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Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for Deployment engineer Network engineer Sales engineer Overview After taking this course, you should be able to: Describe the Cisco conferencing architecture including cloud, hybrid, and on-premises conferencing Describe the physical deployment options and deployment models for Cisco Meeting Server, including Cisco Meeting Server 1000, 2000, and virtual machine Configure a Cisco Meeting Server single combined deployment for Web-Real Time Communications (WebRTC) endpoints within the enterprise Use APIs and the Cisco Meeting Server API Guide to configure profiles using Postman and the Webadmin API tool Configure a scalable and resilient deployment of Cisco Meeting Server with three servers for WebRTC endpoints within the enterprise Configure a scalable and resilient deployment of Cisco Meeting Server to support standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and WebRTC connectivity outside the enterprise Configure a scalable and resilient deployment of Cisco Meeting Server to support recording and streaming of conferences Configure Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Meeting Server to support Rendezvous, Scheduled, and Ad-hoc conferencing for Cisco Unified CM registered endpoints Configure Cisco Meeting Server to integrate with a preconfigured on-premise Microsoft Skype for Business installation Install Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (Cisco TMS) and Cisco TelePresence Management Suite for Microsoft Exchange (Cisco TMSXE) on a single Microsoft Windows 2012 server and connect to an existing SQL environment Install and integrate Cisco Meeting Management with Cisco TMS and Cisco Meeting Server Set up and manage a scheduled conference with Cisco TMS and Cisco Meeting Management Capture and analyze logs from Cisco Meeting Server and Cisco Meeting Manager to diagnose faults, including a SIP connection error The Implementing Cisco Collaboration Conferencing (CLCNF) v1.0 course focuses on Cisco© on-premises conferencing architecture and solutions. You will gain knowledge and skills to design and implement common conferencing deployment scenarios of Cisco Meeting Server, its integration with call control features such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Expressway, and other Cisco collaboration conferencing devices.This course offers lessons and hands-on labs to prepare you for the 300-825 Implementing Cisco Collaboration Conferencing (CLCNF) exam. Course outline Describing Cisco Conferencing Architecture Configuring a Single Combined Deployment Installing Cisco Meeting Server Using APIs with Cisco Meeting Server Configuring a Cisco Meeting Server Scalable and Resilient Deployment Configuring Business to Business (B2B) and WebRTC Firewall Traversal Connectivity for Cisco Meeting Server Configuring Recording and Streaming with Cisco Meeting Server Troubleshooting Cisco Meeting Server Integrating Cisco Meeting Server with Cisco Unified CM Integrating Cisco Meeting Server with Microsoft Skype for Business Installing and Operating Cisco TMS and Cisco TMSXE Installing and Integrating Cisco Meeting Management Additional course details: Nexus Humans Cisco Implementing Cisco Collaboration Conferencing v2.0 (CLCNF) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Cisco Implementing Cisco Collaboration Conferencing v2.0 (CLCNF) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for To fully benefit from this course, you should have three to five years of experience designing and implementing applications that are built on top of Cisco platforms. This course is appropriate for: Network engineers expanding their skill-base to include software and automation Developers expanding expertise in automation and DevOps Solution architects moving to the Cisco ecosystem Infrastructure developers designing hardened production environments The job roles best suited to the material in this course are: Senior network automation engineer Senior software developer Senior system integration programmer Additional job roles that could find this course useful are: Senior infrastructure architect Senior network designer Senior test development engineer Students preparing for Cisco Certified DevNet Professional and Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist - Core certification will also find this material useful. Overview After taking this course, you should be able to: Describe the architectural traits and patterns that improve application maintainability Describe the architectural traits and patterns that improve application serviceability Identify steps to design and build a ChatOps application Implement robust Representational State Transfer (REST) API integrations with network error handling, pagination, and error flow control Describe the necessary steps for