Harpenden

<h2>Assertiveness: In-House</h2><p>When people are assertive they portray a strong, confident image and can put their views across while still taking other people's opinions into account.</p><p>Non-assertive, passive aggressive or aggressive behaviour can cause misunderstandings, frustration and even a breakdown in relationships at work.</p><p>In this highly practical session participants discover how effective body language, voice, and the words they say make a big difference to the results they get. Importantly, they learn how to build confidence that leads to assertive behaviour more of the time. And how to disagree without being disagreeable!</p><ul><li>Recognise the differences between assertive, aggressive and passive behaviour</li><li>Understand the impact your behaviour has on people</li><li>Make assertive requests - and follow up effectively</li><li>Say 'no', where appropriate</li><li>Be more assertive in meetings</li><li>Give negative feedback - without giving offence</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Why be assertive?</h3><h4>Assertiveness defined</h4><ul><li>What is assertiveness?</li><li>Why does it matter?</li><li>The assertiveness spectrum<ul><li>Passive</li><li>Assertive</li><li>Aggressive</li></ul></li><li>Skills practice: demonstrating the spectrum</li></ul><h3>Channels of assertiveness</h3><ul><li>The three channels of assertiveness<ul><li>What we show</li><li>What we say</li><li>How we sound</li></ul></li><li>The 'I'm OK / you're OK' model<ul><li>Avoiding non-assertive behaviour as a default position</li></ul></li><li>Skills practice: confidently stating your opinion</li></ul><h3>Assertive language</h3><ul><li>The importance of direct communication</li><li>The problems with indirect communication</li><li>Skills practice: standing your ground</li><li>'Wimp talk'v'power talk'<ul><li>'Wimp talk' quiz</li></ul></li><li>Voice</li><li>Body language</li><li>Skills practice: making assertive requests</li></ul><h3>Refusing requests and saying 'no'</h3><ul><li>The hardest word</li><li>When to use it...</li><li>... and how</li></ul><h3>Assertive follow-up</h3><ul><li>Empathic assertion</li><li>The broken record technique</li><li>Keeping body language consistent with verbal</li><li>Skills practice: making assertive requests</li><li>Self-disclosure and empathy</li><li>Escalating requests</li></ul><h3>How to disagree without being disagreeable</h3><ul><li>The 3As model<ul><li>Acknowledge</li><li>Agree</li><li>And (not 'but')</li></ul></li><li>Skills practice: disagreeing in an assertive way</li></ul><h3>How to be assertive in different situations</h3><ul><li>How to raise an issue<ul><li>How to be proactive and assertive with your manager</li><li>Barriers</li><li>Skills practice: suggesting a change</li></ul></li><li>How to give negative feedback<ul><li>Have the right mindset</li><li>Have a framework</li><li>Skills practice: giving feedback to a colleague</li></ul></li><li>How to be assertive in a meeting<ul><li>Why do it</li><li>How to do it</li><li>Skills practice: group exercise</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Maximum Performance

Assertiveness: In-House

<h2>Creativity and Innovation: In-House</h2><p>In an era of rapid change, organisations need their staff to be creative and innovative.</p><p>This isn't just a matter of what we do but of how we do it - creativity is just as much a feature of 'boring' management process flows as 'exciting' product development. This means creativity and innovation aren't simply nice-to-have skills - they're essential for success at every level in every organisation.</p><p>While some people seem 'naturally' creative, in reality innovative thinking can be developed by anyone. This workshop provides a great introduction to the creative process. You'll learn how to challenge existing thinking and generate new ideas - and how to make sure the best of them are captured and implemented.</p><ul><li>Discover techniques to create new ways of thinking</li><li>Understand how the brain shapes our approaches to creativity and innovation</li><li>Learn some creative techniques for generating new and innovative ideas</li><li>Develop your work through 1% improvements and marginal gains</li><li>Know how to help foster a culture of creativity and innovation</li><li>Be able to take an agile approach to implementing ideas</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>The brain, creativity and innovation</h3><ul><li>What is creativity? What is innovation?</li><li>How the brain works - left and right brain thinking</li><li>What neuroscience tells us about how our brains 'do' creativity</li><li>Freeing yourself from a totally 'rational' approach</li><li>Understanding the difference between convergent and divergent thinking</li></ul><h3>Challenging the status quo</h3><ul><li>The danger of 'playing it safe'</li><li>Understanding how challenging the status quo gives you and your organisation a competitive advantage</li><li>How the 'disruptors' succeed</li><li>How to develop a creativity and innovation mindset</li></ul><h3>Let's get creative</h3><ul><li>'Killer' brainstorming techniques that are truly effective</li><li>When to use different strategies and approaches</li><li>How to overcome blocks and unleash your imagination - what areyourblockers?</li><li>Mind-mapping as a way of connecting ideas and concepts</li><li>Activities to practise using different techniques</li></ul><h3>The Disney strategy</h3><ul><li>A structured strategy for creativity<ul><li>Dreamers</li><li>Realists</li><li>Spoilers</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Lateral thinking and creativity techniques</h3><ul><li>The difference between vertical and lateral approaches to creativity and innovation</li><li>Simple models and processes to significantly enhance your ability to come up with new ideas and solutions to problems</li><li>Rapid prototyping - a testing and feedback system for creating solutions to any problem<ul><li>Immersion</li><li>Insights</li><li>Strategy</li><li>Design</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Using creativity to solve real business issues</h3><ul><li>What problems/opportunities do you have?</li><li>Uncovering the root problem</li></ul><h3>Creating a culture of creativity and innovation</h3><ul><li>How to foster a creative working environment</li><li>Encouraging 1% improvements and innovation through marginal gains</li><li>The concept of Kai-zen and how this can be applied in any role, anywhere in the organisation</li><li>What to do when ideas dry up</li><li>How to make sure the output is captured and implemented</li><li>Creating a plan to execute and monitor innovations</li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Creativity and Innovation: In-House

<h2>Stress, Resilience and Mental Toughness: In-House</h2><p>In a 24/7 world we are exposed to stress from many different angles. Handled well, this can boost our performance; handled badly, it can have a real impact on our wellbeing.</p><p>We all need to be able to manage different stresses and pressures if we are to think clearly, make the right decisions and avoid unnecessary stress and worry. This workshop explores the best way of doing that, giving you a range of strategies to use, based on a number of proven models and approaches. It will help you understand your stress and pressure points, develop your resilience and move towards mental toughness and 'grit'.</p><ul><li>Understand the nature of stress and its impact on our lives</li><li>Learn how to turn stress to your advantage</li><li>Understand the 'Control / Support / Demand' model and be able to use it to achieve healthy work/life balance</li><li>Understand how mindfulness can help you manage your personal reactions to stress</li><li>Develop strategies for increasing your resilience, toughness and self-care</li><li>Find out how to develop your coping mechanisms</li><li>Learn how to deal with pressured situations more effectively</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Understanding and defining stress</h3><ul><li>Different workplace pressures - and the different responses to them</li><li>The difference between pressure and chronic stress</li><li>Why the way you think about stress changes the way your body responds to it</li><li>The upside of stress</li><li>Why it's important to avoid sustained periods of stress</li></ul><h3>2 Factors that trigger stress</h3><ul><li>The Demand Control Support Model - why high demand alone doesn't cause unhealthy stress</li><li>The difference between acute and episodic stress</li></ul><h3>3 Recognising stress</h3><ul><li>How to recognise stress</li><li>The role of emotion</li><li>How the body responds to stress - spotting the signals</li></ul><h3>4 Mindfulness</h3><ul><li>Mindfulness - the definition</li><li>Mindfulness - the hype</li><li>Mindfulness - the science</li><li>How re-framing thoughts can change everything</li><li>The A-B-C-D model</li></ul><h3>5 Mental toughness and 'grit'</h3><ul><li>What do we mean by 'mental toughness'?</li><li>The benefits</li><li>How to build it - the Grit scale test</li></ul><h3>6 Resilience and 'bounce'</h3><ul><li>What do we mean by 'resilience'?</li><li>How to bounce back</li><li>Developing strategies for resilience</li></ul><h3>7 The locus of control</h3><ul><li>Who's in charge?</li><li>How to manage your thoughts to take positive action in times of pressure and challenge</li></ul><h3>8 Dealing with difficult situations</h3><p>A series of workplace situations - sharing suggestions and strategies for managing each of them</p><h3>9 Self-care</h3><ul><li>Diet and fitness</li><li>Attitude</li><li>Organisation and</li><li>Taking time for ourselves</li><li>Developing a self-care plan</li></ul><h3>10 Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Developing a self-care plan</li><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Stress, Resilience and Mental Toughness: In-House

