This course focus is the management process and leadership skills necessary to anticipate, plan for and manage your organization's communications through a crisis. The course is built around the Crisis Communications section of ISO 22361, the new international standard for Crisis Management. This course includes the CCCM (Certified Crisis Communications Manager) exam and designation for free ($ 500 value). The course does not take you step-by-step how to fill in a template. Instead, you will learn how to protect and manage your organization’s reputation, how to identify and influence the ways organizations represent themselves to various stakeholders, how to prepare your organization for any media or social media crisis, and the best principles and best practices for developing an effective Crisis Communications Program for your organization. This course is designed first and foremost for executives, marketing managers, communications staff, business continuity practitioners, emergency managers, Crisis Management Team and Business Continuity Management Team members and their support staff. It is highly useful for health and safety staff, first responders, line managers, auditors, administrative and professional staff. At the conclusion of this course, participants should: - have a solid understanding of the overall Crisis Management lifecycle - know how to create an effective Crisis Management Communications structure within their organization - understand the key components of a Crisis Communications program including social media - successfully challenge the CCCM (Certified Crisis Communications Manager) exam The CCCM is one of the professional designations offered by the National Institute for Business Continuity Management (NIBCM.net). The exam is comprised of 100 Multiple Choice and T/F questions. You have 90 minutes to complete the exam. In order to obtain the CCCM designation, you must obtain a pass mark of at least 70%. This online course has content equivalent to our 3-day in-person CMC-601 course. The course is comprised of 23 lessons, each being 1/2 hour or so in length, plus additional, optional 'homework' assignments, activities, and downloadable tools including templates. The course also provides for regular asynchronous interaction with the course instructor for assignments and any questions that may arise. CONTENT INTRODUCTION TO CRISIS MANAGEMENT Lesson I - Introduction to Crisis Management Lesson 2 - Evolution of Crisis Management Lesson 3 - Towards a Crisis Management Standard Practice Test 1 CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS Lesson 4 - Pre-Crisis Communications Lesson 5 - Pre-Crisis Communications (cont'd) Lesson 6 - Managing Relationships and Reputation Lesson 7 - Key Roles Practice Test 2 Lesson 8 - Crisis Communications Strategy Lesson 9 - Crisis Communications Strategy (cont'd) Lesson 10 - Key Principles and Activities of Crisis Communication Lesson 11 - Key Principles and Activities of Crisis Communication (cont'd) Lesson 12 - Key Principles and Activities of Crisis Communication (cont'd) Practice Test 3 Lesson 13 - Consistency of Message Lesson 14 - Barriers to Effective Commnication Lesson 15 - Barriers to Effective Communication (cont'd) Lesson 16 - Social Media - Opportunities and Threats Lesson 17 - Social Media - Opportunities and Threats (cont'd) Practice Test 4 Lesson 18 - A Crisis Communication Plan BEST PRACTICES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND CMMUNICATIONS Lesson 19 - Crisis Management Best Practices Lesson 20 - Crisis Communications Best Practices BONUS LESSONS Bonus Lesson 21 - Pandemic Planning Bonus Lesson 22 - Cyber Security and Crisis Management Bonus Lesson 23 - Cyber Security and Crisis Management (cont'd) CCCM EXAM CCCM Practice Exam CCCM Exam COMPLETION RULES You must complete the test "CCCM Exam"
In this course, students will learn general strategies for planning, designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining an IoT system through various case studies and by assembling and configuring an IoT device to work in a sensor network.