securing user and system data in applications Describe the necessary steps for securing applications Identify common tasks in automated application release process Describe best practices for application deployment Describe methodologies for designing distributed systems Describe the concepts of infrastructure configuration management and device automation Utilize Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) data models to describe network configurations and telemetry Compare various relational and nonrelational database types and how to select the appropriate type based on requirements In this course, you will learn how to implement network applications using Cisco© platforms as a base, from initial software design to diverse system integration, as well as testing and deployment automation. The course gives you hands-on experience solving real world problems using Cisco Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and modern development tools. This course helps you prepare for Cisco DevNet Professional certification and for professional-level network automation engineer roles. COURSE OUTLINE DESIGNING FOR MAINTAINABILITY (SELF-STUDY) DESIGNING FOR SERVICEABILITY (SELF-STUDY) IMPLEMENTING CHATOPS APPLICATION DESCRIBING ADVANCED REST API INTEGRATION SECURING APPLICATION DATA (SELF-STUDY) SECURING WEB AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS (SELF-STUDY) AUTOMATING APPLICATION-RELEASE DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS UNDERSTANDING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ORCHESTRATING NETWORK AND INFRASTRUCTURE MODELING DATA WITH YANG USING RELATIONAL AND NON-RELATIONAL DATABASES (SELF-STUDY) PLEASE NOTE:This class includes lecture sections and self-study sections. In instructor-led classes, lectures are delivered in real-time, either in person or via video conferencing. In e-learning courses, the lectures are on recorded videos. In both versions, you will need to review self-study sections on your own before taking the certification exam. Additional course details: Nexus Humans Cisco Developing Applications Using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs v1.0 (DEVCOR) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Cisco Developing Applications Using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs v1.0 (DEVCOR) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for Security Professionals Incident Handling Professionals Anyone in a Security Operations Center Forensics Experts Cybersecurity Analysts Overview Our Certified Cyber Security Analyst course helps you prepare an organization to create a complete end to end solution for proactively monitoring, preventing, detecting, and mitigating threats as they arise in real time. Do not fool yourself, this course is far more advanced than you may expect. It is fast paced and thorough, so you can enjoy a well-rounded experience. Be ready to dig deep into the details of security analysis for today's needs. When we are done you will be able to setup and deploy state of the art open source and for purchase analysis tools, intrusion detection tools, syslog servers, SIEMs, along with integrating them for the entire company to find and an many cases prevent today's exploits. This course maps to the mile2 Certified Cyber Security Analyst Exam as well as the CompTIA CySA+CS0-001 certification exam. Our Certified Cyber Security Analyst course helps you prepare an organization to create a complete end to end solution for proactively monitoring, preventing, detecting, and mitigating threats as they arise in real time.Do not fool yourself, this course is far more advanced than you may expect. It is fast paced and thorough, so you can enjoy a well-rounded experience. Be ready to dig deep into the details of security analysis for today?s needs.When we are done you will be able to setup and deploy state of the art open source and for purchase analysis tools, intrusion detection tools, syslog servers, SIEMs, along with integrating them for the entire company to find and an many cases prevent today?s exploits.This course maps to the mile2 Certified Cyber Security Analyst Exam as well as the CompTIA CySA+CS0-001 certification exam. Blue Team?Principles Network Architecture?and how it lays the groundwork Defensive Network Security Data Locations?and how they tie together Security?Operations?Center The People, Processes, and Technology Triage and Analysis Digital Forensics Incident Handling Vulnerability Management Automation, Improvement, and Tuning Digital?Forensics Investigative Theory and?Processes Digital Acquisition Evidence Protocols Evidence Presentation Computer Forensics?Laboratory Protocols Processing Techniques Specialized?Artifacts Advanced Forensics for Today?s?Exploitations Malware Analysis Creating the Safe Environment Static Analysis Dynamic Analysis Behavior Based Analysis What is