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Seminar		Description
Asset Management (Preparing for ISO 55001): Series of five sessions (Risk Toolkit)		"Asset management" is the set of coordinated activities that an organization uses to realize value from assets in the delivery of its outcomes or objectives. Realization of value requires the achievement of a balance of costs, risks and benefits, often over different timescales.
Business Development Toolkit for Engineers: Series of four sessions		This program concentrates specifically on the consultative or solution-selling concepts and techniques appropriate to Professional Engineering. It examines the essential elements of consultative relationship selling and the approach necessary to prove the value of your solutions to your existing and prospective clients.
Financial Acumen Toolkit: Series of three sessions		As an engineer, every decision you make is a financial decision, because every decision has financial consequences. What this means is that your financial thinking ability is a major determinant of your business acumen and an important factor in your success.
Maintenance Engineering Analysis: Series of seven sessions (Risk Toolkit)		This is a seven part series for those responsible for the design and modification of preventative and corrective maintenance plans. A balanced and defensible program will assure achievement of organisational requirements for safety, reliability and cost effectiveness.
Project Manager's Toolkit: Series of four sessions		This series provides you with a way to brush up on key aspects of project management. These sessions are ideal for providing timely input for your project. Undertaking these sessions as a project team will improve your project coordination and facilitate communication around these key areas.

Upcoming Sessions

Seminar	Description	Date/Time
Asset Management Toolkit (Preparing for ISO 55001) - Session 3: Presenting Proof of Life	Achieving a certifiable asset management capability requires demonstration of process capabilities that establish and implement policies, strategies and plans required by ISO/DIS 55001. Explore the detail of an existing Asset Management process suite in a tested Capability Delivery Model refined over the last two decades. Explore the mapping of these standard processes to ISO/IEC 15288:2008 and then to ISO/DIS 55000:2012 and learn how to build the content of compliant policies, strategies and plans.	28 Jun 2013 10.30AM (AEST) - 90min
Asset Management Toolkit (Preparing for ISO 55001) - Session 4: Assuring Asset Management Outcomes are Not Accidental	Delivering Asset Management that achieves value from all organisations assets requires more than technical process competence. Explore the detail of leadership and cultural behaviours that are necessary to deliver the value locked up in assets and examine a case study of how to take an organisation from underperforming to mature industry leading performance and what works and what does not when creating world class asset management delivery.	5 Jul 2013 10.30AM (AEST) - 90min
Asset Management Toolkit (Preparing for ISO 55001) - Session 5: Managing Asset Configuration - The Final Camino	Like the great Santiago Camino pilgrimage across northern Spain, many argue that Configuration Management is the last great change journey (camino) for an organisation. Explore and discover core content and guidance to establish an effective configuration management plan for your business. Learn the formal role of asset configuration management as defined in international standards and how to apply these methods to managing your asset information. Discover and apply the difference in management effort between configuration and documentation control.	12 Jul 2013 10.30AM (AEST) - 90min
Financial Acumen Toolkit - Session 1: The Financial Window of a Business	Finance doesn't have to be a foreign language. Learn more about the language of finance and how to make sense of Balance Sheets and Income Statements. Understand how organisations are funded and use borrowed money to make money.	20 Aug 2013 5.30PM (AEST) - 120min
Financial Acumen Toolkit - Session 2: Key Elements of Financial Productivity	A really good grasp of finance requires more than financial literacy. To boost your financial IQ learn how key financial variables are inextricably linked and how financial performance can be measured and influenced. See real life examples	10 Sep 2013 5.30PM (AEST) - 120min
Financial Acumen Toolkit - Session 3: The Dynamics of Operating Cash Flow	It is said that cash flow is the life blood of a business. Why is this so? And what is the meaning and significance of working capital management? Learn about the key levers for controlling and improving operating cash flow. Be able to identify early warning signals of a cash flow problem.	1 Oct 2013 5.30PM (AEST) - 120min
