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An instructor-led leadership learning programme based on emotional intelligence and social neuroscience, designed to boost leadership 'PowerSkills.' A practical programme that provides leaders with a learning journey that equips them with the tools and techniques to connect, empathise, communicate effectively, build employee engagement and influence.

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment. Overview By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0 Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi, storage, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 8.0 Describe the purpose of vSphere Distributed Services Engine Update an ESXi host equipped with a Data Processing Unit (DPU) using vSphere Lifecycle Manager Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0 Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation and the improvements to vSphere DRS Recognize the new Virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access (vNUMA) topology settings of a VM in vSphere Client Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy to manage the configuration specifications for the hosts in a cluster Recognize the vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0 Recognize the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads Recognize technology that is discontinued or deprecated in vSphere 8.0 In this two-day course, you explore the new features and enhancements following VMware vCenter Server 8.0 and VMware ESXi 8.0. Real-world use-case scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere 8.0. Course Introduction Introductions and course logistics Course objectives Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Describe how device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8 Describe how device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8 vSphere Distributed Services Engine Describe the benefits of Distributed Services Engine Explain how Distributed Services Engine works Recognize use cases for Distributed Services Engine Install ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU View DPU information in vSphere Client Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster Update an ESXi host equipped with a DPU using vSphere Lifecycle Manager Create a vSphere Distributed Switch for network offloads Add a host with a DPU to the vSphere Distributed Switch Configure a VM to use Uniform Passthrough Mode vSphere and vCenter Management Review the improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts Review the enhancements to the vCenter recovery process ESXi Enhancements Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi Explain how ConfigStore affects your interaction with ESXi configuration files Recognize the supported system storage partition configuration on ESXi 8.0 Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0 Configure an RDMA host local device on ESXi vSphere Storage Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture Recognize the benefits of using vSAN Express Storage Architecture Describe the benefits of using NVMe Recognize the support for NVMe devices in vSphere Guest OS and Workloads Review the enhancements of the latest virtual hardware versions Describe the features introduced with virtual hardware version 20 Create a snapshot of a VM with an NVDIMM device Resource Management View energy and carbon emission metrics in vRealize Operations Manager Describe the VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) functionality Describe how vMMR enhances the performance of vSphere DRS Security and Compliance Describe how to handle vTPM secrets when cloning a VM Manage OVF templates for VMs that are configured with vTPM Deploy an OVF template with vTPM Describe the enhancements to trusted binary enforcement in ESXi Describe ESXi 8 enhanced security features vSphere Lifecycle Manager Describe the enhancements to life cycle management of standalone ESXi hosts Manage the configuration profiles of ESXi hosts in a cluster with vSphere Lifecycle Manager Use Auto Deploy to boot a host with the desired image and configuration specifications Upgrade multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster in parallel Stage an ESXi host image prior to remediation Auto Deploy Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy vSphere with Tanzu Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering Announcing vSphere+ Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+

Course Overview The Business Leadership course is designed to empower aspiring and existing leaders with the core competencies required to thrive in dynamic business environments. Through a structured and comprehensive learning journey, this course equips learners with strategic insights into management functions, leadership styles, organisational development, and performance enhancement. It explores key areas such as emotional intelligence, talent management, and ethical decision-making, while also covering communication, conflict resolution, and risk management. Whether you are aiming to lead teams, shape organisational direction, or drive change, this course delivers a strong foundation in leadership theory and practice. Learners will benefit from a thorough understanding of leadership frameworks that are essential for influencing, inspiring, and navigating complex workplace challenges. Upon completion, learners will be well-positioned to step into leadership roles or enhance their contribution to existing roles with confidence and clarity. Course Description This course delves into the essential components of effective business leadership by blending leadership theory with key managerial disciplines. Learners will explore leadership styles, employee motivation strategies, and succession planning, alongside modules on communication skills and managing meetings. Additional topics such as negotiation, conflict management, stress handling, and emotional intelligence provide a holistic perspective on leadership responsibilities. The course also examines organisational skills, risk management, and corporate responsibility—offering learners a solid grasp of strategic and ethical leadership. With practical knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint integrated into the curriculum, learners will also gain competence in using essential tools for business documentation and presentations. Ideal for professionals looking to refine their leadership approach or aspiring individuals preparing for management roles, this course delivers comprehensive guidance on how to lead effectively and ethically across a range of business contexts. Course Modules: Module 01: Understanding Management and Leadership Module 02: Leadership Theories Module 03: Improving Management and Leadership Performance Module 04: High Performance Teams Module 05: Motivating Employees Module 06: Organisational Skills Module 07: Talent Management Module 08: Succession Planning Module 09: Business Process Management Module 10: Communication Skills Module 11: Negotiation Techniques Module 12: Managing Meetings and Giving Feedback Module 13: Managing Change Module 14: Time Management Module 15: Stress Management Module 16: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Module 17: Managing Conflict Module 18: Dealing with Office Politics Module 19: Risk Management Module 20: Corporate Responsibility and Ethics Module 21: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint (See full curriculum) Who is this course for? Individuals seeking to build leadership capabilities for organisational roles. Professionals aiming to progress into managerial or executive positions. Beginners with an interest in leadership, team management, or business strategy. Entrepreneurs or business owners wanting to lead teams more effectively. Career Path Team Leader Department Manager Operations Supervisor Project Coordinator Human Resources Officer Business Consultant Organisational Development Executive Corporate Trainer

