In this course, you will learn about the components and procedures needed to install, configure, and deploy OpenStack Cloud using Cisco Unified Computing System hardware. This course will provide hands-on lab exercises utilizing Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) hardware. You will perform hands-on lab exercises that were created to teach the necessary skills to install, configure, and deploy an OpenStack Cloud on Cisco UCS hardware.

In this course, you will learn about the components and procedures needed to install, configure, and deploy OpenStack Cloud using Cisco Unified Computing System hardware. This course will provide hands-on lab exercises utilizing Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) hardware. You will perform hands-on lab exercises that were created to teach the necessary skills to install, configure, and deploy an OpenStack Cloud on Cisco UCS hardware.

Change is normal. You are responsible for your own productivity and that of your staff. Your day-to-day dealings may now include colleagues, your boss, and senior management who have different interests and viewpoints.

This course will equip you with proven supervisory techniques that you can put into action immediately. The skills savvy supervisors use to plan, organize, communicate, and monitor will become part of your toolkit to effectively manage everyday interactions with greater ease. You will learn to leverage both your hard skills and people skills to meet your new challenges with increased confidence, respect, and power.

It's a fact of organizational life: Leadership communication goes hand-in-hand with success, and the effective application of this skill is particularly essential in an uncertain economy when painful business decisions are made daily.

This fast-paced, results-oriented seminar is uniquely designed to strengthen your leadership communication skills. You'll learn practical techniques to shape your leadership messages, hone an authentic leadership voice, and engage in powerful conversations that achieve results.

Gain the crucial foundational skills to help you shift from being an individual contributor to a manager who gets results.

Using guided role play, exercises, and skill practice sessions, you will discover how to adjust your leadership style and tackle new challenges. In-depth skills practice using the Situational Leadership® II model combined with interactive activities take you through the paces of motivation, delegation, coaching, communication, performance management, and leadership. You will be able to improve on key areas, play to your strengths, and get the best results from every member of your team.

This course provides an introduction to Ken Blanchard's Situational Leadership® II - a model for developing people and a way for leaders to help their employees become self-reliant achievers. To be truly effective, leaders' styles must adapt to the skills and commitment of the people they want to influence. With some people, managers have to provide a great deal of direction. With others, encouragement and appreciation trigger the best results. Still others deliver their best when allowed to take the ball and run with it. Situational Leadership® II helps managers become more flexible and responsive to their employees' needs.

How You Will Benefit

• Gain a deeper understanding of your roles and responsibilities
• Improve communication to effectively set expectations for yourself and your direct reports
• Adapt your leadership style to meet the needs of individual team members
• Communicate organizational goals that get results
• Apply delegation strategies to increase productivity and motivation
• Use effective coaching techniques to maximize your team's performance

Unstable economic times can mean fast and frequently unexpected organizational changes, greater responsibilities, and new projects and initiatives. Being a confident, polished speaker is not only necessary but well-advised in order to communicate such matters effectively and persuasively. In this three-day seminar, you'll develop your presentation skills and learn how to present your ideas with conviction, control, and poise-and without fear.

You'll gain the specific presentation skills and direction you need to become comfortable with your own style. And you'll receive expert advice on how to handle especially challenging situations. Most important, you'll gain presentation skills by making actual presentations.

Your in-class presentations will be recorded for playback and review. You can track your presentation skills by seeing for yourself what comes across to an audience. It's a great way to get instant feedback and helpful recommendations, and the recording is yours to keep.

Unstable economic times can mean fast and frequently unexpected organizational changes, greater responsibilities, and new projects and initiatives. Being a confident, polished speaker is not only necessary but well-advised in order to communicate such matters effectively and persuasively. In this three-day seminar, you'll develop your presentation skills and learn how to present your ideas with conviction, control, and poise-and without fear.

You'll gain the specific presentation skills and direction you need to become comfortable with your own style. And you'll receive expert advice on how to handle especially challenging situations. Most important, you'll gain presentation skills by making actual presentations.

Your in-class presentations will be recorded for playback and review. You can track your presentation skills by seeing for yourself what comes across to an audience. It's a great way to get instant feedback and helpful recommendations, and the recording is yours to keep.

Recent studies indicate that emotional intelligence is a powerful key to effective leadership. This valuable seminar delivers the in-depth knowledge and practical emotional intelligence skills you need to ensure that you are a strong, emotionally intelligent leader.

You will learn how to apply emotional intelligence to specific leadership situations to gain the authority and success you strive for as a leader. You will also keep current on cutting-edge developments in leadership theory and practice to help you better collaborate and manage conflict.

How You Will Benefit

• Use emotional intelligence to gain an honest and accurate awareness of yourself
• Monitor and adapt your own emotions and behaviors for your benefit and that of your team and department
• Generate buy-in by crafting an emotionally resonant, inspiring vision
• Be more decisive with decision-making techniques based on emotional intelligence
• Create an atmosphere that fosters emotional intelligence
• Have a positive influence on the emotions and motivation of others
• Create cohesive teams that understand how to apply emotional intelligence

When the stock market is making you wonder about your organization's future, it's vital to be well-equipped to optimize your company's performance-as well as your own career-with executive leadership training. To exhibit real executive leadership, you must be a visionary, a trailblazer, a strategist, a communicator, a coach, a diplomat, and a politician. The world's most successful leaders are able to focus on the big picture and uphold high standards while wearing many hats.

This intensive three-day executive leadership training program combines proven-in-action techniques with peer interaction and insights from the latest research to help you master the competencies of effective executive leadership.

This seminar combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses, and other resources to maximize your training goals. Combining proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, this blended learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for you-producing a greater return on investment for you and your employer.

During challenging economic times, financial acumen is expected at every organizational level. You've got to know how to justify a request, quantify your contributions to the company, and spot profit drains immediately. Because whether you're a wizard of finance or a nonfinancial manager, performance is measured the same way-in dollars and cents!

Offering an accessible overview of finance for nonfinancial managers, this seminar features exactly what you need to further your career and build your future. From accruals to write-offs to receivables and payables, this workshop shows nonfinancial managers the concepts, tools, and techniques that can help make each decision pay off-on the job and on the bottom line.

How You Will Benefit

• Get a firm grasp of the numbers side of your job
• Gain greater confidence with a working knowledge of business financials
• Learn how to "think finance" and translate performance into financial terms
• Cultivate proactive working relationships with finance professionals and enhance your value to the organization
• Gain an understanding of the business dynamics of dollars and cents and how to take initiatives that meet your short- and long-term goals
• Take the guesswork out of your decision making and deliver a better bottom line
• Expand your professional expertise-and your career opportunities