<h2>Managing Across Generations</h2><p>Millennials make up the largest percentage of the workforce, posing challenges to long-standing structures, working practices and management styles. With this change there have been shifts in the way organisations need to bring generations together, adapt the working environment, and manage a diverse population.</p><p>This practical session focusses not just on millennials, but on the traits and characteristics of each of the generations found in the workplace, and the differences between them. Exploring preferences and behaviours through practical case study discussions, participants will work to understand and respect generational differences and commonalities, adapt their style to avoid a 'one size fits all' approach, and turn negative stereotypes into positive working relationships.</p><p>Particular attention is paid to the impact on teamwork, communication, motivation, performance, collaboration and reward.</p><section>
                    <h3>The assumptions we make about generations and age</h3><h3>Your role as manager</h3><ul><li>How do you like to be managed?</li><li>Flexible management</li><li>Understanding people from a variety of generations, backgrounds and outlooks and uniting them in a common purpose and vision</li><li>Exercise: identifying core behaviours of good managers of multi-generation teams and organisations</li></ul><h3>Understanding generations</h3><ul><li>Different generations currently in the workplace</li><li>Common characteristics of each generation</li><li>Impact on teamwork, communication and motivation</li><li>Exercise: case study scenarios</li></ul><h3>Mapping your workplace</h3><ul><li>What generations are represented in your workforce, and to what percentage?</li><li>Impact on performance, motivation, collaboration and reward - and on how these might be influenced</li><li>Exercise: exploring strengths, opportunities and challenges for each of the generations</li></ul><h3>Multi-generation collaboration</h3><ul><li>Drawing on the strengths of generations to create a strong working team</li><li>Creating the right environment for collaboration</li><li>Employing reverse mentorship to share experience and experiences to drive innovation</li></ul><h3>What makes them tick</h3><ul><li>Factors that influence employee motivation at each stage of their lives</li><li>Impact on career planning, recruitment and retention strategies</li><li>How to have conversations about what's important to people and make adaptations for them, eg, flexible or remote working</li><li>Exercise: practical 'real-play' activities to support discussions about career progression and employee motivation</li></ul><h3>Adapting to millennials</h3><ul><li>Millennials now make up 75% of the workforce and a significant percentage of management roles</li><li>More and more people from this generation are now self-employed, struggling to find companies willing or able to adapt to their needs</li><li>Exercise: Group brainstorm and peer sharing of what has worked in their own team or organisation and what more could be done</li></ul><h3>Bringing new generations into the workplace</h3><ul><li>Gen-Z: how to blend their fully digital mindset with their desire for increased social and human collaboration</li><li>Exercise: Participants review their induction process to adapt to the skills gaps, communication needs and mindset of Gen-Z starters</li></ul><h3>Flexing to diverse needs</h3><ul><li>How to flex key elements of the manager role (eg, coaching and mentoring, training, providing feedback, etc) to diverse needs of different generations</li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Action planning - create a plan, based on your mapped team and predicted future staff, to improve current management practice</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Managing Across Generations

<p>The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the key principles and techniques for leading and managing project work. It will focus on the core principles and generic methods of project management, showing how these can be applied to typical projects.</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 of, and help participants understand the skills required by, the project leader</li><li>Illustrate the use of project skills through examples and case studies</li><li>Identify ways to improve project management, both individually and corporately</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 Key concepts and requirements for success</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>The challenges of project management; the role of the project manager</li><li>Project exercise<ul><li><em>A team exercise to demonstrate the challenges of project management</em></li></ul></li></ul> <h3>3 Defining project objectives and scope</h3><ul><li>Identifying the stakeholders; key roles and responsibilities</li><li>Getting organised; managing the definition process</li><li>Working with the 'customer' to define the project scope</li></ul> <h3>4 Project case study: part 1</h3><ul><li><em>Defining the project objectives: syndicate teams define the objectives and scope for a typical project</em></li></ul> <h3>5 Project planning</h3><ul><li>The nature of planning; recognising planning assumptions</li><li>Planning the plan; the importance of team involvement</li><li>Developing the work breakdown structure</li><li>Estimating task resources, timescales and costs</li><li>Developing the project schedule</li><li>Analysing the plan and identifying the critical path</li></ul> <h3>6 Project case study: part 2</h3><ul><li><em>Creating the project plan</em></li><li><em>Syndicate teams begin development of their project plans (for completion after session 7)</em></li><li><em>Team presentations and group discussion (after session 7)</em></li></ul> DAY TWO <h3>7 Managing project risks</h3><ul><li>Understanding and defining project risks</li><li>Classifying risks and adopting an appropriate risk strategy</li><li>Identifying, evaluating and managing project risks</li><li>Agreeing ownership of project risks; the risk register</li><li>Integrating planning and risk management</li></ul> <h3>8 Project control</h3><ul><li>Pro-active and re-active control; striking the right balance</li><li>Pre-requisites for effective, pro-active project control</li><li>Avoiding unnecessary 'scope creep' and controlling change</li><li>Selecting the data needed to provide early warning of problems</li><li>Monitoring project performance: 'S' curves, slip charts, earned value</li><li>Getting good data and assessing project status</li><li>Defining the roles and responsibilities for control</li><li>Setting up a routine process for keeping up to date</li><li>Managing and controlling multiple projects</li></ul> <h3>9 Project case study: part 3</h3><ul><li><em>Controlling the project</em></li><li><em>Teams control their project as new developments take place</em></li></ul> <h3>10 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 Management Institute (PMI)

Project Leadership

Project Management

Professional Skills Course (PSC)

Google Project Management

Trainers Course

Successful project management (In-House)

<p>When managers have too many decisions to make, it can have a serious impact on the speed and efficiency of the organisation. When those decisions are commercial ones, the results can wreak havoc with the bottom line.</p><p>Often the problem arises when those below them or in operational areas of the organisation aren't equipped or allowed to make a decision for themselves. Issues get passed back up and that wastes time.</p><p>This programme provides a solution, giving your entire team the skills to:</p><p>And most importantly, they'll be able to do this in line with the broader aims and commercial objectives of the business.</p>By the end of the programme participants will be able to:<ul><li>Fully appreciate the importance of effective decision-making in business</li><li>Use the five-step 'Stop, Think, Act!' decision-making process</li><li>Stop leaping to conclusions</li><li>Really understand the situations and decisions they are dealing with</li><li>Identify good options</li><li>Evaluate those options</li><li>Make decisions and then put them into action</li><li>Apply these tools and techniques to all their decisions in future</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Understanding the business we work in</h3><ul><li>What are the critical factors in our business?</li><li>What is the SWOT analysis for our business?</li></ul> <h3>2 Understanding what decision-making is</h3> <h3>3 Background</h3><ul><li>Culture of 'having to be doing'</li><li>To change things we have to think about it!</li><li>We are paid to make decisions!</li></ul> <h3>4 Recognise the opportunity to make a decision</h3> <h3>5 The 'Stop, Think, Act!' technique</h3> <h3>6 STOP!</h3><ul><li>Recognise the opportunity to make a decision</li><li>Don't leap to conclusions</li><li>Get ready to think</li><li>Initial questions:<ul><li>Is this my decision? (Do I have the authority?)</li><li>Who is this going to affect? (Do they need to be included?)</li><li>When do I need to make the decision? (What's the timeline?)</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>7 THINK!</h3><ul><li>The 3 Cs - making sure we understand the decisions we have to make</li><li>What is the context of this decision?<ul><li>What is the overall situation?</li><li>Why is this decision important?</li><li>What do we need to achieve?</li><li>What will success look like?</li></ul></li><li>Do I have clarity about the decision I need to make?<ul><li>Can I write it down?</li><li>Can I express it clearly in two sentences?</li></ul></li><li>What are the criteria?<ul><li>What are the critical commercial factors that we will use to select our options?</li><li>What will we use to measure the business success?</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>8 ACT!</h3><ul><li>Identifying options</li><li>What data do I need to collect?<ul><li>Issues with today's overload</li><li>Identifying what will help you</li></ul></li><li>Select options<ul><li>How many options?</li><li>Must match your criteria</li><li>Must achieve success</li><li>'Decision compass' exercise</li></ul></li><li>Analyse options<ul><li>Tabular method</li><li>Risk analysis (likelihood <em>v</em> effect)</li><li>Head, heart and gut (is there any organisational history/bias that we are up against?)</li></ul></li><li>Making your decision</li><li>Taking it to action<ul><li>First actions</li><li>Planning how to make it happen</li></ul></li></ul> 


