Harpenden

<p>Masterclasses? Refreshers? Introductions?</p><p>It depends what you're looking for and where you want to pitch them, but here are six tried-and-tested highly focused sessions that organisations can take individually or as a series, to help develop their teams' project management capabilities one topic at a time.</p>Objectives for each individual session are set out below, as part of the session outlines.<p>Taken together, as a series, however, these modules are an ideal opportunity to develop your team's levels of project management capability maturity, whether that's by introducing them to the basic principles, refreshing them on best practice, or giving them the opportunity to really drill down into a specific area of challenge in your particular operating environment.</p><section>
                    <h3>Session outlines</h3> 1 Stakeholder management <h3>Session objectives</h3>This session will help participants:<ul><li>Understand why stakeholders matter to projects</li><li>Be able to identify and engage stakeholders</li><li>Be able to categorise stakeholders by their significance</li></ul> <h3>1 Key principles</h3><ul><li>What does 'stakeholder' mean - in theory?</li><li>What does this mean in practice?</li><li>Why stakeholders matter</li><li>Consequences of missing stakeholders</li><li>The stakeholder management process:<ul><li>Identify</li><li>Assess</li><li>Plan</li><li>Engage</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>2 Identifying stakeholders</h3><ul><li>Rapid listing</li><li>CPIG analysis</li><li>PESTLE analysis</li><li>Drawing on the knowledge and experience of others</li><li>Other ways to identify stakeholders</li></ul> <h3>3 Assessing stakeholders</h3><ul><li>Which stakeholders are significant?</li><li>Stakeholder radar</li><li>Power-interest maps</li><li>Power-attitude maps</li></ul> <h3>4 Planning</h3><ul><li>The adoption curve</li><li>Dealing with obstacles</li><li>Who should engage which stakeholder?</li><li>How should the project's organisation be structured?</li><li>How will communication happen?</li></ul> <h3>5 Engaging</h3><ul><li>Seven principles of stakeholder engagement</li></ul> 2 Requirements and prioritisation <h3>Session objectives</h3>This session will help participants:<ul><li>Understand how clarity of requirements contributes to project success</li><li>Use different techniques for prioritising requirements</li><li>Agree requirements with stakeholders</li><li>Manage changes to requirements</li></ul> <h3>1 Understanding and managing stakeholder needs and expectations</h3><ul><li>What are 'requirements'?</li><li>What is 'requirements management'?</li><li>Sources of requirements - and the role of stakeholders</li><li>Are stakeholders sufficiently expert to specify their needs?</li><li>Do they understand the detail of what they want, or do they need help to tease that out?</li><li>What do stakeholders want to achieve?</li><li>Working within constraints</li><li>Prioritising requirements - three techniques</li></ul> <h3>2 MoSCoW prioritisation</h3><ul><li>'Must have', should have', 'could have, 'won't have this time'</li><li>When to use MoSCoW</li></ul> <h3>3 The Kano Model</h3><ul><li>Customer satisfaction - 'attractive' and 'must-be' qualities</li><li>When to use Kano</li></ul> <h3>4 Value-based prioritisation</h3><ul><li>Understanding risk <em>v</em> value</li><li>Using risk <em>v</em> value to prioritise features and schedules</li></ul> <h3>5 Agreeing requirements</h3><ul><li>Perfect <em>v</em> 'good enough'</li><li>Establishing acceptance criteria</li><li>Requirements traceability</li><li>Agreeing project scope</li></ul> <h3>6 Changing requirements</h3><ul><li>Why requirements change</li><li>Why change control matters</li><li>Impact on projects</li><li>A formal change control process</li><li>Paying for change - managing change for different types of project</li></ul> 3 Estimating <h3>Session objectives</h3>This session will help participants:<ul><li>Understand the different purposes estimates satisfy</li><li>Be able to use different estimating techniques</li><li>Understand how to achieve different levels of accuracy</li></ul> <h3>1 Key principles</h3><ul><li>What's an estimate? Informed guesswork</li><li>What needs to be estimated? Costs, resources, effort, duration</li><li>Tolerances</li><li>Precision <em>v</em> accuracy</li></ul> <h3>2 Estimating through the lifecycle</h3><ul><li>Start</li><li>Plan</li><li>Do</li></ul> <h3>3 Early estimates</h3><ul><li>Comparative ('analogous') estimating</li><li>Parametric estimating</li><li>Using multiple estimating techniques</li></ul> <h3>4 Bottom-up estimating</h3><ul><li>Bottom-up ('analytical') estimating</li><li>Pros</li><li>Cons</li></ul> <h3>5 Three-point estimating</h3><ul><li>Three-point ('PERT': Programme Evaluation and Review Technique) estimating</li><li>Uncertainty and the range of estimates</li><li>Calculating a weighted average</li><li>Three-point with bottom-up</li></ul> 4 Scheduling <h3>Session objectives</h3>This session will help participants:<ul><li>Understand how to create a viable schedule</li><li>Be able to use different forms of schedule</li><li>Understand the concept of the critical path</li></ul> <h3>1 Key principles</h3><ul><li>The planning horizon</li><li>Rolling wave planning</li><li>Release planning</li></ul> <h3>2 Viable scheduling</h3><ul><li>Creating a viable schedule</li><li>Define the scope</li><li>Sequence the work</li><li>Identify the risks and build in mitigations</li><li>Identify the resources</li><li>Estimate the effort and durations</li><li>Check resource availability</li><li>Refine until a workable schedule is produced</li></ul> <h3>3 Critical path analysis</h3><ul><li>The critical path</li><li>Network diagrams</li><li>Sequence logic</li><li>Practical application:<ul><li>Network diagram with estimated durations</li><li>The 'forward pass'</li><li>The 'backward pass'</li><li>Calculating total float</li><li>Identifying the critical path</li><li>Calculating free float</li></ul></li><li>Gantt charts</li></ul> 5 Risk and issue management <h3>Session objectives</h3>This session will help participants:<ul><li>Understand the difference between risks and issues</li><li>Be able to identify and assess risks</li><li>Understand ways of mitigating risks</li><li>Manage issues</li></ul> <h3>1 Key principles</h3><ul><li>Understanding risk</li><li>Threats and opportunities</li><li>The risk management process<ul><li>Preparation - proactive risk management</li><li>The process - identify, assess, plan, implement</li><li>Stakeholder communication</li></ul></li><li>Roles and responsibilities</li><li>Risk management strategy</li><li>The risk register</li><li>Risk appetite</li></ul> <h3>2 Risk identification</h3><ul><li>Brainstorming</li><li>Interviews</li><li>Assumption analysis</li><li>Checklists</li></ul> <h3>3 Risk assessment and prioritisation</h3><ul><li>Probability, impact and proximity</li><li>Triggers</li><li>Qualitative risk assessment</li><li>Qualitative impact assessment</li><li>Qualitative probability assessment</li><li>Probability / impact grid</li><li>Bubble charts</li><li>Risk tolerance</li></ul> <h3>4 Planning countermeasures</h3><ul><li>To mitigate or not to mitigate?</li><li>Categories of risk response</li><li>Avoid and exploit</li><li>Reduce and enhance</li><li>Transfer</li><li>Share</li><li>Accept</li><li>Contingency</li><li>Secondary risks</li></ul> <h3>5 Issue management</h3><ul><li>What is an issue?</li><li>Tolerances</li><li>Issues and tolerances</li><li>The PRINCE2 view of issues</li><li>Ownership of issues</li><li>An issue management process</li><li>Issue register</li></ul> 6 Budgeting and cost control <h3>Session objectives</h3>This session will help participants:<ul><li>Understand what to include in a budget - and why</li><li>Choose - and use - the appropriate estimating technique</li><li>Align the budget with the schedule</li><li>Understand how to monitor spend and control costs</li><li>Trouble-shoot effectively to get projects back within budget</li></ul> <h3>Session format</h3>Flexible. The session can be tailored to the participants' average level of project management maturity - a 60-minute session (delivered virtually) is an effective introduction. A 90-minute session allows for more in-depth treatment. A half-day session (face-to-face or virtual) gives time for a more challenging workshop, particularly to discuss specific cost control issues with any of the participants' current projects. <h3>1 Where is the money coming from?</h3><ul><li>Can we pay from revenue? Do we need to borrow? How long will the project take to pay back?</li><li>The lifecycle of the budget</li><li>Through-life costs</li><li>Stakeholder involvement</li></ul> <h3>2 Estimating costs</h3><ul><li>Reminder: the relationship between estimates</li><li>Reminder: possible estimating techniques</li><li>What do we need to estimate?<ul><li>People</li><li>Equipment</li><li>Materials</li><li>Facilities and operating costs</li><li>Work package estimate</li><li>Estimated project costs</li></ul></li><li>Estimating agile projects</li></ul> <h3>3 Aligning budget and schedule</h3><ul><li>Scheduling and financial periods</li><li>Spreading the budget</li></ul> <h3>4 Reserves and agreeing the budget</h3><ul><li>Contingency reserve</li><li>Management reserve</li><li>Agreeing the budget</li></ul> <h3>5 Cost control</h3><ul><li>Planned spend over time</li><li>Actual spend over time</li><li>Work completed over time</li><li>Evaluating different scenarios: delivery <em>v</em> spend</li></ul> <h3>6 Trouble-shooting</h3><ul><li>Why are we where we are?</li><li>What has caused the project to spend at the rate it is?</li><li>Why is it delivering at the rate it is?</li><li>What are the root causes?</li><li>What can we do about it?</li></ul> 


