Name: Project Leadership Skills
Price: 1495 GBP
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London

<h2>Business Intelligence</h2>
 <p>Business Intelligence (BI) refers to a set of technology-based techniques, applications, and practices used to aggregate, analyze, and present business data. BI practices provide historical and current views of vast amounts of data and generate predictions for business operations. The purpose of Business Intelligence is the support of better business decision making. This course provides an overview of the technology and application of BI and how it can be used to improve corporate performance.</p><h3>What you will Learn</h3>
 <p>You will learn how to:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Specify a data warehouse schema</li>
 <li>Identify the data and visualization to be used for data mining and Business Intelligence</li>
 <li>Design a Business Intelligence user interface</li>
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul> <li>Introductions</li> <li>Agenda</li> <li>Expectations</li> </ul> <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>The challenge of decision making</li> <li>What is Business Intelligence?</li> <li>The Business Intelligence value proposition</li> <li>Business Intelligence taxonomy</li> <li>Business Intelligence management issues</li> </ul> <h3>Sources of Business Intelligence</h3> <ul> <li>Data warehousing</li> <li>Data and information</li> <li>Information architecture</li> <li>Defining the data warehouse and its relationships</li> <li>Facts and dimensions</li> <li>Modeling, meta-modeling, and schemas</li> <li>Alternate architectures</li> <li>Building the data warehouse</li> <li>Extracting</li> <li>Transforming</li> <li>Loading</li> <li>Setting up the data and relationships</li> <li>Dimensions and the Fact Table</li> <li>Implementing many-to-many relationships in data warehouse</li> <li>Data marts</li> </ul> <h3>Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)</h3> <ul> <li>What is OLAP?</li> <li>OLAP and OLTP</li> <li>OLAP functionality</li> <li>Multi-dimensions</li> <li>Thinking in more than two dimensions</li> <li>What are the possibilities?</li> <li>OLAP architecture</li> <li>Cubism</li> <li>Tools</li> <li>OLAP variations - MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP</li> <li>BI using SOA</li> <li>Applications of Business Intelligence</li> <li>Applying BI through OLAP</li> <li>Enterprise Resource Planning and CRM</li> <li>Business Intelligence and financial information</li> </ul> <h3>Business Intelligence User Interfaces and Presentations</h3> <ul> <li>Data access</li> <li>Push-pull data access</li> <li>Types of decision support systems</li> <li>Designing the front end</li> <li>Presentation formats</li> <li>Dashboards</li> <li>Types of dashboards</li> <li>Common dashboard features</li> <li>Briefing books and scorecards</li> <li>Querying and Reporting</li> <li>Reporting emphasis</li> <li>Retrofitting</li> <li>Talking back</li> <li>Key Performance Indicators</li> <li>Report Definition and Visualization</li> <li>Typical reporting environment</li> <li>Forms of visualization</li> <li>Unconstrained views</li> <li>Data mining</li> <li>What is in the mine?</li> <li>Applications for data mining</li> <li>Data mining architecture</li> <li>Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CISP-DM)</li> <li>Data mining techniques</li> <li>Validation</li> </ul> <h3>The Business Intelligence User Experience</h3> <ul> <li>The business analyst role</li> <li>Business analysis and data analysis</li> <li>Five-step approach</li> <li>Cultural impact</li> <li>Identifying questions</li> <li>Gathering information</li> <li>Understand the goals</li> <li>The strategic Business Intelligence cycle</li> <li>Focus of Business Intelligence</li> <li>Design for the user</li> <li>Iterate the access</li> <li>Iterative solution development process</li> <li>Review and validation questions</li> <li>Basic approaches</li> <li>Building ad-hoc queries</li> <li>Building on-demand self-service reports</li> <li>Closed loop Business Intelligence</li> <li>Coming attractions - future of Business Intelligence</li> <li>Best practices in Business Intelligence</li> </ul>


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IIL Europe Ltd

Business Intelligence

General Admission

<h2>Business Intelligence: In-House Training</h2>
 <p>Business Intelligence (BI) refers to a set of technology-based techniques, applications, and practices used to aggregate, analyze, and present business data. BI practices provide historical and current views of vast amounts of data and generate predictions for business operations. The purpose of Business Intelligence is the support of better business decision making. This course provides an overview of the technology and application of BI and how it can be used to improve corporate performance.</p><h3>What you will Learn</h3>
 <p>You will learn how to:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Specify a data warehouse schema</li>
 <li>Identify the data and visualization to be used for data mining and Business Intelligence</li>
 <li>Design a Business Intelligence user interface</li>
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul> <li>Introductions</li> <li>Agenda</li> <li>Expectations</li> </ul> <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>The challenge of decision making</li> <li>What is Business Intelligence?</li> <li>The Business Intelligence value proposition</li> <li>Business Intelligence taxonomy</li> <li>Business Intelligence management issues</li> </ul> <h3>Sources of Business Intelligence</h3> <ul> <li>Data warehousing</li> <li>Data and information</li> <li>Information architecture</li> <li>Defining the data warehouse and its relationships</li> <li>Facts and dimensions</li> <li>Modeling, meta-modeling, and schemas</li> <li>Alternate architectures</li> <li>Building the data warehouse</li> <li>Extracting</li> <li>Transforming</li> <li>Loading</li> <li>Setting up the data and relationships</li> <li>Dimensions and the Fact Table</li> <li>Implementing many-to-many relationships in data warehouse</li> <li>Data marts</li> </ul> <h3>Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)</h3> <ul> <li>What is OLAP?</li> <li>OLAP and OLTP</li> <li>OLAP functionality</li> <li>Multi-dimensions</li> <li>Thinking in more than two dimensions</li> <li>What are the possibilities?</li> <li>OLAP architecture</li> <li>Cubism</li> <li>Tools</li> <li>OLAP variations - MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP</li> <li>BI using SOA</li> <li>Applications of Business Intelligence</li> <li>Applying BI through OLAP</li> <li>Enterprise Resource Planning and CRM</li> <li>Business Intelligence and financial information</li> </ul> <h3>Business Intelligence User Interfaces and Presentations</h3> <ul> <li>Data access</li> <li>Push-pull data access</li> <li>Types of decision support systems</li> <li>Designing the front end</li> <li>Presentation formats</li> <li>Dashboards</li> <li>Types of dashboards</li> <li>Common dashboard features</li> <li>Briefing books and scorecards</li> <li>Querying and Reporting</li> <li>Reporting emphasis</li> <li>Retrofitting</li> <li>Talking back</li> <li>Key Performance Indicators</li> <li>Report Definition and Visualization</li> <li>Typical reporting environment</li> <li>Forms of visualization</li> <li>Unconstrained views</li> <li>Data mining</li> <li>What is in the mine?</li> <li>Applications for data mining</li> <li>Data mining architecture</li> <li>Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CISP-DM)</li> <li>Data mining techniques</li> <li>Validation</li> </ul> <h3>The Business Intelligence User Experience</h3> <ul> <li>The business analyst role</li> <li>Business analysis and data analysis</li> <li>Five-step approach</li> <li>Cultural impact</li> <li>Identifying questions</li> <li>Gathering information</li> <li>Understand the goals</li> <li>The strategic Business Intelligence cycle</li> <li>Focus of Business Intelligence</li> <li>Design for the user</li> <li>Iterate the access</li> <li>Iterative solution development process</li> <li>Review and validation questions</li> <li>Basic approaches</li> <li>Building ad-hoc queries</li> <li>Building on-demand self-service reports</li> <li>Closed loop Business Intelligence</li> <li>Coming attractions - future of Business Intelligence</li> <li>Best practices in Business Intelligence</li> </ul>


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Business Intelligence: In-House Training

Edinburgh

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Sid Sottung Academy Edinburgh

