doesn&#39;t have to be epic in scale, it could be as small as petting the next-door neighbour&#39;s dog, or getting the good looking new kid to notice you, it just has to be something a reader will want to invest in. She also loves humour and is happy to see anything quirky (perhaps even downright silly!).&nbsp;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">For picture books, Lil would like you to submit a covering letter, and 1 complete manuscript, double-spaced, with spreads marked out, in a single word or PDF doc. For chapter books, MG and YA, please send a covering letter, the first three chapters and a synopsis, double spaced, in a single Word or PDF doc.</strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">By booking this session you agree to email your material to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline to agent121@iaminprint.co.uk. Please note that <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice given in your Agent121.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The submission deadline is: Tuesday 24 September 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: PICTURE BOOKS, CHAPTER BOOKS, MG, YA
Lil is an editor with over 15 years experience in the publishing industry. She’s currently freelancing and is in direct contact with many of the big publishing houses: Hachette, Bonnier Books, and book packager, Working Partners Ltd, among others. She also works with the Caroline Wakeman Literary Agency, assessing their authors’ work for commercial viability, as well as scouting for new talent.
For twelve years, Lil was a Senior Commissioning Editor at Working Partners Ltd – the creatives behind massive commercial hits such as Beast Quest, Warriors and the Daisy Meadows series. There she created globally successful concepts for every age group and developed storylines so the books were unputdownable. 
Lil is also an author in her own right: she has written 6 books under her own name, and ghost written many others under various pseudonyms. 
In every age level, Lil would like to see originality - particularly in voice. A strong character with depth, venturing on a quest that's never been undertaken before will get her excited. The 'quest' doesn't have to be epic in scale, it could be as small as petting the next-door neighbour's dog, or getting the good looking new kid to notice you, it just has to be something a reader will want to invest in. She also loves humour and is happy to see anything quirky (perhaps even downright silly!). 
For picture books, Lil would like you to submit a covering letter, and 1 complete manuscript, double-spaced, with spreads marked out, in a single word or PDF doc. For chapter books, MG and YA, please send a covering letter, the first three chapters and a synopsis, double spaced, in a single Word or PDF doc.
Please send EITHER picture books OR another genre, not both in one submission.
By booking this session you agree to email your material to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline to agent121@iaminprint.co.uk. Please note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice given in your Agent121.
The submission deadline is: Wednesday 23 October 2024

5th November Lil Chase #Agent121. Looking for: PICTURE BOOKS, CHAPTER BOOKS, MG, YA

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This course is for people who would be responsible for the leading the IQA process within an organisation. This includes managing or coordinating the work of a team of quality assurers. This course will help Lead IQA&#39;s to plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibility, and make any necessary changes to original work plans.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">In order to complete this Leading IQA qualification, you must already be a qualified <a href="https://pandaeducation.co.uk/assessor-training/ava-workplace-assessor-qualification/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">Assessor</a> and have achieved the <a href="https://pandaeducation.co.uk/assessor-training/iqa-internal-quality-assurance/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">Level 4 Award in Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment</a> qualifications.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The knowledge and skills development aspect of this course is delivered over a one day workshop. You will then receive mentoring visits from our Learning Advisor to support in achieving the practical outcomes.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Through attending this course you will be able to::</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Produce a work plan for your area of responsibility</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Allocate and agree responsibilities with team members.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility and provide feedback.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Review and amend plans of work for own area of responsibility and communicate changes</li></ul>

This course is for people who would be responsible for the leading the IQA process within an organisation. This includes managing or coordinating the work of a team of quality assurers. This course will help Lead IQA's to plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibility, and make any necessary changes to original work plans. 
In order to complete this Leading IQA qualification, you must already be a qualified Assessor and have achieved the Level 4 Award in Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment qualifications.
The knowledge and skills development aspect of this course is delivered over a one day workshop. You will then receive mentoring visits from our Learning Advisor to support in achieving the practical outcomes. 
Through attending this course you will be able to::
Produce a work plan for your area of responsibility
Allocate and agree responsibilities with team members.
Monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility and provide feedback.
Review and amend plans of work for own area of responsibility and communicate changes