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The In House Training Company

Project Management Qualification (PMQ)

Meeting Skills

Project Management

Google Project Management

Presentation Skills

Management Skills

Project management 'masterclasses' (In-House)

London

<h2>Project Stakeholder Relationship Skills: In-House Training</h2>
<p>This course is designed to provide project managers with the ability to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Analyze the complexities of major stakeholder relationship categories</li>
<li>Apply the most appropriate interpersonal relationship skills to the different categories of relationships</li>
<li>Align the dynamic needs of the stakeholders with a project's objective throughout the project life cycle</li>
</ul><h3>What you Will Learn</h3><ul><li>Examine traditional and non-traditional ways to identify and assess stakeholders</li><li>Explain how competence, character, and trust lead to project success and strong relationships with stakeholders</li><li>Utilize 'Embodied Leadership' skills to build stakeholder relationships</li><li>Apply stakeholder engagement best practices to case study and real-life scenarios</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3><ul><li>Stakeholders and project success</li><li>Stakeholder management research</li><li>Managing stakeholder relationships</li></ul><h3>Identifying Stakeholders</h3><ul><li>Stakeholder categories</li><li>Stakeholder relationships across the project life cycle</li><li>Tools and techniques for identifying stakeholders</li></ul><h3>Assessing Stakeholders</h3><ul><li>Assessing stakeholder relationships</li><li>Recognizing stakeholder attitudes toward the project</li><li>Analyzing stakeholders</li><li>Using other types of stakeholder assessments</li></ul><h3>Building Stakeholder Relationships</h3><ul><li>The importance of psychological safety</li><li>Building trust and getting results</li><li>The anatomy of trust</li></ul><h3>Navigating Challenging Situations</h3><ul><li>Dynamics of conflict</li><li>Responding to conflict</li><li>Managing difficult conversations</li></ul>


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IIL Europe Ltd

Project Stakeholder Relationship Skills: In-House Training

General Admission

<h2>Project Leadership Skills: In-House Training</h2>
<p>To be effective within an organization, project managers need to have a wide variety of skills and abilities. Included among these are: creating and executing on a vision; motivating others; influencing without authority; networking; communicating up, down and laterally; negotiating; managing stakeholders; and managing conflict.</p>
<p>This highly interactive workshop focuses on building the soft skills that are critical to leading a team and creating sustainable business change. Participants will gain insight into the social science as well as the brain science behind motivating and empowering others. They will learn and experiment with a variety of influencing strategies and tactics. Working in pairs as well as small groups, they will collaborate with others to brainstorm, share experiences, and apply concepts to everyday challenges.</p>
<p>Participants will also discover their personal communication preferences, strengths, and blind spots and will gain insight into how best to communicate with others they find 'difficult.' They will gain insight into managing the people side of change, learning strategies for dealing with each step in the process. Hands-on negotiation and conflict management activities enhance the theoretical learning, grounding it in real life and making it actionable.</p>
<p>Interweaving role play with experiential learning and group activities, this course will help participants refine a skill set that is invaluable to their organization, and one that transfers easily across their professional and personal lives.</p><h3>What You Will Learn</h3>
<p>At the end of this course, you will be able to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Explain the importance of vision in driving motivation and engagement</li>
<li>Apply science-based research to better motivate those around you</li>
<li>Strategically leverage both personal and positional power to achieve positive project results</li>
<li>Determine influencing and networking strategies needed for personal growth</li>
<li>Identify ways to problem solve communication challenges when others have different personality styles</li>
<li>Connect stakeholder expectations to project success criteria</li>
<li>Assess key stakeholders across various dimensions of complexity</li>
<li>Apply the four rules of principled negotiation to a real-life conflict situation</li>
<li>Recognize key aspects of a physiological response to conflict</li>
<li>Utilize selected tools and techniques to 'defuse' an emotional situation</li>
<li>Leverage various strategies and tactics to successfully deal with ambiguity at work</li>
</ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started / Foundation Concepts</h3><ul><li>Introductions</li><li>Course structure, goals, and objectives</li><li>Beginning a personal action plan</li></ul><h3>Managing Vision and Purpose / Motivating Others</h3><ul><li>Communicating and aligning around vision</li><li>Tying the present to the future</li><li>The importance of purpose</li><li>The art and science of motivation</li></ul><h3>Networking and Influencing</h3><ul><li>Positive politics and project success</li><li>Types of power within organizations</li><li>Power and influence</li><li>Networking best practices</li></ul><h3>Communication</h3><ul><li>The medium and the message</li><li>Personality and communication styles</li><li>Communication challenges</li></ul><h3>Stakeholder Management and Negotiation</h3><ul><li>Identifying stakeholders</li><li>Analyzing stakeholders</li><li>Negotiation basics</li><li>Principled negotiation</li></ul><h3>Conflict Management</h3><ul><li>Dynamics of conflict</li><li>The anatomy of conflict</li><li>Conflict management approaches and tools</li><li>Dealing with ambiguity</li></ul><h3>Summary and Next Steps</h3><ul><li>Key concepts review</li><li>Creating your personal action plan</li></ul>


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Project Leadership Skills: In-House Training

