Harpenden

<p>The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the principles and practice for leading and managing a portfolio of smaller projects in a multi-project / multi-task environment. It presents a range of practical methods and techniques relevant to the smaller project scenario, using exercises and case studies to show how these can be applied.</p><p>The scope of the programme includes:</p><p>The course also emphasises the importance of the leadership and team-working skills needed by project managers and team members in carrying out their roles.</p>The principal training objectives for this programme are to:<ul><li>Explain and demonstrate the key principles of successful project management</li><li>Demonstrate a range of useful project management tools and techniques</li><li>Define the role, and help participants understand the skills required by, the project leader</li><li>Provide a structured framework to help participants manage multiple projects</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve project management within the organisation</li></ul><section>
                    DAY ONE <h3>1 Introduction (Course sponsor)</h3><ul><li>Why this programme has been developed</li><li>Review of participants' needs and objectives</li></ul> <h3>2 Managing smaller projects</h3><ul><li>Projects and project management</li><li>Lessons from past projects; the essential requirements for success</li><li>Differences between projects; characteristic project life cycles</li><li>Key issues and challenges of smaller projects</li><li>The multi-project world; project portfolio management</li></ul> <h3>3 Project exercise</h3><ul><li><em>Syndicate teams plan and manage a small project</em></li><li><em>Review of the project exercise: What are the keys to successful management of small projects?</em></li></ul> <h3>4 Setting up the project</h3><ul><li>Getting organised</li><li>Managing the definition process</li><li>Identifying and managing project stakeholders</li><li>Working with the customer to define the scope and agree deliverables</li></ul> <h3>5 Case study 1</h3><ul><li>Defining the project scope and deliverables</li><li>Syndicate teams define the scope and deliverables for a typical project</li></ul> <h3>6 Project planning</h3><ul><li>The importance and cost benefit of effective planning</li><li>Planning the plan; deciding how detailed a plan to create</li><li>Packaging the work and estimating timescales and costs</li><li>Developing project / resource schedules; setting milestones for control v</li><li>Identifying and managing critical path activities</li></ul> <h3>7 Case study 2</h3><ul><li>Creating the project plan</li><li>Syndicate teams develop and analyse the project plan</li></ul> DAY TWO <h3>8 Managing project risks</h3><ul><li>Identifying risks to the project outcome, timescale and cost</li><li>Evaluating risks and adopting an appropriate risk strategy</li><li>Defining risk ownership; keeping a simple risk log</li><li>Keeping risk management up to date; staying pro-active</li><li>Integrating planning and risk management</li></ul> <h3>9 Project control</h3><ul><li>Managing change, minimising scope creep</li><li>Selecting the data needed to provide early warning of problems</li><li>Monitoring performance easily with 'S' curves and slip charts</li><li>Using trend forecasting to assess true project status</li><li>Running project review meetings</li></ul> <h3>10 Managing a multi-project portfolio</h3><ul><li>Understanding the world of multiple projects</li><li>Establishing ownership of project / programme management</li><li>Classifying projects and creating the 'master schedule'</li><li>Defining and applying project lifecycle management</li><li>Resource management: essential pre-requisites and mechanisms</li><li>Project prioritisation criteria and techniques; pain / gain analysis</li></ul> <h3>11 Managing the multi-project team</h3><ul><li>Characteristics of small project teams / part-time team membership</li><li>Clarifying line and project management responsibilities</li><li>Implementing effective manpower planning</li><li>Establishing professional working practices in the team</li><li>Developing project management competences in the team</li><li>Establishing team roles and integrating team members</li></ul> <h3>12 Course review and transfer planning (Course sponsor present)</h3><ul><li>Identify actions to be implemented individually</li><li>Identify corporate opportunities for improving project management</li><li>Sponsor-led review and discussion of proposals</li><li>Conclusion</li></ul> 


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The In House Training Company

Project Leadership

Project Management

Programme Manager

Professional Skills Course (PSC)

PRINCE2

Management Skills

Successfully managing smaller projects (In-House)

<p>We've all sat through far more bad presentations than good ones, but knowing what 'good' looks like is easier than successfully replicating it. Sales presentations are a performance and, as salespeople, fluffing our lines can cost us a lot more than hurt pride.</p><p>Having discovered and understood the specific needs and burning issues our prospect has, then this course will help any salesperson avoid dropping the ball and instead wowing their prospects with a</p><p>high-impact, tailored and compelling case for purchase.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Prepare mentally and physically for stand-up presentations</li><li>Use voice modulation and bullet-pointing to demand attention</li><li>Avoid boring their prospects</li><li>Master the do's and don'ts of PowerPoint</li><li>Deal more effectively with technical hitches and prospect's interruptions</li><li>Use eye contact and engagement to avoid prospects 'tuning out'</li><li>Deploy best practice essentials for presenting with colleagues</li><li>Steer through the toughest Q&amp;A</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Preparing your presentation</h3><ul><li>Mindset</li><li>Knowing your objective(s)</li><li>Vocal warm-up techniques</li><li>Assembling pre-agreed benefits</li><li>Time management</li><li>Room set-up</li><li>Technical preparation</li></ul> <h3>2 How to open your presentation</h3><ul><li>Vocal energy</li><li>Summary and agreement of prospect's needs</li><li>How to have posture and confidence</li><li>Use of humour</li><li>What to do with those dreaded hands</li><li>Confident v non-confident body language</li></ul> <h3>3 How to get and keep people's attention</h3><ul><li>Bullet pointing</li><li>Linking benefits to specific, stated needs</li><li>Practical exercise - formulating and delivering tailored benefits</li><li>Being selective with features</li><li>Third party reinforcement and case studies</li><li>'Watering the garden' eye contact technique</li><li>Practical exercise - participants practise 'sharing out' eye contact to audience</li><li>How to handle a prospect's negative body language</li><li>Handling interruptions</li></ul> <h3>4 Presenting in groups</h3><ul><li>Credentialing all participants</li><li>Role delineation for group presentations</li><li>Edifying other participants' messages - do's and don'ts</li><li>How to maintain energy when not speaking</li><li>Practical exercise - good and bad practice when not speaking</li><li>Teamwork in Q&amp;A sessions</li><li>How to hand over professionally</li></ul> <h3>5 PowerPoint do's and don'ts</h3><ul><li>Use of visual aids</li><li>Good and bad PowerPoint slides</li><li>How to make PowerPoint work for you</li><li>Classic PowerPoint errors</li><li>Avoiding and handling technical problems</li><li>Good and bad flipchart practice</li></ul> <h3>6 Closing and / or achieving next action steps</h3><ul><li>Power of summary</li><li>Good Q&amp;A practice</li><li>Handling objections</li><li>Practical exercise - handling objections on one's feet</li><li>Creating consensus among prospect panel</li><li>What to do when prospects disagree with each other</li><li>When to trial close</li><li>How to close on next action steps</li></ul> <h3>7 Wrap-up</h3><ul><li>Key learning points from each participant</li><li>Action steps to be implemented on next presentations</li></ul> 


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Executive Presentation

Office Skills & Productivity

Professional Selling Skills (PSS)

Meeting Skills

Public Speaking

Presentation Skills

Presentation skills for salespeople (In-House)

