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Project Leadership Skills 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. 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. 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. 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. What You Will Learn At the end of this course, you will be able to: Explain the importance of vision in driving motivation and engagement Apply science-based research to better motivate those around you Strategically leverage both personal and positional power to achieve positive project results Determine influencing and networking strategies needed for personal growth Identify ways to problem solve communication challenges when others have different personality styles Connect stakeholder expectations to project success criteria Assess key stakeholders across various dimensions of complexity Apply the four rules of principled negotiation to a real-life conflict situation Recognize key aspects of a physiological response to conflict Utilize selected tools and techniques to 'defuse' an emotional situation Leverage various strategies and tactics to successfully deal with ambiguity at work Getting Started / Foundation Concepts Introductions Course structure, goals, and objectives Beginning a personal action plan Managing Vision and Purpose / Motivating Others Communicating and aligning around vision Tying the present to the future The importance of purpose The art and science of motivation Networking and Influencing Positive politics and project success Types of power within organizations Power and influence Networking best practices Communication The medium and the message Personality and communication styles Communication challenges Stakeholder Management and Negotiation Identifying stakeholders Analyzing stakeholders Negotiation basics Principled negotiation Conflict Management Dynamics of conflict The anatomy of conflict Conflict management approaches and tools Dealing with ambiguity Summary and Next Steps Key concepts review Creating your personal action plan

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Get familiarised with the features and functionality of Yammer in Office 365 with our most recommended Office 365 Yammer course. Yammer is a collaboration tool that's internally centred on your business, helps you connect and engage with the company. By taking this course, you'll understand the features and functionality of Yammer in Office 365. You'll overview the interface and learn about Yammer's features, navigate Yammer, and update your profile. In addition to that, learn to work with and manage conversations, post items and content, participate with groups, and connect to an external network. You'll also work with and manage messages, search for content in Yammer, learn to converse using Online Now, create polls for feedback, give praise, and make announcements. What Will I Learn? Navigate the interface and learn about Yammer Work with and manage conversations, and work with groups Create messages, chat using Online Now, and search Yammer Create polls, give praise, and make announcements Requirements Basic computer skills and experience navigating the Internet. Experience and understanding of social networking is helpful but not required. Who is the target audience? Students who will be utilizing Yammer to communicate and collaborate with co-workers. Introduction Introduction FREE 00:03:00 Working with Yammer in Office 365 Overview of Yammer 00:03:00 Navigating Yammer 00:04:00 Editing Your Yammer Profile 00:05:00 Working with Conversations 00:05:00 Managing Conversations 00:07:00 Working with Groups 00:08:00 Connecting to an External Newtork 00:08:00 Working with Messages 00:05:00 Managing Messages 00:07:00 Chatting with Online Now 00:08:00 Creating a Poll, Praise, or Announcment 00:08:00 Searching in Yammer 00:07:00 Conclusion Course Recap 00:03:00 Course Certification

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Dealing with a Sales Team Certification All viable outreach groups are going by capable pioneers who realize how to maximize their staff. In the event that you lead an outreach group, you need to comprehend your key obligations, how to spur your group, how to investigate regular issues and how to smooth out the business interaction. In this course, you will find out about the job of a project lead and how you can make your group more proficient. You will find the individual characteristics you need as a chief and commonsense tips you can use consistently to construct a strong, fruitful outreach group. You Will Learn: The run of the mill design of an outreach group and who you will answer to as an administrator The essential obligations of an outreach group administrator The seven individual attributes of effective outreach group directors The 11 things great outreach group supervisors do on an everyday premise to improve their groups' exhibition The significance of listening abilities and sympathy in beating issues Step by step instructions to inspire your group and improve their proficiency Advantages of Taking This Course: In the event that you are functioning as a project lead, this course will assist you with directing your group and drive deals In the event that you are hoping to additional your profession in deals, this course will assist you with choosing whether an administration job is appropriate for you On the off chance that you function as a senior project supervisor answerable for a few divisions, this course will assist you with assessing the presentation of lower-level team leads and feature regions for change This course will show you adaptable relational abilities that will assist you with drawing in colleagues