<h2>Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® Exam Prep: In-House Training: In-House Training</h2>
 <p>This course gives you the knowledge you need to pass the exam and covers CAPM®-critical information on project management theory, principles, techniques, and methods</p>
 <p>Are you planning on taking the CAPM® examination? This course gives you the knowledge you need to pass the exam and covers CAPM®-critical information on project management theory, principles, techniques, and methods. You'll also have an opportunity for practical applications and time to review the kinds of questions you'll find in the CAPM® Exam.</p><h3>What you Will Learn</h3> <ul>  <li>Apply for the CAPM® Examination</li>  <li>Develop a personal exam preparation plan</li>  <li>Describe the structure, intent, and framework principles of the current edition of the PMBOK® Guide</li>  <li>Explain the PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas, as well as their inter-relationships with the each other and the Process Groups</li>  </ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul>  <li>Program orientation</li>  <li>The CAPM® certification process</li>  <li>Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) Examination Content Outline</li>  <li>CAPM® eligibility requirements</li>  <li>Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct</li>  <li>Application options</li>  </ul>  <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul>  <li>Skills and qualities of a project manager</li>  <li>Project management terminology and definitions</li>  <li>Relationship of project, program, portfolio, and operations management</li>  <li>Project lifecycle approaches</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Integration Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Integration Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Develop Project Charter</li>  <li>Develop Project Management Plan</li>  <li>Direct and Manage Project Work</li>  <li>Manage Project Knowledge</li>  <li>Monitoring and Controlling</li>  <li>Perform Integrated Change Control</li>  <li>Close Project or Phase</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Stakeholder Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Stakeholder Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Identify Stakeholders</li>  <li>Plan Stakeholder Engagement</li>  <li>Manage Stakeholder Engagement</li>  <li>Monitor Stakeholder Engagement</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Scope Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Scope Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Plan Scope Management</li>  <li>Collect Requirements</li>  <li>Define Scope</li>  <li>Create WBS</li>  <li>Validate Scope</li>  <li>Control Scope</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Schedule Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Schedule Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Plan Schedule Management</li>  <li>Define Activities</li>  <li>Sequence Activities</li>  <li>Estimate Activity Durations</li>  <li>Develop Schedule</li>  <li>Control Schedule</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Cost Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Cost Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Plan Cost Management</li>  <li>Estimate Costs</li>  <li>Determine Budget</li>  <li>Control Schedule</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Resource Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Resource Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Plan Resource Management</li>  <li>Estimate Activity Resources</li>  <li>Acquire Resources</li>  <li>Develop Team</li>  <li>Manage Team</li>  <li>Control Resources</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Quality Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Quality Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Plan Quality Management</li>  <li>Manage Quality</li>  <li>Control Quality</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Risk Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Risk Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Plan Risk Management</li>  <li>Identify Risks</li>  <li>Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis</li>  <li>Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis</li>  <li>Plan Risk Responses</li>  <li>Implement Risk Responses</li>  <li>Monitor Risks</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Communications Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Communications Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Plan Communications Management</li>  <li>Manage Communications</li>  <li>Monitor Communications</li>  </ul>  <h3>Project Procurement Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Review Project Procurement Management Knowledge Area</li>  <li>Plan Procurement Management</li>  <li>Conduct Procurements</li>  <li>Control Procurements</li>  </ul>  <h3>Summary and Next Steps</h3> <ul>  <li>Program Review</li>  <li>Mock CAPM® Exam</li>  <li>Getting Prepared for the CAPM® Exam</li>  <li>After the CAPM® Exam</li>  </ul>


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Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Exam Prep: In-House Training

<h2>Introduction to Project Management: In-House Training</h2>
 <p>This course provides practical insights into what is project management and how it is performed in a structured manner.</p>
 <p>This course provides practical insights into what is project management and how it is performed in a structured manner. You will learn how projects are selected, initiated, planned, executed, monitored and control, as well as closed, which could serve you ubiquitously.</p>
 <p>The goal of this course is to provide a minimally essential orientation to practical project management concepts, tools, and techniques. You will be provided with enough of these that can be applied from both a project manager and a key stakeholder perspective.</p><h3>What you Will Learn</h3> 
 <p>You will learn how to:</p> 
 <ul> 
 <li>Articulate on the basics of the project management profession</li> 
 <li>Explain project management terms and concepts in practice</li> 
 <li>Speak on how projects originate in mature organizations</li> 
 <li>Employ a disciplined approach to initiating, planning, and managing projects to closure</li> 
 <li>Identify and describe the roles and responsibilities of key project stakeholders</li> 
 <li>Consider standard project processes to implement based upon the <em>PMBOK® Guide</em></li> 
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul>  <li>Introductions</li>  <li>Course orientation</li>  <li>Participants' expectations</li>  </ul>  <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul>  <li>Key terms and concepts</li>  <li>Organizational framework</li>  <li>Leadership framework</li>  </ul>  <h3>Originating and Initiating</h3> <ul>  <li>Originating projects</li>  <li>Initiating projects</li>  </ul>  <h3>Planning</h3> <ul>  <li>Planning overview</li>  <li>Scope and quality planning</li>  <li>Resources and risk planning</li>  <li>Schedule and cost planning</li>  <li>Project baselining</li>  </ul>  <h3>Executing and Controlling</h3> <ul>  <li>Executing</li>  <li>Monitoring and Controlling</li>  </ul>  <h3>Closing</h3> <ul>  <li>Project closing overview</li>  <li>Closing administratively</li>  <li>Closing financially</li>  </ul>  <h3>Summary and Next Steps</h3> <ul>  <li>Review of goals, objectives, key concepts, and expectations</li>  <li>Evaluations</li>  </ul>


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Introduction to Project Management: In-House Training

<h2>Microsoft® Project White Belt® 2016: In-House Training</h2>
 <p>This workshop serves as an introduction to the interface and features of Microsoft® Project.</p>
 <p>This workshop serves as an introduction to the interface and features of Microsoft® Project. It is kept up to date with the framework outlined by Project Management Institute's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). This course will be led by an IIL-certified instructor who will outline the benefits of Microsoft Project, provide tips on using various features and common shortcuts, recommend guidelines, and discuss the application of scheduling concepts to manage project work.</p><h3>What you Will Learn</h3>
 <p>You'll learn how to:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Define key scheduling concepts and terms</li>
 <li>Effectively navigate the user interface and interpret common views</li>
 <li>Configure essential elements of a new schedule</li>
 <li>Enter and modify a task list</li>
 <li>Set dependencies between tasks</li>
 <li>Create a basic resource list and generate assignments</li>
 <li>Format targeted areas of the Gantt Chart view</li>
 <li>Prepare the schedule for printing</li>
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul>  <li>Introductions</li>  <li>Course objectives</li>  <li>Course outline</li>  </ul>  <h3>Navigating the User Interface and Views</h3> <ul>  <li>The ribbon</li>  <li>The Quick Access Toolbar</li>  <li>General and display options</li>  <li>Major elements on the Project screen</li>  <li>The Gantt chart, calendar, and network diagram views</li>  <li>The help</li>  </ul>  <h3>Setting up a New Schedule</h3> <ul>  <li>New schedules from blank, templates or other files</li>  <li>The project starting date and forward scheduling</li>  <li>The project standard calendar and exception days</li>  </ul>  <h3>Entering, Modifying, and Outlining Task Data</h3> <ul>  <li>Task entering options and edition</li>  <li>Unscheduled tasks</li>  <li>Duration estimates for a single task or multiple tasks</li>  <li>Tasks organization</li>  <li>Multi-level outline</li>  <li>Notes to detail tasks</li>  </ul>  <h3>Creating Dependencies by Setting Links</h3> <ul>  <li>The critical path</li>  <li>Critical path calculation in Project</li>  <li>Dynamic schedules and dependencies</li>  <li>Link tasks in Project</li>  <li>Displaying the critical path</li>  </ul>  <h3>Entering and Assigning Resources</h3> <ul>  <li>Resource planning</li>  <li>Resource list</li>  <li>Resource assignments</li>  </ul>  <h3>Formatting Gantt Chart View</h3> <ul>  <li>Format options for text and Gantt charts</li>  <li>Print options</li>  </ul>


