Workplace Stress often stems from unforeseen difficulties with some aspect of your working environment.  It’s reasonable to assume that if you choose to be a firefighter, a police officer or a trapeze artist, you are prepared for the stress that goes with the job. However, if you are recruited as a clerical worker and are then required to work outside that remit, in an environment that is not what you expected, this may create undue stress.  According to a United Nations report, Job Stress is the 21st Century Epidemic.

This course enables you to look at your stresses and why stress need not be a negative factor in your life. An increase in stress increases the adrenalin and energy in your body. Let us show you how to use this energy to make changes, overcome challenges and put stress to work for you.

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Agile software development describes a family of methodologies based on four core values:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

These values guide development practices that minimiseproject risk through short development cycles, enhance communication, and rapidly adapt to changing business needs. The end result is a value-driven software development approach; fundamentally different from the traditional “Waterfall” methodology widely used today.

Agile project management is as radically different from traditional project management as agile processes are different from traditional methodologies. Rather than planning, instructing and directing, the Agile project manager facilitates, coaches and serves. In the Scrum Agile practice this person is called a Scrum Master.

Professional Training, in partnership with Exoftware, is now offering Scrum Master certification training in Cork.  In this course participants learn how to guide a development team, project, or organisation through Agile practice by fostering the adoption of new attitudes and collaborative processes and by working to remove institutional barriers. Exercises, case studies, and examples are used to assist participants in developing the knowledge, skills, capabilities and insights needed to make the shift from traditional management practice to Agile practice.

This two-day course is approved by the Project Management Institute for16 PDUs (Professional Development Units).  For public dates see click here or contact us for in-house courses.

Virtualisation allows multiple virtual machines, running different operating systems, to run in isolation, on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware (RAM, CPU, NIC, etc.), upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system “sees” a consistent, normalised set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components.

Today, virtualisation is at the forefront in helping businesses with scalability, security and management of their global IT infrastructure. To gain certification in VM Ware, you must attend a certified training programme.  In partnership with Commtech, Professional Training now offers these courses in Cork and Dublin.

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The need for high quality managers is intensifying as “flatter” organisation structures and self-directed teams mean that the actual number of managers needed is decreasing. However, the need for quality managers, people who can manage themselves and others in a high stress environment, is increasing.

Successful management requires specific skills, in addition to knowledge of key business practices. However you define your role - manager, leader, communicator, motivator – no matter what managerial “hat” you are wearing, the focus must always be on improving the bottom line while achieving the best results.  Front-line managers in any corporate or government organisation in Ireland today face a difficult, ever-changing environment.  Standard textbook approaches simply will not achieve what’s required and multi-disciplinary skills are vital. 

This new course acknowledges the difficulties facing managers in Ireland and assists participants in improving their skills for the realities faced daily. We not offer abstract academic concepts and lecture experienced managers on how to apply them. The content is based on real-world experience and is guaranteed to engage participants and provide them with the tools required to bring them to the next level in management.

On average, we use less than 4% of the capacity of our minds. What can we do about that missing 96%?  If we use only 1% more of our brainpower, we’ll be 25% more effective.

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In addition to customised courses for our clients, we offer an extensive range of Public Courses.

IT training includes: SQL 2005, Oracle, Unix, Linux, VB.NET, Crystal Reports, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, Photoshop, MS Office, etc.

Business Skills training includes: Sales, Finance, HR, Customer Service, Leadership & Management, etc.

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