<p>At some point in your life you will have attended a training course or workshop, but what happens when you are asked to deliver one? Some people relish the opportunity while others are challenged by it. Whatever you feel about training others, it is a skill that is admired and can be studied and learned.</p><p>With the trainer you will be learning the techniques, skills and understanding you need and you will have the chance to deliver a short training session to others, receive feedback and having the confidence to deliver it for real in your job.</p><p>The training will comprise one day followed by a half day when all those able to attend will deliver and have feedback on a 20 minute training activity.</p><ul><li>To be able to create and maintain an environment conducive to learning and engagement</li><li>To understand basic learning theory and practice and the difference between training, facilitating and learning</li><li>To understand how adults learn and how to apply it as a trainer</li><li>To be able to plan and deliver a training activity using the appropriate set of skills and behaviours</li><li>To be able to review and evaluate learning and identify how outcomes are met</li><li>To manage the learning process and the participant engagement in the training environment</li><li>To be able to present effectively and appropriately to a variety of audiences</li><li>To deliver and receive feedback on a short delivered training activity with peers</li><li>To review and evaluate learning and have an action plan to take back and put into practice</li></ul><section>
                    DAY ONE (full-day) <h3>1 Welcome, housekeeping, how the day will be run</h3><ul><li>Introductions (and making the most of them)</li><li>Warm up - breaking the ice followed by review and feedback</li><li>Creating an environment conducive to learning and engagement; managing expectations well as a trainer</li><li>Group task with feedback and review in plenary</li></ul> <h3>2 What is training and how do adults learn?</h3><ul><li>Trainer input: <em>David Kolb's Learning Cycle</em></li><li>Group tasks</li></ul> <h3>3 How to plan a session and what to include - trainer input</h3><ul><li>Starting at the end and working backwards</li><li>Linking outcomes to purposeful activities</li><li>Practice task and planning time for day two using a template</li></ul> <h3>4 The skills and behaviours of a brilliant trainer</h3><ul><li>Modelling skills and behaviours</li><li>Creative task and discussion</li></ul> <h3>5 Mini reviewing task</h3><ul><li>De-brief - using reviewing in training</li></ul> <h3>6 How to manage the process</h3><ul><li>Trainer input followed by practice</li><li>Paying conscious attention to language (verbal and non verbal), feelings and responses in the room and managing yourself as a trainer</li></ul> <h3>7 The trainer's toolkit #1</h3><ul><li>Key tools, materials and templates</li><li>Choosing different tools and approaches with different audiences</li><li>Know your audience</li></ul> <h3>8 The trainer's toolkit #2</h3><ul><li>Key tools, materials and templates continued</li><li>Addressing trainer good practice</li></ul> <h3>9 Review, evaluation and action planning activities</h3><ul><li>Why and what should we be evaluating and why it's important</li><li>Action planning task</li><li>Group review task</li></ul> DAY TWO (half-day) <em>The day will comprise a series of 30 minute timed sessions where each delegate will present and deliver a training activity with the group.</em><p><em>The training activity will be prepared and planned in advance and will take 20 minutes (+ or - 2 minutes) to deliver in real time.</em></p><p><em>This will be followed by review and feedback from the trainer and peers to complete the total of 30 minutes as a time slot.</em></p><p><em>Reiteration of the task and discussion can take place with the trainer if needed, and there is time included in Day One to support the training planning.</em></p> 


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Life Coach Training

Teacher Training

Manager Training

Trainers Course

Train the Trainer (TTT)

Teaching & Training

Train the trainer (In-House)

<p>This programme provides an intensive, two-day overview of the key elements of operations management, including an array of practical tips and tools to help managers be more proactive and effective in the operations management environment - whether that's in an industrial manufacturing context or in operational leadership in the service sectors.</p>At the end of the programme, participants will:<ul><li>Understand the 6Cs approach to operations management</li><li>Be able to apply a range of practical tools and techniques to improve their personal effectiveness towards being a more effective operations manager</li><li>Be able to prepare an action plan for the critical first (or next) 100 days in their operational leadership role</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>What is Operations Management and where does it fit in?</li><li>What makes a successful Operations Manager?</li><li>Introducing the 6Cs of Operations Management</li></ul> <h3>2 Context</h3><ul><li>Link to business strategy</li><li>Making a year plan</li><li>Performance measurement</li></ul> <h3>3 Controls</h3><ul><li>Governance</li><li>Reputational controls</li><li>Costs and budgets</li><li>Quality</li><li>Operational</li></ul> <h3>4 Customers</h3><ul><li>Internal</li><li>External</li><li>Stakeholder management</li></ul> <h3>5 Communication</h3><ul><li>Planning</li><li>Meetings</li><li>Reporting</li><li>Emails</li><li>Notices</li><li>Networking</li><li>Walking the talk</li></ul> <h3>6 Care</h3><ul><li>People</li><li>Safety, Health, Environment &amp; Security</li><li>Assets</li></ul> <h3>7 Continuous improvement</h3><ul><li>Process</li><li>Product</li><li>Proactivity</li><li>Link to KPIs and Year Plan</li></ul> <h3>8 Putting it all together</h3><ul><li>Action planning for the first (or next) 100 days</li><li>Conclusions</li></ul> 


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Operations Management

Business Leadership

Operational Excellence

Lean Management

Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM)

Leadership in operations management (In-House)

<p>This is an essential programme for members of staff whose role involves external meetings, including seeing members of the public in their own home. Based around advice from agencies including the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and the police, this programme takes a sensible look at how to remain safe in the role.</p><section>
                    <h3>1 What's happening?</h3><ul><li>Issues around us</li><li>Risks in context</li></ul> <h3>2 Safety fundamentals</h3><ul><li>Risk assessment</li><li>Dynamic risk assessment</li><li>Identifying and minimising risks</li><li>Sensible precautions</li><li>Use of technology and personal safety</li><li>Lone working</li><li>Visits and travelling</li></ul> <h3>3 Harassment and stalking</h3><ul><li>What constitutes harassment and definition of stalking</li><li>Early warning signals</li></ul> <h3>4 Reporting principles</h3><ul><li>Importance of incidence reporting</li><li>Taking care of us</li><li>What next?</li></ul> 


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Health & Safety Awareness

Behavioural Safety

Workplace Health & Safety

Online Safeguarding

Health & Safety At Work

Safety Awareness

Personal safety (In-House)

<p>Telephone selling can be a challenge. It can be a pressured environment and sales professionals need to be able to maintain peak performance in order to meet - and preferably exceed - their targets. This programme will help make it easier for them.</p><p>The expert trainer covers the whole process, to help participants see it from their customer's perspective. The focus is on how to use a practical understanding of sales psychology, and of the nature of the telephone sales conversation, to help make it easier for customers to buy.</p><p>This programme will give your team the skills to:</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Understand why people buy - and how that makes it easier to sell</li><li>Manage the sales process better</li><li>Steer their sales calls to a more positive outcome</li><li>Recognise - and respond to - customer buying signals</li><li>Meet and overcome objections</li><li>Choose the most appropriate techniques for closing with confidence</li><li>Enhance their resilience</li><li>Improve their communication skills on the telephone</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Aims and objectives</li><li>Overview</li><li>Self-appraisal of current skills and development areas</li></ul> <h3>2 The sales approach</h3><ul><li>What selling means</li><li>Why selling is like nature</li></ul> <h3>3 The telephone as an instrument of communication</h3><ul><li>Qualities of the telephone</li><li>How telephone communication differs from face-to-face</li><li>Advantages and drawbacks of the telephone</li><li>How to optimise selling over the telephone</li><li>Communication techniques to help you stand out from the crowd</li></ul> <h3>4 Creating a relationship</h3><ul><li>Professional telephone etiquette</li><li>Building a rapport</li><li>Connecting with the customer so that they feel you are on the same wavelength</li></ul> <h3>5 The structure of a sales call</h3><ul><li>Opening the call - creating a positive first impression</li><li>Effective questioning to gather information and establish need</li><li>Identifying and presenting the features and benefits of the product or service</li><li>Matching the benefits to customers' needs</li><li>Recognising and responding to buying signals</li><li>Anticipating, meeting and overcoming objections</li><li>Closing the sale and asking for the order - different closing techniques</li><li>The importance of testimonials - how to obtain them and when to use them</li></ul> <h3>6 Listening skills</h3><ul><li>The challenges of accurate listening</li><li>How to enhance listening skills</li><li>Ensuring the customer feels heard and understood through empathetic listening</li></ul> <h3>7 Shaping and using a script</h3><ul><li>Developing a script to increase levels of confidence</li><li>Leaving the door open</li></ul> <h3>8 Managing the campaign</h3><ul><li>Organisation and call planning</li><li>Identifying your target market group</li><li>Planning who and when to call</li><li>Logging constructive information</li></ul> <h3>9 Personal management</h3><ul><li>The importance of persistence</li><li>Is there a time to back off?</li><li>Stamina - optimising energy levels</li><li>Bouncing back</li></ul> <h3>10 Practising the new information</h3><ul><li>Pulling the details together</li><li>Practising in a supportive environment</li></ul> <h3>11 Action planning</h3><ul><li>Personal learning summary and action plan</li></ul> 


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Coaching Skills

Counselling Skills

Sales Management

Telesales

Telephone Sales - outbound (In-House)