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Microsoft Project White Belt 2016: In-House Training

<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 Professional (PMP)

Project Risk Management

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Project planning and risk management (In-House)

<h2>Microsoft Project White Belt® 2013: In-House Training</h2>
 <p>This workshop serves as an introduction to the interface and features of Microsoft® Project 2013. This course will be led by an IIL-certified instructor who will outline the benefits of Microsoft Project, provide tips on using various features and common shortcuts, recommend guidelines, and discuss the application of scheduling concepts to manage project work</p>
 <p>This workshop serves as an introduction to the interface and features of Microsoft® Project 2013. This course will be led by an IIL-certified instructor who will outline the benefits of Microsoft Project, provide tips on using various features and common shortcuts, recommend guidelines, and discuss the application of scheduling concepts to manage project work.</p><h3>What you Will Learn</h3> 
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                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul>  <li>Introductions</li>  <li>Course objectives</li>  <li>Course outline</li>  </ul>  <h3>Navigating the User Interface and Views</h3> <ul>  <li>Navigate and use the Ribbon</li>  <li>Use and customize the Quick Access Toolbar</li>  <li>Modify general and display options</li>  <li>Become familiar with major elements on the Project screen</li>  <li>Navigate Gantt Chart, calendar, and network diagram views</li>  <li>Search for a help topic</li>  </ul>  <h3>Setting up a New Schedule</h3> <ul>  <li>Create new schedules</li>  <li>Create a new schedule using existing information</li>  <li>Enter and modify the schedule start date</li>  <li>Enter and modify exception days in the calendar</li>  </ul>  <h3>Entering, Modifying, and Outlining Task Data</h3> <ul>  <li>Enter, edit, correct, and clear information</li>  <li>Enter unscheduled tasks</li>  <li>Enter duration estimates for a single task or multiple tasks</li>  <li>Organize tasks</li>  <li>Set up a multi-level outline</li>  <li>Add notes to tasks</li>  </ul>  <h3>Creating Dependencies by Setting Links</h3> <ul>  <li>Identify a critical path in a simple schedule</li>  <li>Understand how scheduling software calculates a critical path</li>  <li>Describe dynamic schedules and dependencies</li>  <li>Create links using various methods</li>  <li>Display the critical path</li>  </ul>  <h3>Entering and Assigning Resources</h3> <ul>  <li>Plan for resources</li>  <li>Create a list of available resources</li>  <li>Assign resources</li>  </ul>  <h3>Formatting Gantt Chart View</h3> <ul>  <li>Format text and Gantt Chart bars</li>  <li>Format a collection of items</li>  <li>Configure print options</li>  </ul>


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Microsoft Project White Belt 2013: In-House Training

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<h2><strong>About this Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)</strong></h2>
<p>Governments, regulators and energy companies are pursuing CO<sub>2</sub> storage technologies to meet their net-zero carbon commitments as well as targets set by the international Paris Agreement on climate change. For successfully executing Carbon Capture &amp; Storage (CCS) projects, various technical, operational, economic and environmental risks and associated stakeholders need to be managed.</p>
<p>In this <strong>5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course</strong>, the methods for managing risk in CCS projects are addressed <u>with a focus on CO<sub>2 </sub>injection and storage.</u> The VILT course will also demonstrate how to assess storage capacity of a potential CO<sub>2</sub> storage reservoir, model framing techniques, and well injectivity issues related to CO<sub>2</sub> injection. The potential leak paths will be discussed such as reservoir seals, leakage along faults and aspects of well integrity. In the VILT course, the design of a monitoring programme will also be discussed. The VILT course will be supported by various case studies.</p>
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<p>On completion of this VILT course, participants will be able to:</p>
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<p>This VILT course is intended for all surface and subsurface engineers such as facility engineers, geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, petrophysicists, production technologists/engineers, well engineers and geomechanical specialists. Also, (sub)surface team leads, project managers, business opportunity managers, decision executives, and technical risk assessment &amp; assurance specialists will benefit from this VILT course as it provides a common framework and workflow to develop a CCS project.</p>
<p><em><strong>For each class, it is highly recommended that a mix of disciplines mentioned above are represented to facilitate discussions from different perspectives.</strong></em></p>
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<p>This VILT course is built around cases in which teams work to identify and assess CO2 storage site issues using a systematic thought approach in this course. In addition, exercises are used to practise the aspects of the CCS risk assessment process. The VILT course provides a venue for discussion and sharing of good practices as well as opportunities to practise multi-discipline co-operation and facilitation.</p>
<p>Participants are encouraged to bring their own work issues and challenges and seek advice from the expert course leaders and other participants about all aspects of CCS.</p>
<p><strong>This VILT course will be delivered online in 5 half-day sessions comprising 4 hours per day, with 2 breaks of 10 minutes per day.</strong></p>
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<p>Your expert course leader has more than 36 years of experience in the oil &amp; gas industry with Shell. He gained broad experience in petroleum engineering, with expertise in integrated production systems from subsurface, wells and surface. He has had assignments in Production Technology, R&amp;D, Production Chemistry, Rock Mechanics and Reservoir Engineering cEOR, with a proven track record in technology screening, development and deployment, field development planning, conceptual well design and Production System Optimization (PSO) of gas and oil fields as well as preparing Well, Reservoir &amp; Facility Management (WRFM) strategies and plans. He had also worked on assignments in NAM and did fieldwork in Oman, Gabon and Shell Nigeria. He is a skilled workshop facilitator. He discovered his passion for teaching following an assignment in Shell Learning. During his time in Shell, he developed and taught technical courses to Shell professionals via blended learning.</p>
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<p>Your second expert course leader has over 30 years of experience identifying, assessing and mitigating technical risks with Shell. The main focal point of his experience is in subsurface and Geomechanical risks. He is the the founding father of various innovations in how we assess risks by tool development (for bore hole stability, 3D geomechanical field evaluations and probabilistic assessment). He also developed an eye for people motivation, change management and facilitation. He was also responsible for the Geomechanical competence framework, and associated virtual and classroom training programme in Shell for 10 years.</p>
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<p>Your third expert course leader has more than 30 years of experience in Shell, focusing on research and development in drilling and offshore systems. His areas of expertise is in project management, finance, business planning, investment, development studies and economics models. In 2021, he worked on a project that looked into the economic evaluation of P18A field complex for CO<sub>2</sub> storage. He has an MSc in Mechanical Engineering (M.E.) TU Delft Netherlands (Hons) and a baccalaureate from Erasmus University Rotterdam.</p>
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<p>To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized 'One to One' coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster.<br />
Request for further information about post training coaching support and fees applicable for this.</p>
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EnergyEdge - Training for a Sustainable Energy Future

