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3 - 4 hour course A course for (unpaid) carers and volunteers who care for people with mobility problems Gives learners the skills to protect their own backs Course Contents: The importance of safe manual handling Basic Risk Assessments Types of equipment designed to aid moving people safely Use of a wheelchair Safely moving people in and out of their wheelchair Safely moving people in and out of a car Use of banana boards and similar objects Helping people get up out of their chairs Helping people to walk by themselves, using sticks or zimmer frames where required Benefits of this course: This is a very practical course 36% of carers have injuries such as back pain, caused by their caring responsibilities This course is there to help carers take care of themselves by showing them, and giving time to practice, techniques to aid the person they care for move by themselves where possible CPD Accredited This course is not an Ofqual regulated qualification, and has no accreditation attached. Candidates will, however, receive a certificate of attendance, as seen to the left.

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Meetings are a traditional and essential component of local government. For both elected members and officers, meetings serve as a forum for discussion and agreement, planning and monitoring, communication and leadership, and decision-making. Used appropriately, meetings can challenge, inspire, illuminate and inform. And while they are not the only meetings that elected members will be asked to attend, committee meetings, in particular, are a mainstay of the political management process. Effective chairing is important because it can provide clear leadership and direction, ensure that debates are focused and balanced, enable decisions to be reached and ensure that resources are used to best effect. This two-hour 'masterclass'-style workshop will help elected members to understand their role, offer some approaches and ideas that will help to tackle typical challenges, and help to generally improve their effectiveness as a chair. To understand the skills and qualities of a good chair To learn ideas and approaches for chairing a successful meeting that is on time and achieves its outcomes To understand the protocols and boundaries for appropriate meeting etiquette and the chair's role in managing this effectively To appreciate how to manage yourself and others appropriately To take away personal actions to apply to your role 1 Welcome and introductions Objectives What's the challenge for you? 2 We can't go on meeting like this Common meeting challenges for chairs and why they succeed or fail Consequences and impact for the Council What's the context? 3 Roles and responsibilities of an effective chair Activities and input that explore the role, skills and qualities needed Role of the chair: what is it and how to do it well 4 Chairing for success - ideas and approaches to meet the challenges Managing time and boundaries Preparation and planning Creating the right environment Self-management Challenging personalities and good meeting behaviour 5 Final plenary session What's your plan? Take away actions