Manager's Toolkit - Taking your people to new levels of performance: Conducting effective performance appraisals	Managers depend on the effectiveness of their staff to achieve outcomes, and by learning what works and what doesn't in generating high performance, these outcomes are more likely to be realised. Your most powerful tool is an effective Performance Development Review (PDR).	20 Jun 2013 1.30PM (AEST) - 120min
Project Manager's Toolkit - Session 1: Assemble a Work Breakdown Structure	A good work breakdown structure is crucial to the successful scoping, planning, tracking and control, and review of projects. This session will outline tips and techniques for getting the WBS right. Key issues include - determining the right amount of detail; using subject matter experts (SMEs) templates; different structure methods; "actions" or products; developmentdisplay methods; and some common layouts.	2 Jul 2013 5.30PM (AEST) - 120min
Project Manager's Toolkit - Session 2: Track and Control Projects	After poor scoping, poor tracking and control strategies are the main reasons for projects performing poorly. This session is for new Project Managers and outlines the methods and techniques for tracking and controlling projects. It will outline a range of control strategies - from the traditional, the common practice to best practice. Status reporting will be considered, as well as change and risk management. It aims to provide practical considerations and hands-on actions that need to be taken by Project Managers in staying across their projects and reporting accurately on their status.	13 Aug 2013 5.30PM (AEST) - 120min
Project Manager's Toolkit - Session 3: Earned Value Management	Earned Value Management has been a formal technique for tracking and controlling projects now for about 50 years. It has gone through many changes but has served to inject greater rigour into project control and reporting, and to contract management. It is now being adopted more widely in project management as control issues are becoming more relevant. This session assumes no understanding of earned value management, but will move quickly through the standards, the steps, the formulae, the requirementsdiscipline required and the reporting available.	24 Sep 2013 5.30PM (AEST) - 120min
Project Manager's Toolkit - Session 3: Earned Value Management	Earned Value Management has been a formal technique for tracking and controlling projects now for about 50 years. It has gone through many changes but has served to inject greater rigour into project control and reporting, and to contract management. It is now being adopted more widely in project management as control issues are becoming more relevant. This session assumes no understanding of earned value management, but will move quickly through the standards, the steps, the formulae, the requirementsdiscipline required and the reporting available.	8 Jul 2013 3.00PM (AEST) - 120min
Project Manager's Toolkit - Session 4: Review and Evaluate Projects	As President Bill Clinton said - 'only a fool does things the same and expects a different result'. Reviewing projects is both about how well we have done, as well as what we would do differently in the future. It is retrospective and prospective. But how far should we delve into these issues? This session is about how you can conduct a project review; how you should be documenting lessons learned; and about looking at change strategies for the future. The session will be about practical steps and tasks but also about the investment value of evaluation of projects.	29 Oct 2013 5.30PM (AEST) - 120min
Risk Toolkit - Maintenance Engineering Analysis - Session 7: Validating and Improving Maintenance Engineering Analysis Outcomes	All initial maintenance programs are wrong. Many assumptions are made that will require future confirmation. These realities along with potential change in equipment performance or service delivery requirements will require continuous evolution of maintenance program content.	28 Jun 2013 2.30PM (AEST) - 90min

Recorded Sessions

Seminar	Description	Expires / Preview
Asset Management Toolkit (Preparing for ISO 55001) - Session 1: Asset Management Explained	Asset Management has come of age with the issue of ISO/DIS 55000/1/2 standards and the imminent issue of the final ISO 55000/1/2 in early 2014. ISO expect this first application of the new ISO Guideline 83 requirements for a "management system" to be a best seller. Learn why this standard is so different to ISO 9000, how it will impact your business and how to link the ISO 55000 principles to a public domain model that will enrich your understanding of how to successfully apply those principles to achieve certification and/or competitive advantage.	expires on 12 October 2013