Introduction: Unconscious bias is a problem across all industries, and its effects are also felt in higher education institutions. In summary, it refers to a tendency to favour or discriminate against a group of people, such as women, LGBT individuals or those with a different skin colour. Given the significant consequences of unconscious bias, it is important to know how it manifests and how to overcome it. In this course, you will learn about the psychological processes underpinning unconscious bias and how we can make a conscious decision to think differently about others.   What You Will Learn: What unconscious bias is, and why we tend to be biased against or in favour of specific groups Why unconscious bias leads to unfair treatment and discrimination in the workplace The test we can use to measure unconscious bias and the limitations of this test How to challenge unconscious bias and judge individuals on their merits, as opposed to unrelated personal characteristics Benefits of Taking this Course: It will help you identify and tackle your own unconscious bias If you are responsible for equality and diversity training in your place of work, this course will guide you in tackling an important issue in this area If you have a general interest in psychology, this course will give you an overview of a key concept within the field of social psychology If you work with people from a range of groups, this course will help you spot unfair treatment and bias in the workplace Course Modules: Module 01: What is Unconscious Bias and Where Does It Come From? Module 02: The Consequences of Unconscious Bias Module 03: Measuring Unconscious Bias Module 04: Overcoming Unconscious Bias

A quilting class suitable for beginners or those wanting to build on the skills they already have. This is a skill building sampler quilt which will also give an opportunity to build on quilting skills.

A quilting class suitable for beginners or those wanting to build on the skills they already have. This is a skill building sampler quilt which will also give an opportunity to build on quilting skills

Duration 4 Days 24 CPD hours This course is intended for Successful students have experience and knowledge in IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Students also have experience designing and architecting solutions. Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and strong conceptual knowledge of: Azure compute technologies such as VMs, containers and serverless solutions Azure virtual networking to include load balancers Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases) General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability This course teaches Azure Solution Architects how to design infrastructure solutions. Course topics cover governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networks, business continuity, and migrations. The course combines lecture with case studies to demonstrate basic architect design principles. Prerequisites Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and conceptual knowledge of: Azure Active Directory Azure compute technologies such as VMs, containers and serverless solutions Azure virtual networking to include load balancers Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases) General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability AZ-104T00 - Microsoft Azure Administrator 1 - Design governance Design for governance Design for management groups Design for subscriptions Design for resource groups Design for resource tags Design for Azure Policy Design for role-based access control (RBAC) Design for Azure landing zones 2 - Design an Azure compute solution Choose an Azure compute service Design for Azure Virtual Machines solutions Design for Azure Batch solutions Design for Azure App Service solutions Design for Azure Container Instances solutions Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions Design for Azure Functions solutions Design for Azure Logic Apps solutions 3 - Design a data storage solution for non-relational data Design for data storage Design for Azure storage accounts Design for data redundancy Design for Azure Blob Storage Design for Azure Files Design for Azure managed disks Design for storage security 4 - Design a data storage solution for relational data Design for Azure SQL Database Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines Recommend a solution for database scalability Recommend a solution for database availability Design security for data at rest, data in motion, and data in use Design for Azure SQL Edge Design for Azure Cosmos DB and Table Storage 5 - Design data integration Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Databricks Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Synapse Analytics Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis 6 - Design an application architecture Describe message and event scenarios Design a messaging solution Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution Design an event-driven solution Design a caching solution Design API integration Design an automated app deployment solution Design an app configuration management solution 7 - Design authentication and authorization solutions Design for identity and access management (IAM) Design for Microsoft Entra ID Design for Microsoft Entra business-to-business (B2B) Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer) Design for conditional access Design for identity protection Design for access reviews Design service principals for applications Design managed identities Design for Azure Key Vault 8 - Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources Design for Azure Monitor data sources Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights Design for Azure Data Explorer 9 - Design network solutions Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements Design patterns for Azure network connectivity services Design outbound connectivity and routing Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network Choose an application delivery service Design for application delivery services Design for application protection services 10 - Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery Design for backup and recovery Design for Azure Backup Design for Azure blob backup and recovery Design for Azure files backup and recovery Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery Design for Azure Site Recovery 11 - Design migrations Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework Describe the Azure migration framework Assess your on-premises workloads Select a migration tool Migrate your structured data in databases Select an online storage migration tool for unstructured data Migrate offline data 12 - Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars Cost optimization Operational excellence Performance efficiency Reliability Security 13 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization Develop cost-management discipline Design with a cost-efficiency mindset Design for usage optimization Design for rate optimization Monitor and optimize over time 14 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Operational excellence Embrace DevOps culture Establish development standards Evolve operations with observability Deploy with confidence Automate for efficiency Adopt safe deployment practices 15 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Performance efficiency Negotiate realistic performance targets Design to meet capacity requirements Achieve and sustain performance Improve efficiency through optimization 16 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Reliability Design for business requirements Design for resilience Design for recovery Design for operations Keep it simple 17 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Security Plan your security readiness Design to protect confidentiality Design to protect integrity Design to protect availability Sustain and evolve your security posture 18 - Getting started with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure Customer narrative Common blockers 19 - Prepare for successful cloud adoption with a well-defined strategy Customer narrative Capture strategic motivation Define objectives and key results Evaluate financial considerations Understand technical considerations Create a business case 20 - Prepare for cloud adoption with a data-driven plan Customer narrative 21 - Choose the best Azure landing zone to support your requirements for cloud operations Customer narrative Common operating models Design areas for Azure landing zones Design principles for Azure landing zones Journey to the target architecture Choose an Azure landing zone option Deploy the Azure landing zone accelerator Enhance your landing zone 22 - Migrate to Azure through repeatable processes and common tools Customer narrative Migration process Migration tools Common tech platforms 23 - Address tangible risks with the Govern methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure Customer narrative Govern methodology Corporate policies Governance disciplines Deploy a cloud governance foundation The Cost Management discipline 24 - Ensure stable operations and optimization across all supported workloads deployed to the cloud Establish business commitments Deploy an operations baseline Protect and recover Enhance an operations baseline Manage platform and workload specialization 25 - Innovate applications by using Azure cloud technologies Follow the innovation lifecycle Azure technologies for the build process Infuse your applications with AI Azure technologies for measuring business impact Azure technologies for the learn process 26 - Prepare for cloud security by using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure Customer narrative Methodology Security roles and responsibilities Simplify compliance and security Simplify security implementation Security tools and policies Additional course details: Nexus Humans AZ-305T00: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 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 AZ-305T00: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 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.