High quality specifications are of paramount importance in achieving the right technical performance and value for money. This long-established training programme has been developed to help those involved in producing specifications to create high quality documents in an organised and effective way. It provides a sound foundation for those new to the topic whilst at the same time offering new insights to those with more experience. The programme emphasises the need for a clear definition of requirements combined with the ability to communicate those requirements effectively to third parties. A structured method of preparing specifications is provided, and a range of practical techniques is presented, to enable participants to put the principles into practice. The commercial and contractual role of specifications is also addressed. The objectives of the workshop are to: Provide a clear understanding of the role and purpose of specifications Present a framework for organising and producing specifications Define the key steps involved in creating effective specifications Demonstrate methods for assisting in defining requirements Provide tools and techniques for scoping and structuring specifications Show the role of specifications in managing variations and changes to scope Present methods to assist the writing and editing of specifications Review how specifications should be issued and controlled DAY ONE 1 Introduction Review of course objectives Review of participants' needs and objectives 2 Creating effective specifications The role of specifications in communicating requirements The costs, benefits and qualities of effective specifications Understanding the differences between verbal and written communication The five key steps of 'POWER' writing: prepare-organise-write-edit-release Exercise: qualities of an effective specification 3 Step 1: Preparing to write - defining readership and purpose; the specification and the contract Designing the specifications required; applying BS 7373 Defining the purpose, readership and title of each document Effective procedures for writing, issuing and controlling specifications The roles and responsibilities of the key players Understanding contracts; the contractual role of the specification Integrating and balancing the technical and commercial requirements Writing specifications to achieve the appropriate contract risk strategy Deciding how to specify: when to use functional and technical specifications The role of specifications in managing variations and changes to scope 4 Case study 1 Teams review a typical project scenario and identify the implications for the specification Feedback and discussion 5 Step 2: Organising the specification content Defining the need and establishing user requirements Deciding what issues the specification should cover Scoping techniques: scope maps, check lists, structured brainstorming Clarifying priorities: separating needs and desires Dealing with requirements that are difficult to quantify Useful techniques: cost benefit analysis, QFD, Pareto analysis 6 Case study 2 Teams apply the scoping techniques to develop the outline contents for a specification Feedback and discussion DAY TWO 7 Step 2: Organising the specification content (cont) Deciding what goes where; typical contents and layout for a specification The three main segments: introductory, key and supporting Creating and using model forms: the sections and sub-sections Detailed contents of each sub-section Tools and techniques for outlining and structuring specifications 8 Case study 3 Teams develop the detailed specification contents using a model form Feedback and discussion 9 Step 3: Writing the specification The challenges of written communication Identifying and understanding the readers needs Choosing and using the right words; dealing with jargon Problem words; will, shall, must, etc; building a glossary Using sentence structure and punctuation to best effect Understanding the impact of style, format and appearance Avoiding common causes of ambiguity Being concise and ensuring clarity Choosing and using graphics to best effect Exercises and examples 10 Step 4: Editing the specification Why editing is difficult; how to develop a personal editing strategy Key areas to review: structure, content, accuracy, clarity, style and grammar Editing tools and techniques 11 Step 5: Releasing and controlling the specification Key requirements for document issue and control Final formatting and publication issues; document approval Requirements management: managing revisions and changes 12 Course review and action planning What actions should be implemented to improve specifications? Conclusion

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for Administrators or application owners who are responsible for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and workloads Overview By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control architecture Configure user and group access Create and manage Kubernetes clusters Control access Create image registry, network, quota, security, custom and mutation policies Connect your on-premises vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor to VMware Tanzu Mission Control Create, manage, and back up VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid™ clusters Create and manage Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters Perform cluster inspections Manage packages in your clusters Monitor and secure Kubernetes environments During this two-day course, you focus on using VMware Tanzu© Mission Control? to provision and manage Kubernetes clusters. The course covers how to apply image registry, network, security, quota, custom, and mutation policies to Kubernetes environments. It focuses on how to deploy, upgrade, back up, and monitor Kubernetes clusters on VMware vSphere© with VMware Tanzu©, and it also covers package management using the VMware Tanzu Mission Control catalog. Course Introduction Introduction and course logistics Course Objectives What Is VMware Tanzu Mission Control Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control Describe vSphere with Tanzu Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Describe VMware Tanzu© for Kubernetes Operations Explain how to request access to VMware Tanzu Mission Control Describe VMware Cloud? services Describe the VMware Cloud services catalog Explain how to access VMware Tanzu Mission Control Identify the components of VMware Tanzu Mission Control Explain the resource hierarchy of VMware Tanzu Mission Control Access, Users, and Groups Explain VMware Cloud services and enterprise federation Describe VMware Cloud services roles Explain multifactor authentication Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control UI List the components of the VMware Tanzu Mission Control UI Describe the VMware Tanzu CLI Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control API Cluster Lifecycle Management Outline the steps for registering a management cluster to VMware Tanzu Mission Control Discuss what a management cluster is Describe provisioners Explain the purpose of a cloud provider account Describe Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Describe Azure Kubernetes Service Workload Clusters Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters Explain how to create a cluster Explain how to configure a cluster Describe Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service workload clusters Describe Azure Kubernetes Service workload clusters Explain how to attach a Kubernetes cluster Explain how to verify the connections to the cluster Describe cluster health Policy Management Explain how access policies grant users access to different resources Describe the policy model Describe the available policy types Explain how image registry policies restrict from which image registries container images can be pulled Outline how network policies are applied to clusters Discuss how security policies control deployment of pods in a cluster Discuss how quota policies manage resource consumption in your clusters Discuss how custom policies implement specialized policies that govern your Kubernetes clusters Describe mutation policies Explain how Policy Insights reports VMware Tanzu Mission Control policy issues Control Catalog Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control catalog Explain how to install packages Describe cert-manager Explain Service Discovery and ExternalDNS Describe Multus CNI and Whereabouts Describe Fluent-Bit Explain Prometheus and Grafana Describe Harbor Describe Flux Describe Helm Describe Git repositories Tanzu Mission Control Day 2 Operations Describe data protection Describe cluster inspections Explain life cycle management Describe VMware Aria Operations? for Applications Discuss VMware Tanzu© Service Mesh? Advanced edition Describe VMware Aria Cost? powered by CloudHealth©