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Business Leadership

Organisational Skills

Decision Making

Business Case Development

Strategic Thinking

Management Skills

Commercial decision-making - 'Stop, Think, Act!' (In-House)

Nottinghamshire

<p style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);">This course will give candidates a thorough understanding of the relevant operational and safety requirements to those who are required to attach or work with machinery that require the operation of quick hitch systems.</p><h2 style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Course Content</strong></h2><p style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);">&nbsp;Candidates will be able to:</p><ul style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the industry, the dangers of working in the industry and their responsibilities as a plant operator</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the manufacturer&rsquo;s handbook for the particular Quick Hitch to be used</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Locate and identify the major components of the Quick Hitch and explain their functions</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identify and maintain PPE appropriate for Quick Hitch use</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Explain the different types of Quick hitch devices</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Conduct all pre-operational checks in accordance with manufacturer&rsquo;s and legislative requirements</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Conduct all necessary safety checks at the designated change over area</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fit and remove attachments safely and efficiently</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Demonstrate and explain checks for attachment security</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Carry out all end of shift and shut down procedures</li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Entry Requirements</strong></h2><p style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);">NPORS CSCS &ndash; Candidates must have achieved the relevant CITB Health, Safety &amp; Environment (HS&amp;E) touch-screen-test within 2 years.</p><p style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);">Good understanding of spoken and written English.</p><h2 style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Duration</strong></h2><p style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);">Novice course &ndash; 1 day</p><p style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);">Experienced worker tests &ndash; 1 day theory and practical assessment</p><h2 style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Location</strong></h2><p style="color: rgb(38, 49, 62); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(38, 49, 62);">Customer Site (Training &amp; Testing) &ndash; Site must adhere to NPORS specifications</p>

Dynamic Training and Assessments Ltd

Construction

CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme)

NPORS

NPORS Quick Hitch Awareness (N034)

<h2>Women in Management</h2><p>Currently, in all too many instances, businesses and employees fail to explore the full scope of individual potential and workplace contribution. It doesn't have to be this way!</p><p>One group where personal potential frequently remains underdeveloped is that of female employees. Evidence clearly shows that women remain under-represented in key leadership roles, yet their presence on management teams is proven to enhance organisational performance and outcomes.</p><p>This one-day programme is designed to help women better navigate workplace behaviours that can still influence the scope of their development, contribution and potential career advancement. The session focuses on key issues that confront many women and explores practical, effective, empowering techniques that can be used to assess issues, address challenges, deliver improved outcomes and shape a strong sustainable personal proposition.</p><h3>Learning objectives</h3><p>At the end of the programme participants will have:</p><ul><li>Objective frameworks through which to qualify and respond to the structural issues that can confront women in organisations and that can still influence perceptions (self and others), recognition and development horizons</li><li>Qualified what makes a difference when seeking to enhance personal value, drive scope of contribution and improve professional outcomes</li><li>Understood enabling communication techniques that create clear, powerful messages, enhance perceptions of presence, deliver impact and confidently convey achievement</li><li>Explored practical, confidence-building techniques that can be employed to deal with management challenges and difficult leadership situations assertively - ensuring a woman's voice is not ignored, that she 'can be heard and that her authority is recognised</li><li>Defined inputs, clear priorities and timelines to prompt action and identify the key next steps on the development journey</li><li>Guiding, flexible techniques to support future personal and professional growth and success</li></ul><p>Benefits of this workshop for organisations include:</p><ul><li>Enabling women to understand and address the potential barriers they may face in the workplace and equipping them with established techniques can unlock a wide range of organisational advantages beyond building individual employee capability, confidence and contribution.</li><li>Employers who actively target the exploration and development of female talent can potentially realise multiple benefits, from more innovative problem-solving through to enhanced productivity and improved financial performance.</li><li>In addition, organisations that empower women to positively engage and confidently demonstrate the full scope of their capabilities can unlock hidden depths of talent and extend organisational career horizons while materially strengthening employee engagement and Investing in women's development can also be a powerful differentiator when seeking to attract talent from outside.</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Introduction</h3><ul><li>Workshop objectives and benefits of attending</li><li>Participant experiences</li><li>Personal objectives</li></ul><h3>Women in organisations - an overview</h3><ul><li>Change and progress - how far have we come?</li><li>Understanding and navigating the realities - structures and hierarchies</li></ul><h3>Managing and leading</h3><ul><li>Perceptions and legacy influences</li><li>Roles and role models - key skills</li><li>Being the manager and leader you want to be</li></ul><h3>Communicating and driving impact</h3><ul><li>Being heard - challenges and concerns</li><li>Saying and doing - delivering a complete message</li><li>Becoming an assertive leader - self-perception and confidence</li></ul><h3>Developing and managing your profile</h3><ul><li>Stakeholders, networking and coaching</li><li>Driving engagement, enhancing participation and inspiring others</li><li>Articulating success comfortably and confidently</li></ul><h3>Your future, your plan</h3><ul><li>Being authentic - success on your terms</li><li>Your proposition, priorities and plan</li></ul><h3>And finally...</h3><ul><li>Your next steps</li><li>Remaining 'what ifs?'</li><li>Review and close</li></ul>


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Women in Management

<h2>Women in Management: In-House</h2><p>Currently, in all too many instances, businesses and employees fail to explore the full scope of individual potential and workplace contribution. It doesn't have to be this way!</p><p>One group where personal potential frequently remains underdeveloped is that of female employees. Evidence clearly shows that women remain under-represented in key leadership roles, yet their presence on management teams is proven to enhance organisational performance and outcomes.</p><p>This one-day programme is designed to help women better navigate workplace behaviours that can still influence the scope of their development, contribution and potential career advancement. The session focuses on key issues that confront many women and explores practical, effective, empowering techniques that can be used to assess issues, address challenges, deliver improved outcomes and shape a strong sustainable personal proposition.</p><h3>Learning objectives</h3><p>At the end of the programme participants will have:</p><ul><li>Objective frameworks through which to qualify and respond to the structural issues that can confront women in organisations and that can still influence perceptions (self and others), recognition and development horizons</li><li>Qualified what makes a difference when seeking to enhance personal value, drive scope of contribution and improve professional outcomes</li><li>Understood enabling communication techniques that create clear, powerful messages, enhance perceptions of presence, deliver impact and confidently convey achievement</li><li>Explored practical, confidence-building techniques that can be employed to deal with management challenges and difficult leadership situations assertively - ensuring a woman's voice is not ignored, that she 'can be heard and that her authority is recognised</li><li>Defined inputs, clear priorities and timelines to prompt action and identify the key next steps on the development journey</li><li>Guiding, flexible techniques to support future personal and professional growth and success</li></ul><p>Benefits of this workshop for organisations include:</p><ul><li>Enabling women to understand and address the potential barriers they may face in the workplace and equipping them with established techniques can unlock a wide range of organisational advantages beyond building individual employee capability, confidence and contribution.</li><li>Employers who actively target the exploration and development of female talent can potentially realise multiple benefits, from more innovative problem-solving through to enhanced productivity and improved financial performance.</li><li>In addition, organisations that empower women to positively engage and confidently demonstrate the full scope of their capabilities can unlock hidden depths of talent and extend organisational career horizons while materially strengthening employee engagement and Investing in women's development can also be a powerful differentiator when seeking to attract talent from outside.</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Introduction</h3><ul><li>Workshop objectives and benefits of attending</li><li>Participant experiences</li><li>Personal objectives</li></ul><h3>Women in organisations - an overview</h3><ul><li>Change and progress - how far have we come?</li><li>Understanding and navigating the realities - structures and hierarchies</li></ul><h3>Managing and leading</h3><ul><li>Perceptions and legacy influences</li><li>Roles and role models - key skills</li><li>Being the manager and leader you want to be</li></ul><h3>Communicating and driving impact</h3><ul><li>Being heard - challenges and concerns</li><li>Saying and doing - delivering a complete message</li><li>Becoming an assertive leader - self-perception and confidence</li></ul><h3>Developing and managing your profile</h3><ul><li>Stakeholders, networking and coaching</li><li>Driving engagement, enhancing participation and inspiring others</li><li>Articulating success comfortably and confidently</li></ul><h3>Your future, your plan</h3><ul><li>Being authentic - success on your terms</li><li>Your proposition, priorities and plan</li></ul><h3>And finally...</h3><ul><li>Your next steps</li><li>Remaining 'what ifs?'</li><li>Review and close</li></ul>