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Why Attend Effective dispute resolution helps minimize the costs and adverse effects to relationships that often arise from commercial disputes. If informal negotiation fails to resolve a dispute, mediation or arbitration can often be the next best option in order to avoid litigation in court. This course will give participants an insight into dispute resolution from the perspective of a lawyer. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the main differences between the various dispute resolution techniques with a particular focus on arbitration, in order to reduce the likelihood of disputes leading to court cases. Course Methodology In this interactive training course participants will frequently work in pairs as well as in larger groups to complete exercises as well as regional and international case studies. Course Objectives By the end of the course, participants will be able to: Identify the right course of action to resolve a legal dispute Reduce the possibility of disputes leading to legal action Apply national and international legal requirements for dispute resolution Employ arbitration knowledge to negotiate terms Use case law to achieve a favorable outcome for their organization Target Audience This course is suitable for professionals within all industries who are involved in contract management and resolving disputes including, but not limited to, project managers, contract managers, procurement managers, supply chain managers, contractors, architects, developers and engineers. This course would also highly benefit in-house council and legal advisors new to the region who require the fundamentals of dispute resolution in the GCC. Target Competencies Litigation Arbitration Mediation Negotiation GCC Dispute Resolution Frameworks Note The Dubai Government Legal Affairs Department has introduced a Continuing Legal Professional Development (CLPD) programme to legal consultants authorised to practise through a licensed firm in the Emirate of Dubai. We are proud to announce that the Dubai Government Legal Affairs Department has accredited EMG Associates as a CLPD provider. In addition, all our legal programmes have been approved. This PLUS Specialty Training Legal course qualifies for 4 elective CLPD points. Fundamentals of dispute resolution Overview of the dispute resolution process Adjudicative process Consensual process Introduction to the English High Court litigation processes Why do international businesses take their dispute to the English High Court? English civil courts Legal practitioners who are involved in resolving disputes  Importance of jurisdiction clause How do you decide? Exclusive or non-exclusive? Differences between the Civil law system and the Common law system Principles of the common law system Principles of the civil law system The importance of these systems in dispute resolution Importance of Alternative Dispute Resolution ( ADR) Types of ADR Arbitration Mediations Conciliation Negotiation Arbitration - the best form of ADR The object of Arbitration The role of an Arbitrator Advantages and disadvantages of Arbitration Requirement of an Arbitration agreement The importance of the New York convention The role of UNCITRAL in dispute resolution Preparing for an arbitration hearing Types of Arbitration Institutional arbitration v Ad hoc arbitration Advantages and disadvantages of Institutional arbitration Advantages and disadvantages of Ad hoc arbitration Drafting international Arbitration agreement Checklist for drafting an Arbitration agreement Practical consideration with 'Seat' of Arbitration Model Arbitration clauses ICC LCIA Arbitral awards Enforcement of an Arbitral awards Grounds for challenging Arbitral awards Recent international case law Arbitration terms and terminology Other ADR methods: Advantages and disadvantages of each method: Mediation Conciliation Negotiation Ambiguity in an Arbitration clause What to avoid Importance of the language used in an Arbitration clause Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) Examining the rules of DIAC