Renewable Energy

Oil & Gas

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): Project Risks & How to Manage Them

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<p>Where should management effort be directed? In controlling costs and ensuring proper engineering in live projects? - yes, of course, but true cost control comes by understanding, eliminating and minimising risk prior to a business committing any funds. This course studies the stages required for practical financial and business appraisals of projects and capital expenditure.</p>This course has two primary objectives:<ul><li>To impart the knowledge and skills required to ensure as risk-free as possible expenditure of that scarce resource, cash - the investors', governments' or shareholders' money must not be squandered</li><li>To improve the quality of the appraisal process in the widest sense - demonstrating how the process of project and capital expenditure appraisal can be used to dramatically improve cost control and deliver as risk-free as possible expenditure</li></ul><p>As a result of the course, participants will be able to:</p><ul><li>Understand the economics of appraisal</li><li>Be in control of their projects from the start</li><li>Understand the economics of their projects - and devise the most appropriate mode</li><li>Carry out sensitivity analysis and identify risk</li><li>Improve their methods of appraisal and approach</li><li>Focus on the risk areas and take out risk and control costs before they over-run</li></ul><p>The benefits of attending this course will be demonstrable from day one. Thorough appraisals and risk assessment follow through to success in project management and detailed cost control and project management.</p><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Why appraise?</li><li>Taking risk out of investment</li><li>The short- and long-term results of not appraising business expenditure</li></ul> <h3>2 Developing an appraisal process</h3><ul><li>The process - overall and stage-by-stage objectives</li><li>Understand business and technical risks</li><li>Manage resources and time</li><li>Do you invest enough time and effort at this stage?</li><li>Take out the risks - control costs before you are committed to contracts and action</li><li>Checklists</li></ul> <h3>3 Appraisal arithmetic</h3><ul><li>Review of the arithmetic of appraisal<ul><li>The time value of money</li><li>The effects of different interest or required rates</li><li>The effects of inflation (or deflation) in prices and costs</li></ul></li><li>Understanding the economics of appraisal is essential</li></ul> <h3>4 Appraisal measures</h3><ul><li>Meaning and use of appraisal measures</li><li>Identifying the most appropriate measures for your particular business</li><li>Payback</li><li>Discounted cash flow measures - NPV and IRR</li><li>Other measures - FW, AW, Profitability Index</li><li>The meaning of the measures and their application in practice</li></ul> <h3>5 Cost benefit analysis</h3><ul><li>The effect on decision-making of more intangible benefits</li><li>Cost benefit analysis</li><li>Ensuring costs are genuine</li><li>Measuring intangible benefits</li><li>Environmental issues</li><li>Consideration of intangible benefits in the appraisal decision-making process</li></ul> <h3>6 Developing appropriate models</h3><ul><li>Developing models - examples of spreadsheet models and measures for many different situations</li><li>Modelling investment opportunities - summarising outcomes</li><li>Sensitivity analysis - identifying, quantifying and taking out risk</li></ul> <h3>7 Developing an appraisal process</h3><ul><li>The process - managing risk from the outset</li><li>Using the process in risk management, negotiating and project management</li><li>Take out risk by thoroughly knowing your project - developing your own process</li></ul> 


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Financial Modelling & Analysis

Corporate Finance Level 1

Project Finance

Financial Risk Management

Practical Accounting

Project appraisal and risk management (In-House)

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Are you a stressed, exhausted SEN/EBSA parent or carer, running on empty, with no time to shout <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"HELP!"&nbsp;</em>let alone step off the hamster wheel to rest, recharge and recuperate?</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Parenting neurodivergent and/or school avoidant young people comes with a unique set of challenges and, if you&#39;re finding yourself lurching from managing meltdowns to fighting for support or feeling isolated and judged because people don&#39;t understand, it can be really hard and I GET IT!</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">After finding myself pretty much burnt out I discovered and implemented quick and simple self-help and relaxation tools that have helped strengthen my coping skills to navigate my family&#39;s journey, rebuild my resilience and rediscover&nbsp;my old self!&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">I was so blown away by how beneficial simple habits can be that it&#39;s my mission to help others do the same - and so I created&nbsp;The SHARE Project.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The ethos of THE SHARE Project is that&nbsp;we need to put our own oxygen mask on first&nbsp;so that we can&nbsp;best support our kids&nbsp;and my aim is that the tools you will learn during our time together will become your oxygen mask, not only for use in case of emergency, but as a sustainable part of your ongoing&nbsp;self-care and wellbeing.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">During each&nbsp;of four, weekly, live&nbsp;online workshops, delivered over Zoom, you will learn and practise a new tool to implement daily over the coming week (just a&nbsp;few minutes at a time, I promise)!</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Then, during the following week&#39;s workshop we will review your progress, make any tweaks and learn and practise the next tool...&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">There&#39;ll be no suggestions of long and luxurious spa days and fluffy robes because most of us don&#39;t have the time to do that very often and, frankly, the benefits disappear almost as soon as you&#39;ve driven home... My mission<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</em>is to give you sustainable tools to use anytime and anywhere to help yourself cope better and feel happier, regardless of what&#39;s going on around you!</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Each group session gives you the opportunity to connect with other SEN parents or carers&nbsp;experiencing similar challenges.</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;">What our clients say:</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);">"</span></em><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);">The Share project was a gentle, kind experience which showed understanding for parenting with additional challenges. &nbsp;The refocusing was extremely powerful and I felt nurtured by the sessions."</span></em></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);"><span data-sheets-root="1" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"I gained different techniques to build resilience and overcome overwhelm."&nbsp;</span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></em></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);"><span data-sheets-root="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-sheets-root="1" style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);"><span data-sheets-root="1" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"has helped me have a more positive outlook day to day, relaxation has helped with my sleep"</span></span><span data-sheets-root="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></em></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">If you have any questions, please ask and I will be happy to help :)</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Sue&nbsp;</p>

Discover Calm and Happiness with The SHARE Project: Your Path to Resilience! 🌟
Are you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and stretched to your limit?  With meetings and meltdowns to manage, battles for support, the frustration of feeling isolated or misunderstood, not to mention the pressure of juggling your job too, it can It can feel like you’re running on empty; hard to find a moment to step off the hamster wheel and just breathe.
I’ve been there, and I get it!💛
After being on the brink of burnout myself, I stumbled upon simple, yet impactful self-help, self-care and relaxation tools. These quick, effective techniques helped me rebuild my resilience, reclaim my sense of self and navigate challenges with renewed strength and joy.  And that’s how The SHARE Project was born.
What is The SHARE Project?
The SHARE Project is built on a simple principle: you need to put your own oxygen mask on first!  By nurturing yourself, you’re better equipped to support your children. Through our four-week, live online workshop series, delivered via Zoom, you’ll discover practical tools to bring more calm and happiness into your daily life.
Here’s what you can expect:
Weekly Workshops:  Each week, we’ll introduce and practice one or two tools designed to fit seamlessly into your life (in just a few minutes at a time, I promise!). These are not your typical “luxury spa day” suggestions — because let’s face it, who has time for that?  Instead, you’ll learn sustainable, go-to strategies that you can use anytime, anywhere, to boost your wellbeing, even in the midst of chaos.  You will also receive a mid-week email of encouragement between workshops and printables to help record and track your progress.
Ongoing Support:  In each session, we’ll review your progress, fine-tune your approach, if needed, and introduce the next tool.  
Community Connection: You’ll be part of a supportive group of fellow SEN parents and carers who understand the unique challenges you face.  
What our clients say:
“The SHARE Project was a gentle, kind experience which showed understanding for parenting with additional challenges.  The refocusing was extremely powerful and I felt nurtured by the sessions.”
“It has helped me to have a more positive outlook day-to-day, and the relaxation has helped with my sleep.”	
“I looked forward to the sessions each week, they gave me time to focus on myself for a change.”
Ready to Feel More Calm and Happy?
If you’re ready to step off the hamster wheel and start reclaiming your joy, The SHARE Project is here for you. Let’s work together to help you feel more at peace, more resilient, and, most importantly, more you.
Got any questions? Send me a message and I’ll be happy to help! 😊
With love and support,  
Sue