This course is intended for This course is intended for anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of project management. No prior experience required. Overview Goals and benefits of implementing project management Key project management terminology, frameworks, and tools How to apply the approaches and processes to better manage and complete a project Important interpersonal interactions needed for successful projects This 1-Day virtual Project Management Best-Practices course provides an overview of fundamental elements of the project lifecycle ? from project initiation through project close. With a focus on traditional project management concepts, students will complete this course with an improved ability to understand the best path forward for bringing projects to successful completion. Students will benefit from this course by understanding the foundational principles of project management, improving their project management skills, utilizing tools and techniques to effectively manage projects, gaining a common project management language to improve communication, and learning frameworks to identify, manage, and mitigate risk. Concepts learned in this course are immediately applicable to ongoing projects. Note: This course has been approved by PMI for 8 PDUs. 1 - Introduction What are Projects? What is Project Management? Basic Project Management Process Project Selection How Projects Further Organizational Goals What Factors can Influence Projects? Documentation Project Management Tools Role of the Project Manager The Language of Project Management 2 - Starting a Project Authorizing the Project (Project Selection) Assigning the PM Identifying and Documenting the High-Level Scope Gathering a Planning Team Identifying and Documenting the Impacted Parties 3 - Planning a Project Adapting to the Needs of the Project (Planning Level) Identifying the Work Required Estimating Time, Cost and Resources Required Developing a Schedule Developing a Budget Planning Communications and Quality Risk Management Purchases and Outside Vendors for a Project 4 - Executing the Project Baselines Managing Participants in the Project Managing Interested and Impacted Parties Performing the Planned Work Negotiating and Signing Contracts Managing Communications, Risk and Quality 5 - Overseeing and Controlling the Project Controlling the Scope, Schedule and Budget Controlling Change to the Project (Scope, Schedule, Cost and Final Product) Quality Assurance and Control Contract Administration 6 - Ending a Project Overseeing and Controlling the Project Executing the Project Closing Contracts Transferring the Final Product Lessons Learned and Archiving Records
This course presents an approach for dealing with security and privacy throughout the entire software development lifecycle. You will learn about vulnerabilities that undermine security, and how to identify and remediate them in your own projects.
***Note: Offer is Valid for the First 10 Learners Only*** DET: Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF) Are you passionate about teaching? Would you like to pursue a career in the education sector? If the answer is yes, the Focus Awards Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF) course is the perfect one to land a job with an average salary of £30,000 per year in the UK. Our meticulously designed curriculum covers various essential topics, from understanding educational theories to effective teaching methodologies. The Focus Awards Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF) course will boost your tutor skills. At the end of the period, you will be able to demonstrate proficient teaching and instructional skills and assess and evaluate student progress plus performance accurately. 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Benefits you will gain from this Focus Awards Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF): High-quality digital learning materials Intuitive e-learning platform Top-notch education standard Globally recognised certification Modules are available 24/7 for your convenience Exceptional customer support services DET: Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF) Curriculum Break Down and Credit Information for DET: Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF): The DET course has two unit groups in the curriculum. To achieve the qualification, learners must gain at least 120 credits (Group A - 75 credits and Group B - 45 credits). A minimum of 61 credits will have to be from Level 5. DET Group A-Mandatory Units: Unit 01: Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Education and Training [Achievement of the unit Theories, principles and models in education and training is a prerequisite for this unit.] Guidance to Achieving the Unit: Assignment Unit 02: Developing Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in Education and Training Guidance to Achieving the Unit: Assignment Unit 03: Theories, Principles and Models in Education and Training Guidance to Achieving the Unit: Assignment [Achievement of this unit is a prerequisite for the unit Developing Teaching, learning, and Assessment in education and training] Unit 04: Wider Professional Practice and Development in Education and Training Guidance to Achieving the Unit: Assignment DET Group B- Optional Units Unit 01: Developing, Using and Organising Resources in a Specialist Area Unit 02: Inclusive Practice Unit 03: Effective Partnership Working in the Learning and Teaching Context Guidance to Achieving the Units: Study Material Assignment Teaching Practice Requirement To get this level 5 DET qualification, you must practise for at least 100 hours and provide proof of your involvement in teaching groups of students. A crucial component of excellent beginning teacher preparation is the practice component. Each unit in this certificate has a unique practice requirement. Transfer of Practice There is no transfer of practice from a prior Level 3 Award in Education and Training(AET), including an approach that has been watched and assessed. Trainee teachers who have earned the Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training(CET) may apply twenty hours of practice and two hours of course that was observed and assessed towards the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training's (DET) practice requirements. At least eight observations must be made, each