5 Day Unisex Colour Course

<h2>Scrum Product Owner Exam Prep</h2>
<p>This workshop prepares you for the Scrum.org PSPO™ I certification. A voucher for the exam and the access information you will need to take the exam will be provided to you via email after you have completed the course. NOTE: If you have participated in any of IIL's other Scrum workshops, you can bypass this program and focus on reading/studying the Scrum Guide and taking practice exams from Scrum.org</p>
<p>The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team. The Product Owner must be knowledgeable, available, and empowered to make decisions quickly in order for an Agile project to be successful.</p>
<p>The Product Owner's key accountability is the Product Backlog. Managing, maintaining, and evolving the Product Backlog involves:</p>
<ul>
<li>Establishing a clear vision that engages the Development Team and stakeholders</li>
<li>Clearly expressing Product Backlog items</li>
<li>Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve the vision and goals</li>
<li>Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all</li>
<li>Working with the Development Team throughout the project to create a product that fits the customer's need</li>
</ul><h3>What you will Learn</h3>
<p>You'll learn how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Successfully prepare for the Scrum.org PSPO I exam</li>
<li>Identify the characteristics of a successful Product Owner</li>
<li>Create a powerful vision statement</li>
<li>Apply techniques to understand your customers and the market</li>
<li>Manage and engage stakeholders</li>
<li>Write effective user stories with acceptance criteria</li>
<li>Utilize techniques to visualize and prioritize the Product Backlog</li>
<li>Participate in the 5 Scrum events as the Product Owner</li>
<li>Understand the Product Owner's role in closing a Scrum project</li>
</ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3><ul><li>Introductions</li><li>Workshop orientation</li><li>Exam prep preview</li></ul><h3>Fundamentals Recap</h3><ul><li>Agile Manifesto, values, and mindset</li><li>Product Owner characteristics</li><li>Good vs. great Product Owner</li></ul><h3>Product Ownership</h3><ul><li>Product ownership</li><li>Project vision</li><li>Understand your customers and market</li><li>Personas</li><li>Stakeholder management and engagement</li></ul><h3>The Product Backlog</h3><ul><li>User Stories and Acceptance Criteria</li><li>Preparing User Stories for a Sprint</li><li>The Product Backlog</li><li>Visualizing the Product Backlog</li><li>Product Backlog Prioritization</li><li>Technical Debt</li></ul><h3>Sprint Planning and Daily Standups</h3><ul><li>Sprint Planning</li><li>Planning Poker</li><li>Team Engagement</li><li>Daily Standups</li></ul><h3>Sprint Review, Retrospectives, and Closing</h3><ul><li>Sprint Reviews</li><li>Key Agile Patterns</li><li>Retrospectives</li><li>Closing the Project</li></ul>


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Scrum Product Owner Exam Prep

<h2>Scrum Product Owner Exam Prep: In-House Training</h2>
<p>This workshop prepares you for the Scrum.org PSPO™ I certification. A voucher for the exam and the access information you will need to take the exam will be provided to you via email after you have completed the course. NOTE: If you have participated in any of IIL's other Scrum workshops, you can bypass this program and focus on reading/studying the Scrum Guide and taking practice exams from Scrum.org</p>
<p>The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team. The Product Owner must be knowledgeable, available, and empowered to make decisions quickly in order for an Agile project to be successful.</p>
<p>The Product Owner's key accountability is the Product Backlog. Managing, maintaining, and evolving the Product Backlog involves:</p>
<ul>
<li>Establishing a clear vision that engages the Development Team and stakeholders</li>
<li>Clearly expressing Product Backlog items</li>
<li>Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve the vision and goals</li>
<li>Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all</li>
<li>Working with the Development Team throughout the project to create a product that fits the customer's need</li>
</ul><h3>What you will Learn</h3>
<p>You'll learn how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Successfully prepare for the Scrum.org PSPO I exam</li>
<li>Identify the characteristics of a successful Product Owner</li>
<li>Create a powerful vision statement</li>
<li>Apply techniques to understand your customers and the market</li>
<li>Manage and engage stakeholders</li>
<li>Write effective user stories with acceptance criteria</li>
<li>Utilize techniques to visualize and prioritize the Product Backlog</li>
<li>Participate in the 5 Scrum events as the Product Owner</li>
<li>Understand the Product Owner's role in closing a Scrum project</li>
</ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3><ul><li>Introductions</li><li>Workshop orientation</li><li>Exam prep preview</li></ul><h3>Fundamentals Recap</h3><ul><li>Agile Manifesto, values, and mindset</li><li>Product Owner characteristics</li><li>Good vs. great Product Owner</li></ul><h3>Product Ownership</h3><ul><li>Product ownership</li><li>Project vision</li><li>Understand your customers and market</li><li>Personas</li><li>Stakeholder management and engagement</li></ul><h3>The Product Backlog</h3><ul><li>User Stories and Acceptance Criteria</li><li>Preparing User Stories for a Sprint</li><li>The Product Backlog</li><li>Visualizing the Product Backlog</li><li>Product Backlog Prioritization</li><li>Technical Debt</li></ul><h3>Sprint Planning and Daily Standups</h3><ul><li>Sprint Planning</li><li>Planning Poker</li><li>Team Engagement</li><li>Daily Standups</li></ul><h3>Sprint Review, Retrospectives, and Closing</h3><ul><li>Sprint Reviews</li><li>Key Agile Patterns</li><li>Retrospectives</li><li>Closing the Project</li></ul>


                </section>

Scrum Product Owner Exam Prep: In-House Training

<h2>Managing Multiple Projects</h2> 
 <p>Succeeding in today's competitive marketplace often requires cycle time reduction - reducing the duration of projects and getting results faster. This workshop will address managing multiple projects within the context of program or product management.</p> 
 <p>Are your projects taking longer and longer to complete? Are results less than optimal because of time pressures on resources? Would you like to increase project 'throughout'?</p> 
 <p>Succeeding in today's competitive marketplace often requires cycle time reduction - reducing the duration of projects and getting results faster. This workshop will address managing multiple projects within the context of program or product management.</p> 
 <p>Planning and managing individual projects is challenging. When introducing the real-life limitation of resources and other outside influences into the multi-project environment, those challenges are magnified, and new challenges are introduced.</p> 
 <p>This interactive workshop will position you for immediate action. The goal of this course is to equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and techniques so that you can effectively and productively manage multiple projects.</p><h3>What you Will Learn</h3> 
 <p>You'll learn how to:</p> 
 <ul> 
 <li>Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations</li> 
 <li>Prioritize and sequence multiple projects</li> 
 <li>Manage time and stress within a multiple project environment</li> 
 <li>Effectively manage logical dependencies among projects</li> 
 <li>Optimize the use of resources across multiple projects using concepts from Critical Chain methods</li> 
 <li>Manage risk and communications in a multiple project environment</li> 
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul>  <li>Introductions</li>  <li>Course structure</li>  <li>Course goals and objectives</li>  </ul>  <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul>  <li>Portfolio, program, and project management principles</li>  <li>The multiple project environment</li>  <li>The MMP Process Model</li>  </ul>  <h3>Developing the Multiple Project List</h3> <ul>  <li>Multiple project portfolio management</li>  <li>Project selection</li>  <li>Project categories and types</li>  <li>The multiple project list</li>  </ul>  <h3>Multiple Project Logical Dependencies</h3> <ul>  <li>Project dependencies</li>  <li>Types of multiple project portfolios</li>  <li>Categories of logical dependencies across multiple projects</li>  <li>Project priorities in the multiple project schedule</li>  </ul>  <h3>Multiple Project Resource Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Multiple project resources and resource management concepts</li>  <li>Multiple project resource loading</li>  <li>Resource pool and resource database</li>  <li>Multiple project resource issues and outsourcing</li>  <li>Critical chain resource management, including drum resources and multi-tasking</li>  </ul>  <h3>Managing Risk Across Multiple Projects</h3> <ul>  <li>Multiple project risk management process</li>  <li>Identifying, assessing, and responding to multiple project risks</li>  <li>Critical chain and multiple project risks</li>  <li>Risk interrelationship management methods</li>  </ul>  <h3>Creating and Executing the Multiple Project Plan</h3> <ul>  <li>The multiple project plan</li>  <li>Multiple project scheduling</li>  <li>Multiple project budgeting</li>  <li>Executing and maintaining the multiple project plan</li>  <li>Controlling in the multiple project environment</li>  <li>Tools in multiple project management</li>  </ul>  <h3>Multiple Project Communications</h3> <ul>  <li>Effective communication in the multiple project environment</li>  <li>Common communication barriers</li>  <li>Multiple project communications plan</li>  <li>Resolving multiple project conflicts</li>  </ul>  <h3>Summary and Next Steps</h3> <ul>  <li>What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environments?</li>  </ul>