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Women in Management: In-House

<p>This course starts with the basics then moves seamlessly to an intermediate level. It includes a comprehensive yet balanced look at the four main components that make up Power BI Desktop: Report view, Data view, Model view, and the Power Query Editor. It also demonstrates how to use the online Power BI service.</p><p>It looks at authoring tools that enables you to connect to and transform data from a variety of sources, allowing you to produce dynamic reports using a library of visualisations. Once you have those reports, the course looks at the seamless process of sharing those with your colleagues by publishing to the online Power BI service.</p><p>The aim of this course is to provide a strong understanding of the Power BI analysis process, by working with real-world examples that will equip you with the necessary skills to start applying your knowledge straight away.</p><section>
                    <h3>1 Getting started</h3><ul><li>The Power BI process</li><li>Launching Power BI Desktop</li><li>The four views of Power BI</li><li>Dashboard visuals</li></ul> <h3>2 Connecting to files</h3><ul><li>Connect to data sources</li><li>Connect to an Excel file</li><li>Connect to a CSV file</li><li>Connect to a database</li><li>Import vs. DirectQuery</li><li>Connect to a web source</li><li>Create a data table</li></ul> <h3>3 Transforming data</h3><ul><li>The process of cleaning data</li><li>Column data types</li><li>Remove rows with filters</li><li>Add a custom column</li><li>Append data to a table</li><li>Fix error issues</li><li>Basic maths operations</li></ul> <h3>4 Build a data model</h3><ul><li>Table relationships</li><li>Manage table relationships</li></ul> <h3>5 Merge queries</h3><ul><li>Table join kinds</li><li>Merging tables</li></ul> <h3>6 Create report visualisations</h3><ul><li>Creating map visuals</li><li>Formatting maps</li><li>Creating chart visuals</li><li>Formatting chart</li><li>Tables, matrixes, and cards</li><li>Control formatting with themes</li><li>Filter reports with slicers</li><li>Reports for mobile devices</li><li>Custom online visuals</li><li>Export report data to Excel</li></ul> <h3>7 The power query editor</h3><ul><li>Fill data up and down</li><li>Split columns by delimiter</li><li>Add conditional columns</li><li>Merging columns</li></ul> <h3>8 The M formula</h3><ul><li>Creating M functions</li><li>Create an IF function</li><li>Create a query group</li></ul> <h3>9 Pivot and unpivot tables</h3><ul><li>Pivot tables in the query editor</li><li>Pivot and append tables</li><li>Pivot but don't summarise</li><li>Unpivot tables</li><li>Append mismatched headers</li></ul> <h3>10 Data modelling revisited</h3><ul><li>Data model relationships</li><li>Mark a calendar as a date table</li></ul> <h3>11 Introduction to calculated columns</h3><ul><li>New columns vs. measures</li><li>Creating a new column calculation</li><li>The SWITCH function</li></ul> <h3>12 Introduction to DAX measures</h3><ul><li>Common measure categories</li><li>The SUM measure</li><li>Adding measures to visuals</li><li>COUNTROWS and DISINCTCOUNT functions</li><li>DAX rules</li></ul> <h3>13 The CALCULATE measure</h3><ul><li>The syntax of CALCULATE</li><li>Things of note about CALCULATE</li></ul> <h3>14 The SUMX measure</h3><ul><li>The SUMX measure</li><li>X iterator functions</li><li>Anatomy of SUMX</li></ul> <h3>15 Introduction to time intelligence</h3><ul><li>Importance of a calendar table</li><li>A special lookup table</li><li>The TOTALYTD measure</li><li>Change year end in TOTALYTD</li></ul> <h3>16 Hierarchy, groups and formatting</h3><ul><li>Create a hierarchy to drill data</li><li>Compare data in groups</li><li>Add conditional formatting</li></ul> <h3>17 Share reports on the web</h3><ul><li>Publish to the BI online service</li><li>Get quick insights</li><li>Upload reports from BI service</li><li>Exporting report data</li><li>What is Q&amp;A?</li><li>Sharing your reports</li></ul> <h3>18 Apply your learning</h3><ul><li>Post training recap lesson</li></ul> 


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Powerbi

Business Analytics & Intelligence

Microsoft Power BI

Excel Analytics

Microsoft BI

Business Intelligence (BI)

Power BI - introduction to intermediate (2 days) (In-House)

<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;">F</strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">ill your chalice with the invigorating love from Venus together with the wisdom from Sirius. Y<b style="color: rgb(85, 89, 94); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(85, 89, 94);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ou connect with your inner sanctuary, the place of ultimate receiving and being. Allowing the mystery to unfold and replenishing your well-being.&nbsp;</span></b>&nbsp;</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The 08-08 is the high time of the spiritual calendar with the incredible influx of the Sirian Master frequencies. In ancient Egypt, it was celebrated as the beginning of a new cycle, the new year. Many ceremonies were held to connect with this energy and anchor it for the new beginning.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The Magdalene Lineage of Isis, Queen Shiba and Mary Magdalene is intrinsically interwoven with this frequency, its teachings and higher knowledge passed on from generation to generation in the female lineages around the world.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This Lionsgate join me for a beautiful circle of love, joy, and nurturing energies. Embark on this journey with the codes from Sirius celebrating femininity, and ancient wisdom as a path forward into the future. Awaken the mysterious rose codes and tap into your feminine power.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The Power of this year is magnified with it being a triple 8-8-8 portal which is a highly potent time for positive change, innovation and rejuvenation.&nbsp;</p><p style="color: rgb(85, 89, 94); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(85, 89, 94);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">YOU WILL RECEIVE</span></strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: var( --e-global-color-4ebbbd0 ); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: var( --e-global-color-4ebbbd0 );">The wisdom codes from Sirius</span></li></ul><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Specialised Attunements from the Sisterhood of the Rose&nbsp;</li></ul><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Deeply nurturing meditation to find your inner still-point&nbsp;</li></ul><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Harmonising of all your chakras, body, heart and soul&nbsp;</li></ul><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Magdalene Codes of power, innate wisdom and joy</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(85, 89, 94); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(85, 89, 94);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> TEACHINGS</span></strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Direct insights into the Ascended Masters Lives</p></li></ul><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The power of stillness as the greatest source of inspiration and creativity</p></li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The Magdalene ways to integrate and work with higher energies&nbsp;</p></li></ul><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Accessing your inner power with joy and confidence</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(85, 89, 94); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(85, 89, 94);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></p><p style="color: rgb(85, 89, 94); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(85, 89, 94);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS</strong></span></p><p style="color: rgb(85, 89, 94); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(85, 89, 94);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can either join live or enjoy the replay at a convenient time for you. The audio and video files will be sent out after the event to dive into activations anytime.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(85, 89, 94); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(85, 89, 94);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">FIND YOUR TIMEZONE</strong></span></p><p style="color: rgb(85, 89, 94); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(85, 89, 94);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">08.00 AM &ndash; HI | 12.00 PM &ndash; MST | 02.00 PM &ndash; EST | 06.00 PM &ndash; BST | 07.00 PM &ndash; CEST</span></p>

This Equinox is monumental. It anchors all you have achieved this summer while creating a new balance in your life with joy, success, and abundance. It is further amplified during this Eclipse corridor, providing you with positive change and aligning you with your highest destiny. 
The incredible shift, starting with the worldwide Aurora Borealis in May, is now allowing you to co-create the New Archangelic Retreats around the world as places of love, support, and rejuvenation, anchoring the angelic principles in the New Earth. 