AUsomeMums

Emotional Wellbeing

Emotional Resilience

Autism

Mental Resilience

Special Education Needs (SEN)

Self-help and relaxation skills and exercises for stressed, burned out SEN parents and carers

The SHARE Project - Self-Help & Relaxation Exercises for SEN/EBSA Parent Carers (click for dates)

<span dir="ltr" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your organization. Connect to hundreds of data sources, simplify data prep, and drive ad-hoc analysis.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The course will introduce all the Power BI technologies including Power Query, DAX, Data Modelling (Power Pivot), M. We will go through a methodology for automating all your reporting needs and teach you how to create beautiful reports and dashboards giving you a 360-degree view of your business.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This instructor-led course includes:</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 weeks of self-paced essential learning content that you are to complete before the instructor-led live virtual sessions begin</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">6 instructor-led liver-virtual sessions of 2 hours each. Each Session will have a 15-minute break.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Intersession Assignments that you are expected to complete and discuss in your preassigned groups during the session.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Capstone Project</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Access to our community of life-long learners.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Downloadable Certificate you can link to your LinkedIn Page</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">For more details about this course, visit bit.ly/dbrownPBItraining&nbsp;</p></span>

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Microsoft Power BI

Data Analysis

Data Analyst

Business Data Analysis

Supercharge your skills and career and learn in-demand knowledge needed to build business intelligence dashboards. This beginner to intermediate level course will introduce you to all the Power BI technologies i.e. Power Query, DAX, Data Modelling (Power Pivot), M, types of visualizations, etc.