different about?Ransomware? Manual Code Reversing Traffic Analysis Manual Analysis Principles Automated?Analysis Principles Signatures?compared to?Behaviors Application Protocols Analysis Principles Networking Forensics Assessing the Current State of Defense with the?Organization Network Architecture and Monitoring Endpoint Architecture and Monitoring Automation, Improvement, and continuous?monitoring Leveraging SIEM for Advanced Analytics Architectural Benefits Profiling and?Baselining Advanced Analytics Defeating the Red Team with Purple Team tactics Penetration Testing?with full knowledge Reconnaissance Scanning Enumeration Exploitation Lateral Movement Additional course details: Nexus Humans C)CSA: Cybersecurity Analyst Mile 2 training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the C)CSA: Cybersecurity Analyst Mile 2 course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

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

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

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours Apple?s Keynote is the equivalent of Microsoft?s PowerPoint. With it?s powerful set of tools and effects, Keynote makes it easy to create stunning presentations. In this one-day class you will learn how to design and customize slides, add media and music, animate text and images, record voice over narration and the best tips and tricks for presenting the final presentation. Course covers working with a Mac, iPhone and/or iPad and demonstrates how to collaborate in real time with other users Creating a Presentation Opening Keynote Choosing a Theme and Slide Size Selecting a Master Slide Outlining a Presentation Using the Inspector Working with the Format Bar Pasting Text into an Outline Formatting Text Customizing a Slide Layout Copying Styles Between Slides Fixing Spelling Errors Working in Outline View Reordering Slides Creating Object Effects Dragging Files to Create New Slides Using the Light Table Creating a Custom Theme Creating an Empty Theme Creating Backgrounds and Formatting Text Creating a Title Slide Creating a Master Slide Saving and Sharing Themes Applying a Custom Theme Dragging Files to Create New Slides Using the Light Table Working with Tables and Charts Tables and Charts Working with Tables and Charts Chart and Table options Understanding Axis and Series 2D and 3D Charts Animating Tables and Charts Adding content from Microsoft Office or PDF Files Adding Media to Your Presentation Adding Photos and Graphics Enhancing Photos in Keynote Customizing Photo or Graphic Layouts Making Part of a Photo or Graphic Transparent Masking Photos and Shapes Instant Alpha Adding Hyperlinks and Navigation Adding a Chart or Table Adding Audio or Soundtrack Adding a Global Transition Adding Video and Animation Creating Builds to Reveal Text Creating a Sequence Build to Reveal a Table Creating a Smart Build Creating Custom Animation Animating Charts Animating Your Presentation Previewing the Presentation 2D and 3D Transitions Between Slides Creating Object Effects Running and Pausing your Presentation Animating a Title Slide Adding HyperLinks to your Presentation Using Magic Move Recording a Narrated, Self Playing Presentation Rehearsing and Delivering Your Presentation Reviewing your Presentation Adding Comments to your Presentation Adding and Printing Presenter Notes Rehearsing your Presentation Creating a Self-running Slideshow Troubleshooting your Presentation Indexing with Spotlight Importing from PowerPoint Animating a Title Slide Cleaning Up a Presentation Enhancing a Presentation Using an iOS Device as a Remote Control - Sharing Your Presentation Printing handouts Export for Email Exporting to PDFs Exporting to PowerPoint Exporting to Quicktime Sending to YouTube or the web Exporting Export For Email, PDFs Uploading to iCloud or Moving between Computer and iCloud Exporting to PowerPoint Exporting to QuickTime Sending to YouTube Troubleshooting & Cleaning Up Your PresentationTips and Tricks Working with Keynote on an iOS mobile device Additional course details: Nexus Humans Apple Keynote training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Apple Keynote course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for In order to be successful in this class, incoming attendees are required to have current, hands-on experience in developing basic web applications, and be versed in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. This is an intermediate level web development class, designed for experienced web developers, new to Angular, that need to further extend their skills in modern web development. Overview At the end of this five-day course, students will have an application up and running that incorporates components, directives, custom pipes, reactive forms, routes, services, unit testing, and the REST API. They will add authentication, implement