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Managing Multiple Projects

<h2>Risk Management for IT Projects</h2>
 <p>IT projects may have direct bottom-line impact on the organization, cost millions of dollars, cause organizational change and change the way the organization is perceived by clients. Many IT projects are notoriously hard to predict and are filled with risk. IT Risk Management takes a comprehensive look at IT project risk management using PMI's PMBOK® Guide Risk Management Model in the context of IT Project Life Cycle phases.</p>
 <p>The goal of this course is to arm the practitioner with a rigorous, common-sense approach to addressing uncertainty in projects. This approach includes the ability to influence project outcomes, avoid many potential project risks, and be ready to calmly and efficiently respond to unavoidable challenges.</p><h3>What you will Learn</h3>
 <p>You'll learn how to:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Describe the risk management process, using the <em>PMBOK® Guide</em>'s standard models and terminology</li>
 <li>Discuss the potential barriers to managing risk effectively in IT project organizations</li>
 <li>Develop an effective risk management plan for IT projects</li>
 <li>Identify project risks using IT-specific, practical tools</li>
 <li>Analyze individual risk events and overall project risk using IT-specific, practical approaches</li>
 <li>Plan effective responses to IT-specific risk based on the results of risk analysis and integrate risk responses into project schedules and cost estimates</li>
 <li>Manage and control risk throughout the IT project life cycle</li>
 <li>Implement selected elements of IT project risk management on your next project</li>
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Basic concepts and purpose</li> <li>Risk and project constraints</li> <li>Risk and corporate cultures</li> <li>Risk management and IT PLC standards</li> </ul> <h3>Plan Risk Management for IT Projects</h3> <ul> <li>Plan Risk management process</li> <li>Plan Risk management activities</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Design a standard template</li> <li>Assess the project-specific needs</li> <li>Tailor the template</li> <li>Produce a project-specific risk management plan</li> <li>Gain consensus and submit as part of overall project plan</li> <li>A risk management plan of IT projects</li> </ul> <h3>Identify Risks for IT Projects</h3> <ul> <li>Identify risk process overview</li> <li>Risk categories and examples</li> <li>Risk identification tools</li> <li>Risk events by project life-cycle phases</li> </ul> <h3>Perform Risk Analysis for IT Projects</h3> <ul> <li>Perform qualitative risk analysis overview</li> <li>Core qualitative tools for IT projects</li> <li>Auxiliary qualitative tools for cost and schedule estimates</li> <li>When to use quantitative analysis for IT projects</li> </ul> <h3>Plan Risk Response for IT Projects</h3> <ul> <li>Plan risk response overview</li> <li>Active risk response strategies for IT projects (Threat and Opportunity)</li> <li>Acceptance and contingency reserves</li> <li>Contingency planning for IT projects</li> <li>Plan risk responses for IT projects</li> </ul> <h3>Implement Risk Response for IT Projects</h3> <ul> <li>Implement Risk Responses</li> <li>Executing Risk Response Plans</li> <li>Techniques and Tools Used</li> <li>Continuous Risk Management</li> </ul> <h3>Monitor Risks for IT Projects</h3> <ul> <li>Monitor risks overview</li> <li>Monitor risks tips for IT projects</li> <li>Technical performance measurement systems</li> <li>Risk management implementation for IT projects</li> </ul>


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Risk Management for IT Projects

<h2>Project Leadership Skills (In-Person)</h2>
 <p>To be effective within an organization, project managers need to have a wide variety of skills and abilities. Included among these are: creating and executing on a vision; motivating others; influencing without authority; networking; communicating up, down and laterally; negotiating; managing stakeholders; and managing conflict.</p>
 <p>This highly interactive workshop focuses on building the soft skills that are critical to leading a team and creating sustainable business change. Participants will gain insight into the social science as well as the brain science behind motivating and empowering others. They will learn and experiment with a variety of influencing strategies and tactics. Working in pairs as well as small groups, they will collaborate with others to brainstorm, share experiences, and apply concepts to everyday challenges.</p>
 <p>Participants will also discover their personal communication preferences, strengths, and blind spots and will gain insight into how best to communicate with others they find 'difficult.' They will gain insight into managing the people side of change, learning strategies for dealing with each step in the process. Hands-on negotiation and conflict management activities enhance the theoretical learning, grounding it in real life and making it actionable.</p>
 <p>Interweaving role play with experiential learning and group activities, this course will help participants refine a skill set that is invaluable to their organization, and one that transfers easily across their professional and personal lives.</p><h3>What you will Learn</h3>
 <p>At the end of this course, you will be able to:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Explain the importance of vision in driving motivation and engagement</li>
 <li>Apply science-based research to better motivate those around you</li>
 <li>Strategically leverage both personal and positional power to achieve positive project results</li>
 <li>Determine influencing and networking strategies needed for personal growth</li>
 <li>Identify ways to problem solve communication challenges when others have different personality styles</li>
 <li>Connect stakeholder expectations to project success criteria</li>
 <li>Assess key stakeholders across various dimensions of complexity</li>
 <li>Apply the four rules of principled negotiation to a real-life conflict situation</li>
 <li>Recognize key aspects of a physiological response to conflict</li>
 <li>Utilize selected tools and techniques to 'defuse' an emotional situation</li>
 <li>Leverage various strategies and tactics to successfully deal with ambiguity at work</li>
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started / Foundation Concepts</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>Introductions</li>
 <li>Course structure, goals, and objectives</li>
 <li>Beginning a personal action plan</li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Managing Vision and Purpose / Motivating Others</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>Communicating and aligning around vision</li>
 <li>Tying the present to the future</li>
 <li>The importance of purpose</li>
 <li>The art and science of motivation</li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Networking and Influencing</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>Positive politics and project success</li>
 <li>Types of power within organizations</li>
 <li>Power and influence</li>
 <li>Networking best practices</li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Communication</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>The medium and the message</li>
 <li>Personality and communication styles</li>
 <li>Communication challenges</li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Stakeholder Management and Negotiation</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>Identifying stakeholders</li>
 <li>Analyzing stakeholders</li>
 <li>Negotiation basics</li>
 <li>Principled negotiation</li>
 </ul>
 <p>Conflict Management</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Dynamics of conflict</li>
 <li>The anatomy of conflict</li>
 <li>Conflict management approaches and tools</li>
 <li>Dealing with ambiguity</li>
 </ul>


                </section>

Project Leadership Skills (In-Person)

<h2>Managing Multiple Projects: In-House Training</h2>
 <p>Succeeding in today's competitive marketplace often requires cycle time reduction - reducing the duration of projects and getting results faster. This workshop will address managing multiple projects within the context of program or product management.</p>
 <p>Are your projects taking longer and longer to complete? Are results less than optimal because of time pressures on resources? Would you like to increase project 'throughout'?</p>
 <p>Succeeding in today's competitive marketplace often requires cycle time reduction - reducing the duration of projects and getting results faster. This workshop will address managing multiple projects within the context of program or product management.</p>
 <p>Planning and managing individual projects is challenging. When introducing the real-life limitation of resources and other outside influences into the multi-project environment, those challenges are magnified, and new challenges are introduced.</p>
 <p>This interactive workshop will position you for immediate action. The goal of this course is to equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and techniques so that you can effectively and productively manage multiple projects.</p><h3>What you Will Learn</h3> 
 <p>You'll learn how to:</p> 
 <ul> 
 <li>Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations</li> 
 <li>Prioritize and sequence multiple projects</li> 
 <li>Manage time and stress within a multiple project environment</li> 
 <li>Effectively manage logical dependencies among projects</li> 
 <li>Optimize the use of resources across multiple projects using concepts from Critical Chain methods</li> 
 <li>Manage risk and communications in a multiple project environment</li> 
 </ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul>  <li>Introductions</li>  <li>Course structure</li>  <li>Course goals and objectives</li>  </ul>  <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul>  <li>Portfolio, program, and project management principles</li>  <li>The multiple project environment</li>  <li>The MMP Process Model</li>  </ul>  <h3>Developing the Multiple Project List</h3> <ul>  <li>Multiple project portfolio management</li>  <li>Project selection</li>  <li>Project categories and types</li>  <li>The multiple project list</li>  </ul>  <h3>Multiple Project Logical Dependencies</h3> <ul>  <li>Project dependencies</li>  <li>Types of multiple project portfolios</li>  <li>Categories of logical dependencies across multiple projects</li>  <li>Project priorities in the multiple project schedule</li>  </ul>  <h3>Multiple Project Resource Management</h3> <ul>  <li>Multiple project resources and resource management concepts</li>  <li>Multiple project resource loading</li>  <li>Resource pool and resource database</li>  <li>Multiple project resource issues and outsourcing</li>  <li>Critical chain resource management, including drum resources and multi-tasking</li>  </ul>  <h3>Managing Risk Across Multiple Projects</h3> <ul>  <li>Multiple project risk management process</li>  <li>Identifying, assessing, and responding to multiple project risks</li>  <li>Critical chain and multiple project risks</li>  <li>Risk interrelationship management methods</li>  </ul>  <h3>Creating and Executing the Multiple Project Plan</h3> <ul>  <li>The multiple project plan</li>  <li>Multiple project scheduling</li>  <li>Multiple project budgeting</li>  <li>Executing and maintaining the multiple project plan</li>  <li>Controlling in the multiple project environment</li>  <li>Tools in multiple project management</li>  </ul>  <h3>Multiple Project Communications</h3> <ul>  <li>Effective communication in the multiple project environment</li>  <li>Common communication barriers</li>  <li>Multiple project communications plan</li>  <li>Resolving multiple project conflicts</li>  </ul>  <h3>Summary and Next Steps</h3> <ul>  <li>What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environments?</li>  </ul>