Reporting and Analytics with Power BI

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>4 Days</p><p>24 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p></p><p>The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders. Responsibilities include threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment. The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products. Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender. In this course you will learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies. Specifically, you will configure and use Microsoft Sentinel as well as utilize Kusto Query Language (KQL) to perform detection, analysis, and reporting. The course was designed for people who work in a Security Operations job role and helps learners prepare for the exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst.</p><p></p>Prerequisites<p></p><li>Basic understanding of Microsoft 365</li>  <li>Fundamental understanding of Microsoft security, compliance, and identity products</li>   <li> Intermediate understanding of Windows 10</li>  <li> Familiarity with Azure services, specifically Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage</li>   <li> Familiarity with Azure virtual machines and virtual networking</li>   <li>Basic understanding of scripting concepts.</li><p></p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - Introduction to Microsoft 365 threat protection</h3> <ul> <li>Explore Extended Detection &amp; Response (XDR) response use cases</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender XDR in a Security Operations Center (SOC)</li> <li>Explore Microsoft Security Graph</li> <li>Investigate security incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR</li> </ul> <h3>2 - Mitigate incidents using Microsoft 365 Defender</h3> <ul> <li>Use the Microsoft Defender portal</li> <li>Manage incidents</li> <li>Investigate incidents</li> <li>Manage and investigate alerts</li> <li>Manage automated investigations</li> <li>Use the action center</li> <li>Explore advanced hunting</li> <li>Investigate Microsoft Entra sign-in logs</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Secure Score</li> <li>Analyze threat analytics</li> <li>Analyze reports</li> <li>Configure the Microsoft Defender portal</li> </ul> <h3>3 - Protect your identities with Microsoft Entra ID Protection</h3> <ul> <li>Microsoft Entra ID Protection overview</li> <li>Detect risks with Microsoft Entra ID Protection policies</li> <li>Investigate and remediate risks detected by Microsoft Entra ID Protection</li> </ul> <h3>4 - Remediate risks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365</h3> <ul> <li>Automate, investigate, and remediate</li> <li>Configure, protect, and detect</li> <li>Simulate attacks</li> </ul> <h3>5 - Safeguard your environment with Microsoft Defender for Identity</h3> <ul> <li>Configure Microsoft Defender for Identity sensors</li> <li>Review compromised accounts or data</li> <li>Integrate with other Microsoft tools</li> </ul> <h3>6 - Secure your cloud apps and services with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps</h3> <ul> <li>Understand the Defender for Cloud Apps Framework</li> <li>Explore your cloud apps with Cloud Discovery</li> <li>Protect your data and apps with Conditional Access App Control</li> <li>Walk through discovery and access control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps</li> <li>Classify and protect sensitive information</li> <li>Detect Threats</li> </ul> <h3>7 - Respond to data loss prevention alerts using Microsoft 365</h3> <ul> <li>Describe data loss prevention alerts</li> <li>Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview</li> <li>Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps</li> </ul> <h3>8 - Manage insider risk in Microsoft Purview</h3> <ul> <li>Insider risk management overview</li> <li>Create and manage insider risk policies</li> <li>Investigate insider risk alerts</li> <li>Take action on insider risk alerts through cases</li> <li>Manage insider risk management forensic evidence</li> <li>Create insider risk management notice templates</li> </ul> <h3>9 - Investigate threats by using audit features in Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview Standard</h3> <ul> <li>Explore Microsoft Purview Audit solutions</li> <li>Implement Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard)</li> <li>Start recording activity in the Unified Audit Log</li> <li>Search the Unified Audit Log (UAL)</li> <li>Export, configure, and view audit log records</li> <li>Use audit log searching to investigate common support issues</li> </ul> <h3>10 - Investigate threats using audit in Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview (Premium)</h3> <ul> <li>Explore Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)</li> <li>Implement Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)</li> <li>Manage audit log retention policies</li> <li>Investigate compromised email accounts using Purview Audit (Premium)</li> </ul> <h3>11 - Investigate threats with Content search in Microsoft Purview</h3> <ul> <li>Explore Microsoft Purview eDiscovery solutions</li> <li>Create a content search</li> <li>View the search results and statistics</li> <li>Export the search results and search report</li> <li>Configure search permissions filtering</li> <li>Search for and delete email messages</li> </ul> <h3>12 - Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint</h3> <ul> <li>Practice security administration</li> <li>Hunt threats within your network</li> </ul> <h3>13 - Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment</h3> <ul> <li>Create your environment</li> <li>Understand operating systems compatibility and features</li> <li>Onboard devices</li> <li>Manage access</li> <li>Create and manage roles for role-based access control</li> <li>Configure device groups</li> <li>Configure environment advanced features</li> </ul> <h3>14 - Implement Windows security enhancements with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint</h3> <ul> <li>Understand attack surface reduction</li> <li>Enable attack surface reduction rules</li> </ul> <h3>15 - Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint</h3> <ul> <li>Use the device inventory list</li> <li>Investigate the device</li> <li>Use behavioral blocking</li> <li>Detect devices with device discovery</li> </ul> <h3>16 - Perform actions on a device using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint</h3> <ul> <li>Explain device actions</li> <li>Run Microsoft Defender antivirus scan on devices</li> <li>Collect investigation package from devices</li> <li>Initiate live response session</li> </ul> <h3>17 - Perform evidence and entities investigations using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint</h3> <ul> <li>Investigate a file</li> <li>Investigate a user account</li> <li>Investigate an IP address</li> <li>Investigate a domain</li> </ul> <h3>18 - Configure and manage automation using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint</h3> <ul> <li>Configure advanced features</li> <li>Manage automation upload and folder settings</li> <li>Configure automated investigation and remediation capabilities</li> <li>Block at risk devices</li> </ul> <h3>19 - Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint</h3> <ul> <li>Configure advanced features</li> <li>Configure alert notifications</li> <li>Manage alert suppression</li> <li>Manage indicators</li> </ul> <h3>20 - Utilize Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint</h3> <ul> <li>Understand vulnerability management</li> <li>Explore vulnerabilities on your devices</li> <li>Manage remediation</li> </ul> <h3>21 - Plan for cloud workload protections using Microsoft Defender for Cloud</h3> <ul> <li>Explain Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections</li> <li>Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> </ul> <h3>22 - Connect Azure assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud</h3> <ul> <li>Explore and manage your resources with asset inventory</li> <li>Configure auto provisioning</li> <li>Manual log analytics agent provisioning</li> </ul> <h3>23 - Connect non-Azure resources to Microsoft Defender for Cloud</h3> <ul> <li>Protect non-Azure resources</li> <li>Connect non-Azure machines</li> <li>Connect your AWS accounts</li> <li>Connect your GCP accounts</li> </ul> <h3>24 - Manage your cloud security posture management?</h3> <ul> <li>Explore Secure Score</li> <li>Explore Recommendations</li> <li>Measure and enforce regulatory compliance</li> <li>Understand Workbooks</li> </ul> <h3>25 - Explain cloud workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud</h3> <ul> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for servers</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for App Service</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for Storage</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for open-source databases</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for Key Vault</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for DNS</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for Containers</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender additional protections</li> </ul> <h3>26 - Remediate security alerts using Microsoft Defender for Cloud</h3> <ul> <li>Understand security alerts</li> <li>Remediate alerts and automate responses</li> <li>Suppress alerts from Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Generate threat intelligence reports</li> <li>Respond to alerts from Azure resources</li> </ul> <h3>27 - Construct KQL statements for Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Understand the Kusto Query Language statement structure</li> <li>Use the search operator</li> <li>Use the where operator</li> <li>Use the let statement</li> <li>Use the extend operator</li> <li>Use the order by operator</li> <li>Use the project operators</li> </ul> <h3>28 - Analyze query results using KQL</h3> <ul> <li>Use the summarize operator</li> <li>Use the summarize operator to filter results</li> <li>Use the summarize operator to prepare data</li> <li>Use the render operator to create visualizations</li> </ul> <h3>29 - Build multi-table statements using KQL</h3> <ul> <li>Use the union operator</li> <li>Use the join operator</li> </ul> <h3>30 - Work with data in Microsoft Sentinel using Kusto Query Language</h3> <ul> <li>Extract data from unstructured string fields</li> <li>Extract data from structured string data</li> <li>Integrate external data</li> <li>Create parsers with functions</li> </ul> <h3>31 - Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>What is Microsoft Sentinel?</li> <li>How Microsoft Sentinel works</li> <li>When to use Microsoft Sentinel</li> </ul> <h3>32 - Create and manage Microsoft Sentinel workspaces</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for the Microsoft Sentinel workspace</li> <li>Create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace</li> <li>Manage workspaces across tenants using Azure Lighthouse</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Sentinel permissions and roles</li> <li>Manage Microsoft Sentinel settings</li> <li>Configure logs</li> </ul> <h3>33 - Query logs in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Query logs in the logs page</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Sentinel tables</li> <li>Understand common tables</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender XDR tables</li> </ul> <h3>34 - Use watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for watchlists</li> <li>Create a watchlist</li> <li>Manage watchlists</li> </ul> <h3>35 - Utilize threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Define threat intelligence</li> <li>Manage your threat indicators</li> <li>View your threat indicators with KQL</li> </ul> <h3>36 - Connect data to Microsoft Sentinel using data connectors</h3> <ul> <li>Ingest log data with data connectors</li> <li>Understand data connector providers</li> <li>View connected hosts</li> </ul> <h3>37 - Connect Microsoft services to Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for Microsoft services connectors</li> <li>Connect the Microsoft Office 365 connector</li> <li>Connect the Microsoft Entra connector</li> <li>Connect the Microsoft Entra ID Protection connector</li> <li>Connect the Azure Activity connector</li> </ul> <h3>38 - Connect Microsoft Defender XDR to Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for Microsoft Defender XDR connectors</li> <li>Connect the Microsoft Defender XDR connector</li> <li>Connect Microsoft Defender for Cloud connector</li> <li>Connect Microsoft Defender for IoT</li> <li>Connect Microsoft Defender legacy connectors</li> </ul> <h3>39 - Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for Windows hosts security events connector</li> <li>Connect using the Windows Security Events via AMA Connector</li> <li>Connect using the Security Events via Legacy Agent Connector</li> <li>Collect Sysmon event logs</li> </ul> <h3>40 - Connect Common Event Format logs to Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for Common Event Format connector</li> <li>Connect your external solution using the Common Event Format connector</li> </ul> <h3>41 - Connect syslog data sources to Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for syslog data collection</li> <li>Collect data from Linux-based sources using syslog</li> <li>Configure the Data Collection Rule for Syslog Data Sources</li> <li>Parse syslog data with KQL</li> </ul> <h3>42 - Connect threat indicators to Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for threat intelligence connectors</li> <li>Connect the threat intelligence TAXII connector</li> <li>Connect the threat intelligence platforms connector</li> <li>View your threat indicators with KQL</li> </ul> <h3>43 - Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics</h3> <ul> <li>What is Microsoft Sentinel Analytics?</li> <li>Types of analytics rules</li> <li>Create an analytics rule from templates</li> <li>Create an analytics rule from wizard</li> <li>Manage analytics rules</li> </ul> <h3>44 - Automation in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Understand automation options</li> <li>Create automation rules</li> </ul> <h3>45 - Threat response with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks</h3> <ul> <li>What are Microsoft Sentinel playbooks?</li> <li>Trigger a playbook in real-time</li> <li>Run playbooks on demand</li> </ul> <h3>46 - Security incident management in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Understand incidents</li> <li>Incident evidence and entities</li> <li>Incident management</li> </ul> <h3>47 - Identify threats with Behavioral Analytics</h3> <ul> <li>Understand behavioral analytics</li> <li>Explore entities</li> <li>Display entity behavior information</li> <li>Use Anomaly detection analytical rule templates</li> </ul> <h3>48 - Data normalization in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Understand data normalization</li> <li>Use ASIM Parsers</li> <li>Understand parameterized KQL functions</li> <li>Create an ASIM Parser</li> <li>Configure Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules</li> </ul> <h3>49 - Query, visualize, and monitor data in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Monitor and visualize data</li> <li>Query data using Kusto Query Language</li> <li>Use default Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks</li> <li>Create a new Microsoft Sentinel Workbook</li> </ul> <h3>50 - Manage content in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Use solutions from the content hub</li> <li>Use repositories for deployment</li> </ul> <h3>51 - Explain threat hunting concepts in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Understand cybersecurity threat hunts</li> <li>Develop a hypothesis</li> <li>Explore MITRE ATT&amp;CK</li> </ul> <h3>52 - Threat hunting with Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Explore creation and management of threat-hunting queries</li> <li>Save key findings with bookmarks</li> <li>Observe threats over time with livestream</li> </ul> <h3>53 - Use Search jobs in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Hunt with a Search Job</li> <li>Restore historical data</li> </ul> <h3>54 - Hunt for threats using notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel</h3> <ul> <li>Access Azure Sentinel data with external tools</li> <li>Hunt with notebooks</li> <li>Create a notebook</li> <li>Explore notebook code</li> </ul></div>