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vSphere with Kubernetes Overview By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: Describe vSphere with Kubernetes and use cases in on-premises environments Deploy vSphere with Kubernetes Describe the VMware NSX networking requirements for vSphere with Kubernetes. Create and manage vSphere with Kubernetes namespaces Deploy and run container applications on vSphere with Kubernetes Deploy and configure VMware Harbor Describe the VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ service Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster Deploy and run container applications on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster Describe the vSphere with Kubernetes lifecycle Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot vSphere with Kubernetes During this 3-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere© with Kubernetes. You learn about how vSphere with Kubernetes can be used to orchestrate the delivery of Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications in a VMware vSphere© environment. Course Introduction Introductions and course logistics Course objectives Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes Describe Virtual Machines and Containers Describe Container Hosts Describe Container Engines Describe Dockerfile Describe Container Images Describe Image Registry Describe the purpose and functionality of Kubernetes Describe Manifest YAML files Explain Pod YAML files Explain ReplicaSets Explain Services Explain Deployments Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes Describe the purpose and functionality of vSphere with Kubernetes Explain the integration with VMware Tanzu? Mission Control? Describe the capabilities of vSphere with Kubernetes Describe the components of vSphere with Kubernetes Contrast vSphere with Kubernetes to traditional Kubernetes Describe the requirements for vSphere with Kubernetes Prepare a vSphere cluster for vSphere with Kubernetes Describe the NSX components required for vSphere with Kubernetes Describe the network topology of vSphere with Kubernetes Explain the networking requirements of vSphere with Kubernetes Compare NSX networking objects with Kubernetes networking objects vSphere with Kubernetes Core Services Explain the architecture of the vSphere with Kubernetes Core Services Describe the Container Service Describe the Volume Service Describe the Network Service Describe the Registry Service Describe the use cases of vSphere with Kubernetes Enable vSphere with Kubernetes Deploy VMware Harbor Registry vSphere with Kubernetes Namespaces Describe a vSphere with Kubernetes namespace Contrast a vSphere with Kubernetes namespace to a traditional Kubernetes namespace Describe Resource Quotas Explain Authentication and Authorization to vSphere with Kubernetes Explain the use cases of namespaces Create a namespace Describe kubectl Use kubectl to interact with vSphere with Kubernetes Describe using kubectl pod deployment Explain scaling a pod deployment Explain managing pod lifecycle Explain deleting pods Use kubectl to deploy a pod Use kubectl to scale a pod Use kubectl to switch between namespaces VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service Explain Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service Describe the use cases for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters Describe the integration with Tanzu Mission Control Explain the lifecycle of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters Deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster Deploy pods to a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster Monitoring and Troubleshooting Describe the monitoring tools for vSphere with Kubernetes Describe the troubleshooting tools for vSphere with Kubernetes Explain cluster, node, and namespace health Explain usage and capacity monitoring Describe vCenter Server events Describe vSphere with Kubernetes events Gather support information vSphere with Kubernetes Lifecycle Describe the vSphere with Kubernetes lifecycle Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid lifecycle Describe scaling a vSphere with Kubernetes cluster Update vSphere with Kubernetes Update Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters Remove vSphere with Kubernetes Additional course details:Notes Delivery by TDSynex, Exit Certified and New Horizons an VMware Authorised Training Centre (VATC) Nexus Humans VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [V7] training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [V7] course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 4 Days 24 CPD hours This course is intended for IS Security Officers Privacy Officers Health IS Managers Risk Managers Information Security Managers Compliance and Privacy Officers Overview Upon completion, the student will be ready to take the Certified Healthcare Information Systems Security Practitioner exam by mile2. In addition, at the end of the CHISSP course, the student will be versed with best practices in the healthcare industry and will be able to establish a framework with current best practices in respects to privacy, regulation and risk management. The Certified Healthcare IS Security Practitioner, C)HISSP certification course covers the skills and knowledge to implement the best IT healthcare practices, as well as, regulatory compliance and standards in the healthcare industry. Because of growing industry regulations and privacy requirements in the healthcare industry, the C)HISSP was developed by Mile2. Graduates of this course have become vital in managing and protecting healthcare data and are tasked to protect patient information by implementing, managing, and assessing proper IT controls for patient health information integrity. Course Outline Intro to the Healthcare Industry Regulatory Environment Healthcare Privacy and Security Policies Information Governance Risk Management Third-Party Risk Management