In this activation, you will receive upgrades from the Archangelic Kingdom that align you with your highest soul’s calling. The beings who hold Cosmic Christ Codes will attune you to the Golden Solar Fire to activate your highest gifts, which are ready to blossom. 

Enjoy the teachings from the Archangels and Andromedans on creating a blissful and abundant life within the New Earth in harmony with all beings. Understand which angels and archangels to call on for support in all areas of your life and which Galactics can help you achieve your dreams. 

You will receive
Attunement of the Golden Solar Fire
DNA Attunements from the Archangels
Cosmic Codes of Bliss & Co-creation by the Andromedans
Upgrades to your Light Body with Babaji
Anchoring the Archangelic Retreats worldwide
Time to ask your burning questions 

ALL PARTICIPANTS
You can join live or enjoy the replay whenever works best for you. The audio and video files will be sent out after the event so you can dive into activations anytime.

FIND YOUR TIMEZONE
08.00 AM – HI | 12.00 PM – MST | 02.00 PM – EST | 06.00 PM – BST | 07.00 PM – CEST

Katarina Heuser

Spirituality

Health & Wellbeing

Chakra

Spiritual Healing

Energy Healing

Psychic Development

Mystery

Meditation Teacher

Meditation

Discover your special powers, receive insights and deep healing together with an abundance of light codes taking your life to the next level!

September Activation - Archangelic Retreats

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> NON-FICTION</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Eli Keren started his publishing career at Curtis Brown before joining United Agents as an assistant in 2016. In 2021 he became an associate literary agent, representing a growing list of clients across fiction and non-fiction, actively seeking books that are going to make a positive impact in the world in some way, big or small. His role as an agent at Curious Minds Literary Agency began in 2024. Before working in books, Eli was a research scientist designing and synthesising novel drugs (white coat and everything), and science books remain a particular passion of his. In 2022 he wrote and taught a HOW TO WRITE A PROPOSAL course, and in 2023 was elected treasurer of the Association of Authors&rsquo; Agents<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">, and in 2024 he judged the inaugural Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship. </span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Eli specialises in helping academics, scientists and researchers to bring their area of expertise to the mass-market in authoritative, ideas-led books in the fields of smart science and current affairs. He is particularly interested in popular science and cultural history, as well as issues-led books and social justice. Eli only occasionally works with memoir.&nbsp;</span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">He is very keen to see non-fiction LGBTQ+ themed books. He enjoys books written by writers who are obsessed with a niche subject and skilled enough communicators to make others fall in love with their subject too. &nbsp;Ultimately he wants to find books that are going to change the world for the better.&nbsp;</span></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;">Eli would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 -2 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your completed manuscript in a single word document.</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;">(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">In addition to the paid sessions, Eli is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers.&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please email <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> to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the&nbsp;</em><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;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">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.</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;">The submission deadline is: Monday 16 September 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: NON-FICTION
Eli Keren started his publishing career at Curtis Brown before joining United Agents as an assistant in 2016. In 2021 he became an associate literary agent, representing a growing list of clients across fiction and non-fiction, actively seeking books that are going to make a positive impact in the world in some way, big or small. His role as an agent at Curious Minds Literary Agency began in 2024. Before working in books, Eli was a research scientist designing and synthesising novel drugs (white coat and everything), and science books remain a particular passion of his. In 2022 he wrote and taught a HOW TO WRITE A PROPOSAL course, and in 2023 was elected treasurer of the Association of Authors’ Agents, and in 2024 he judged the inaugural Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship. 
Eli specialises in helping academics, scientists and researchers to bring their area of expertise to the mass-market in authoritative, ideas-led books in the fields of smart science and current affairs. He is particularly interested in popular science and cultural history, as well as issues-led books and social justice. Eli only occasionally works with memoir. 
He is very keen to see non-fiction LGBTQ+ themed books. He enjoys books written by writers who are obsessed with a niche subject and skilled enough communicators to make others fall in love with their subject too. Ultimately he wants to find books that are going to change the world for the better. 
Eli would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 -2 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your completed manuscript in a single word document.
(In addition to the paid sessions, Eli 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: Monday 16 September 2024

I Am In Print

23 September Eli Keren #Agent121. Looking for: NON-FICTION

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>5 Days</p><p>30 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>This course is targeted toward an IT Professional that has the technical knowledge and skills required to conceptualize, design, and engineer secure solutions across complex enterprise environments. Students should have a minimum of 10 years experience including at least 5 years of hands-on technical security experience.</p>Overview<p>Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:  Identify enterprise security fundamentals.  Apply enterprise security technology solutions.  Implement security design and solutions.  Manage risk, policies and procedures within an enterprise.  Integrate security solutions within an enterprise.  Conduct security research and analysis.</p><p>In this course, students will examine advanced security concepts, principles, and implementations that pertain to enterprise level security.</p>Prerequisites<p></p><ul><li>CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Certification</li></ul><p></p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - Enterprise Security Architecture</h3> <ul> <li>The Basics of Enterprise Security</li> <li>The Enterprise Structure</li> <li>Enterprise Security Requirements</li> </ul> <h3>2 - Enterprise Security Technology</h3> <ul> <li>Common Network Security Components and Technologies</li> <li>Communications and Collaboration Security</li> <li>Cryptographic Tools and Techniques</li> <li>Advanced Authentication</li> </ul> <h3>3 - Enterprise Resource Technology</h3> <ul> <li>Enterprise Storage Security Issues</li> <li>Distributed, Shared, and Virtualized Computing</li> <li>Cloud Computing and Security</li> </ul> <h3>4 - Security Design and Solutions</h3> <ul> <li>Network Security Design</li> <li>Conduct a Security Assessment</li> <li>Host Security</li> </ul> <h3>5 - Application Security Design</h3> <ul> <li>Application Security Basics</li> <li>Web Application Security</li> </ul> <h3>6 - Managing Risk, Security Policies, and Security Procedures</h3> <ul> <li>Analyze Security Risk</li> <li>Implement Risk Mitigation Strategies and Controls</li> <li>Implement Enterprise-Level Security Policies and Procedures</li> <li>Prepare for Incident Response and Recovery</li> </ul> <h3>7 - Enterprise Security Integration</h3> <ul> <li>The Technology Life Cycle</li> <li>Inter-Organizational Change</li> <li>Integrate Enterprise Disciplines to Achieve Secure Solutions</li> </ul> <h3>8 - Security Research and Analysis</h3> <ul> <li>Perform an Industry Trends and Impact Analysis</li> <li>Perform an Enterprise Security Analysis</li> </ul></div>

Nexus Human

Certificate in Information Security Management Principles (CISMP)

Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

ASIS Certified Protection Professional (CPP)

Certified Cyber Professional (CCP)