the Material library, and learn how to maintain state with NgRX. They will then take a deeper dive including making their own custom directives, lazy loading modules, and E2E testing. They will learn how to enhance their application with animations and create their own Angular library. Working within in an engaging, hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn explore: What Angular is and why should you use it How Angular reduces the amount of code that you must write to add rich functionality to both existing and new web pages What TypeScript is, why it is useful, and how to use it with Angular How to facilitate development and deployment using Angular CLI How to work with the various aspects of the Angular architecture to implement clean, responsive web interfaces How Routers can support navigation within a Single Page Application What the best practices are for using Angular so that it works unobtrusively and performs well How to use Angular with HTTP to support JSON, REST, and other services Working with the Ahead of Time compiler including its impact of developers and the development process How to defend against DOM-based XSS How to manage routing decisions based on pre-defined criteria such as a successful authentication How to meet huge data requirements by processing asynchronous data streams with RxJS Simplify server-side rendering How to facilitate unit testing Enhance an Angular user interface with animations and other advanced features Optimize Angular applications with various tools and techniques Maintain state within an Angular application What Angular 9 brings to the table and its relationship to Angular 8 Mastering Angular is a five-day, hands-on course that thoroughly explores the latest Angular features and advances, demonstrating how to solve the traditional challenges of JavaScript web application development. Throughout the course students will build custom components using application routes, form validation, and unit-testing. The course starts with an introduction of Angular CLI and TypeScript, and then delves into component-driven development with Angular components, covering data-binding, directives, services, routing, HTTP, the RxJS library, forms unit testing, and REST. Students will also learn how to add authentication, use the Material library, learn the NgRX design pattern to implement the NgRX store, make custom directives, enhance their application with animations, write an E2E test, and increase their application's efficiency by lazy loading modules and creating their own Angular library Angular Overview Overview of Angular Architecture Getting Started with Angular Getting Started with TypeScript Bootstrapping with Angular CLI Angular Project Structure Working with Angular Components and Events Third Party Libraries Dynamic Views Pipes Angular Forms Forms and the Forms API Single Page Applications and Routes Single Page Applications Services and Dependency Injection Modules Using RESTful Services Overview of REST Angular and REST Angular Best Practices Angular Style Guide What is New in Angular 9 Reactive Programming in Angular Working with RxJS Security and Authentication DomSanitizer JSON Web Tokens Route Guards Enhancing the Angular App Angular Animations Angular Material Angular Elements Deep Dive into Angular Testing and Angular Deep Dive into Components and Directives Deep Dive into Services and Dependency Injection Optimizing for the Enterprise Lazy Loading Optimizing with Universal Creating Your Own Angular Library Maintain State with NgRX NgRX Store Lesson: ES6+ Sass and SCSS for Angular and Material

It can be a lonely world beavering away building your business alone and navigating the veritable rollercoaster! Love to see you for warm chats and networking to assure you that you are not alone and provide you with the support, encouragement and the motivation to keep going, even when times are tough. We will also be hearing all about Guildford's new exciting "Soulspace", an independent members club and coworking space with community at its heart, soon to be completed and opening 2023 in Guildford. Soulspace Director, Jessica Meins will be saying hello and telling us a little bit about their plans! There will be goody bags to take away too! You also get a chance to view a lovely potential venue/workshop/talks space (The Brew House) you may want to use?! Can't wait to see you. xo Lara Doherty The Motivation Clinic 07817247727 / lara@themotivationclinic.co.uk