Course Overview This Life Coaching course offers an empowering and transformative learning experience designed to help learners develop the essential skills and insights needed to guide others towards personal growth and achievement. Covering the core principles of life coaching, emotional intelligence, communication techniques, and client management, this course equips learners with the tools to inspire change and foster resilience. By developing self-awareness and understanding behavioural patterns, learners will be able to create structured coaching plans tailored to individual client needs. Whether aiming to pursue a career in coaching or seeking to enhance leadership and mentoring capabilities, learners will finish the course with a clear understanding of ethical practices and business growth fundamentals. Upon completion, participants will be prepared to confidently support clients in achieving personal and professional goals while advancing their own personal development. Course Description The Life Coaching course delves into the essential aspects of professional coaching, beginning with its purpose, principles, and the critical role of self-awareness. Learners will explore the development of core beliefs, fear management, and the foundations of emotional intelligence to better understand client motivations and behaviours. Communication skills, including body language techniques, are covered in depth to enhance client engagement and rapport-building abilities. The course also introduces effective goal-setting frameworks, methods for structuring client sessions, and key attributes of successful life coaches. Additionally, learners will receive an introduction to basic business development strategies, helping them to establish and grow their own coaching practices. Ethical considerations form a crucial part of the training, ensuring learners are equipped to protect both themselves and their clients. With a balance of theoretical foundations and real-world application, learners will gain valuable skills to thrive in the coaching profession. Course Modules Module 01: Life Coaching: The Purpose and Fundamentals Module 02: Develop Your Self-Awareness Module 03: The Development of Core Beliefs and Managing Fears Module 04: Life Coaching Types and Key Attributes of a Life Coach Module 05: Understanding Emotional Intelligence Module 06: Body Language and Communication Techniques Module 07: A Structure for Client Work and Goal Setting Module 08: Basic Principles for Business Development and Growth Module 09: The Ethical Coach: Protect Yourself and Your Clients (See full curriculum) Who is this course for? Individuals seeking to guide others towards personal and professional success. Professionals aiming to enhance leadership, mentoring, and coaching capabilities. Beginners with an interest in life coaching, personal development, or behavioural sciences. Entrepreneurs looking to establish a career in coaching or consultancy. Managers and HR professionals wishing to develop stronger coaching techniques within their teams. Career Path Life Coach Career Coach Executive Coach Leadership Development Specialist HR and Talent Development Professional Business Consultant Wellbeing Coach Mentoring Programme Coordinator

Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for The primary audience for this course is as follows: Cisco Unified Communications system channel partners and resellers who are responsible for deployment and application engineering for Cisco Unified Contact Center Express customers. System and technical support engineers. Day 1 and Day 2 support personnel. Customers deploying and maintaining Cisco Unified CCX Overview Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives: Review Cisco Unified CCX environment components Create prompt recording tools Create a helpdesk script Apply common sense principles for scripting and system management, such as: Prompt, document, and grammar management Using the default script Scripting for proper call termination and ending a script Abandon rates Exception handling Check Agent Availability before and after entering queue Using Java Methods for Holiday and Time of Day routing Setup access and use an external database Define and use skills Script for conditional routing Script for basic callback scenarios Setup and use enterprise data and session management Script for queuing and scheduled callback scenarios Building on the knowledge base and scripting experience learned in the UCCXD class, the student will explore advanced techniques in scripting and overall Cisco Unified CCX functionality. During this five day class the students will use advanced scripting to implement features that extend the functionality of Cisco Unified CCX using many of the tools that are already available in the premium version of the product. Students should expect to spend time using the script editor and other tools to create developer tools and enhanced scripts to provide for a more functional and user-friendly customer experience. Activities include creating prompt recording tools, applying common sense scripting principles, creating simple and complex ACD routing scripts, holiday routing, external database access, various callback scenarios such as non-queuing, queuing, and scheduled callbacks, defining and using enterprise data, passing data from one script to another using session management, and much more. Additionally, since this class focuses on complex scripting concepts, it requires the student to learn more about fundamental scripting requirements such as data manipulation and formatting, using variables and array variables, and using Java programming methods. Course Introduction Learner Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge Course Goal Course Objectives Course Flow General Administration Lab Diagram Please Introduce Yourself Lesson 1: Cisco Unified CCX Overview Components of the Cisco Unified CCX Environment Gateways Routers Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cisco Unified CCX Script Editor Cisco Finesse Cisco Unified Intelligence Center Cisco Unified CCX Agent External Servers Cisco Unified CCX System Cluster Components Engine Database Server Call Flow Terms The Call Flow The Debug Process Reactive Non-Reactive Lesson 2: Prompt Recording Utilities Prompt Recorder Emergency Message Recorder Lesson 3: Basic ACD Routing Review Script Steps used in a Simple ACD Routing Script Resource Group Routing Defining the Contact Service Queue Create a Simple ACD routing script Lesson 4: Common Scripting Concepts Prompt Management Using the Default Script Terminating a Call and Ending a Script Abandon Rates Exception Handling Script Interruptions Check Agent Availability before and after entering queue Using Java Methods for Holiday and Time of Day routing Lesson 5: Accessing an External Database Database architecture and supported databases Setting up the Database Subsystem Using Database script steps Lesson 6: Skills Based Routing Appling skills to agents Defining the Contact Service Queue Specifying the CSQ in the Script Lesson 7: Advanced ACD Routing Overflow Routing When to Overflow How to get the Data Needed for Making Decisions Describe Methods of Overflowing Lesson 8: Basic ACD Callback Options Setup the Email Subsystem Script for Email Notification Script for Leaving a Recorded Message Script for Callback when Queue Times have Decreased Lesson 9: Enterprise Data and Session Management Define Enterprise Data in Cisco Finesse Define a Call Variable Layout in Cisco Finesse Define ECC Variables in the script editor Set Enterprise Data in the script Define Session Management Setup Session Management Use Session Management to Pass Variable Information Between Scripts Lesson 10: Advanced ACD Callback Options Leave Queued Message with an Option for Callback Scheduled Callback

Managing teams and projects to meet a private, public or voluntary organisation's goals.

Learn how to work with data using Python (the coding language) as a tool. Learn how data is structured and how to manipulate it into a usable, clean form ready for analysis. Work on a small real-life project from conception to solution, in a team or on your own.

About this Training Course One of the main challenges for today's managers is effectively leading and successfully communicating vision that inspires employees to perform. Good leadership engages people and employees who feel both engaged and enabled contribute to higher levels of growth and productivity. They will remain longer with the organisation, perform better and ultimately deliver better service to your customers. This popular 3 full-day course will equip you with key skills that you can utilise to maximise your staff's performance in line with the company's objectives. This interactive course will also empower you with strategic approaches to overcome the people challenges that you may encounter while enabling you to optimise your business strategies successfully. An ILM Recognised programme. Training Objectives What are the benefits that you will gain from attending this course? * Enhance your personal effectiveness and decision-making * Learn how to boost your influencing capability * Inspire enthusiasm, motivation and commitment * Communicate effectively across a multi-cultural team * Nurture your relationships and strengthen your team * Develop an empowering partnership team culture Target Audience Who should attend this course? Anyone involved in leading a business unit or a project team can attend. It covers relationships with host governments, contractors, suppliers and local communities which constitute critical alliances for the development of a project. This course is essential for team leaders, supervisors or managers from the following functions: Project management engineers from various technical disciplines Ad-hoc or special project team leaders in legal, technical & financial disciplines Country managers or business development officers of contractors JV management executives or officers Government officials or industry liaison officers Procurement or contracts executives or officers   Trainer Your course leader is the author of Spirit IntelligenceTM and specialises in executive leadership facilitation and management development. He gained a first class honours degree in chemical engineering from Edinburgh University in Scotland and has undertaken postgraduate studies in psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Your course leader's corporate career spanned 14 years in Oil and Gas with BP, Amoco and AGL. Since 1993, he has worked across five continents with more than 170 clients including Rothschild, QBE, AT&T, Intel, Towers Perrin, Thomas Cook, Fujitsu, Nortel, Frank Russell, Electrolux, Arab Bank, Cable and Wireless, GSK, Merck, Sharpe and Dome, World Vision, Ericsson, IBM, Placer Dome Gold, Jim Beam, Ernst & Young and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He focuses on what he calls tapping The Hidden Advantage to unleash the power of the whole person - the power of the body and mind, the passion of the emotions and the enthusiasm, motivation, commitment, initiative, creativity, resilience and persistence of the spirit in business. He is very experienced internationally in both skills enhancement and the strategic facilitation of tough and intractable client challenges. His approach is pragmatic. He provides his clients with a powerful range of practical tools and approaches to enable management to tap The Hidden Advantage latent in their staff and achieve optimum performance and results. A powerful and compelling speaker, he combines humour, energy and passion. He draws on a wealth of personal experience and thorough research. POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL) To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized 'One to One' coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster. Request for further information post training support and fees applicable Accreditions And Affliations