                </section>

Managing Multiple Projects: In-House Training

<h2>Project Leadership Skills</h2>
<p>To be effective within an organization, project managers need to have a wide variety of skills and abilities. Included among these are: creating and executing on a vision; motivating others; influencing without authority; networking; communicating up, down and laterally; negotiating; managing stakeholders; and managing conflict.</p>
<p>This highly interactive workshop focuses on building the soft skills that are critical to leading a team and creating sustainable business change. Participants will gain insight into the social science as well as the brain science behind motivating and empowering others. They will learn and experiment with a variety of influencing strategies and tactics. Working in pairs as well as small groups, they will collaborate with others to brainstorm, share experiences, and apply concepts to everyday challenges.</p>
<p>Participants will also discover their personal communication preferences, strengths, and blind spots and will gain insight into how best to communicate with others they find 'difficult.' They will gain insight into managing the people side of change, learning strategies for dealing with each step in the process. Hands-on negotiation and conflict management activities enhance the theoretical learning, grounding it in real life and making it actionable.</p>
<p>Interweaving role play with experiential learning and group activities, this course will help participants refine a skill set that is invaluable to their organization, and one that transfers easily across their professional and personal lives.</p><h3>What You Will Learn</h3>
<p>At the end of this course, you will be able to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Explain the importance of vision in driving motivation and engagement</li>
<li>Apply science-based research to better motivate those around you</li>
<li>Strategically leverage both personal and positional power to achieve positive project results</li>
<li>Determine influencing and networking strategies needed for personal growth</li>
<li>Identify ways to problem solve communication challenges when others have different personality styles</li>
<li>Connect stakeholder expectations to project success criteria</li>
<li>Assess key stakeholders across various dimensions of complexity</li>
<li>Apply the four rules of principled negotiation to a real-life conflict situation</li>
<li>Recognize key aspects of a physiological response to conflict</li>
<li>Utilize selected tools and techniques to 'defuse' an emotional situation</li>
<li>Leverage various strategies and tactics to successfully deal with ambiguity at work</li>
</ul><section>
                    <h3>Getting Started / Foundation Concepts</h3><ul><li>Introductions</li><li>Course structure, goals, and objectives</li><li>Beginning a personal action plan</li></ul><h3>Managing Vision and Purpose / Motivating Others</h3><ul><li>Communicating and aligning around vision</li><li>Tying the present to the future</li><li>The importance of purpose</li><li>The art and science of motivation</li></ul><h3>Networking and Influencing</h3><ul><li>Positive politics and project success</li><li>Types of power within organizations</li><li>Power and influence</li><li>Networking best practices</li></ul><h3>Communication</h3><ul><li>The medium and the message</li><li>Personality and communication styles</li><li>Communication challenges</li></ul><h3>Stakeholder Management and Negotiation</h3><ul><li>Identifying stakeholders</li><li>Analyzing stakeholders</li><li>Negotiation basics</li><li>Principled negotiation</li></ul><h3>Conflict Management</h3><ul><li>Dynamics of conflict</li><li>The anatomy of conflict</li><li>Conflict management approaches and tools</li><li>Dealing with ambiguity</li></ul><h3>Summary and Next Steps</h3><ul><li>Key concepts review</li><li>Creating your personal action plan</li></ul>