The Motivation Clinic - November Gathering Lunch and learn / networking at The Brew House, 155 Guildford High Street, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford, GU1 3AJ (Opposite Sainsbury/Bora) It can be a lonely world beavering away building your business alone and navigating the veritable rollercoaster! Love to see you for warm chats and networking to assure you that you are not alone and provide you with the support, encouragement and the motivation to keep going, even when times are tough. Meet and learn Yvette Masure, Medical Acupuncturist and Vibrational Therapist will be taking us through a quick overview of the wonderful world and powers of mushrooms (not the magic kind!) including adaptogenic coffee (and mushroom) blends. You also get a chance to view a lovely potential venue/workshop/talks space (The Brew House) you may want to use?! Feedback from October's Gathering "Informal atmosphere, great group of people, lovely environment" "a friendly, welcoming relaxed atmosphere real sense of community." "uplifted and felt encouraged to get involved more." "lovely session and some great conversations" "a lovely opportunity to meet fellow business owners." Can't wait to see you.  Lara Doherty The Motivation Clinic 07817247727 / lara@themotivationclinic.co.uk

This two-day programme gives the key insights and understanding of contracting principles and the impact they have on business and operations. The course is designed for individuals involved in or supporting contracting who want to improve their commercial management skills; individuals in functions such as project management, business development, finance, operations who need practical training in commercial management; general audiences wanting to gain a basic understanding of commercial management. This is an assessed programme, leading to the International Association for Contracts & Commercial Management (IACCM)'s coveted Contract and Commercial Management Associate (CCMA) qualification. The programme addresses 31 different subject areas, across the five stages of the contracting process. By the end of the course the participants will be able, among other things, to: Develop robust contract plans, including scope of work and award strategies Conduct effective contracting activities, including ITT, RFP, negotiated outcomes Negotiate effectively with key stakeholders, making use of the key skills of persuading and influencing and to work with stakeholders to improve outcomes Set up and maintain contract management systems Take a proactive approach to managing contracts Make effective use of lessons learned to promote improvements from less than optimal outcomes, using appropriate templates Develop and monitor appropriate and robust Key Performance Indicators to manage the contractor and facilitate improved performance Understand the approvals process and how to develop and present robust propositions Make appropriate use of best practice contract management tools, techniques and templates DAY ONE 1 Introductions Aims Objectives Plan for the day 2 Commercial context Explaining the contracting context Define the key objective The importance of contact management Impact upon the business 3 Stakeholders How to undertake stakeholder mapping and analysis Shared vision concept, How to engage with HSE, Finance, Operations 4 Roles and responsibilities Exploring the key roles and responsibilities of contract administrators, HSE, Finance, Divisional managers, etc 5 Initiating the contract cycle Overview of the contracting cycle Requirement to tender Methods Rationale and exceptions 6 Specifications Developing robust scope of works Use of performance specifications Output based SOW 7 Strategy and award criteria Developing a robust contract strategy Award submissions/criteria 8 Managing the tender process Review the pre-qualification process Vendor registration rules and processes Creation of bidder lists Evaluation, short listing, and how to use of the 10Cs© model template and app 9 Types of contract Classify the different types of contracts Call-offs Framework agreement Price agreements Supply agreements 10 The contract I: price Understanding contract terms Methods of compensation Lump sum, unit price, cost plus, time and materials, alternative methods Cost plus a fee, target cost, gain share contracts Advanced payments Price escalation clauses DAY TWO 11 Risk How to manage risks Risk classification Mitigation of contractual risks 12 Contractor relationship management session Effectively managing relationships with contractors, Types of relationships Driving forces? Link between type of contract and style of relationship 13 Disputes Dealing with disputes Conflict resolution Negotiation Mediation Arbitration 14 Contract management Measuring and improving contract performance Using KPIs and SLAs Benchmarking Cost controls 15 The contract II: terms and conditions Contract terms and conditions Legal aspects Drafting special terms 16 Managing claims and variations How to manage contract and works variations orders Identifying the causes of variations Contractor claims process 17 Completion Contract close-out process Acceptance/completion Capture the learning/HSE Final payments, evaluation of performance 18 Close Review Final assessment