A workshop for 19-29 years olds living in West Sussex who do not have their level 4 or higher maths GCSE (or equivalent). Build your confidence using numeracy skills common in all sorts of jobs.

An Advisor’s Essential Guide to the Merged R&D Scheme Our free course will help you to: Understand how the new Merged R&D Scheme works and when to claim under it Work confidently with complex areas of the new scheme Update your processes with the new rules and requirements for R&D tax relief claims and advisors. Key details Availability Available to all Cost Free CPD points 2 Level Foundation Best for Anyone preparing R&D claims, submitting R&D claims, or discussing R&D claims with clients and prospects. 12 months access to this training course for each user. Learning outcomes Our free course will help you to: Understand how the new Merged R&D Scheme works and when to claim under it Work confidently with complex areas of the new scheme Update your processes with the new rules and requirements for R&D tax relief claims and advisors. What does it cover? Unit 1 & 2: The Merged R&D Scheme Key facts about the Merged Scheme How to handle grants and subsidies Subcontracting under the Merged Scheme Unit 3: Costs & Financial Which costs attract relief in the Merged Scheme Restrictions on foreign subcontractors & EPWs The PAYE & NIC cap Unit 4: Rules & Regulations Rules & regulations when giving advice on R&D tax relief The rules and deadlines for Prenotification Where to find further support and training About the course

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for managers and individuals who would like to increase their skill in leading and planning meetings. Overview Upon successful completion of this course, participants will have the basic tools needed to initiate and manage meetings that will engage attendees and leave a positive and lasting impression. In this course, participants will learn the needed skills in planning and implementing a successful meeting. Getting Started Workshop Objectives Action Plan Planning and Preparing (1) Identifying the Participants Choosing the Time and Place Creating the Agenda Practical Illustration Planning and Preparing (2) Gathering Materials Sending Invitations Making Logistical Arrangements Practical Illustration Setting Up the Meeting Space The Basic Essentials The Extra Touches Choosing a Physical Arrangement Practical Illustration Electronic Options Overview of Choices Available Things to Consider Making a Final Decision Practical Illustration Meeting Roles and Responsibilities The Chairperson The Minute-taker The Attendees Variations for Large and Small Meetings Practical Illustration Chairing a Meeting (1) Keeping the Meeting on Track Dealing with Overtime Holding Participants Accountable Practical Illustration Chairing a Meeting (2) Running in and Out Cell Phone Ringing Off on a Tangent Personality Conflict Practical Illustration Dealing With Disruptions Running in and Out Cell Phone Ringing Off on a Tangent Personality Conflict Practical Illustration Taking Minutes What are Minutes? What do I Record? A Take-Home Template Practical Illustration Making the Most of Your Meeting The Minute Meeting Using Games Giving Prizes Simple Magic Practical Illustration Wrapping Up Words From the Wise Additional course details: Nexus Humans Meeting Management Skills training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Meeting Management Skills course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.