                </section>

Project Leadership Skills

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>4 Days</p><p>24 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p></p><p>This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution.</p><p></p>Prerequisites<p>Successful Azure Administrators start this role with experience in virtualization, networking, identity, and storage. Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks. Understanding of network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies. Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including users, groups, and role-based access control. Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - Configure Microsoft Entra ID</h3> <ul> <li>Describe Microsoft Entra ID benefits and features</li> <li>Describe Microsoft Entra concepts</li> <li>Compare Active Directory Domain Services to Microsoft Entra ID</li> <li>Select Microsoft Entra editions</li> <li>Implement Microsoft Entra join</li> <li>Implement Microsoft Entra self-service password reset</li> </ul> <h3>2 - Configure user and group accounts</h3> <ul> <li>Create user accounts</li> <li>Manage user accounts</li> <li>Create bulk user accounts</li> <li>Create group accounts</li> <li>Create administrative units</li> </ul> <h3>3 - Configure subscriptions</h3> <ul> <li>Identify Azure regions</li> <li>Implement Azure subscriptions</li> <li>Obtain an Azure subscription</li> <li>Identify Azure subscription usage</li> <li>Implement Microsoft Cost Management</li> <li>Apply resource tagging</li> <li>Apply cost savings</li> </ul> <h3>4 - Configure Azure Policy</h3> <ul> <li>Create management groups</li> <li>Implement Azure policies</li> <li>Create Azure policies</li> <li>Create policy definitions</li> <li>Create an initiative definition</li> <li>Scope the initiative definition</li> <li>Determine compliance</li> </ul> <h3>5 - Configure role-based access control</h3> <ul> <li>Implement role-based access control</li> <li>Create a role definition</li> <li>Create a role assignment</li> <li>Compare Azure roles to Microsoft Entra roles</li> <li>Apply role-based access control</li> <li>Review fundamental Azure RBAC roles</li> </ul> <h3>6 - Configure Azure resources with tools</h3> <ul> <li>Use the Azure portal</li> <li>Use Azure Cloud Shell</li> <li>Use Azure PowerShell</li> <li>Use Azure CLI</li> </ul> <h3>7 - Use Azure Resource Manager</h3> <ul> <li>Review Azure Resource Manager benefits</li> <li>Review Azure resource terminology</li> <li>Create resource groups</li> <li>Create Azure Resource Manager locks</li> <li>Reorganize Azure resources</li> <li>Remove resources and resource groups</li> <li>Determine resource limits</li> </ul> <h3>8 - Configure resources with Azure Resource Manager templates</h3> <ul> <li>Review Azure Resource Manager template advantages</li> <li>Explore the Azure Resource Manager template schema</li> <li>Explore the Azure Resource Manager template parameters</li> <li>Consider Bicep templates</li> <li>Review QuickStart templates</li> </ul> <h3>9 - Configure virtual networks</h3> <ul> <li>Plan virtual networks</li> <li>Create subnets</li> <li>Create virtual networks</li> <li>Plan IP addressing</li> <li>Create public IP addressing</li> <li>Associate public IP addresses</li> <li>Allocate or assign private IP addresses</li> </ul> <h3>10 - Configure network security groups</h3> <ul> <li>Implement network security groups</li> <li>Determine network security group rules</li> <li>Determine network security group effective rules</li> <li>Create network security group rules</li> <li>Implement application security groups</li> </ul> <h3>11 - Configure Azure DNS</h3> <ul> <li>Identify domains and custom domains</li> <li>Verify custom domain names</li> <li>Create Azure DNS zones</li> <li>Delegate DNS domains</li> <li>Add DNS record sets</li> <li>Plan for Azure Private DNS zones</li> <li>Review Azure Private DNS zone scenarios</li> </ul> <h3>12 - Configure Azure Virtual Network peering</h3> <ul> <li>Determine Azure Virtual Network peering uses</li> <li>Determine gateway transit and connectivity</li> <li>Create virtual network peering</li> <li>Extend peering with user-defined routes and service chaining</li> </ul> <h3>13 - Configure network routing and endpoints</h3> <ul> <li>Review system routes</li> <li>Identify user-defined routes</li> <li>Determine service endpoint uses</li> <li>Determine service endpoint services</li> <li>Identify private link uses</li> </ul> <h3>14 - Configure Azure Load Balancer</h3> <ul> <li>Determine Azure Load Balancer uses</li> <li>Implement a public load balancer</li> <li>Implement an internal load balancer</li> <li>Determine load balancer SKUs</li> <li>Create back-end pools</li> <li>Create health probes</li> <li>Create load balancer rules</li> </ul> <h3>15 - Configure Azure Application Gateway</h3> <ul> <li>Implement Azure Application Gateway</li> <li>Determine Azure Application Gateway routing</li> <li>Configure Azure Application Gateway components</li> </ul> <h3>16 - Configure storage accounts</h3> <ul> <li>Implement Azure Storage</li> <li>Explore Azure Storage services</li> <li>Determine storage account types</li> <li>Determine replication strategies</li> <li>Access storage</li> <li>Secure storage endpoints</li> </ul> <h3>17 - Configure Azure Blob Storage</h3> <ul> <li>Implement Azure Blob Storage</li> <li>Create blob containers</li> <li>Assign blob access tiers</li> <li>Add blob lifecycle management rules</li> <li>Determine blob object replication</li> <li>Upload blobs</li> <li>Determine Blob Storage pricing</li> </ul> <h3>18 - Configure Azure Storage security</h3> <ul> <li>Review Azure Storage security strategies</li> <li>Create shared access signatures</li> <li>Identify URI and SAS parameters</li> <li>Determine Azure Storage encryption</li> <li>Create customer-managed keys</li> <li>Apply Azure Storage security best practices</li> </ul> <h3>19 - Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync</h3> <ul> <li>Compare storage for file shares and blob data</li> <li>Manage Azure file shares</li> <li>Create file share snapshots</li> <li>Implement Azure File Sync</li> <li>Identify Azure File Sync components</li> <li>Deploy Azure File Sync</li> </ul> <h3>20 - Configure Azure Storage with tools</h3> <ul> <li>Use Azure Storage Explorer</li> <li>Use the Azure Import/Export service</li> <li>Use the WAImportExport tool</li> <li>Use the AzCopy tool</li> </ul> <h3>21 - Configure virtual machines</h3> <ul> <li>Review cloud services responsibilities</li> <li>Plan virtual machines</li> <li>Determine virtual machine sizing</li> <li>Determine virtual machine storage</li> <li>Create virtual machines in the Azure portal</li> <li>Connect to virtual machines</li> </ul> <h3>22 - Configure virtual machine availability</h3> <ul> <li>Plan for maintenance and downtime</li> <li>Create availability sets</li> <li>Review update domains and fault domains</li> <li>Review availability zones</li> <li>Compare vertical and horizontal scaling</li> <li>Implement Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets</li> <li>Create Virtual Machine Scale Sets</li> <li>Implement autoscale</li> <li>Configure autoscale</li> </ul> <h3>23 - Configure Azure App Service plans</h3> <ul> <li>Implement Azure App Service plans</li> <li>Determine Azure App Service plan pricing</li> <li>Scale up and scale out Azure App Service</li> <li>Configure Azure App Service autoscale</li> </ul> <h3>24 - Configure Azure App Service</h3> <ul> <li>Implement Azure App Service</li> <li>Create an app with App Service</li> <li>Explore continuous integration and deployment</li> <li>Create deployment slots</li> <li>Add deployment slots</li> <li>Secure your App Service app</li> <li>Create custom domain names</li> <li>Back up and restore your App Service app</li> <li>Use Azure Application Insights</li> </ul> <h3>25 - Configure Azure Container Instances</h3> <ul> <li>Compare containers to virtual machines</li> <li>Review Azure Container Instances</li> <li>Implement container groups</li> <li>Review the Docker platform</li> </ul> <h3>26 - Configure file and folder backups</h3> <ul> <li>Describe Azure Backup benefits</li> <li>Implement Backup Center for Azure Backup</li> <li>Configure Azure Recovery Services vault backup options</li> <li>Use the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent</li> <li>Configure on-premises file and folder backups</li> </ul> <h3>27 - Configure virtual machine backups</h3> <ul> <li>Explore options to protect virtual machine data</li> <li>Create virtual machine snapshots in Azure Backup</li> <li>Set up Azure Recovery Services vault backup options</li> <li>Back up your virtual machines</li> <li>Restore your virtual machines</li> <li>Implement System Center DPM and Azure Backup Server</li> <li>Compare the MARS agent and Azure Backup Server</li> <li>Implement soft delete for your virtual machines</li> <li>Implement Azure Site Recovery</li> </ul> <h3>28 - Configure Azure Monitor</h3> <ul> <li>Describe Azure Monitor key capabilities</li> <li>Describe Azure Monitor components</li> <li>Define metrics and logs</li> <li>Identify monitoring data and tiers</li> <li>Describe activity log events</li> <li>Query the activity log</li> </ul> <h3>29 - Configure Azure alerts</h3> <ul> <li>Describe Azure Monitor alerts</li> <li>Manage Azure Monitor alerts</li> <li>Create alert rules</li> <li>Create action groups</li> </ul> <h3>30 - Configure Log Analytics</h3> <ul> <li>Determine Log Analytics uses</li> <li>Create a Log Analytics workspace</li> <li>Create Kusto (KQL) queries</li> <li>Structure Log Analytics queries</li> </ul> <h3>31 - Configure Network Watcher</h3> <ul> <li>Describe Azure Network Watcher features</li> <li>Review IP flow verify diagnostics</li> <li>Review next hop diagnostics</li> <li>Visualize the network topology</li> </ul></div>

Nexus Human

Microsoft AZ-900

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)