Asset Management Toolkit (Preparing for ISO 55001) - Session 2: Capability Delivery Process Defined	A sound whole of life capability delivery process resides at the core of Asset Management. Discover the detail of the plan, do, check act quality process of a tested capability delivery model that assures delivery of organisational objectives and learn how to apply that model to your business and operating context. Explore the mapping of these standard processes to ISO/IEC 15288:2008 and then to ISO/DIS 55000:2012 and how they can be tailored to achieve objectives such as compliance obligations and competitive performance.	expires on 12 October 2013
Business Development Toolkit - Consultative Communication and Persuasion Skills	The highest form of persuasion is aiding others to form their own conclusions and create their own solutions with your assistance and involving you in the creating that solution. How do you ask better questions? How do you listen effectively and get better outcomes from you client / prospect meetings?	expires on 22 July 2013
Business Development Toolkit - Negotiating Skills and Strategies	The ideal negotiation has a win-win outcome. Saying yes, under pressure gives you additional and unwarranted money, time and resource stressors. Poor planning for a negotiation is the critical failure factor. Learn to prepare and conduct your negotiations for success.	expires on 22 July 2013
Business Development Toolkit - Presenting Solutions, Handling Price Objections and Closing the Sale	How you present your proposal can have as much effect on its success or failure as the actual proposal itself. When done incorrectly you get objections and price pressure. How do you change your approach in order to improve your quote / proposal win rate?	expires on 22 July 2013
Business Development Toolkit - Winning New Business: The tactics and pitfalls	This 90 minute session will help you identify and focus on the actions that get results and avoid actions that waste your time. You will come away with a Personal Marketing Plan that targets the most effective activities to win new projects/business and grow your client base.	expires on 22 July 2013
Business Development Toolkit for Engineers: Series of four sessions	This program concentrates specifically on the consultative or solution-selling concepts and techniques appropriate to Professional Engineering. It examines the essential elements of consultative relationship selling and the approach necessary to prove the value of your solutions to your existing and prospective clients.	never expires
Financial Acumen Toolkit - Session 1: The Financial Window of a Business	Finance doesn't have to be a foreign language. Learn more about the language of finance and how to make sense of Balance Sheets and Income Statements. Understand how organisations are funded and use borrowed money to make money.	expires on 1 January 2014
Financial Acumen Toolkit - Session 2: Key Elements of Financial Productivity	A really good grasp of finance requires more than financial literacy. To boost your financial IQ learn how key financial variables are inextricably linked and how financial performance can be measured and influenced. See real life examples	expires on 1 January 2014
Financial Acumen Toolkit - Session 3: The Dynamics of Operating Cash Flow	It is said that cash flow is the life blood of a business. Why is this so? And what is the meaning and significance of working capital management? Learn about the key levers for controlling and improving operating cash flow. Be able to identify early warning signals of a cash flow problem.	expires on 1 January 2014
Financial Acumen Toolkit: Series of three sessions	As an engineer, every decision you make is a financial decision, because every decision has financial consequences. What this means is that your financial thinking ability is a major determinant of your business acumen and an important factor in your success.	never expires
Maintenance Engineering Analysis: Series of seven sessions (Risk Toolkit)	This is a seven part series for those responsible for the design and modification of preventative and corrective maintenance plans. A balanced and defensible program will assure achievement of organisational requirements for safety, reliability and cost effectiveness.	never expires
Manager's Toolkit - A Model for Change Management	Are you facing a company restructure or responding to the changing business environment? Negotiating the challenge of change can be fraught. Here's a proven model to guide you through the action steps for successful change.	expires on 27 June 2013
Manager's Toolkit - Managing Your Time Better	Using time effectively will minimise stress and improve productivity. You can use these simple and practical techniques to help you beat work overload and become more effective and achieve more in your workplace.	expires on 8 August 2013
Manager's Toolkit - Running Meetings That Produce Results	Do you often attend meetings and wonder why you bothered; could your time be better spent? A productive meeting is organised, structured, and has clear purpose and results in decisions and actions. Most importantly, communication is well-facilitated.	expires on 13 September 2013