lasting at least eight hours. Any observed practice finished as a part of the Level 3 Award in Education and Training is not included. Every single observation must last at least 30 minutes. Practice for the Education and Training units must occur in a classroom setting. A minimum of eight observations, of course, are required. The following necessary units must be connected to the eight observations: Teaching, learning, and assessment in education and training (Level 4) Developing teaching, learning, and assessment in education and training (Level 5). Qualification Study Time of Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (DET - Previously DTLLS) Total Qualification Time of Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (DET - Previously DTLLS): TQT is the approximate time a learner must complete all the course requirements to acquire his qualification. It entails preparing for classes, learning, researching, taking tests, etc. Total Qualification Time for this Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (DET - Previously DTLLS) course - 1200 hours. Guided Learning Hours of Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (DET - Previously DTLLS): GLH is the approximate duration a learner will require to meet all the course objectives for gaining his qualification under the presence of a supervisor or tutor. Total Guided Learning Hours for this course - 360 Who is this course for? DET: Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF) This DET: Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF) course is designed for those who want to work in the educational field as a competent professional. It provides excellent training to individuals who wish to obtain a sought-after educational and training qualification. Requirements DET: Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF) Learners must meet the following minimum criteria: Reading and communication skills should be adequate to meet the requirements of the training. Do not have a criminal background which prevents them working, with young people or vulnerable adults, as a teacher. Hold a relevant qualification at a level above that of their learners; ideally at least Level 3 in their area of specialism The minimum core of literacy, language, numeracy and ICT Career path DET: Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (RQF) Lecturer / Teacher Assistant Teacher Coach or Trainer Teacher Primary School Teacher Secondary School Teacher Private Tutor Freelance Teacher/Trainer Certificates Hard Copy Certificate Hard copy certificate - Included
Business Planning 101 is an online course that you can complete in your own time! By the end of the 6 modules you will have a business plan with a simple and trackable cashflow with support sessions along the way!
Recognizing the brilliance of someone psychological disturbance normalizes their experience and opens the door to transformative change. We aim to explore the lived experiences on irregular perceptions of reality with an open mind. Each Saturday includes: a live dialogue between Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and an International Existential Therapist; a moment to share your thoughts and feelings with the teachers; and a final integration facilitated by Bárbara Godoy. This series of ten dialogues set out to explore the multifaceted dimentions and complexities associated with Existential Therapies. It attempts to engage with various interpretations of insanity through the lens of patients often painful, confounding, and deeply unsettling life experiences. Invention- between Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Dr. Betty Cannon “When I first saw the topic of this year’s dialogues, I asked myself whether I had anything to contribute. After all, I told myself, I do not usually work with psychoses or other so-called ‘extreme’ or’ irregular’ states of consciousness. This started me thinking about a series of demonstration videos that I have been making with students and supervisees over the last couple of years as part of a book project. Do those videos display ‘extreme states’? To my surprise, the answer is yes. They are filled with experiences that might be described as hallucinations (positive and negative), dissociative states, paranoia, delusions, manic and depressive states, crippling anxiety, schizoid withdrawal, depersonalization and derealization, and body dysmorphic phenomena. Not to mention the so-called normal neurotic trances that Freud called transference, countertransference and defenses, psychedelically induced extreme states, and those nightly hallucinations, our dreams. So why did I not remember at least some of these states as being ‘extreme’? Perhaps the answer lies in my perspective on therapy, which is largely existential-phenomenological. I think that the following quote, from a letter that Sartre wrote to R.D. Laing, captures the essence of this perspective: “Like you, I believe that one cannot understand psychological disturbances from the outside, on the basis of a positivistic determinism or reconstruct them with a combination of concepts that remain outside the experience as lived and experienced. I also believe that one cannot study, let alone cure, a neurosis without a fundamental respect for the person of the patient, without a constant effort to grasp the basic situation and relive it, without an attempt to rediscover the response of the person to that situation and––like you, I think––I regard mental illness as the ‘way out’ that the free organism, in its total unity, invents in order to be able to live through an intolerable situation.”