Microsoft AZ-104

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft AZ-303

Microsoft AZ-700

AZ-104T00 Microsoft Azure Administrator

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>4 Days</p><p>24 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p></p><p>Software engineers concerned with building, managing and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI. They are familiar with C# or Python and have knowledge on using REST-based APIs to build computer vision, language analysis, knowledge mining, intelligent search, and generative AI solutions on Azure.</p><p></p><p></p><p>AI-102 Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution is intended for software developers wanting to build AI infused applications that leverage?Azure AI Services,?Azure AI Search, and?Azure OpenAI. The course will use C# or Python as the programming language.</p><p></p>Prerequisites<p>Before attending this course, students must have:  </p><li>Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and ability to navigate the Azure portal  </li><li>Knowledge of either C# or Python  </li><li>Familiarity with JSON and REST programming semantics  <br />  Recommended course prerequisites  </li><li>AI-900T00: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals course<p></p></li></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - Prepare to develop AI solutions on Azure</h3> <ul> <li>Define artificial intelligence</li> <li>Understand AI-related terms</li> <li>Understand considerations for AI Engineers</li> <li>Understand considerations for responsible AI</li> <li>Understand capabilities of Azure Machine Learning</li> <li>Understand capabilities of Azure AI Services</li> <li>Understand capabilities of the Azure Bot Service</li> <li>Understand capabilities of Azure Cognitive Search</li> </ul> <h3>2 - Create and consume Azure AI services</h3> <ul> <li>Provision an Azure AI services resource</li> <li>Identify endpoints and keys</li> <li>Use a REST API</li> <li>Use an SDK</li> </ul> <h3>3 - Secure Azure AI services</h3> <ul> <li>Consider authentication</li> <li>Implement network security</li> </ul> <h3>4 - Monitor Azure AI services</h3> <ul> <li>Monitor cost</li> <li>Create alerts</li> <li>View metrics</li> <li>Manage diagnostic logging</li> </ul> <h3>5 - Deploy Azure AI services in containers</h3> <ul> <li>Understand containers</li> <li>Use Azure AI services containers</li> </ul> <h3>6 - Analyze images</h3> <ul> <li>Provision an Azure AI Vision resource</li> <li>Analyze an image</li> <li>Generate a smart-cropped thumbnail</li> </ul> <h3>7 - Classify images</h3> <ul> <li>Provision Azure resources for Azure AI Custom Vision</li> <li>Understand image classification</li> <li>Train an image classifier</li> </ul> <h3>8 - Detect, analyze, and recognize faces</h3> <ul> <li>Identify options for face detection analysis and identification</li> <li>Understand considerations for face analysis</li> <li>Detect faces with the Azure AI Vision service</li> <li>Understand capabilities of the face service</li> <li>Compare and match detected faces</li> <li>Implement facial recognition</li> </ul> <h3>9 - Read Text in images and documents with the Azure AI Vision Service</h3> <ul> <li>Explore Azure AI Vision options for reading text</li> <li>Use the Read API</li> </ul> <h3>10 - Analyze video</h3> <ul> <li>Understand Azure Video Indexer capabilities</li> <li>Extract custom insights</li> <li>Use Video Analyzer widgets and APIs</li> </ul> <h3>11 - Analyze text with Azure AI Language</h3> <ul> <li>Provision an Azure AI Language resource</li> <li>Detect language</li> <li>Extract key phrases</li> <li>Analyze sentiment</li> <li>Extract entities</li> <li>Extract linked entities</li> </ul> <h3>12 - Build a question answering solution</h3> <ul> <li>Understand question answering</li> <li>Compare question answering to Azure AI Language understanding</li> <li>Create a knowledge base</li> <li>Implement multi-turn conversation</li> <li>Test and publish a knowledge base</li> <li>Use a knowledge base</li> <li>Improve question answering performance</li> </ul> <h3>13 - Build a conversational language understanding model</h3> <ul> <li>Understand prebuilt capabilities of the Azure AI Language service</li> <li>Understand resources for building a conversational language understanding model</li> <li>Define intents, utterances, and entities</li> <li>Use patterns to differentiate similar utterances</li> <li>Use pre-built entity components</li> <li>Train, test, publish, and review a conversational language understanding model</li> </ul> <h3>14 - Create a custom text classification solution</h3> <ul> <li>Understand types of classification projects</li> <li>Understand how to build text classification projects</li> </ul> <h3>15 - Create a custom named entity extraction solution</h3> <ul> <li>Understand custom named entity recognition</li> <li>Label your data</li> <li>Train and evaluate your model</li> </ul> <h3>16 - Translate text with Azure AI Translator service</h3> <ul> <li>Provision an Azure AI Translator resource</li> <li>Specify translation options</li> <li>Define custom translations</li> </ul> <h3>17 - Create speech-enabled apps with Azure AI services</h3> <ul> <li>Provision an Azure resource for speech</li> <li>Use the Azure AI Speech to Text API</li> <li>Use the text to speech API</li> <li>Configure audio format and voices</li> <li>Use Speech Synthesis Markup Language</li> </ul> <h3>18 - Translate speech with the Azure AI Speech service</h3> <ul> <li>Provision an Azure resource for speech translation</li> <li>Translate speech to text</li> <li>Synthesize translations</li> </ul> <h3>19 - Create an Azure AI Search solution</h3> <ul> <li>Manage capacity</li> <li>Understand search components</li> <li>Understand the indexing process</li> <li>Search an index</li> <li>Apply filtering and sorting</li> <li>Enhance the index</li> </ul> <h3>20 - Create a custom skill for Azure AI Search</h3> <ul> <li>Create a custom skill</li> <li>Add a custom skill to a skillset</li> </ul> <h3>21 - Create a knowledge store with Azure AI Search</h3> <ul> <li>Define projections</li> <li>Define a knowledge store</li> </ul> <h3>22 - Plan an Azure AI Document Intelligence solution</h3> <ul> <li>Understand AI Document Intelligence</li> <li>Plan Azure AI Document Intelligence resources</li> <li>Choose a model type</li> </ul> <h3>23 - Use prebuilt Azure AI Document Intelligence models</h3> <ul> <li>Understand prebuilt models</li> <li>Use the General Document, Read, and Layout models</li> <li>Use financial, ID, and tax models</li> </ul> <h3>24 - Extract data from forms with Azure Document Intelligence</h3> <ul> <li>What is Azure Document Intelligence?</li> <li>Get started with Azure Document Intelligence</li> <li>Train custom models</li> <li>Use Azure Document Intelligence models</li> <li>Use the Azure Document Intelligence Studio</li> </ul> <h3>25 - Get started with Azure OpenAI Service</h3> <ul> <li>Access Azure OpenAI Service</li> <li>Use Azure OpenAI Studio</li> <li>Explore types of generative AI models</li> <li>Deploy generative AI models</li> <li>Use prompts to get completions from models</li> <li>Test models in Azure OpenAI Studio's playgrounds</li> </ul> <h3>26 - Build natural language solutions with Azure OpenAI Service</h3> <ul> <li>Integrate Azure OpenAI into your app</li> <li>Use Azure OpenAI REST API</li> <li>Use Azure OpenAI SDK</li> </ul> <h3>27 - Apply prompt engineering with Azure OpenAI Service</h3> <ul> <li>Understand prompt engineering</li> <li>Write more effective prompts</li> <li>Provide context to improve accuracy</li> </ul> <h3>28 - Generate code with Azure OpenAI Service</h3> <ul> <li>Construct code from natural language</li> <li>Complete code and assist the development process</li> <li>Fix bugs and improve your code</li> </ul> <h3>29 - Generate images with Azure OpenAI Service</h3> <ul> <li>What is DALL-E?</li> <li>Explore DALL-E in Azure OpenAI Studio</li> <li>Use the Azure OpenAI REST API to consume DALL-E models</li> </ul> <h3>30 - Use your own data with Azure OpenAI Service</h3> <ul> <li>Understand how to use your own data</li> <li>Add your own data source</li> <li>Chat with your model using your own data</li> </ul> <h3>31 - Fundamentals of Responsible Generative AI</h3> <ul> <li>Plan a responsible generative AI solution</li> <li>Identify potential harms</li> <li>Measure potential harms</li> <li>Mitigate potential harms</li> <li>Operate a responsible generative AI solution</li> </ul></div>

Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft AI-900

Azure Cognitive Services

AI-102T00 Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution

<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;" id="isPasted" 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: PICTURE BOOKS, MG, YA</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Clare Wallace joined the Darley Anderson Agency in January 2011 and is building both the Darley Anderson Children&rsquo;s Agency and the Darley Anderson Illustration Agency lists. As chief talent-spotter, Clare loves to discover memorable new characters, bold and unique voices, strong concepts and gripping storytelling. She represents picture books, middle-grade, teenage and YA. Clare is particularly looking for funny chapter books for younger readers at the moment, as well as contemporary MG, YA fantasy, romance, and rom coms, especially with underrepresented protagonists. Whatever the age range, Clare loves a big hook, a lot of heart, and a standout voice. For picture books she has the widest taste, from daft to lyrical, rhyming to prose. If your submission doesn&rsquo;t fit a description here, it doesn&rsquo;t mean Clare doesn&rsquo;t want to receive it. She often doesn&rsquo;t know what she&rsquo;s looking for until she finds it (although she is not the person for steampunk or space opera). Her list gives a good indication of her taste.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The clients Clare represents include Perdita &amp; Honor Cargill, Caroline Crowe, Tom Ellen, Martyn Ford, Stewart Foster, Olivia Hope, A M Howell, Polly Ho-Yen, Rachel Ip, Beth Reekles, J.P. Rose, Lindsay Galvin, Dave Rudden, Deirdre Sullivan and Efua Traor&eacute;.</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;">Clare would like you to send a covering letter, a one page synopsis and the first three chapters (Max 5000 words) of your manuscript. For picture books, please submit a covering letter and up to three completed texts.</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, Clare is kindly offering one free session for low income/underrepresented writers. 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 7 October 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: PICTURE BOOKS, MG, YA
Clare Wallace joined the Darley Anderson Agency in January 2011 and is building both the Darley Anderson Children’s Agency and the Darley Anderson Illustration Agency lists. As chief talent-spotter, Clare loves to discover memorable new characters, bold and unique voices, strong concepts and gripping storytelling. She represents picture books, middle-grade, teenage and YA. Clare is particularly looking for funny chapter books for younger readers at the moment, as well as contemporary MG, YA fantasy, romance, and rom coms, especially with underrepresented protagonists. Whatever the age range, Clare loves a big hook, a lot of heart, and a standout voice. For picture books she has the widest taste, from daft to lyrical, rhyming to prose. If your submission doesn’t fit a description here, it doesn’t mean Clare doesn’t want to receive it. She often doesn’t know what she’s looking for until she finds it (although she is not the person for steampunk or space opera). Her list gives a good indication of her taste.
The clients Clare represents include Perdita & Honor Cargill, Caroline Crowe, Tom Ellen, Martyn Ford, Stewart Foster, Olivia Hope, A M Howell, Polly Ho-Yen, Rachel Ip, Beth Reekles, J.P. Rose, Lindsay Galvin, Dave Rudden, Deirdre Sullivan and Efua Traoré.
Clare would like you to send a covering letter, a one page synopsis and the first three chapters (Max 5000 words) of your manuscript. For picture books, please submit a covering letter and up to three completed texts.
(In addition to the paid sessions, Clare is kindly offering one free session for low income/underrepresented 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 7 October 2024