Cissp

CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>5 Days</p><p>30 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>This course is designed for people who are seeking to launch a career in cybersecurity.</p>Overview<p>Assess the security posture of an enterprise environment and recommend and implement appropriate security solutions; Monitor and secure hybrid environments, including cloud, mobile, and IoT; Operate with an awareness of applicable laws and policies, including principles of governance, risk, and compliance; Identify, analyze, and respond to security events and incidents.</p><p>CompTIA Security+ is a global certification that validates the baseline skills necessary to perform core security functions and is the first security certification a candidate should earn.<br /> <br /> CompTIA Security+ establishes the core knowledge required of any cybersecurity role and provides a springboard to intermediate-level cybersecurity jobs.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>Lesson 1: Summarize Fundamental Security Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Security Concepts</li> <li>Security Controls</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 2: Compare Threat Types</h3> <ul> <li>Threat Actors</li> <li>Attack Surfaces</li> <li>Social Engineering</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 3: Explain Cryptographic Solutions</h3> <ul> <li>Cryptographic Algorithms</li> <li>Public Key Infrastructure</li> <li>Cryptographic Solutions</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 4: Implement Identity and Access Management</h3> <ul> <li>Authentication</li> <li>Authorization</li> <li>Identity Management</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 5: Secure Enterprise Network Architecture</h3> <ul> <li>Enterprise Network Architecture</li> <li>Network Security Appliances</li> <li>Secure Communications</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 6: Secure Cloud Network Architecture</h3> <ul> <li>Cloud Infrastructure</li> <li>Embedded Systems and Zero Trust Architecture</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 7: Explain Resiliency and Site Security Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Asset Management</li> <li>Redundancy Strategies</li> <li>Physical Security</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 8: Explain Vulnerability Management</h3> <ul> <li>Device and OS Vulnerabilities</li> <li>Application and Cloud Vulnerabilities</li> <li>Vulnerability Identification Methods</li> <li>Vulnerability Analysis and Remediation</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 9: Evaluate Network Security Capabilities</h3> <ul> <li>Network Security Baselines</li> <li>Network Security Capability Enhancement</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 10: Assess Endpoint Security Capabilities</h3> <ul> <li>Implement Endpoint Security</li> <li>Mobile Device Hardening</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 11: Enhance Application Security Capabilities</h3> <ul> <li>Application Protocol Security Baselines</li> <li>Cloud and Web Application Security Concepts</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 12: Explain Incident Response and Monitoring Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Incident Response</li> <li>Digital Forensics</li> <li>Data Sources</li> <li>Alerting and Monitoring Tools</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 13: Analyze Indicators of Malicious Activity</h3> <ul> <li>Malware Attack Indicators</li> <li>Physical and Network Attack Indicators</li> <li>Application Attack Indicators</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 14: Summarize Security Governance Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Policies, Standards, and Procedures</li> <li>Change Management</li> <li>Automation and Orchestration</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 15: Explain Risk Management Processes</h3> <ul> <li>Risk Management Processes and Concepts</li> <li>Vendor Management Concepts</li> <li>Audits and Assessments</li> </ul> <h3>Lesson 16: Summarize Data Protection and Compliance Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Data Classification and Compliance</li> <li>Personnel Policies</li> </ul></div><div id="course-pills-3"><h4>Additional course details:</h4><br /><p>Nexus Humans CompTIA Security Plus Certification (Exam SY0-601) 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 CompTIA Security Plus Certification (Exam SY0-601) 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>

Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

CompTIA Network+

CompTIA A+

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>5 Days</p><p>30 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>This course is designed for IT professionals who wish to develop cloud computing skills to enable them to move IT workloads to the cloud and integrate products and services from different providers and industries. Their focus is to ensure that cloud deployments are secure, that automation and orchestration are used effectively to bring business value from the cloud, and that costs are controlled through effective management of cloud vendors.   This course is also designed for students who are preparing to take the CompTIA Cloud+ certification exam CV0-003, or who plan to use Cloud+ as the foundation for more advanced cloud certifications or career roles.</p>Overview<p>In this course, you will deploy, test, secure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot a cloud solution.   You will:  - Prepare to deploy cloud solutions  - Deploy a pilot project  - Test a pilot project deployment  - Design a secure network for cloud deployment  - Determine CPU and memory sizing for cloud deployments  - Determine storage requirements for cloud deployments  - Plan Identity and Access Management for cloud deployments  - Analyze workload characteristics to ensure successful migration to the cloud  - Secure systems to meet access requirements  - Maintain cloud systems  - Implement backup, restore, and business continuity measures  - Analyze cloud systems for required performance  - Analyze cloud systems for anomalies and growth forecasting  - Troubleshoot deployment, capacity, automation, and orchestration issues  - Troubleshoot connectivity issues  - Troubleshoot security issues</p><p>In this course, you will learn how to implement, maintain, and deliver cloud technologies including network, storage, and virtualization technologies to create cloud solutions.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - PREPARING TO DEPLOY CLOUD SOLUTIONS</h3> <ul> <li>Describe Interaction of Cloud Components and Services</li> <li>Describe Interaction of Non-cloud Components and Services</li> <li>Evaluate Existing Components and Services for Cloud Deployment</li> <li>Evaluate Automation and Orchestration Options</li> <li>Prepare for Cloud Deployment</li> </ul> <h3>2 - DEPLOYING A PILOT PROJECT</h3> <ul> <li>Manage Change in a Pilot Project</li> <li>Execute Cloud Deployment Workflow</li> <li>Complete Post-Deployment Configuration</li> </ul> <h3>3 - TESTING PILOT PROJECT DEPLOYMENTS</h3> <ul> <li>Identify Cloud Service Components for Testing</li> <li>Test for High Availability and Accessibility</li> <li>Perform Deployment Load Testing</li> <li>Analyze Test Results</li> </ul> <h3>4 - DESIGNING A SECURE AND COMPLIANT CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE</h3> <ul> <li>Design Cloud Infrastructure for Security</li> <li>Determine Organizational Compliance Needs</li> </ul> <h3>5 - DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A SECURE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT</h3> <ul> <li>Design Virtual Network for Cloud Deployment</li> <li>Determine Network Access Requirements</li> <li>Secure Networks for Cloud Interaction</li> <li>Manage Cloud Component Security</li> <li>Implement Security Technologies</li> </ul> <h3>6 - PLANNING IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT FOR CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS</h3> <ul> <li>Determine Identity Management and Authentication Technologies</li> <li>Plan Account Management Policies for the Network and Systems</li> <li>Control Access to Cloud Objects</li> <li>Provision Accounts</li> </ul> <h3>7 - DETERMINING CPU AND MEMORY SIZING FOR CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS</h3> <ul> <li>Determine CPU Size for Cloud Deployment</li> <li>Determine Memory Size for Cloud Deployment</li> </ul> <h3>8 - DETERMINING STORAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS</h3> <ul> <li>Determine Storage Technology Requirements</li> <li>Select Storage Options for Deployment</li> <li>Determine Storage Access and Provisioning Requirements</li> <li>Determine Storage Security Options</li> </ul> <h3>9 - ANALYZING WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL MIGRATION</h3> <ul> <li>Determine the Type of Cloud Deployment to Perform</li> <li>Manage Virtual Machine and Container Migration</li> <li>Manage Network, Storage, and Data Migration</li> </ul> <h3>10 - MAINTAINING CLOUD SYSTEMS</h3> <ul> <li>Patch Cloud Systems</li> <li>Design and Implement Automation and Orchestration for Maintenance</li> </ul> <h3>11 - IMPLEMENTING BACKUP, RESTORE, DISASTER RECOVERY, AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY MEASURES</h3> <ul> <li>Back Up and Restore Cloud Data</li> <li>Implement Disaster Recovery Plans</li> <li>Implement Business Continuity Plans</li> </ul> <h3>12 - ANALYZING CLOUD SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMANCE</h3> <ul> <li>Monitor Cloud Systems to Measure Performance</li> <li>Optimize Cloud Systems to Meet Performance Criteria</li> </ul> <h3>13 - ANALYZING CLOUD SYSTEMS FOR ANOMALIES AND GROWTH FORECASTING</h3> <ul> <li>Monitor for Anomalies and Resource Needs</li> <li>Plan for Capacity</li> <li>Create Reports on Cloud System Metrics</li> </ul> <h3>14 - TROUBLESHOOTING DEPLOYMENT, CAPACITY, AUTOMATION, AND ORCHESTRATION ISSUES</h3> <ul> <li>Troubleshoot Deployment Issues</li> <li>Troubleshoot Capacity Issues</li> <li>Troubleshoot Automation and Orchestration Issues</li> </ul> <h3>15 - TROUBLESHOOTING CONNECTIVITY ISSUES</h3> <ul> <li>Identify Connectivity Issues</li> <li>Troubleshoot Connectivity Issues</li> </ul> <h3>16 - TROUBLESHOOTING SECURITY ISSUES</h3> <ul> <li>Troubleshoot Identity and Access Issues</li> <li>Troubleshoot Attacks</li> <li>Troubleshoot Other Security Issues</li> </ul></div><div id="course-pills-3"><h4>Additional course details:</h4><br /><p>Nexus Humans CompTIA Cloud Plus Certification (Exam CV0-003) 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 CompTIA Cloud Plus Certification (Exam CV0-003) 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>