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Microsoft Certification

Microsoft AZ-900

Microsoft AZ-104

Microsoft SC-200

Microsoft AZ-303

Microsoft AZ-700

SC-200T00 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

<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

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

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Basic Python syntax and principles of object-oriented programming. 
Most attendees are in-work IT Professional. 
Private individuals are also very welcome. 
Evening courses also running. 

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Duration: 4 weeks, 1 evening per week, 6pm - 8pm 
Times: arrange a time for your time zone 
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Once you have made the payment, use the above link on the date booked, to connect with the trainer. 
Python Basics EVENINGS Course
 This Python course London Evening covers the essential Python Basics, in our interactive, instructor led Live Virtual Classroom. This Python Basics course is a very good introduction to essential fundamental programming concepts using Python as programming language. These concepts are daily used by programmers and is your first step to working as a programmer. By the end, you'll be comfortable in programming Python code. You will have done small projects. This will serve for you as examples and samples that you can use to build larger projects. You can publish your code online to keep as a portfolio. 

This Python Programming course is hands-on and practical, to give you in-depth, practical experience of the topics covered. 
Week 1: Basics
 Python Data Types and Variables: 
Primitive Data types; Working with variables and its scope; Conversion and casting types in Python. 
 Operators and Expressions:  
 Introduction of operators; Arithmetic operators; Relational operators; Assignment operator; Logical operators; Increment and decrement operators. 
 Decision Making: 
If statement; If - else statement; If- elif - else statement; Nested if - else. 
Using Loops: 
The while, while-else. 
For loop; 
Jump statements: break, continue; 
Nesting loops. 
Week 2: Data Structures & Database
Lists.  
Tuples. 
Sets. 
Dictionary. Nested Dictionary. 
Json Files. 
Reading csv and text files
Connecting with a database and run SQL Queries. 
Week 3: Python built-in functions &  Pandas Dataframe Basics
 
Using built-in modules and functions: 
Strings Functions. 
Maths Functions. 
Random Functions. 
Data Frames; 
Getting data into a dataframe: 
Dict to Dataframe, Dataframe to Dict.  
Dataframe basics: 
Slicing Dataframes, 
Getting information about the dataframe, 
Filter and query a Dataframes, 
Working with null-values.
Week 4: OOP: Using Modules, functions, classes
 Creating and using custom Functions. 
Creating functions; 
Using parameters and return values; 
 
Introduction to Classes and Objects: 
Creating a Class; 
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Adding instance variables; controlling accessibility; and naming conventions for class members. 
 Class Constructors; Parameterized Constructors. 
Inheritance. Overload. 

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As well as an unmatched syllabus, our approach includes:</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Projects &amp; portfolio</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Learn by doing with a series of real-world projects ideal for your UX portfolio.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Mentors &amp; webinars</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Be guided by our hand-picked, world-class mentors during monthly webinars.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Structure &amp; support</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stay motivated with a structured programme supported by fellow students and our customer success team.</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;">What you&rsquo;ll learn</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">We&rsquo;ve put together a university credit-rated curriculum that&rsquo;s deep, rigorous and<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">covers everything you need to know to become a certified UX professional and<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">turbocharge your career.</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 01</strong>&nbsp;- Introduction to UX design</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 02</strong>&nbsp;- User research</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 03</strong>&nbsp;- User goals</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 04</strong>&nbsp;- Structure and navigation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 05</strong>&nbsp;- Interactions</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 06</strong>&nbsp;- Design principles</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 07</strong>&nbsp;- Design patterns</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 08</strong>&nbsp;- Mobile</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 09</strong>&nbsp;- Workflows</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 10</strong>&nbsp;- Prototyping and handover</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 11</strong> - AI and UX</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 12</strong> - Creating your portfolio</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 13</strong> - Career guidance Hub</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;">Tutorials for Figma</strong></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Projects and portfolio</strong>&nbsp;- Projects that build into a portfolio</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Exam</strong>&nbsp;- 2-hour final exam</li></ul></section><section style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Requirements</h2><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;">Background</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">You don&rsquo;t need experience in design or technology to enrol in our courses, although having one or both is a definite bonus. Our students come from a diverse array of backgrounds, including project management, development, graphic design, product management, business analysis and so on.</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;">Commitment</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">You do need to be motivated and committed. We set a high bar. Studying for one of our professional qualifications requires a certain amount of time, energy and focus. Our team will be there to support you along every step of the way but success will come as a result of your own diligence.</p></section><section style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Career path</h2><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The average salary for entry level user experience designers is &pound;28,000</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The average salary for user experience designers with 1-5 years experience ranges from &pound;29,000 to &pound;50,000</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The average salary for user experience managers/leads is &pound;80,000</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Information from LinkedIn Salary Reports, based on real jobs listings.</p></section>

UX Design Institute 

Product Design

UI / UX Design

Professional Diploma in UX Design

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);">This course will teach participants the fundamentals of Oil and Gas modeling following best practices. It will break down the important concepts into modules allowing you to implement them in the Oil and Gas industry.&nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);">We use the case study method which allows you to see varied perspectives and to gain deeper knowledge of the concepts. You will have lifetime access to our videos covering the core mechanics of the Oil and gas industry and you will be expected to think critically as you work through the case studies individually and in your assigned groups.&nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);">This course requires an above-average understanding of Excel, Finance, Basic Financial Modeling, and working knowledge of the mechanics of basic corporate models. &nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">This instructor-led course includes:&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;2 weeks of self-paced essential learning content that you are to complete before the instructor-led live virtual sessions begin&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;6 instructor-led virtual sessions of 2 hours each. Each Session will have a 15-minute break.&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Intersession Assignments that you are expected to complete and discuss in your preassigned groups during the session.&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;1 Capstone Project&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; Lifetime access to our LMS where you will have free access to the trainer, other participants, and resources including knowledge videos.&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Access to our community of life-long learners.&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Downloadable Certificate you can link to your LinkedIn page&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51);">We look forward to seeing you in Class!!!</span></p>

Learn the fundamentals of Oil and Gas modeling following best practices. This course will break down the important concepts of modeling allowing you to implement them in the Oil and Gas industry. 

Advanced Financial Modeler Certificate Course - Oil & Gas

<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>

ITIL

IT Certifications

IT (Information Technology)

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM)

Investment Management Certificate (IMC)

IT Management and Leadership Executive (ITMLE) Certification

<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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