I Am In Print

Fiction Writing

SOLD OUT! 15th October Clare Wallace #Agent121. Looking for: PICTURE BOOKS, MG, YA

<h3 id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Do you struggle with giving tricky feedback? Saying something important that you think others won&#39;t want to hear? Standing up for yourself and sharing your thoughts or needs? You are NOT alone! Having worked in a support role for a decent sized employer in the UK for over a decade, we KNOW that this is a challenge for many: a silent struggle that often goes untackled, unsupported and unresolved. Worse still, this is not a status quo without cost. It costs teams, departments and businesses in lost talent, efficiency and poor mental health. It costs YOU too; stress, anxiety, overwork and challenging relationships.</strong></strong></h3><h3 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">We know there&#39;s a better way and we&#39;d like to share the core concepts with you! We won&#39;t be telling you what to do; that won&#39;t work. What we will be doing is sharing insights, tools and strategies that will allow you to build your confidence and develop your own &#39;tool kit&#39; for the trickier conversations in your life.</h3><h4 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">We&#39;ll be exploring:</h4><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;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Essential information about humans and stuff that&#39;s hard to hear</em></em><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Getting clear about the issue</em></em><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ABC Messaging</em></em><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moving forward</em></em><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Here&#39;s what some of our delegates thought:</strong></strong></p><blockquote fr-original-style="" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(94, 53, 177); color: rgb(94, 53, 177); margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 5px; box-sizing: border-box;">&#39;5 stars! This session is a great introduction to how having difficult conversations can create a more open and honest culture in an organisation.&#39;</blockquote><blockquote fr-original-style="" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(94, 53, 177); color: rgb(94, 53, 177); margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 5px; box-sizing: border-box;">&#39;5 Stars! Great session lots of practical examples given and frameworks to support reframing going forward.&#39;</blockquote><blockquote fr-original-style="" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(94, 53, 177); color: rgb(94, 53, 177); margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 5px; box-sizing: border-box;">&#39;5 Stars.I have been on a few webinars now and have always learnt so much. The content is delivered in an engaging way and I like that there are discussions that happen throughout - gives it a good balance of listening and discussion. I will forever recommend webinars from The Happy Human and look forward to any further upcoming webinars.&#39;</blockquote><h3 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is an interactive workshop to give you the opportunity to think, explore and share your challenges and thoughts. You&#39;ll work in very small groups and we&#39;ll be considerate and respectful of personal preferences throughout. We know that&#39;s tough for some, but here&#39;s the rub - communication is something we can only get better at if we practice it out loud. We hope you&#39;ll give us a chance to show you what a difference a little support and kindness can make!</h3><h4 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></h4><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></p>

Happy Human Training

Wanna learn something simple yet so amazing that it's going to blow your mind?
Good, because this little workshop's a gem. 
Join Happy Human Training's Cami Rose as she shares her decades of experience as a counsellor and coach with an introduction to the power of noticing and the crucial role it can play in helping us better manage our day to day stresses, challenges and relationships.

A Manager's Guide To Challenging Conversations and How to Have Them Well

<p style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Live via Zoom. Fortnightly - 3/17/31 Oct, 14/28 Nov, 12 Dec - 6-8pm UK time (plus an optional sharing session on 9 Jan)</em></strong></p><p style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7);">Join artist Julie Galante for this brand new course designed to nurture your creative practice. Together we&rsquo;ll explore ways to &nbsp;create work that reflects your individual interests, passion, and point of view, no matter your experience level. The course content is delivered over seven live Zoom sessions, in a small, welcoming group with plenty of opportunities for interaction. Additionally, there will be optional (but highly recommended) assignments to complete in between the live sessions - assignments designed to get you stuck in to your creative practice in new and interesting ways.</p><p style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7);">During each live session, there will be a demonstration focusing on a particular aspect of visual art - this will include various materials, subjects, and considerations such as composition, theme, mark-making, layering, and so on. We will also have a look at everyone&rsquo;s recent creations, with celebration of the triumphs and suggestions for moving forward with work-in-progress. Together we&rsquo;ll explore techniques including drawing, painting, mixed-media, paper craft, and collage, but you don&rsquo;t have to work exclusively in these media to take part - all creative disciplines are welcome.</p><p style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7);">Each participant will be encouraged to deepen their explorations in whatever direction interests them most - be it a series of written reflections, sketches, collages, photographs, mixed-media pieces, or a unique, personal combination of all these.</p><p style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7);">There will be an optional online discussion group for participants to stay connected and share their creations with each other between sessions. There will also be discounts available for other workshops and one-to-one mentoring.&nbsp;</p>

Live via Zoom. Fortnightly - 1/15/29 Oct, 12/26 Nov, 10 Dec - 6-8pm UK time 
Join artist Julie Galante for this course designed to nurture your creative practice. Together we’ll explore ways to create work that reflects your individual interests, passion, and point of view, no matter your experience level. The course content is delivered over six live Zoom sessions, in a small, welcoming group with plenty of opportunities for interaction. Additionally, there will be optional (but highly recommended) assignments to complete in between the live sessions - assignments designed to get you stuck in to your creative practice in new and interesting ways.
During each live session, there will be a demonstration focusing on a particular aspect of visual art - this will include various materials, subjects, and considerations such as composition, theme, mark-making, layering, and so on. We will also have a look at everyone’s recent creations, with celebration of the triumphs and suggestions for moving forward with work-in-progress. Together we’ll explore techniques including drawing, painting, mixed-media, and collage, but you don’t have to work exclusively in these media to take part - all creative disciplines are welcome.
Each participant will be encouraged to deepen their explorations in whatever direction interests them most - be it a series of drawings, written reflections, sketches, collages, photographs, mixed-media pieces, or a unique, personal combination of all these.
There will be an optional Facebook group for participants to stay connected and share their creations with each other between sessions. There will also be discounts available for other workshops and one-to-one mentoring. 