Cloud Architecture

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

CompTIA Cloud+

<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="font-size: 24px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px;">Discernment Formation for Course Leaders</span></strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 24px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px;">with Rachel Overton and Nick Helm</span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This programme aims to enable course leaders to develop or sharpen up discernment processes within formation programmes for spiritual directors from all traditions.&nbsp;</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">A previous participant says:</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&#39;This programme really helped me to find a language with which to fully&nbsp;</em><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">understand discernment processes for myself and for my facilitating the development of others.&rsquo;&nbsp;</em></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Discernment is not something that we &lsquo;do&rsquo; at certain moments of decision in life.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rather it is the stance we should assume in every aspect of life and can be articulated in the question &lsquo;how am I centred and responsive to God?&rsquo;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">As course leaders and people responsible for the formation of spiritual directors, we need to be aware of our own discernment processes if we are to enable others to grow in their ability to discern well.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such awareness also enables us to offer congruence between the formation programme we are a part of, the nature of spiritual accompaniment and being faithful to God in life.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Over the course of the four day sessions, we will enable participants to engage with questions such as:&nbsp;</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What do you pay attention to within your own experience?&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why do you pay attention to that?<span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How do you respond to what you notice?</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What choices do you make?</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How does all of this apply to you personally, your role as a spiritual director and your role in the formation of spiritual directors.</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;These will be explored in relation to the &lsquo;triangle model&rsquo; of relationships within spiritual direction &ndash; a model which helps to sharpen awareness of the multiple aspects of discernment that we need to pay attention to.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The programme will be experiential, involving small group work as well as plenary sessions. &nbsp;Participants will also be expected to take time to reflect and continue to work with their own process in between sessions.</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By the end of the programme, participants can expect to:</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">be more aware of their own process and language of discernment</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">have greater awareness of how discernment is lived in spiritual direction and spiritual direction formation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">be more secure in their role as a trainer enabling discerning processes</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">have clarity about ways in which this discerning stance can be developed in the course they are involved in</li></ul>All sessions will run on Zoom from 9.45am to 4.15pm<div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Previous participants share their responses to this programme:&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;A safe space to open your heart to the unexpected.&rsquo;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;It opens up the process of discerning far better than reading it in a book.&#39;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;[It] may well change your perception of what discernment is all about and, with practice, it will change the way you live and pray. I would thoroughly recommend this learning process and experience.&rsquo;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;Approach with an attentive, open heart, recognising the potential to go deeper through exploring discernment by journeying both as individual and with others.&rsquo;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;A very in-depth programme that really gets to the heart of discernment. Don&rsquo;t miss it - it can change your life!!&rsquo;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;It wasn&#39;t until I experienced this programme with Nick and Rachel that it became obvious how vital this clarification of, and approach to discernment is, and would whole-heartedly recommend this empowering course to the most seasoned of trainers as well as those just starting out.&rsquo;</em></p>

Discernment Formation for Course Leaders
with Rachel Overton and Nick Helm
This programme aims to enable course leaders to develop or sharpen up discernment processes within formation programmes for spiritual directors from all traditions. 
A previous participant says:
'This programme really helped me to find a language with which to fully understand discernment processes for myself and for my facilitating the development of others.’ 
Discernment is not something that we ‘do’ at certain moments of decision in life. Rather it is the stance we should assume in every aspect of life and can be articulated in the question ‘how am I centred and responsive to God?’
As course leaders and people responsible for the formation of spiritual directors, we need to be aware of our own discernment processes if we are to enable others to grow in their ability to discern well. Such awareness also enables us to offer congruence between the formation programme we are a part of, the nature of spiritual accompaniment and being faithful to God in life. 
Over the course of the four day sessions, we will enable participants to engage with questions such as: 
What do you pay attention to within your own experience?
Why do you pay attention to that?
How do you respond to what you notice?
What choices do you make?
How does all of this apply to you personally, your role as a spiritual director and your role in the formation of spiritual directors.
 These will be explored in relation to the ‘triangle model’ of relationships within spiritual direction – a model which helps to sharpen awareness of the multiple aspects of discernment that we need to pay attention to.
The programme will be experiential, involving small group work as well as plenary sessions. Participants will also be expected to take time to reflect and continue to work with their own process in between sessions.
By the end of the programme, participants can expect to:
be more aware of their own process and language of discernment
have greater awareness of how discernment is lived in spiritual direction and spiritual direction formation
be more secure in their role as a trainer enabling discerning processes
have clarity about ways in which this discerning stance can be developed in the course they are involved in
All sessions will run on Zoom from 9.45am to 4.15pm
Previous participants share their responses to this programme: 
‘A safe space to open your heart to the unexpected.’
‘It opens up the process of discerning far better than reading it in a book.'
‘[It] may well change your perception of what discernment is all about and, with practice, it will change the way you live and pray. I would thoroughly recommend this learning process and experience.’
‘Approach with an attentive, open heart, recognising the potential to go deeper through exploring discernment by journeying both as individual and with others.’
‘A very in-depth programme that really gets to the heart of discernment. Don’t miss it - it can change your life!!’
‘It wasn't until I experienced this programme with Nick and Rachel that it became obvious how vital this clarification of, and approach to discernment is, and would whole-heartedly recommend this empowering course to the most seasoned of trainers as well as those just starting out.’

SoulSpark Online

Spiritual Direction

Training Trainers of Spiritual Directors
Developing the abilities needed to facilitate Spiritual Direction formation programmes

Catching the Wind

Tom Reynolds

Product Management

Agile

Agile PM

Productivity

Kanban

Agile Coach

Attend our world class Kanban University accredited Certified Kanban System Design training course and learn to implement Kanban in your company

Certified Kanban System Design – KMP I - 24-26 September

Standard

Early Bird

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">Are you responsible for implementing Data Governance? Are you expected to have all the answers?</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">You can end up feeling lonely, vulnerable and frustrated. After all, you are trying to implement Data Governance to help your organisation - why is it turning out to be so difficult?!</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">You can spend hours on the internet or reading books but it can be challenging trying to turn the theory into something practical that will work for your organisation. If only you could fast forward to a few years&rsquo; time when you have done many more Data Governance initiatives and had a wider range of experience to fall back on.</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">If you don&#39;t have a time machine to help you with that, the other option is to build a network of experienced trusted peers who are willing to share the benefit of their experience with you. But that can be easier said than done. These days many networking events still aren&rsquo;t taking place and those that are are online and it&rsquo;s very hard to get a chance to speak let alone get advice for your challenges.</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">Why not join this 1 Day Data Governance Mastermind Workshop, where you get allocated time to get specific advice on your current Data Governance challenges and get the chance to network with others in similar situations.</p>

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Untangle your Data Governance issue and collaborate with your peers during this one-day Mastermind
Discuss Data Governance approaches with people who get it
Are you struggling with a Data Governance issue and wish you had a team of other Data Governance professionals you could bounce it around with?
You’ve done Data Governance training and you know what you’re focusing on. While your team is supportive, you spend a lot of time dealing with, and driving forward, culture change, managing stakeholders, and fielding questions from people who have their own priorities and now need to do this ‘Data Governance stuff’ on top. 
It would be nice, once in a while, to have a conversation about how to achieve something free from internal issues. You want to talk about best practices and get some alternative ideas.
That’s what my Data Governance Mastermind gives you: space to reflect with the support of your peers and practical solutions you can implement.
What is a mastermind?
Mastermind groups are the definition of ‘sharing is caring’. It’s you and your fellow peers – people who do what you do - gathering to brainstorm, problem solve, set goals and be each other’s support network.
At the Data Governance Mastermind, you will meet and learn from other people implementing Data Governance initiatives. 
It’s a one-day event, on Zoom. One of the benefits of attending is you’ll get 30 minutes in the ‘hot seat’ where you can share something you’re struggling with and get input from the group. 
What you can expect during the day
Discussions about different aspects of Data Governance and the opportunity to share what’s worked for you.
Tailored advice specific to your situation from me.
Insights from other people implementing Data Governance about what’s worked for them, what hasn’t worked, and how they have tackled issues.
30 minutes in the hot seat so you can share something you need help with and get practical suggestions from the rest of the delegates.
Time to reflect and share learnings from discussions so you have your key takeaways written down, ready to take back to work with you.
Get to know other Data Governance professionals and build a support network
Get an action plan and confidence to take your next steps with Data Governance
Get ready to discover new ways of approaching your Data Governance challenges, while getting to know professionals from a range of industries.
You will:
Get a clear action plan to take away with you to tackle your specific Data Governance issues.
Develop a wider network of supportive Data Governance professionals, people got your back and will be available to continue to network and ask advice or in the future.
Leave with the confidence that you're not alone in tackling these issues. There are other people going through similar experiences that are willing to help you out.
Is attending a Mastermind right for me? 
Every individual's Data Governance journey is unique. Take my scorecard to determine if my Mastermind programme is the right fit for you and will effectively support your specific needs. You can also find out more about the day on my website.