* When a client and I together are able to appreciate the true brilliance of this invention, my experience is that it not only normalizes the client’s experience, it also opens the doorway to change. It allows us to invent something new.” Dr. Betty Cannon. Betty Cannon, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has taught and practiced in Boulder, Colorado, for over 40 years. She is Professor Emerita of the Colorado School of Mines and president and founder of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, which has trained mental health professionals in Applied Existential Psychotherapy since 1989. In addition to existential philosophy, especially the philosophy of Sartre, AEP has roots in Gestalt therapy, classical and contemporary psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology (especially the person-centered therapy of Carl Rogers), and body-oriented psychotherapy. Betty is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal for the Society of Existential Analysis and Sartre Studies International. She is the author of Sartre and Psychoanalysis and numerous articles and chapters on existential therapy. Her mentor was Hazel E. Barnes, who translated Sartre into English and who was the world’s foremost Sartre scholar until her death in 2008. Betty is her literary executor, and her book on Sartre is dedicated to Hazel. Prof. Ernesto Spinelli was Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis between 1993 and 1999 and is a Life Member of the Society. His writings, lectures and seminars focus on the application of existential phenomenology to the arenas of therapy, supervision, psychology, and executive coaching. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) as well as an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 2000, he was the Recipient of BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. And in 2019, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His most recent book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World 2nd edition (Sage, 2015) has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice. Living up to the existential dictum that life is absurd, Ernesto is also the author of an on-going series of Private Eye novels. Date and Time: Saturday 25 October from 2 pm to 3 pm – (UK time) Individual Dialogue Fee: £70 Venue: Online Zoom FULL PROGRAMME 2025: 25 January “Knots” with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy 22 February “Healing” with Dr. Michael Guy Thompson and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 22 March “Difference” with Prof. Tod DuBose and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 12 April “Polarisation” with Prof. Kirk Schneider and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 3 May “Character” with Prof. Robert Romanyshyn and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 21 June “Opening” with Dr. Yaqui Martinez and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 19 July “Meaning” with Dr. Jan Resnick and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 25 October “Invention” with Dr. Betty Cannon and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 15 November “Hallucination” with Prof. Simon du Plock and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 13 December “Hysteria” with Bárbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli Read the full programme here > Course Organised by:
Intercultural Competence (On-Demand) Intercultural competence gives one the ability to effectively and appropriately communicate with people from other cultures in a competitively complex world. The participant in this program will gain cultural insights needed to build intercultural teams and navigate cultural diversities, without knowingly violating what are deemed to be acceptable or unacceptable cultural norms. What you will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Articulate on the meaning of culture and intercultural competence Express the importance of body language and appropriately demonstrate its emblems Describe three cultural models and consider their application in assimilating cultural behaviors Define emotional intelligence and explain how it is linked to cultural intelligence Examine the four cultural intelligence capabilities and give examples of how each is developed Develop a personal cultural profile and compare its dimensions to gain an appreciation for intercultural competence Foundation Concepts Fundamentals of culture Culture and body language Culture and proxemics Cultural Models Iceberg culture model The onion model of culture Hofstede's model of national cultures High-context and low-context cultures Cultural Intelligence Emotional intelligence overview Cultural intelligence overview Cultural Profile Cultural profile dimensions Understanding your cultural profile
Leading Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams (On-Demand) High-performing teams are a must in this world of intense competition and higher expectations. Global virtual teaming has become a necessity as organizations become increasingly distributed and suppliers and clients actively engage in joint projects. Teams work across geographical and organizational boundaries to deliver solutions and services to global users where distance and differences, both geographic and cultural, amplify the effect of issues and factors that are relatively straightforward when managing a team of people in the same location. This course delivers practical concepts and techniques that participants will start using immediately on their global projects. What you will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Define relationships among foundational concepts (leadership and three dimensions of diversity) and explain their potential impacts on project performance Describe key components of successful project leadership and build selected Transformational Leadership skills Prepare to convert project challenges stemming from personal or cultural diversity into potential competitive advantage Implement selected best practices to meet key challenges facing virtual project teams Foster and grow an environment that supports continued success for CCVTs Getting Started Foundation Concepts Basic definitions Critical success factors for leading cross-cultural virtual teams (CCVTs) A roadmap to success for leading CCVTs Leadership Excellence in Any Project Environment Leading effectively in a global environment Transformational leadership The four components of Transformational Leadership Leveraging Personal Diversity Overview of personal diversity Mind styles The theory of multiple intelligences Connecting Transformational Leadership and personal diversity Embracing Cultural Diversity Introduction to cultural intelligence The impact of culture Cultural Dimensions Theory The Culture Map Managing Virtual Diversity Overview of virtual diversity Virtual time management Virtual processes and technology Virtual leadership Creating an Environment for Success Supporting a cross-cultural virtual-team (CCVT-) friendly environment Building a foundation of trust Developing a team charter Recap and review Summary and Next Steps Personal action plan