Airtily

Drawing

Painting

Watercolour Painting

Creative Practice

Bournemouth

London Waterloo Academy

Flight Attendant

Stewardess

FLIGHT ATTENDANT VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM COURSE, EVENINGS

Registration Fee

Course Fee

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">A standalone 10-week course - 2 hours per week online with daytime and evening options - that will introduce you to the materials, tools, and techniques used in quilling and to Craft4Smiles C.I.C and our tutors. &nbsp; At the end of each session you will have a lovely quilled item to show family and friends or to display on your shelf! You will be told about the other courses we offer so that you can make an informed choice about further learning. Participants in this course often move on to our Introduction to Paper Craft and Mixed Media Course that will introduce you to the basic materials, tools, equipment and techniques used. Experience has shown us that participants for whom English is not their first language, have found that quilling has helped them improve their understanding and spoken English as there is a lot of repetition of basic terms including numbers, colours and directions. Working with someon for whom English is their first language is also helpful.&nbsp;</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;">Programme</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 1: Basic Shapes (1)</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 2: Basic Shapes and Use of a Quilling Comb (2)&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 3: Flower and Butterfly: Picture 8&rdquo; x 10&rdquo;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 4: Making a Shape to Hold Quilled Pieces: Capital Letter</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 6: Basket of Flowers</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 7: Cherry Blossom Box</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 8: 2 x 5&rdquo; x 7&rdquo; Pictures: Duck and Boat</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 11: Pot of Lavender (1)&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Week 10: Pot of Lavender (2)</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">You will receive all the materials and items of equipment needed to complete the course. These are yours to keep:&nbsp;</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;">Materials and Equipment</strong></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;">&nbsp;</strong>Quilling Kit:&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Quilling Paper Strips: 39 mm: a variety of colours</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Quilling Paper Strips: 39 mm: white</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Quilling Board</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Needlemaker&#39;s Wheel of Pins</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Quilling Formers x 2&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Quilling Comb</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">1 Pair Tweezers</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Pokey Tool</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Quilling Tool: Short</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Quilling Tool: Long</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Scissors</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Glue Applicator</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Book Binders&rsquo; Glue 30 ml</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Black and white 300 gsm card for box and picture</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-size: 14px;">Craft4Smiles C.I.C. is crafting community that&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">provides accessible high quality creative papercraft and mixed media online programmes for adults. Our courses are social and interactive whether delivered online or in-person. Our aim is to introduce and build crafting skills and the basic skills needed for success in the workplace and at home, including self-confidence, problem solving, communicating in a group, basic maths and English. We teach over 45 different paper craft and mixed media techniques. Each course is carefully constructed to help you develop your crafting skills and knowledge. &nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">Crafting and our courses are mindful, taking us away from the day-to-day. Participants have consistently reported improvements in their wellbeing. &nbsp;Anyone who wants to learn new skills can join our programmes. &nbsp;No previous experience of papercrafting or mixed media work is needed. We have delivered courses successfully in Cambridgeshire for 6 1/2 years and have worked with 280 Cambridges residents during this time. 86% of participants state that what we offer has helped to improve their wellbeing. 75% state that it has made a positive difference to their daily lives. &nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please note that the Cademy calenda/description states that this course is over 13 weeks. This is because the 10 weeks of the course are delivered over 13 weeks, during 3 of which, Craft4Smiles is closed for holidays!&nbsp;</span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p>

Craft4Smiles C.I.C. 

A standalone 10-week quilling course - 2 hours per week online with daytime and evening options - that will introduce you to the materials, tools, and techniques used in quilling and to Craft4Smiles C.I.C and our tutors.   At the end of each session you will have a lovely quilled item to show family and friends or to display on your shelf!  All materials and equipment needed will be supplied and are yours to keep. This course is helpful for those for whom English is not their native tongue as there is a lot of repetition of basic terms including numbers, colours and directions.  

Quilling - Monday 19.00 - 21.00 or Tuesday 19.00 - 21.00


Craft4Smiles Cademy Launch

<h5 id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 39); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(20, 24, 39);">A talk with Nikki Parmenter - Textiles/Mixed Media Artist</h5><p style="color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(20, 24, 39);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">TUESDAY 30TH JANUARY</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(20, 24, 39);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">START TIME: &nbsp;7.00pm &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(20, 24, 39);">Join our TEA &rsquo;N CHAT with Textile Artist <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Nikki Parmenter</strong><strong data-slate-leaf="true" fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">,</strong> who will talk about her work, explaining some of the techniques she uses.</p><p style="color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(20, 24, 39);">She will also demonstrate the fused fabric method she will be using for her workshop on Saturday 2nd March in Cranleigh (Near Guildford) and show some finished examples on a PowerPoint Presentation. This will entail some layering of fabric, soldering and free machine embroidery and some ideas regarding ways of displaying the finished piece.&nbsp;</p><p style="color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(20, 24, 39);">&nbsp;<img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/textiles-skills-centre/8ca94218-7a1b-44de-825f-dcf168ae0928/original.webp" style="width: 164px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left; cursor: auto; padding: 0px 1px; -webkit-user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 164px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left; cursor: auto;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></p><p id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(var(--color_15));">Nikki taught art for 30 years to secondary school children, and having left full time work in 2016 , &nbsp;has been providing talks, demonstrations, summer schools, &nbsp;workshops to schools, groups and societies. She is a member of various art and textile groups.</p><p style="color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(var(--color_15));">She exhibits her work widely and <span id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(35, 59, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(35, 59, 26);">has written a number of articles for both magazines and online sites. She is based in <span id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(35, 59, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(35, 59, 26);">Cheshire and specialises in mixed media textile pieces, taking inspiration from a variety of sources and particularly interested in the way societies created a series of visual symbols to represent the things which were important to them. She investigates myths, legends, stories and beliefs. She is also inspired by art, architecture and artefacts.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(var(--color_15));"><span style="color: rgb(35, 59, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(35, 59, 26);"><span style="color: rgb(35, 59, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(35, 59, 26);">This event is held on ZOOM, so p</span></span><span style="color: rgb(35, 59, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(35, 59, 26);"><span style="color: rgb(35, 59, 26); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(35, 59, 26);">lease register to get the Zoom details.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px;"><img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/textiles-skills-centre/cd5f7ce8-1b39-4f6e-ac85-924136a75c39/original.jpeg" style="width: 628px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto; padding: 0px 1px; -webkit-user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 628px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></span></p><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><p id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></span></p><p id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Textiles Skills Centre Associates</strong> are a team of volunteers that manage the social media platforms and website, and offer support, mentorship and advice to textile teachers and trainees. We organise free resource networking events each month (Tea &#39;N Chat) and are always on hand to help and encourage when needed.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are always looking for new Associate members, so if you would like to join this small team then do contact us at: <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">info@textileskillscentre.com</strong></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">At the moment all costs are met by our team and time is given freely. If you are able to support us with a donation, however small, this will help to enhance the work we are doing.</em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(40, 50, 78); font-size: 16px;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You can donate using the DONATION button below which will take you to the Paypal donations page, or select an amount when you book the event. 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A talk with NIKKI PARMENTER - Textiles/Mixed Media Artist
TUESDAY 15TH OCTOBER
START TIME: 7.00pm 
Join our TEA ’N CHAT with Textile Artist Nikki Parmenter, who will talk about her work, explaining some of the techniques she uses.
She will also demonstrate the plastic entrapment method she will be using for her workshop on Wednesday 6th November and show some finished examples. This will entail some layering of fabric, soldering and free machine embroidery and some ideas regarding ways of displaying the finished piece. 

Nikki taught art for 30 years to secondary school children, and having left full time work in 2016 , has been providing talks, demonstrations, summer schools, workshops to schools, groups and societies. She is a member of various art and textile groups.
She exhibits her work widely and has written a number of articles for both magazines and online sites. She is based in Cheshire and specialises in mixed media textile pieces, taking inspiration from a variety of sources and particularly interested in the way societies created a series of visual symbols to represent the things which were important to them. She investigates myths, legends, stories and beliefs. She is also inspired by art, architecture and artefacts.
This event is held on ZOOM, so please register to get the Zoom details.






The Textiles Skills Centre Associates are a team of volunteers that manage the social media platforms and website, and offer support, mentorship and advice to textile teachers and trainees. We organise free resource networking events each month (Tea 'N Chat) and are always on hand to help and encourage when needed.
We are always looking for new Associate members, so if you would like to join this small team then do contact us at: info@textileskillscentre.com
At the moment all costs are met by our team and time is given freely. If you are able to support us with a donation, however small, this will help to enhance the work we are doing.
You can donate using the DONATION button below which will take you to the Paypal donations page, or select an amount when you book the event. All donations gratefully received.
DONATION

Textiles Skills Centre

TEA ’N CHAT with Textile Artist NIKKI PARMENTER, who will talk about her work.

Tea 'N Chat - NIKKI PARMENTER Talk & Demo

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At the moment all costs are met by our team and time is given freely. If you are able to support us with a donation, however small, this will help to enhance the work we are doing.

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