The Data Governance Coach 

Data Management

Professional Development

A day of Data Governance, support, networking, and answering your questions. Join me for my 1 Day Data Governance Mastermind where you get allocated time to get specific advice on your current Data Governance challenges and get the chance to network with others in similar situations.

1 Day Data Governance Mastermind

1 Day Data Governance Mastermind Workshop

St Albans

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This Carbon Literacy Training has been developed in conjunction with the <a href="https://carbonliteracy.com/about-us/" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">Carbon Literacy Project</a> and funded by the Church of England Environment Programme. &nbsp;This bespoke training course has been designed especially for the Church of England to provide a strong grounding in carbon literacy to support clergy and key Eco champions in their work, as well as diocesan staff, and is a valuable professional development opportunity. The training course will equip each participant to understand the issues, present the need for action to people with differing awareness and views, and take practical steps to implement change individually and as local church communities.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This free online course consists of 8 hours of learning over 4 sessions (2 hours each) and some pre-course preparation including videos and practical exercises.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 1: Tuesday 17th September 5-7pm</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 2: Tuesday 24th September 5-7pm</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 3: Tuesday 1st October 5-7pm</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 4: Tuesday 8th October 5-7pm</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">It starts with the basics and has plenty scope for learning and sharing for those with much more experience. The course is accredited by the Carbon Literacy Project and includes each participant making two carbon pledges at the end of the course to receive this accreditation</p>

This Carbon Literacy Training has been developed in conjunction with the Carbon Literacy Project and funded by the Church of England Environment Programme. This bespoke training course has been designed especially for the Church of England to provide a strong grounding in carbon literacy to support clergy and key Eco champions in their work, as well as diocesan staff, and is a valuable professional development opportunity. The training course will equip each participant to understand the issues, present the need for action to people with differing awareness and views, and take practical steps to implement change individually and as local church communities. 
This free online course consists of 8 hours of learning over 4 sessions (2 hours each) and some pre-course preparation including videos and practical exercises. 
Week 1: Tuesday 17th September 5-7pm
Week 2: Tuesday 24th September 5-7pm
Week 3: Tuesday 1st October 5-7pm
Week 4: Tuesday 8th October 5-7pm
It starts with the basics and has plenty scope for learning and sharing for those with much more experience. The course is accredited by the Carbon Literacy Project and includes each participant making two carbon pledges at the end of the course to receive this accreditation

The Diocese of St Albans

Smart Meter Training

Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy Training (CCPT)

ICDL (International Certification of Digital Literacy)

Carbon Literacy training (online)

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Are you a stressed, exhausted SEN/EBSA parent or carer, running on empty, with no time to shout <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"HELP!"&nbsp;</em>let alone step off the hamster wheel to rest, recharge and recuperate?</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Parenting neurodivergent and/or school avoidant young people comes with a unique set of challenges and, if you&#39;re finding yourself lurching from managing meltdowns to fighting for support or feeling isolated and judged because people don&#39;t understand, it can be really hard and I GET IT!</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">After finding myself pretty much burnt out I discovered and implemented quick and simple self-help and relaxation tools that have helped strengthen my coping skills to navigate my family&#39;s journey, rebuild my resilience and rediscover&nbsp;my old self!&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">I was so blown away by how beneficial simple habits can be that it&#39;s my mission to help others do the same - and so I created&nbsp;The SHARE Project.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The ethos of THE SHARE Project is that&nbsp;we need to put our own oxygen mask on first&nbsp;so that we can&nbsp;best support our kids&nbsp;and my aim is that the tools you will learn during our time together will become your oxygen mask, not only for use in case of emergency, but as a sustainable part of your ongoing&nbsp;self-care and wellbeing.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">During each&nbsp;of four, weekly, live&nbsp;online workshops, delivered over Zoom, you will learn and practise a new tool to implement daily over the coming week (just a&nbsp;few minutes at a time, I promise)!</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Then, during the following week&#39;s workshop we will review your progress, make any tweaks and learn and practise the next tool...&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">There&#39;ll be no suggestions of long and luxurious spa days and fluffy robes because most of us don&#39;t have the time to do that very often and, frankly, the benefits disappear almost as soon as you&#39;ve driven home... My mission<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</em>is to give you sustainable tools to use anytime and anywhere to help yourself cope better and feel happier, regardless of what&#39;s going on around you!</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Each group session gives you the opportunity to connect with other SEN parents or carers&nbsp;experiencing similar challenges.</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;">What our clients say:</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);">"</span></em><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);">The Share project was a gentle, kind experience which showed understanding for parenting with additional challenges. &nbsp;The refocusing was extremely powerful and I felt nurtured by the sessions."</span></em></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);"><span data-sheets-root="1" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"I gained different techniques to build resilience and overcome overwhelm."&nbsp;</span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></em></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);"><span data-sheets-root="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-sheets-root="1" style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201);"><span data-sheets-root="1" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"has helped me have a more positive outlook day to day, relaxation has helped with my sleep"</span></span><span data-sheets-root="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></em></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">If you have any questions, please ask and I will be happy to help :)</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Sue&nbsp;</p>

Discover Calm and Happiness with The SHARE Project: Your Path to Resilience! 🌟
Are you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and stretched to your limit?  With meetings and meltdowns to manage, battles for support, the frustration of feeling isolated or misunderstood, not to mention the pressure of juggling your job too, it can It can feel like you’re running on empty; hard to find a moment to step off the hamster wheel and just breathe.
I’ve been there, and I get it!💛
After being on the brink of burnout myself, I stumbled upon simple, yet life-changing self-help and relaxation tools. These quick, effective techniques helped me rebuild my resilience, reclaim my sense of self and navigate challenges with renewed strength. The transformation was so profound that I knew I had to share it with others—and that’s how The SHARE Project was born.
What is The SHARE Project?
The SHARE Project is built on a simple principle: you need to put your own oxygen mask on first!  By nurturing yourself, you’re better equipped to support your children. Through our four-week, live online workshop series, delivered via Zoom, you’ll discover practical tools to bring more calm and happiness into your daily life.
Here’s what you can expect:
Weekly Workshops:  Each week, we’ll introduce and practice a new tool designed to fit seamlessly into your life (just a few minutes a day, I promise!). These are not your typical “luxury spa day” suggestions — because let’s face it, who has time for that?  Instead, you’ll learn sustainable, go-to strategies that you can use anytime, anywhere, to boost your wellbeing, even in the midst of chaos.  You will also receive a mid-week email of encouragement between workshops and printables to help record and track your progress.
Ongoing Support:  In each session, we’ll review your progress, fine-tune your approach, and introduce the next tool.  This isn’t just a one-off workshop; it’s a journey of growth and connection.
Community Connection: You’ll be part of a supportive group of fellow SEN parents and carers who understand the unique challenges you face.  Together, we’ll share experiences, uplift each other, and grow stronger.
What our clients say:
“The SHARE Project was a gentle, kind experience which showed understanding for parenting with additional challenges.  The refocusing was extremely powerful and I felt nurtured by the sessions.”
“It has helped me to have a more positive outlook day-to-day, and the relaxation has helped with my sleep.”	
“I looked forward to the sessions each week, they gave me time to focus on myself for a change.”
Ready to Feel More Calm and Happy?
If you’re ready to step off the hamster wheel and start reclaiming your joy, The SHARE Project is here for you. Let’s work together to help you feel more at peace, more resilient, and, most importantly, more you.
Got any questions? Send me a message and I’ll be happy to help! 😊
With love and support,  
Sue

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