<p>Generating new leads and new business can be both time-consuming and frustrating.</p><p>It's not easy - it takes skill, careful preparation and the creation of effective models and methods, even perhaps using formal approaches and scripts. Once generated, a new lead or enquiry must also be carefully managed to maximise the potential revenue it can generate.</p><p>But it's crucial to get it right. If your company can afford not to worry about getting new business - congratulations! If your company is completely confident that it is performing at peak potential in generating new leads - again, congratulations! But if your company is working in the real world, couldn't your team do with some help, to become even just that little bit more effective, to make the process just that little less painful?</p><p>This highly practical, intensive workshop gives sales teams the proven strategies and tactics they need to build a sustainable new business pipeline.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Develop a clear and consistent process for new business development and lead-generation</li><li>Master the secret of effective new business development and lead-generation - 'only sell the appointment or next stage of the sales process, not your product or service'</li><li>Set and achieve the right level of new business development and lead-generation activity to achieve your personal and organisational sales goals</li><li>Apply the key principles of effective prospecting and pipeline management using a proven toolkit and approach</li><li>Overcome the most common 'put-offs' when conducting telephone or face-to-face business-development and lead-generation activities</li><li>Develop an engaging telephone voice and manner - and a 'networking personality'</li><li>Qualify potential opportunities with more accuracy on a consistent basis</li><li>Prioritise opportunities and manage their time when sourcing new business</li><li>Discover online sources of leads, contacts and referrals</li><li>Overcome psychological blocks to cold or warm calling - theirs and the client's</li><li>Identify potential prospects - and decision-makers and influencers within target prospects - with greater accuracy</li><li>Make outbound sales or appointment calls with improved confidence, control and results</li><li>Improve the conversion of calls to appointments by using more effective questions and sales messages</li><li>Get past gatekeepers and assistants more effectively</li><li>Make the most of your CRM software and systems</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Online marketing - what works!</h3><ul><li>Workshop overview and learning objectives</li><li>Choosing your social media channels</li><li>LinkedIn for sales and marketing</li><li>Designing and implementing an effective new business email campaign online</li><li>Creating a lead-generation strategy online - with case studies</li><li>Avoiding common mistakes in social media marketing</li><li>Case study: 'Best practice in social media sales and marketing'</li><li>Using blogs and video-based marketing (eg, YouTube)</li><li>New trends and how to keep your finger on the 'social media' pulse</li><li>Twenty essential websites and online marketing tools</li></ul> <h3>2 Making appointments by telephone</h3><ul><li>Planning the call, telephone techniques, integrating with email and online marketing</li><li>Developing a clear and consistent process to appointment-making</li><li>Setting and achieving the right level of telephone activity to achieve your appointment goals</li><li>Applying the key principles of effective prospecting and pipeline management generation, using a proven toolkit and approach</li><li>Overcoming the most common 'put-offs' to seeing or engaging with you</li><li>Overcoming psychological blocks to cold or warm calling - yours and the client's</li><li>Identifying potential prospects - and decision-makers and influencers within target prospects - with greater accuracy</li><li>Making outbound sales or appointment calls with improved confidence, control and results</li><li>Improving conversion of calls to appointments by using more effective questions and sales messages</li><li>The five keys to developing an engaging telephone voice and approaching manner</li></ul> <h3>3 Power networking</h3><ul><li>Strategies for networking and B2B referral-based marketing</li><li>The importance, and different types, of networking</li><li>How to work a room - preparation and strategy</li><li>Communication dynamics in networking - the power of the listening networker</li><li>Assumptions when networking</li><li>Business networking etiquette</li><li>Making connections, asking for cards, contact details and referrals, gaining follow-up commitments</li><li>Building relationships - follow-up and follow-through</li></ul> <h3>4 Developing new leads</h3><ul><li>Strategies for first-time sales calls</li><li>Gaining rapport and opening first-time and new business sales calls effectively</li><li>Advanced consultative selling - questioning techniques to quickly and efficiently uncover opportunities, need areas and preferences</li><li>Presenting your solution to a new or first-time customer - creating an enthusiastic and compelling personalised and persuasive summary of your proposal</li><li>Value message - differentiate your solutions clearly and accurately, with tailored value statements</li><li>Presenting the right initial USPs, features and benefits and making them relevant and real to the customer</li><li>Smart ways to position price, emphasise value and be a strong player without being the cheapest or leading on price</li><li>Learn and use advanced techniques to determine customer needs, value and decision-making criteria in depth on a first-time call</li></ul> <h3>5 Organised persistence - CRM and prospect-tracking</h3><ul><li>Organised persistence - sales tracking, following up on 'sleeping' customers, gaining referrals, time and territory management</li><li>Maintaining a good database for maximising new business ROI</li><li>Developing a contact strategy with different types and levels of contact</li><li>Analysing your contact base using state-of-the-art software and tools</li><li>Making the most of your CRM systems and solutions</li><li>Understanding that your attitude makes a difference when sourcing new business</li><li>Setting SMART objectives for new business development and lead-generation</li><li>Practical exercise - setting personal development and business goals</li><li>Time management tips to improve daily productivity</li><li>New business pipeline management strategies for peak sales performance</li></ul> <h3>6 Workshop summary and close</h3><ul><li>Practical exercise - developing your new business action plan</li><li>Review and feedback</li></ul> 


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Online Course Marketing

Coaching & Consulting Business

Business Development

Business Case Development

Business Development Manager

Lead Generation

New business and lead generation (In-House)

<p>Successful account management requires time and investment to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction and develop new business opportunities. Ensuring you are equipped with the right tools to approach every customer interaction in a structured way will help you have productive relationships with your clients. Whether you're new to account management or experienced in business development and looking to expand your skillset, understanding how you can maximise customer relationships will be key to your success.</p><p>We have developed this programme to be practical, fun and interactive. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice a number of key skills that will see successful results, and are encouraged to bring real life examples to the course so that learning can be translated to real world scenarios.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Learn how to plan growth and increase revenue from existing accounts</li><li>Develop skills to build and develop essential relationships to increase value and visibility</li><li>Learn how best to create loyalty and customer satisfaction</li><li>Identify how to set account targets and development plan for building contacts and cross-selling</li><li>Develop persuasion and influencing skills to better define needs and develop opportunities</li><li>Learn how to add value at all stages; plus gaining competitive advantage</li><li>Develop an up-selling, cross-selling strategy</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Performance metrics for account management</h3><ul><li>Introduction to the PROFIT account management model</li><li>Using practical tools to measure account performance and success</li><li>Planning your account strategy - red flags and green lights</li></ul> <h3>2 Relationships for account management</h3><ul><li>How to build and manage key relationships</li><li>Producing a 'relationship matrix'</li><li>Developing a coach or advocate</li></ul> <h3>3 Setting objectives for your account</h3><ul><li>Developing an upselling cross-selling strategy</li><li>Setting jointly agreed goals, objectives and business plans</li><li>Planning session</li></ul> <h3>4 Feedback and Retention - building loyal and satisfied customers</h3><ul><li>How to monitor and track your customer's satisfaction</li><li>Building a personalised satisfaction matrix</li><li>Customer service review meetings</li></ul> <h3>5 Influence</h3><ul><li>Getting your message and strategy across to C-level contacts</li><li>Being able to better develop a business partnership within an accountes</li></ul> <h3>6 Teamwork and time management</h3><ul><li>Working with others to achieve your account goals</li><li>Managing and working with a virtual team</li><li>Managing your time and accounts effectively</li></ul> <h3>7 Gaining commitment and closing the sale</h3><ul><li>Knowing when to close for commitment</li><li>How to ask for commitment professionally and effectively</li><li>Key negotiation skills around the closing process - getting to 'yes'</li><li>Checklist of closing and negotiation skills</li><li>Practice session</li></ul> 


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Account Manager

Account Management

Management Accountant

Account management (In-House)

<p>This is an essential programme for managers or members of staff (or students) who need to be able to read and summarise information on screen faster and more effectively. The session focuses on the different types of reading style and encourages better retention of written material through the use of specific speed-reading techniques.</p>By the end of this programme participants will be able to:<ul><li>Explain the principles of speed reading</li><li>Understand the barriers to reading</li><li>Use different reading styles according to the information being read</li><li>Read more effectively from tablet and computer screens</li><li>Co-ordinate eye movements better</li><li>Minimise any poor reading habits</li><li>Increase reading speed by over 50%, without losing comprehension</li><li>Improve retention of information using specific techniques</li></ul><p>The programme focuses on how to maximise reading from electronic devices by exploring techniques which will reduce eyestrain and improve reading effectiveness. The session also explains different types of reading styles and how to learn new, positive reading habits.</p><section>
                    <h3>1 An introduction to speed reading</h3><ul><li>The history of speed reading</li><li>Assumptions about reading</li><li>The process of reading</li><li>Schema and its influence on interpretation</li><li>Eye/brain relationship</li><li>How our brain processes written information</li></ul> <h3>2 Minimising barriers to reading</h3><ul><li>Understanding eye tics</li><li>Mouthing</li><li>The influence of different light sources</li><li>Body clocks and making use of natural patterns</li></ul> <h3>3 Reading styles</h3><ul><li>Importance of choosing the right reading style</li><li>Speeds and their influence on retention</li><li>Reading for pleasure</li><li>Proof reading</li><li>Scanning</li><li>Skimming</li><li>Reading for retention</li><li>SQRW principles</li></ul> <h3>4 Reading from electronic devices</h3><ul><li>The challenge of reading from screens</li><li>Importance of breaks and proper display screen evaluation</li><li>Calibrating screens and background colours</li><li>Formatting documents</li><li>Using eye guides</li></ul> 


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Learning Strategies

Study Skills

Memory & Study Skills

Speed Reading

Screen-reading for speed and retention (In-House)

