This course is intended for experienced SAS Enterprise Guide users who want to learn more about advanced SAS Enterprise Guide techniques. In this course, you will learn how to use the Query Builder within SAS Enterprise Guide, including manipulating character, numeric, and date values. You will also learn how to convert variable type as well as build conditional expressions using the Expression Builder. Efficiency issues, such as joining tables and using a single query to group, summarize, and filter data is also addressed in this course.

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

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.

Bringing about the reaction you want from others and expanding your influence require insights that go beyond the actual process of influencing and into the psychology of what truly prompts us to say "yes" or "no."

This two-day course explores these psychological triggers and how you can use this knowledge to bring about not only for compliance but also for mutually desirable outcomes. You'll uncover persuasion techniques that most people don't even know exist, and you'll learn how to build your influence by applying these principles to any number of business interactions-from managing, mentoring, and negotiating, to conversing, writing, and presenting. In addition, you will learn how to choose the best principle for any given situation and avoid being manipulated by others.

You will also cover:

• The psychological foundation to the laws of persuasion
• Differentiating the psychology of persuasion from the process of influencing
• The relationship of triggers to the laws of persuasion/influence
• The two paths of persuasion: conscious and subconscious
• Using the Pre-Persuasion Checklist to determine the appropriate law(s) of persuasion for a given business situation
• Applying the laws of persuasion back on the job

You will receive a complimentary copy of Maximum Influence: The 12 Universal Laws of Power Persuasion by Kurt W. Mortensen when you attend this course.

How well you communicate can make or break your professional image, influencing how others view your work, your performance, and even your technical skillsets and your prospects for career mobility. This communication skills seminar will teach you how to choose and use the most appropriate words and emotional tone for every business situation. In just two days, you'll gain insights into your communication style and that of others, while gaining skills for clearly and effectively receiving and transmitting information, ideas, thoughts, feelings, and needs.

How You Will Benefit

• Communicate efficiently and tactfully with clients, direct reports, colleagues, your boss, and senior management
• Respond in a professional manner, even when you're out of your comfort zone
• Strengthen your communication effectiveness with active listening
• Elicit cooperation and respect by modeling
• Improve your image through the increased self-awareness you'll gain

Problems caused by ineffectiveness cannot be solved with the same ineffective thinking that created them. For more than 15 years, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Whether you're dealing with bosses, colleagues, staff members, or senior management, the ability to win respect, influence people, and cultivate cooperation is absolutely essential to career success. What's more, in challenging economic times, the people with whom you interact in business can change on a moment's notice. The ability to adapt quickly and work with anyone to achieve desired results is crucial - especially when you don't have immediate authority to command their cooperation. At this seminar, you'll focus on the key elements of influencing others when there is lack of authority - personal power, persuasion, and negotiation.

Learn how to influence people by building your power base using the Personal Power Model. Gain an understanding of exchange and reciprocity (the first steps in the influence process), and adapt behavior patterns that build credibility. Learn to persuade with a framework of discovery, preparation, and dialogue, and master the key components of negotiation.

You'll practice influencing techniques in this information-packed program, and you'll enhance your learning with videos, exercises, assessment tools, and group discussions.

How You Will Benefit

• Establish or regain credibility so you can begin to influence people
• Effectively use your power base to persuade others
• Understand the person you're trying to influence and learn to persuade through give-and-take
• Develop and grow relationships within your organization and beyond
• Create a collaborative work environment for faster, better results
• Let work styles and communication differences work for, not against, you
• Successfully sell your ideas and implement change
• Achieve trust and give-and-take relationships up, down, and across the organization
• Influence people while projecting self-confidence without being pushy
• Adapt your style to the person or situation you're dealing with
• Learn negotiating techniques that promote win-win outcomes

In this course, you will learn the basic concepts and skills necessary to configure Check Point Security Gateway and Management Software Blades. During this course, you will configure a security policy and learn about managing and monitoring a secure network, upgrading and configuring a security gateway, and implementing a virtual private network (VPN).

In this five-day bundle course, you will learn the basic concepts and skills necessary to configure Check Point Security Gateway and Management Software Blades, as well as how to effectively build, modify, deploy, and troubleshoot Check Point Security systems on the GAiA OS. You will configure a Security Policy and learn about managing and monitoring a secure network. In addition, you will learn how to upgrade and configure a Security Gateway and implement a virtual private network (VPN). We will examine firewall processes and as well as user and kernel processing and stateful inspections. Labs include configuring security gateways, implementing VPNs, and performing advanced troubleshooting tasks on the firewall.

In this course, you will learn how to install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders in the LAN, SAN, and unified fabric environments.

During the course of instruction, you will be exposed to the configuration of advanced technologies, such as Fibre Channel, QoS and FCoE, but will not be required to have experience with these technologies in order to successfully to complete the class.