Manager's Toolkit - Taking your people to higher levels of performance: 15 things that make a difference	Manager's depend on the effectiveness of their staff to achieve organisational outcomes, and by learning what works and what doesn't in generating high performance, these outcomes are more likely to be realised. Here are 15 tips to make a real difference.	expires on 14 July 2013
Manager's Toolkit - Taking your people to new levels of performance: Conducting effective performance appraisals	Managers depend on the effectiveness of their staff to achieve outcomes, and by learning what works and what doesn't in generating high performance, these outcomes are more likely to be realised. Your most powerful tool is an effective Performance Development Review (PDR).	expires on 20 September 2013
Project Management Qualifications Assessment	Getting your evidence folio together Assessment for the Diploma of Project Management	never expires view preview
Project Manager's Toolkit - Session 1: Assemble a Work Breakdown Structure	A good work breakdown structure is crucial to the successful scoping, planning, tracking and control, and review of projects. This session will outline tips and techniques for getting the WBS right. Key issues include - determining the right amount of detail; using subject matter experts (SMEs) templates; different structure methods; "actions" or products; developmentdisplay methods; and some common layouts.	expires on 29 January 2014
Project Manager's Toolkit - Session 2: Track and Control Projects	After poor scoping, poor tracking and control strategies are the main reasons for projects performing poorly. This session is for new Project Managers and outlines the methods and techniques for tracking and controlling projects. It will outline a range of control strategies - from the traditional, the common practice to best practice. Status reporting will be considered, as well as change and risk management. It aims to provide practical considerations and hands-on actions that need to be taken by Project Managers in staying across their projects and reporting accurately on their status.	expires on 29 January 2014
Project Manager's Toolkit: Series of four sessions	This series provides you with a way to brush up on key aspects of project management. These sessions are ideal for providing timely input for your project. Undertaking these sessions as a project team will improve your project coordination and facilitate communication around these key areas.	never expires
Risk Toolkit - Maintenance Engineering Analysis - Session 1: A taxonomy of maintenance	Maintenance is not the same as Asset Management and the tasks undertaken by a Maintenance Division are not all maintenance actions. This first session of a 7 part series on Maintenance Engineering Analysis will dispel the many myths around what is maintenance, what is not and what decision processes can be applied to assure a cost effective maintenance plan.	expires on 22 September 2013
Risk Toolkit - Maintenance Engineering Analysis - Session 2: Failure Mode and Effect Analysis - Questions Answered	Failure mode effects analysis is the assuring foundation of fit for purpose designs and their supporting maintenance programs. The session shall describe the process, its applications and benefits from both a designer, maintainer and operator perspective.	expires on 22 September 2013
Risk Toolkit - Maintenance Engineering Analysis - Session 3: Reliability Centred Maintenance	Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) programs have been the cornerstone of maintenance programs in the aircraft industry for over 40 years. No maintenance budget for critical assets can be regarded as defensible without reference to this risk-based method.	expires on 22 September 2013
Risk Toolkit - Maintenance Engineering Analysis - Session 4: Determining Frequency of Condition Monitoring Tasks	To be defensible, Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) programs require a quantitative basis for decisions that commit funds to mitigate risk. This session will describe how Condition Monitoring tasks can be justified using a quantitative risk based method.	expires on 22 September 2013
Risk Toolkit - Maintenance Engineering Analysis - Session 5: Determining Frequency of Failure Finding Tasks	Protecting complex systems from multiple failures is essential if designed-in safety capability from redundant systems is to be achieved. Learn how to determine defensible approaches to defining the failure finding task period, so that both financial and regulatory obligations are satisfied.	expires on 22 September 2013
Risk Toolkit - Maintenance Engineering Analysis - Session 6: Determining whether to Repair or Replace Aging Assets	Routine maintenance programs achieve and sustain inherent levels of safety and reliability, however they do not assure lowest whole life cost. This session will describe the most common methods of quantitative risk based repair versus replace decision-making.	expires on 22 September 2013