<p>The market for professional services is becoming increasingly competitive, with some firms and individuals becoming very effective at winning new work, leaving others lagging way behind.</p><p>Given the choice between spending time on client work and business development work, we all tend to choose that which we feel to be easier, more attractive and more aligned with our image of ourselves. We stay within our comfort zones, we focus on client work, and we only resort to business development work when we have to, which can also lead to 'feast or famine' syndrome.</p>The programme will help participants:<ul><li>Understand the professional business development approach and the style that is appropriate for their business and their clients</li><li>Follow a process to guide their conversations and business development meetings</li><li>Prepare thoroughly for a business development meeting/contact with a client to ensure they use their time efficiently and maximise results</li><li>Create a great first impression and professional opening to a conversation</li><li>Ask open questions and listen effectively in order to spot opportunities, understand needs and progress the opportunity</li><li>Identify and understand buying and decision-making processes and criteria</li><li>Skilfully and confidently handle questions and objections</li><li>Sell the benefits of their services and approach over those of their competitors</li><li>Progress the sale by agreeing next steps and gaining commitment appropriately</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Aims and objectives of the programme</li><li>Personal introductions and objectives</li><li>Workshop overview</li></ul> <h3>2 An introduction to business development and selling for professionals</h3><ul><li>What is selling?</li><li>Who are you selling to?</li><li>The buying experience</li><li>What clients want</li><li>The four-step business development process</li><li>The business development cycle and pipeline management</li><li>Upselling and cross-selling as well as winning new clients</li></ul> <h3>3 Networking and generating leads</h3><ul><li>What is networking?</li><li>Networking objectives</li><li>It's not what you know but who you know</li><li>Asking for referrals and introductions</li><li>Making appointments from networking activity</li></ul> <h3>4 Opening the sales relationship/sales meeting</h3><ul><li>What potential customers are thinking</li><li>Judging first impressions</li><li>Creating positive first impressions</li><li>Building rapport and creating interest and impact</li><li>Earning the right</li></ul> <h3>5 Core communication skills for professional selling</h3><ul><li>Overcoming barriers to listening</li><li>The art of listening</li><li>Questioning refresher</li><li>Types of questions</li><li>Questioning funnel</li></ul> <h3>6 Understanding and identifying needs and opportunities</h3><ul><li>Identifying the questions to ask to identify needs and opportunities</li><li>Questions to move us through the buying and selling process</li><li>Understanding their buying processes</li><li>Asking questions that position you as a 'trusted adviser'</li><li>The questions that give you a competitive advantage</li><li>Knowing when you have asked enough questions</li></ul> <h3>7 Introducing solutions</h3><ul><li>Tailoring your 'pitch' to the client</li><li>Speaking the client's language</li><li>Using features and benefits</li><li>Applying the benefit cycle</li></ul> <h3>8 Handling objections and concerns</h3><ul><li>Identifying the typical objections and concerns</li><li>Understanding why clients raise objections and concerns</li><li>Following a structure for handling objections</li><li>Handling the price objection</li></ul> <h3>9 Gaining commitment</h3><ul><li>Knowing when to close</li><li>The art of checking</li><li>Recognising buying signals</li><li>Small c and big C</li></ul> <h3>10 Putting it all together</h3><ul><li>Personal learning summary and action plans</li></ul> 


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Business development for professional services (In-House)

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>2 Days</p><p>12 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional, consultant and/or those who work in network cabling system design, implementation and operation.</p>Overview<p>With few exceptions, enterprises today rely on IT for the delivery of business-critical services - often directly to the end consumer.</p><p>It is therefore vital that the mission-critical data centre is designed, maintained and operated with high-availability and efficiency in mind. Among all the facilities, network cabling is the foundation for the network and one of the major contributors to the availability of the data center.CNCDPÂ© is a 2-day course designed to expose participants to in-depth knowledge in designing and installing the data network cabling system which includes key subject matters such as; technical standards, designing of different cabling sub-systems, calculation of material requirements, architecture, installation, testing and acceptance.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h4>Introduction to Structured Cabling System (SCS)</h4><ul><li>Brief history of SCS</li><li>Basic copper and fibre transmission</li><li>Copper and fibre cabling</li><li>Single and multimode fibre</li><li>Step/graded index multimode fibre</li><li>Difference between Commercial Wiring and data centre cabling</li><li>Development of standards</li><li>Role of standards</li><li>ANSI/TIA 568 standard</li><li>Common standards</li><li>The new usage of cabling to support Smart building</li></ul><h4>Horizontal and Administration - Commercial Building</h4><ul><li>Standard diagram recap: ANSI/TIA-568</li><li>Functional elements and example</li><li>Scenario A: Determine the number of work areas</li><li>Scenario B: Determine the number of user locations</li><li>Zone wiring</li><li>Administration: Interconnect and cross-connect</li><li>Angled and flat panels</li><li>Creating a cabling schematic design</li><li>Convert schematic into physical layout</li><li>Calculating the material list</li></ul><h4>Horizontal and Administration - Data Centre</h4><ul><li>Standard diagram recap: TIA-942</li><li>Basic/Reduced/Typical data centre setup</li><li>Traditional 3 layers network design/ Spine and Leaf network design</li><li>Select termination hardware</li><li>Administration design</li><li>ToR/EoR/Spine &amp; Leaf cabling design</li><li>Network and cabling resiliency</li><li>Create cabling schematic design for ToR/EoR</li><li>Convert into patch panel/rack layout</li><li>Calculate the material list for ToR/EoR</li></ul><h4>Building Backbone - Commercial Building</h4><ul><li>Backbone diagram</li><li>Calculate the copper backbone requirements per Telecom Room (TR)</li><li>Calculate the fibre backbone requirements per Telecom Room</li><li>Summarize the building backbone requirements</li><li>Recognised cables</li><li>Backbone Patch panels</li><li>The maximum backbone distances</li><li>Create cabling schematic design</li><li>Converting the schematic design into patch panel/ rack layout</li></ul><h4>Building Backbone - Data Centre</h4><ul><li>TIA-942 based backbone topology</li><li>TIA-942 backbone requirements</li><li>Recognised backbone cable</li><li>ToR/EoR/Spine and Leaf</li><li>Backbone distance estimation</li><li>Resiliency of backbone cable routes</li><li>Creating cabling schematic design</li><li>Converting the schematic design into patch panel/ rack layout</li><li>Field and Fusion Termination for fibre connectors</li><li>Pre-terminated fibre trunk and copper cables</li></ul><h4>Architectural Considerations</h4><ul><li>ANSI/TIA569-D Cable pathway and spaces</li><li>Common requirements for the rooms</li><li>Definition of the rooms</li><li>Entrance Room/Demarcation</li><li>Ceiling and floor pathways types</li><li>Cable trays/basket/ladder/conduit</li><li>Inner duct/sleeve/slot</li><li>Calculating of pathway size</li><li>Cable run best practices</li><li>Cable management/AIM</li><li>Grounding and bonding</li><li>Separation distance requirements for copper cabling to power cabling</li><li>Fire stopping</li><li>Fire rated barrier</li><li>Fire rated jacket cable</li></ul><h4>Campus / Outdoor Backbone</h4><ul><li>Common campus cable installation and cable types : Aerial cable / Direct-buried / Underground in-conduit</li><li>Outdoor cable installation planning</li><li>Lightning / surge protection</li><li>Approved ground for surge protector</li><li>Creating a schematic diagram</li><li>Converting a schematic into a physical layout</li></ul><h4>Site Inspection and Testing</h4><ul><li>Visual site inspection notes</li><li>Installation common issues</li><li>Copper testing standard</li><li>Permanent link / Channel / Patch cord / MPTL testing configuration</li><li>Fibre connectors</li><li>Fibre testing standard</li><li>Tier 1 &amp; 2 certification</li><li>Fibre link definition</li><li>Fibre testing steps</li><li>Fibre inspection and cleaning</li><li>Calibrating the test sets - 3 methods</li><li>Setting up mandrel for testing</li><li>Fibre loss budget calculation</li><li>G.657 Bend insensitive fibre</li><li>Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)</li></ul><h4>Exam - Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDPÂ©)</h4><ul><li>The exam is a 60-minute closed book exam, with 40 multiple-choice questions.</li><li>The candidate requires a minimum of 27 correct answers to pass the exam.</li></ul></div><div id="course-pills-3"><h4>Additional course details:</h4><br /><p>Nexus Humans Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDP) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. </p><p></p> This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. <p></p>Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success.  <p></p>While we feel this is the best course for the Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDP) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you.  <p></p>Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.<p></p></div>

Nexus Human

Certified Technology Specialist (CTS)

Cisco Certified Network Professional certification (CCNP)

Construction Design & Management (CDM)

Structured Cabling

IT Networking Fundamentals

Computer Networking

Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDP)