Panda Education and Training Ltd

Leading Internal Quality Assurance; Leading IQA

Level 4 Certificate in Leading IQA

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LOOKING FOR:</strong> ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Imogen Pelham</strong> has been at <a href="http://www.marjacq.com" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">Marjacq</a> since 2015, and has worked as a literary agent for more than a decade. She represents literary fiction and some upmarket commercial fiction, as well as a wide range of non-fiction. Imogen&#39;s looking for fiction with a strong premise, a surprise twist, or sharp humour. Recent favourites include <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leave The World Behind</em> by Rumaan Alam, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Early Morning Riser</em> by Katherine Heiny, and <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sorrow &amp; Bliss</em> by Meg Mason. Her non-fiction list includes history, memoir, medicine and psychology. She is particularly interested in identity, the arts and investigative journalism.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Imogen would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 - 2 page synopsis and the first 10,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">In addition to the paid sessions, Imogen is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">discretion of&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Pr</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">int</em> prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline and note that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The submission deadline is: Monday 9 September 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION
Imogen Pelham has been at Marjacq since 2015, and has worked as a literary agent for more than a decade. She represents literary fiction and some upmarket commercial fiction, as well as a wide range of non-fiction. Imogen's looking for fiction with a strong premise, a surprise twist, or sharp humour. Recent favourites include Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam, Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny, and Sorrow & Bliss by Meg Mason. Her non-fiction list includes history, memoir, medicine and psychology. She is particularly interested in identity, the arts and investigative journalism.
Imogen would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 - 2 page synopsis and the first 10,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.
(In addition to the paid sessions, Imogen is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 
By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.
The submission deadline is: Thursday 24 October 2024

6th November Imogen Pelham #Agent121. Looking for: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>3 Days</p><p>18 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>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.</p>Overview<p>After completion of the course the participant will be able to:<br />Perform the needs analysis translating business requirements to data center services<br />Set-up and manage the data center operations team<br />Implement and monitor safety- and security practices<br />Identify a suitable maintenance program for the data center facility and its equipment<br />Select the appropriate policies and procedures required for data center operations<br />Monitor the data center availability, capacity and capability<br />Manage and implement basic data center projects<br />Set-up and implement an environmental sustainability program<br />Select an appropriate back-up site to support organizational resilience<br />Identify and respond to risk in the data center<br />Manage and support the document life cycle<br />Create a basic budget proposal<br />Select and manage vendors and measure their performance<br />Manage data center assets</p><p>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.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h4>Service Level Management</h4><ul><li>Service Level Management</li><li>Needs analysis</li><li>Capability assessment</li><li>Service portfolio</li><li>Service catalogue</li><li>Service Level Agreements (SLAs)</li><li>Availability measurement</li><li>Data points in SLA</li><li>Service reporting</li><li>Complaint procedure</li><li>Customer satisfaction measurement</li><li>Service Improvement Process (SIP)</li><li>SLA content</li></ul><h4>The Data Center Organization</h4><ul><li>Operational issues</li><li>Organization chart</li><li>Roles and responsibilities</li><li>Skills matrix</li><li>Contingency / backup roles</li><li>Shift management</li><li>Performance management</li><li>Career development</li><li>Training and assessment</li><li>Job rotation</li><li>Succession planning</li><li>Disciplinary program</li></ul><h4>Managing Safety &amp; Statutory Requirements</h4><ul><li>Safety policies and regulations</li><li>Occupational Health and Safety (OH&amp;S)</li><li>Safety awareness training</li><li>Permit to Work (PTW)</li><li>Lock-out / Tag-out</li><li>Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)</li><li>Testing and tagging of equipment</li><li>Emergency preparedness and response</li><li>Reporting of safety issues</li><li>Reviews / internal audit / external audit</li></ul><h4>Managing Physical Security</h4><ul><li>Security policies and procedures</li><li>Security standards and guidelines</li><li>Security staff</li><li>Security awareness</li><li>Security incident management</li><li>Disciplinary program</li><li>Reviews, internal and external audits</li></ul><h4>Facilities Management</h4><ul><li>Maintenance policies and procedures</li><li>Various maintenance programs</li><li>Outsourcing of maintenance activities</li><li>Maintenance contract options</li><li>Warranty</li><li>Maintenance schedule</li><li>Service situations</li><li>Spart part management</li><li>Contamination control</li></ul><h4>Data Center Operations</h4><ul><li>Policies and procedures for data center operations</li><li>Service operations and the daily data center operations</li></ul><h4>Monitoring / Reporting / Control</h4><ul><li>Monitoring requirements</li><li>Escalation procedures</li><li>Reporting</li><li>Trend analysis</li><li>Reviews</li></ul><h4>Project Management</h4><ul><li>Project management</li><li>Project organization</li><li>Project manager</li><li>Project phases</li></ul><h4>Environment Sustainability</h4><ul><li>The importance of sustainability</li><li>Sustainability policies </li><li>Environmental management </li><li>Power efficiency indicators -</li><li>Waste management -</li><li>Water management</li><li>ICT utilisation management </li><li>Environmental performance measurements</li><li>Renewable energy factor (REF)</li></ul><h4>Organizational Resilience</h4><ul><li>Business continuity</li><li>Data center facility options</li><li>Business Impact Analysis</li><li>Type of facility</li><li>Human resources</li><li>Facility, equipment and consumables</li></ul><h4>Governance, Risk and Compliance</h4><ul><li>Management commitment</li><li>Coordination, collaboration and integration</li><li>Compliance</li><li>Risk management</li><li>Document management</li><li>Financial management</li><li>Vendor management</li><li>Asset management</li></ul></div><div id="course-pills-3"><h4>Additional course details:</h4><br /><p>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. </p><p></p> This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. <p></p>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.  <p></p>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.  <p></p>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.<p></p></div>