Learn the skills, knowledge and have the confidence to tackle difficult conversations in a productive way. Course overview Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours) Do you worry about how to give negative feedback or deal with performance issues? Are you concerned about giving bad news? This workshop is designed to give you the skills, knowledge and confidence to tackle these scenarios in a productive way. If you are a people manager, team leader or supervisor looking to make those challenging conversations less stressful and more effective, this workshop is for you. Lots of practical sessions will ensure you have the opportunity to relate your learning to your real life work situations. The one day session will use professional actors in the afternoon so that you can practice handling real-life challenging conversations. Objectives By the end of the course you will be able to: Deal with a wide range of challenging conversations Describe the preferred behavioural style for giving feedback State the most appropriate influencing technique to use in your situations Explain how to give successful constructive feedback Content What are challenging conversations What type of challenging conversations occur? Why do we find them challenging? Communication Practical exercise to demonstrate and act as a refresher of the fundamentals of communication Barriers to communication especially in a difficult discussion Choosing the right behavioural style Refresher of assertiveness and why it is important in this context Practical exercise demonstrating how behaviour breeds behaviour, and the impact of choosing an inappropriate style Steps to using assertive behaviour Influencing Cialdini’s model for influence How to use influencing techniques in handling challenging conversations Practical application Feedback Understanding feedback – positive vs. negative Using the ABCBC model for feedback Using the basics of emotional intelligence to give effective feedback Practical application Practical Activities Professional actors will work with you in small groups in the afternoon to practice real-life challenging conversations.

The Fintech Frontier: Why FDs Need to Know About Fintech,” the podcast where we delve into the world of financial technology There are numerous areas where fintech can make a significant impact. For example, payment processing and reconciliation can be streamlined through digital payment solutions and automated tools. Data analytics and artificial intelligence can enhance financial forecasting, risk management, and fraud detection. Blockchain technology can revolutionize supply chain finance and streamline processes involving multiple parties. By understanding the capabilities of these fintech solutions, FDs can identify areas for improvement and select the right technologies to optimise their financial operations. Additionally, fintech can greatly enhance financial reporting and analysis. Advanced data analytics tools can extract meaningful insights from vast amounts of financial data, enabling FDs to make data-driven decisions and identify trends and patterns. Automation of repetitive tasks, such as data entry and reconciliation, reduces the risk of errors and frees up valuable time for FDs to focus on strategic initiatives. The adoption of cloud-based financial management systems also provides flexibility, scalability, and real-time access to financial data, empowering FDs to make informed decisions on the go. With the rapid pace of fintech advancements, how can FDs stay up to date and navigate the evolving fintech landscape? Continuous learning and engagement with the fintech community are key. Attend industry conferences, participate in webinars and workshops, and engage with fintech startups and established players. Networking with professionals in the field, joining fintech-focused associations, and following relevant publications and blogs can help FDs stay abreast of the latest fintech developments. Embracing a mindset of curiosity and adaptability is crucial in navigating the ever-changing fintech landscape. I would also encourage FDs to foster partnerships and collaborations with fintech companies. Engage in conversations with fintech providers to understand their solutions and explore potential synergies. By forging strategic partnerships, FDs can gain access to cutting-edge technologies and co-create innovative solutions tailored to their organisation’s unique needs. As we conclude, do you have any final thoughts or advice for our FD audience regarding fintech? Embrace fintech as an opportunity, not a threat. Seek to understand its potential and how it can align with your organisation’s goals and strategies. Be open to experimentation and pilot projects to test the viability of fintech solutions. Remember that fintech is a tool to enhance and optimize financial processes, and as FDs, we have a crucial role in driving its effective implementation. https://www.fdcapital.co.uk/podcast/the-fintech-frontier-why-fds-need-to-know-about-fintech/ Tags Online Events Things To Do Online Online Conferences Online Business Conferences #event #fintech #knowledge #fds #frontier