General Admission

<p style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Become a Certified User Experience Professional</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);">Build a career in UX with the world&rsquo;s only university credit-rated online UX course. Acquire the mindset, the skills and the confidence that make UX designers so valuable. A rewarding and meaningful career awaits.</p><p style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Why become a UX designer?</strong></p><ul style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Be in demand</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">UX is a high-growth sector. The demand for UX designers far outstrips the supply of qualified professionals.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Get well paid</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">UX designers are highly paid. The average entry-level salary for a UX designer in the United Kingdom is &pound;35,465 (PayScale, 2019)<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Love your job</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">UX designers make an impact. They solve real-world problems using an exciting mix of research, design, technology and psychology.</li></ul><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Study method</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Online, self-paced</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Duration</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">6 months</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Access to content</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">12 months</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Qualification</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Level 8 Diploma - User Experience Design</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Awarded by Glasgow Caledonian University</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Regulated by SQA</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Additional info</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Exam(s) / assessment(s) is included in price</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Tutor is available to students</p><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><section style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Description</h2><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Duration: 6 months<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong>Get certified in six months following a flexible, structured learning path.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Delivery: Online<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong>The course is delivered entirely online, including video modules, mentor-led webinars and support.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Assessment: 2-hour exam<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong>Before getting certified, you&#39;ll be assessed during a two-hour exam taken online.</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Outcomes for you</strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Think like a UX designer; adopt the mindset that sets them apart</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Showcase your knowledge with a portfolio of project work</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Speak with the confidence that comes from a true, deep understanding of UX</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Advance your career with job-ready skills</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Complete a university credit-rated course, valued by employers globally</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Become a Certified UX Professional</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Learn with us</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">We&rsquo;ve worked hard to design the best possible online learning experience for you. As well as an unmatched syllabus, our approach includes:</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Projects &amp; portfolio</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Learn by doing with a series of real-world projects ideal for your UX portfolio.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Mentors &amp; webinars</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Be guided by our hand-picked, world-class mentors during monthly webinars.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Structure &amp; support</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stay motivated with a structured programme supported by fellow students and our customer success team.</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">What you&rsquo;ll learn</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">We&rsquo;ve put together a university credit-rated curriculum that&rsquo;s deep, rigorous and<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">covers everything you need to know to become a certified UX professional and<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">turbocharge your career.</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 01</strong>&nbsp;- Introduction to UX design</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 02</strong>&nbsp;- User research</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 03</strong>&nbsp;- User goals</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 04</strong>&nbsp;- Structure and navigation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 05</strong>&nbsp;- Interactions</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 06</strong>&nbsp;- Design principles</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 07</strong>&nbsp;- Design patterns</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 08</strong>&nbsp;- Mobile</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 09</strong>&nbsp;- Workflows</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 10</strong>&nbsp;- Prototyping and handover</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 11</strong> - AI and UX</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 12</strong> - Creating your portfolio</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module 13</strong> - Career guidance Hub</li><li style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-weight: bold;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Tutorials for Figma</strong></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Projects and portfolio</strong>&nbsp;- Projects that build into a portfolio</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Exam</strong>&nbsp;- 2-hour final exam</li></ul></section><section style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Requirements</h2><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Background</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">You don&rsquo;t need experience in design or technology to enrol in our courses, although having one or both is a definite bonus. Our students come from a diverse array of backgrounds, including project management, development, graphic design, product management, business analysis and so on.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Commitment</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">You do need to be motivated and committed. We set a high bar. Studying for one of our professional qualifications requires a certain amount of time, energy and focus. Our team will be there to support you along every step of the way but success will come as a result of your own diligence.</p></section><section style="color: rgb(15, 21, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(15, 21, 26);"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Career path</h2><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The average salary for entry level user experience designers is &pound;28,000</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The average salary for user experience designers with 1-5 years experience ranges from &pound;29,000 to &pound;50,000</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The average salary for user experience managers/leads is &pound;80,000</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Information from LinkedIn Salary Reports, based on real jobs listings.</p></section>

UX Design Institute 

Product Design

UI / UX Design

Professional Diploma in UX Design

Reading

Nottingham

Dickson Training Ltd

ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership and Management

Online Course

Classroom Course

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Mental Health First Aid (MHFA&reg;) is an internationally recognised training course, designed to teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. We offer both Adult and Youth MHFA England accredited courses.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(62, 62, 62); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(62, 62, 62);">The</span><span style="color: rgb(36, 173, 120); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(36, 173, 120);">&nbsp;two-day Adult MHFAider&reg; courses are tailored around supporting adults</span><span style="color: rgb(62, 62, 62); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(62, 62, 62);">, and can be attended by anyone from age 16 upwards. A lot of the education settings we work with have now trained a number of Adult MHFAider&reg;&rsquo;s to support their colleagues as part of their whole-school/college approach to mental health and wellbeing.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(62, 62, 62); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(62, 62, 62);">Each and every MHFA course is delivered by a qualified and quality assured instructor and at the end of the course the trainee will be fully qualified as a Youth/Adult MHFAider&reg;.</span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.brightcoreconsultancy.com/brightcore-testimonials" target="_blank" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; background-color: rgb(61, 86, 224); border-width: 12px 18px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(61, 86, 224); display: inline-block; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;" rel="noopener noreferrer" fr-original-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; background-color: #3D56E0; border-top: 12px solid #3D56E0; border-bottom: 12px solid #3D56E0; border-right: 18px solid #3D56E0; border-left: 18px solid #3D56E0; display: inline-block;">View all testimonials </a></p>

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA®) is an internationally recognised training course, designed to teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. We offer both Adult and Youth MHFA England accredited courses.
The two-day Adult MHFAider® courses are tailored around supporting adults, and can be attended by anyone from age 16 upwards. A lot of the education settings we work with have now trained a number of Adult MHFAider®’s to support their colleagues as part of their whole-school/college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Each and every MHFA course is delivered by a qualified and quality assured instructor and at the end of the course the trainee will be fully qualified as a Youth/Adult MHFAider®.
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Brightcore Consultancy

Mental Health

Accredited Mental Health First Aid

The two-day Adult MHFAider® courses are tailored around supporting adults, and can be attended by anyone from age 16 upwards. A lot of the education settings we work with have now trained a number of Adult MHFAider®’s to support their colleagues as part of their whole-school/college approach to mental health and wellbeing.

Adult Mental Health First Aid Two-Day Course

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This 4 week online Course is suitable for complete beginners and improvers who would like to learn to paint in Watercolour.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Each session is 40 minutes live on Tuesday evening and start at 7.00-7.40pm Via Zoom<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">On this Course you will:<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* learn to prepare your water colour paints and mix colours.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* learn a variety of watercolour techniques including, washes, wet in wet, graded, dry brush Flat Wash, Loose watercolour see photos, we will cover a variety of subjects.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* will be taught live by your tutor online via zoom with step- by -step demonstrations and clear explanations of the various stages.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* Learners will then carry the various tasks alongside the tutor who will be at hand for any questions that you may have.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is a 4 week course offered live online via zoom this course rolls on and new dates will be added.</p>
<h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What&#39;s included in the price?</h2>
<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Online Tuition<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step by step Demonstrations via Zoom in the live class<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Clear explanation from your Tutor<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">reference handouts sent via email</p>
<h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What you will need</h2>
<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Starter Kit Available from Tutor - Please email for details<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Watercolour paints - tubes or pans<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Watercolour paper ( Cold Pressed 300 gsm 140lb)<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Round watercolour brushes- size 4 and 6 ( or similar)<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">HB graphite pencil to draw image<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eraser<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mixing Palette<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 x jars of clean water<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kitchen paper<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hairdryer<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sketchbook<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tracing paper</p>
<h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suitable for</h2>
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adults</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Engagement, birthdays &amp; anniversaries</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Intermediate level</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Seniors</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suitable for beginners</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Teenagers</li>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wheelchair users</li>
</ul>