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Operations Manager

Certified Data Center Facilities Operations Manager (CDFOM)

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LOOKING FOR:</strong> ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Florence has been at A M Heath for five years and represents a range of commercial fiction and non-fiction. The authors she represents include Jaspreet Kaur, Salma El-Wardany, Rachel Thompson, Annie Lord, Angelica Malin and Phil Ellis. Their books range from the heart-breaking and profound to the inspirational, funny and wise, with almost everything in between. She&rsquo;s keen to find non-fiction and fiction writers who speak to a millennial and younger audience, be that a journalist who is looking to expand an idea, a screenwriter who is looking to try their hand at fiction or perhaps an activist with a social media platform.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">She&rsquo;s actively looking for writers who are under-represented in the publishing world, through non-traditional channels, as well as her submissions, and is interested in environmental and social issues. For fiction, she always loves comforting, funny and warm reads, as well as gripping page-turners. She&rsquo;d love to see any of the above but her favourite thing is to escape with a story she can&rsquo;t put down. If you think your book fits with that, then do send it to her.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In fiction, books that have really left Florence wanting one more chapter include Marian Keyes&rsquo;s character, Rachel, from&nbsp;</span><em style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Rachel&rsquo;s Holiday&nbsp;</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">gifted Florence with a compassion for addiction that only the most skilled of writers can conjure. Florence finds Catherine Newman to be a genuis for making hospice care so funny in&nbsp;</span><em style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We All Want Impossible Things.</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">&nbsp;Smart page turners such as&nbsp;</span><em style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Anatomy of a Scandal,</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">&nbsp;</span><i style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Such a Fun Age</i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><em style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</em> wowed Florence with <em style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">c</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">lever, gripping prose and complicated, flawed characters she hadn&#39;t met before. She also loves older classics like the</span><em style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">&nbsp;Cazalet Chronicles</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">&nbsp;and Georgette Heyer&rsquo;s Regency novels &ndash; comforting, funny and warm reads will always her cup of tea.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Florence does not wish to receive, YA, Fantasy or Sci-fi.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Florence would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">In addition to the paid sessions, Florence is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">discretion of&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Pr</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">int</em> prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline and note that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The submission deadline is: Friday 31 May 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION
Florence has been at A M Heath for five years and represents a range of commercial fiction and non-fiction. The authors she represents include Jaspreet Kaur, Salma El-Wardany, Rachel Thompson, Annie Lord, Angelica Malin and Phil Ellis. Their books range from the heart-breaking and profound to the inspirational, funny and wise, with almost everything in between. She’s keen to find non-fiction and fiction writers who speak to a millennial and younger audience, be that a journalist who is looking to expand an idea, a screenwriter who is looking to try their hand at fiction or perhaps an activist with a social media platform. 
She’s actively looking for writers who are under-represented in the publishing world, through non-traditional channels, as well as her submissions, and is interested in environmental and social issues. For fiction, she always loves comforting, funny and warm reads, as well as gripping page-turners. She’d love to see any of the above but her favourite thing is to escape with a story she can’t put down. If you think your book fits with that, then do send it to her. 
In fiction, books that have really left Florence wanting one more chapter include Marian Keyes’s character, Rachel, from Rachel’s Holiday that left Florence with a compassion for addiction that only the most skilled of writers can conjure. Florence finds Catherine Newman to be a genuis for making hospice care so funny in We All Want Impossible Things. Smart page turners such as Anatomy of a Scandal, Such a Fun Age and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow wowed Florence with clever, gripping prose and complicated, flawed characters she hadn't met before. She also loves older classics like the Cazalet Chronicles and Georgette Heyer’s Regency novels – comforting, funny and warm reads will always her cup of tea.
Florence does not wish to receive, YA, Fantasy or Sci-fi. 
Florence would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document. 
(In addition to the paid sessions, Florence is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 
By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.
The submission deadline is: Wednesday 30 October 2024

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