Art By Purnima

Watercolour Painting

Watercolour Techniques for All - 4 week Online Course Tuesday Evenings Via Zoom

General admission

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LOOKING FOR:</strong> ADULT FICTION</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Louise Buckley</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">has worked in publishing for well over a decade. She was inspired to enter the publishing industry after completing an MA in Creative Writing and then spent a hugely enjoyable year working as a bookseller for Waterstones, wishing that she could have a hand in publishing books.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After a year working at Dorling Kindersley, she then spent almost five years working in the commercial fiction division at Pan Macmillan, where she published a mix of commercial bestsellers and award-winning authors.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Most recently, she was an Associate Literary Agent at Zeno Agency Ltd. As an agent she represented a roster of commercial and literary fiction, including Anne Griffin&rsquo;s <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When All is Said</em>, which spent five weeks at number one in Ireland and sold into 17 territories.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">She is delighted to be working with Hannah at Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency.</span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Louise is looking for:-</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Literary and upmarket fiction</strong> that focusses on the underdog, the repressed, the suppressed. Louise is especially interested in novels that represent working-class people or children going through difficult circumstances (think <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shuggie Bain</em> by Douglas Stuart, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">My Name is Leon</em> by Kit de Waal or <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boys Don&rsquo;t Cry</em> by F&Iacute;ona Scarlett).</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Irish literary and book club fiction</strong>. Think Claire Keegan, Louise Kennedy or Anne Griffin.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">In <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">commercial fiction</strong> she loves novels set during the Second World War, such as <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Nightingale</em> by Kristin Hannah, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Beekeeper of Aleppo</em> by Christi Lefteri or <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Midwife of Auschwitz</em> by Anna Stuart. Louise recently read and loved <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Last List of Mabel Beaumont</em> by Laura Pearson and would love to see anything in the same &lsquo;older person going on a journey&rsquo; category, a more recent <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry</em>.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Louise had a lot of fun publishing a &lsquo;pet fiction&rsquo; novel as an editor (<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Molly and the Cat&nbsp;Caf&eacute;</em>) and would love to find an author who can write an <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alfie the Doorstep Cat/Dog</em>.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">She has a soft spot for novels featuring <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">time-travel or parallel universes</strong>, a &lsquo;what if&rsquo; that plays around with conventions. At the literary end this would be books like <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Life After Life</em> by Kate Atkinson, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Shining Girls</em> by Lauren Beukes or <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is How You Lose the Time War</em> by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. At the more commercial end Louise loved <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wrong Place, Wrong Time</em> by Gillian McAllister, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dark Matter</em> by Blake Crouch and <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Oona Out of Order</em> by Martina Montimore. She also enjoys novels set in the real world but featuring a hefty dose of magic or the supernatural. They can be commercial or literary, present-day or historical. Think <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rivers of London</em> by Ben Aaronovitch, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Threadneedle</em> by Cari Thomas, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Discovery of Witches</em> by Deborah Harkness or <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Gifts</em> by Liz Hyder. And also cosy fantasy in the vein of <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Legends and Lattes</em> or<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;The House in the Cerulean Sea</em>.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Cosy or humorous crime</strong>. Recently, Louise absolutely loved <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Over My Dead Body</em> by Maz Evans. When she was an editor Louise published the hit <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Luckiest Girl Alive</em> by Jessica Knoll and would love to represent incisive, intelligent suspense written by authors such as Jessica Knoll and Gillian Flynn, or something a little more subversive and blackly comic like <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">My Sister, the Serial Killer</em> by Oyinkan Braithwaite.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">More generally, Louise would also love to see novels with a disabled protagonist or someone (like myself) who is living with an invisible disability. As an ex-primary school teacher, she also warmly welcomes submissions from teachers, especially if the submission falls into one of the other categories she has listed. Following-on from this, she enjoys reading stories that follow a &lsquo;beating the system&rsquo; narrative.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><u fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Louise is NOT looking for</u>:</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-romance</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-romantasy</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-epic, traditional fantasy</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-space opera</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-straightforward women&rsquo;s fiction</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-children&rsquo;s fiction of any kind</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-non-fiction</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(16, 24, 64); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(16, 24, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Louise would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first three chapters or 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.</span></strong>
</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In addition to the paid sessions, Louise is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email</span> <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the </span></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">discretion of&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print)</em>.&nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Pr</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">int</em> prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline and note that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The submission deadline is: Tuesday 1 October 2024</span></strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION
Louise Buckley  has worked in publishing for well over a decade. She was inspired to enter the publishing industry after completing an MA in Creative Writing and then spent a hugely enjoyable year working as a bookseller for Waterstones, wishing that she could have a hand in publishing books.
After a year working at Dorling Kindersley, she then spent almost five years working in the commercial fiction division at Pan Macmillan, where she published a mix of commercial bestsellers and award-winning authors.
Most recently, she was an Associate Literary Agent at Zeno Agency Ltd. As an agent she represented a roster of commercial and literary fiction, including Anne Griffin’s When All is Said, which spent five weeks at number one in Ireland and sold into 17 territories.
She is delighted to be working with Hannah at Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency.
Louise is looking for:-
Literary and upmarket fiction that focusses on the underdog, the repressed, the suppressed. Louise is especially interested in novels that represent working-class people or children going through difficult circumstances (think Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal or Boys Don’t Cry by FÍona Scarlett).
Irish literary and book club fiction. Think Claire Keegan, Louise Kennedy or Anne Griffin.
In commercial fiction she loves novels set during the Second World War, such as The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christi Lefteri or The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart. Louise recently read and loved The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson and would love to see anything in the same ‘older person going on a journey’ category, a more recent The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Louise had a lot of fun publishing a ‘pet fiction’ novel as an editor (Molly and the Cat Café) and would love to find an author who can write an Alfie the Doorstep Cat/Dog.
She has a soft spot for novels featuring time-travel or parallel universes, a ‘what if’ that plays around with conventions. At the literary end this would be books like Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes or This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. At the more commercial end Louise loved Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and Oona Out of Order by Martina Montimore. She also enjoys novels set in the real world but featuring a hefty dose of magic or the supernatural. They can be commercial or literary, present-day or historical. Think Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch, Threadneedle by Cari Thomas, A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness or The Gifts by Liz Hyder. And also cosy fantasy in the vein of Legends and Lattes or The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Cosy or humorous crime. Recently, Louise absolutely loved Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans. When she was an editor Louise published the hit Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll and would love to represent incisive, intelligent suspense written by authors such as Jessica Knoll and Gillian Flynn, or something a little more subversive and blackly comic like My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
More generally, Louise would also love to see novels with a disabled protagonist or someone (like myself) who is living with an invisible disability. As an ex-primary school teacher, she also warmly welcomes submissions from teachers, especially if the submission falls into one of the other categories she has listed. Following-on from this, she enjoys reading stories that follow a ‘beating the system’ narrative.
Louise is NOT looking for:
-romance
-romantasy
-epic, traditional fantasy
-space opera
-straightforward women’s fiction
-children’s fiction of any kind
-non-fiction
Louise would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first three chapters or 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.

(In addition to the paid sessions, Louise is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 
By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.
The submission deadline is: Friday 27 September 2024

I Am In Print

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ONE SPACE LEFT! 8th October Louise Buckley #Agent121. Looking for: ADULT FICTION

<div style="color: rgb(36, 39, 41); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(36, 39, 41);">The theory assessment provides delegates with the essential knowledge to select, monitor, manage and plan the correct use of Harnesses and lanyards for use in a MEWP.</div><div style="color: rgb(36, 39, 41); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(36, 39, 41);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div style="color: rgb(36, 39, 41); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(36, 39, 41);">Delegates successfully completing the e-learning will:<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Have an awareness of how to correctly identify and select the appropriate form of personal<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">protection against falls from MEWPs.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Have a theoretical awareness only of how to check, use, maintain and store a harness and<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">lanyard with manufacturer&rsquo;s instructions.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Have a theoretical awareness of how harnesses and lanyards should be fitted and adjusted.</li></ul></div>

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The theory assessment provides delegates with the essential knowledge to select, monitor, manage and plan the correct use of Harnesses and lanyards for use in a MEWP.

Delegates successfully completing the e-learning will:
Have an awareness of how to correctly identify and select the appropriate form of personal
protection against falls from MEWPs.
Have a theoretical awareness only of how to check, use, maintain and store a harness and
lanyard with manufacturer’s instructions.
Have a theoretical awareness of how harnesses and lanyards should be fitted and adjusted.

IPAF - Harness Awareness 

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>4 Days</p><p>24 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p></p><p>This course is for Azure Security Engineers who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing security tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an engineer that wants to specialize in providing security for Azure-based digital platforms and play an integral role in protecting an organization's data.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization?s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications, and security operations.</p><p></p>Prerequisites<p></p><li>AZ-104T00 - Microsoft Azure Administrator</li>  <li>Security best practices and industry security requirements such as defense in depth, least privileged access, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, shared responsibility, and zero trust model.</li>  <li>Be familiar with security protocols such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Internet Security Protocol (IPSec), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), disk and data encryption methods.</li>  <li>Have some experience deploying Azure workloads. This course does not cover the basics of Azure administration, instead the course content builds on that knowledge by adding security specific information.</li>  <li>Have experience with Windows and Linux operating systems and scripting languages. Course labs may use PowerShell and the CLI.</li><p></p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - Manage identities in Microsoft Entra ID</h3> <ul> <li>Secure users in Microsoft Entra ID</li> <li>Secure groups in Microsoft Entra ID</li> <li>Recommend when to use external identities</li> <li>Secure external identities</li> <li>Implement Microsoft Entra Identity protection</li> </ul> <h3>2 - Manage authentication by using Microsoft Entra ID</h3> <ul> <li>Configure Microsoft Entra Verified ID</li> <li>Implement multifactor authentication (MFA)</li> <li>Implement passwordless authentication</li> <li>Implement password protection</li> <li>Implement single sign-on (SSO)</li> <li>Integrate single sign-on (SSO) and identity providers</li> <li>Recommend and enforce modern authentication protocols </li> </ul> <h3>3 - Manage authorization by using Microsoft Entra ID</h3> <ul> <li>Configure Azure role permissions for management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources</li> <li>Assign built-in roles in Microsoft Entra ID</li> <li>Assign built-in roles in Azure</li> <li>Create and assign a custom role in Microsoft Entra ID</li> <li>Implement and manage Microsoft Entra Permissions Management</li> <li>Configure Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management </li> <li>Configure role management and access reviews by using Microsoft Entra Identity Governance</li> <li>Implement Conditional Access policies</li> </ul> <h3>4 - Manage application access in Microsoft Entra ID</h3> <ul> <li>Manage access to enterprise applications in Microsoft Entra ID, including OAuth permission grants</li> <li>Manage app registrations in Microsoft Entra ID</li> <li>Configure app registration permission scopes</li> <li>Manage app registration permission consent</li> <li>Manage and use service principals</li> <li>Manage managed identities for Azure resources</li> <li>Recommend when to use and configure a Microsoft Entra Application Proxy, including authentication</li> </ul> <h3>5 - Plan and implement security for virtual networks</h3> <ul> <li>Plan and implement Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Application Security Groups (ASGs)</li> <li>Plan and implement User-Defined Routes (UDRs)</li> <li>Plan and implement Virtual Network peering or gateway</li> <li>Plan and implement Virtual Wide Area Network, including secured virtual hub</li> <li>Secure VPN connectivity, including point-to-site and site-to-site</li> <li>Implement encryption over ExpressRoute</li> <li>Configure firewall settings on PaaS resources</li> <li>Monitor network security by using Network Watcher, including NSG flow logging</li> </ul> <h3>6 - Plan and implement security for private access to Azure resources</h3> <ul> <li>Plan and implement virtual network Service Endpoints</li> <li>Plan and implement Private Endpoints</li> <li>Plan and implement Private Link services</li> <li>Plan and implement network integration for Azure App Service and Azure Functions</li> <li>Plan and implement network security configurations for an App Service Environment (ASE)</li> <li>Plan and implement network security configurations for an Azure SQL Managed Instance</li> </ul> <h3>7 - Plan and implement security for public access to Azure resources</h3> <ul> <li>Plan and implement Transport Layer Security (TLS) to applications, including Azure App Service and API Management</li> <li>Plan, implement, and manage an Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager and firewall policies</li> <li>Plan and implement an Azure Application Gateway</li> <li>Plan and implement an Azure Front Door, including Content Delivery Network (CDN)</li> <li>Plan and implement a Web Application Firewall (WAF)</li> <li>Recommend when to use Azure DDoS Protection Standard</li> </ul> <h3>8 - Plan and implement advanced security for compute</h3> <ul> <li>Plan and implement remote access to public endpoints, Azure Bastion and just-in-time (JIT) virtual machine (VM) access</li> <li>Configure network isolation for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)</li> <li>Secure and monitor AKS</li> <li>Configure authentication for AKS</li> <li>Configure security for Azure Container Instances (ACIs)</li> <li>Configure security for Azure Container Apps (ACAs)</li> <li>Manage access to Azure Container Registry (ACR)</li> <li>Configure disk encryption, Azure Disk Encryption (ADE), encryption as host, and confidential disk encryption</li> <li>Recommend security configurations for Azure API Management</li> </ul> <h3>9 - Plan and implement security for storage</h3> <ul> <li>Configure access control for storage accounts</li> <li>Manage life cycle for storage account access keys</li> <li>Select and configure an appropriate method for access to Azure Files</li> <li>Select and configure an appropriate method for access to Azure Blob Storage</li> <li>Select and configure an appropriate method for access to Azure Tables</li> <li>Select and configure an appropriate method for access to Azure Queues</li> <li>Select and configure appropriate methods for protecting against data security threats, including soft delete, backups, versioning, and immutable storage</li> <li>Configure Bring your own key (BYOK)</li> <li>Enable double encryption at the Azure Storage infrastructure level</li> </ul> <h3>10 - Plan and implement security for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance</h3> <ul> <li>Enable database authentication by using Microsoft Entra ID</li> <li>Enable and monitor database audit</li> <li>Identify use cases for the Microsoft Purview governance portal</li> <li>Implement data classification of sensitive information by using the Microsoft Purview governance portal</li> <li>Plan and implement dynamic mask</li> <li>Implement transparent data encryption?</li> <li>Recommend when to use Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted</li> </ul> <h3>11 - Plan, implement, and manage governance for security</h3> <ul> <li>Create, assign, and interpret security policies and initiatives in Azure Policy</li> <li>Configure security settings by using Azure Blueprint</li> <li>Deploy secure infrastructures by using a landing zone</li> <li>Create and configure an Azure Key Vault</li> <li>Recommend when to use a dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM)</li> <li>Configure access to Key Vault, including vault access policies and Azure Role Based Access Control</li> <li>Manage certificates, secrets, and keys</li> <li>Configure key rotation</li> <li>Configure backup and recovery of certificates, secrets, and keys</li> </ul> <h3>12 - Manage security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud</h3> <ul> <li>Implement Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Identify and remediate security risks by using the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Secure Score and Inventory</li> <li>Assess compliance against security frameworks and Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Add industry and regulatory standards to Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Add custom initiatives to Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Connect hybrid cloud and multicloud environments to Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Identify and monitor external assets by using Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management</li> </ul> <h3>13 - Configure and manage threat protection by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud</h3> <ul> <li>Enable workload protection services in Microsoft Defender for Cloud, including Microsoft Defender for Storage, Databases, Containers, App Service, Key Vault, Resource Manager, and DNS</li> <li>Configure Microsoft Defender for Servers</li> <li>Configure Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL Database</li> <li>Manage and respond to security alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Configure workflow automation by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud</li> <li>Evaluate vulnerability scans from Microsoft Defender for Server</li> </ul> <h3>14 - Configure and manage security monitoring and automation solutions</h3> <ul> <li>Monitor security events by using Azure Monitor</li> <li>Configure data connectors in Microsoft Sentinel</li> <li>Create and customize analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel</li> <li>Configure automation in Microsoft Sentinel</li> </ul></div><div id="course-pills-3"><h4>Additional course details:</h4><br /><p>Nexus Humans AZ-500T00 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. </p><p></p> This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. <p></p>Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success.  <p></p>While we feel this is the best course for the AZ-500T00 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you.  <p></p>Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.<p></p></div>

Microsoft AZ-900

Microsoft AZ-104

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft AZ-303

Microsoft AZ-700

CompTIA Security+

AZ-500T00 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies

Southend on Sea

Droitwich Spa

Portsmouth

Rotherham

Manchester

Leeds

Slough

Bingley

Newport

Peterborough

Milton Keynes 

Paisley

Birmingham

Luton

Hull

Northampton

Bedford

Liverpool 

Swansea

BASIC to ADVANCED COURSE PACKAGE

Complete 3 courses over 2 full days and receive three qualifications:

Introduction to Phlebotomy Certificate (Nationally Recognised Level 3, Ireland Level 5)
Days 1 and 2: 9.30am – 5.00pm

Advanced Phlebotomy Certificate (Nationally Recognised Level 4, Ireland Level 6)
Day 1: 5.30pm - 8.30pm

Geopace Certificate of Competency (Nationally Recognised Accredited, CPD Practical Skills)
Day 2: 5.30pm - 8.30pm

Please make sure you verify the precise dates and timings of your course when you receive your booking confirmation, as it may vary from the information provided above.






Key Facts & Summary:


COURSE 1: INTRODUCTION TO PHLEBOTOMY COURSE - NATIONALLY RECOGNISED AND ACCREDITED VENEPUCTURE COURSE
UK Level Three (Ireland Level Five)
DUALLY ACCREDITED - Open College Network (OCN) and The CPD Certification Service (21 CPD Points)

PART 1 (DAY 1) - 9.30am to 5.00pm
PART 2 (DAY 2) - 9.30am to 5.00pm

Adheres to World Health Organisation guidelines (meets or exceeds all guidelines) and Skills for Health Directive HSC376

A TWO DAY venepuncture course at Level 3. Trains up to the point of live blood draws.

On completion awards a Nationally Recognised and Accredited Certificate in Phlebotomy.

DAY ONE (PART 1) - THEORY
Attend the course location of your choice – starts at 9.30am and finishes approx. 5.00pm

DAY TWO (PART 2) - CLASSROOM
Your classroom tutor will recap on the theory element (above) after which you will begin your practical sessions learning and developing the skills required up to the point of Live Blood Draws.

DOWNLOAD A COURSE ITINERARY HERE



COURSE 2: ADVANCED PHLEBOTOMY COURSE - NATIONALLY RECOGNISED AND ACCREDITED VENEPUCTURE COURSE
UK Level Four (Ireland Level 6)
DUALLY ACCREDITED - Open College Network (OCN) and The CPD Certification Service (14 CPD Points)

PART 1 - THEORY
Complete your theory training online in the comfort of your own home or at work.

PART 2 - CLASSROOM
Follow on from your Day One Theory training, in the evening, from 5.30pm - 8.30pm

Adheres to World Health Organisation guidelines (meets or exceeds all guidelines) and Skills for Health Directive HSC376

Skills and Practical Development:
Covers advanced specialised phlebotomy techniques to give you the leading edge as a phlebotomist. Learn to use a wide range of non-routine equipment.

On completion awards a Nationally Recognised and Accredited Certificate in Advanced Phlebotomy.

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COURSE 3: ROUTE TO COMPETENCY MASTERCLASS
CPD ACCREDITED - The CPD Certification Service

CLASSROOM
Follow on from your Day Two practical training, in the evening, from 5.30pm - 8.30pm

Adheres to World Health Organisation guidelines (meets or exceeds all guidelines) and Skills for Health Directive HSC376

GEOPACE LIVE BLOOD SESSIONS enabling you to draw human blood under 1-to-1 supervision of your tutor. You will follow a Competency Checklist, signed off by your tutor on completion.

On completion awards a Geopace Certificate of Competency - Nationally Recognised and Accredited Route to Competency - Live Blood Draws Certificate

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How do I attend?

EITHER -
CLASSROOM OPTION - Attend one of our scheduled classroom locations, completing your Introduction to Phlebotomy Course over 2 days. You will also complete your Advanced Training at the end of the first day and your Competency Training at the end of the second day.

Our Introduction to Phlebotomy and Advanced Phlebotomy Training Kits are supplied at no charge when booking our virtual classroom training option.
If you would like to add one or both of these kits to your classroom training option then these are available to add at time of booking. Our comprehensive training kits each mirror the same equipment and supplies used in the classroom and both include detailed video tutorials, allowing you to continue to practice and "hone" your skills after you have completed your practical training.

OR -

VIRTUAL CLASSROOM OPTION- Complete your theory training online at home or work, then join us for a one day Zoom session to complete your Introduction to Phlebotomy virtual classroom training, followed by your Advanced Training in the evening of the same day. You have the option to add a classroom-based competency session, awarding a CPD Accredited Geopace Certificate of Competency, at time of booking.

Our Virtual Classroom option includes two very comprehensive training kits - one for your introductory course and one for your advanced course. Kits are included at no charge (normally £79.95 each) and are yours to keep and to continue to practice with after you have finished your courses. The equipment and supplies included in your kits are the same as those used if you choose the classroom option.

How do I book?

Choose whether you would like to attend in a classroom or if you would like to complete your training by virtual classroom.
Click on the Classroom - Booking Options or Virtual Classroom - Booking Options buttons below to see all upcoming dates and locations.

Please note - Competency Training
Our Route to Competency Masterclass - Live Blood Sessions can only be completed in a classroom environment. This is included when you book a classroom option. When booking the virtual classroom option you can choose to add this at time of booking. You will receive a voucher code to enable you to book onto any upcoming dates or locations. For most of our two day course we run our competency training at the end of the second day and therefore you should be able to complete your full training programme with us over two days.

If you are completing your training by virtual classroom please see our list of competency training locations here.

If you would like to "mix and match" your training dates and/or locations then please call our admin team on 01525 713377 who will be more than happy to put a training package together for you on dates and / or locations that suit you.

All courses are accredited and are Skills for Health & WHO compliant.

Geopace Training

Allied Health

Allied Health Professions (AHP)

Blood Taking

Healthcare Workers

Venepuncture

Phlebotomist

Phlebotomy

Accredited Phlebotomy

Healthcare

THIS COURSE PACKAGE INCLUDES:
1: INTRODUCTION TO PHLEBOTOMY COURSE (GPT003) - Level 3 (Ireland Level 5)
2: ADVANCED PHLEBOTOMY COURSE (GPT005) - Level 4 (Ireland Level 6)
3: GEOPACE COMPETENCY CERTIFICATE - CPD Certified (optional with Virtual Classroom)

Learn how to take blood ... train as a Phlebotomist

FAST-TRACK YOUR PHLEBOTOMY TRAINING

WITH OUR

COMPLETE TRAINING PACKAGE

20% off -  Multi-Course Discount

    Cover all stages from beginner through to Level 4

    Available as Classroom or Virtual Classroom

    Complete your beginner to advanced training in 2 days

    Awards 2 accredited qualifications - Introduction to Phlebotomy and Advanced Phlebotomy qualifications

    Both courses are dually accredited (OCN & CPD)

    Geopace Certificate of Competency included with classroom attendance or available as an option when booking virtual classroom

    Covers all steps up to live blood draw

    Learn advanced skills and techniques

    Virtual Classroom options include comprehensive Practise@Home Training Kits (yours to keep)

    Basic understanding of English language required

    OPEN TO ALL APPLICANTS


Phlebotomy Training - Beginner to Advanced PACKAGE

<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">The <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Level 3 Award in Education and Training (RQF)</strong> formerly known as PTLLS, has been designed to introduce teaching for individuals who aspire or currently work in adult education. This includes FE colleges, training providers, workplace training departments and/or Local Authorities. It is a nationally recognised qualification and is also often the preference for employers to source as an accredited train-the-trainer qualification. This qualification includes written assignments and a practical micro-teach session, which can be completed remotely. &nbsp;</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Online Remote Tutor-led Sessions</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">This version of the course allows you to attend two days of online sessions led by an experienced tutor. Then come back online 2-3 weeks later to deliver your micro-teach session to your peers. Use this gap in time to prepare your micro-teach and complete the written work for the qualification. This allows you to fully complete in as little as 2-3 weeks. The micro-teach date is flexible and you can also enrol for self-study learning if preferred.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Units:</strong></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Learners will achieve 12 credits across 3 units:</span></p><ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Understanding roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Understanding and using inclusive teaching and learning approaches in education and training</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Understanding assessment in education and training</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Assessments:</span></strong></span></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">This qualification is assessed by a portfolio of evidence which must cover all assessment criteria of the units selected. Assessment methods include:</span></p><ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">3 x written assignments.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">A micro-teach session</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Self-evaluation</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Who should do this course?</strong></span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">The Level 3 Award in Education and Training (RQF) has been designed to introduce teaching for individuals who would like to work or currently work within FE Colleges, Independent Training Providers and/or Local Authorities.&nbsp;It can meet the needs of a range of trainee teachers, such as:</span></p><ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Individuals not currently teaching or training &ndash; achievement of the qualification does not require practice other than microteaching.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Individuals currently teaching and training, including those new to the profession &ndash; although the qualification does not require practice, opportunities may be made available to observe and provide feedback on a trainee teacher&rsquo;s practice; and</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Individuals currently working as assessors, who wish to achieve a qualification that introduces teaching.</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Pre-requisites</strong></span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Learners must be aged 19+ years to be enrolled in this course. You do not need to be in a current teaching or training role to complete this qualification.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Please note: course materials are provided in English and the practical assessment must be completed in English.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-size: 16px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Resources</strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">In addition to our extensive online resources, learners will receive our resource pack by post, which includes:</span></p><ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Learner Handbook</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Printed Training Manual/Workbook</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Printed copies of assignments and session plan templates</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Pen and highlighter</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><img src="https://atctraining.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WelcomePack-300x277.png" alt="" width="198" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 160px; height: 156.768px; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 160px; height: 156.768px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58);"></span><span style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Certificate</strong></span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Upon successful completion, learners will receive an externally accredited certificate by Focus Awards, a nationally recognised and Ofqual-regulated awarding organisation.&nbsp;</span></p>

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The Level 3 Award in Education and Training (RQF) formerly known as PTLLS, has been designed to introduce teaching for individuals who aspire or currently work in adult education. This includes FE colleges, training providers, workplace training departments and/or Local Authorities. It is a nationally recognised qualification and is also often the preference for employers to source as an accredited train-the-trainer qualification. This qualification includes written assignments and a practical micro-teach session, which can be completed remotely.  

Online Remote Tutor-led Sessions

This version of the course allows you to attend two days of online sessions led by an experienced tutor. Then come back online 2-3 weeks later to deliver your micro-teach session to your peers. Use this gap in time to prepare your micro-teach and complete the written work for the qualification. This allows you to fully complete in as little as 2-3 weeks. The micro-teach date is flexible and you can also enrol for self-study learning if preferred.

Level 3 Award in Education and Training (Remote Online Tutor-led) PTLLS

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