‘Boost Your Website’ Training Collection
£725
Get the knowledge and practical know-how to give your web site a serious performance makeover.
You’ve set up your web site, and its up and working. So now you need to invest some of your time and energy to make your site visible to web browsers, so they can visit your site, and buy your products.
Our three one-day courses will show you just how to do this - and more. Learn from experienced practitioners on these intensive workshops, and leave each course with a clear picture of the actions you can take to make measurable improvements, which have real impact on your business.
Course One - Search Engine Optimisation
Course Two - Google Adwords Training
Course Three - Google Analytics
Priced separately, the total cost of these course comes to £850.
Book all three together, as a package, for £725 - giving you a saving of £125
We’ve got a number of dates scheduled for each course; choose those that suit your plans.
APM Introductory Certificate in Project Management
£475 including all materials and exam fees
This 3-day course provides a solid grounding in project management techniques and approaches, and is an excellent benchmark for project managers across a range of sectors, and sizes of organisation.
Delegates prepare for the Association for Project Management Introductory Certificate in Project Management examination. This is a nationally recognised professional qualification which is designed for those seeking to move into a project management career or who want to understand the basic principles of project management excellence.
The examination is held on the last afternoon of the course.
The taught element covers the range of project management skills and techniques so its ideal as an introduction to project management for all team members.
The syllabus, guidance notes, and example examination papers are all available to download on the APM website.
APM is the largest independent professional body of its kind in Europe. They have 17,500 individual and 500 corporate members throughout the UK and abroad. Their aim is to develop and promote project management across all sectors of the industry and beyond. This is one of a range of qualifications that have been designed by APM.
nti Leeds is part of Leeds Metropolitan University who are an APM accredited training provider.
APMP for PRINCE2®
£1000 including all materials and exam fees
Gain an internationally recognised qualification which complements your PRINCE2® Practitioner status
Demonstrate your credibility as a committed and capable project professional
Participate in a project environment as a leader, and specialist team member
APMP is the perfect complement to the PRINCE2® method. Delivering a project through an effective process is a proven formula for project management success. Whist PRINCE2 offers a structured and effective method for successful delivery, APMP expands this knowledge and understanding to help you grow into a committed and capable project professional. APMP, together with the PRINCE2 qualification, will give you an understanding of the complete professional project management package. This course is a new route which recognises the prior learning gained from the PRINCE2 Practitioner Qualification, offering the most effective way of enhancing your professional portfolio.
The APMP is an internationally recognised qualification signifying both your technical project management and leadership skills.
Find out more about APMP here on the APM web site
APM is the largest independent professional body of its kind in Europe. They have 17,500 individual and 500 corporate members throughout the UK and abroad. Their aim is to develop and promote project management across all sectors of the industry and beyond. This is one of a range of qualification that have been designed by APM.
nti Leeds is part of Leeds Metropolitan University, who are an APM accredited training provider.
NTI Leeds is an Affiliate of NES AIM Academy, a PRINCE2 Accredited Training Organisation, and are registered as such on the APMG website
PRINCE2® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government in the United Kingdom and other countries
Google Adwords Training - Learn Pay-per-Click Marketing
£295
Many searches for information about products and buying decisions begin with searches on one of the major engines: Google, Yahoo! or Live Search. Achieving a position at or near the top of the ‘organic’ rankings can take time and often requires a large investment of time and energy.
Pay-per-Click (PPC) can bring profitable results much more quickly by providing an instant source of targeted traffic, who are in active buying mode. The results of PPC marketing can be measured extremely accurately, so a business is always in control of its budget and can refine the campaign to ensure a good return-on-investment.
This course provides a one-day introduction to Pay-per-Click, including practical examples that help you to set-up, run and manage your own Google AdWords PPC campaign.
Google Analytics Training
£295
A one-day course for small business owners, marketers, business analysts and web developers. It is most effective if you already have Google Analytics installed on your site.
Google Analytics provides rich and detailed information on your site’s performance. We’ll show you how to navigate and understand the Google Analytics reports, set-up conversion and e-commerce tracking, and interpret the data to improve your business.
This course is designed to complement our Google AdWords course.
It’s run by James Ward, a Certified Google Partner who has been running AdWords campaigns and analysing Google Analytics for clients for six years.
Introduction to Agile Software Development
£280
This one day course provides a good all round introduction to Agile software development approaches. Our trainer will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to take Agile back in to your team. We’ve aimed this course at developers, testers, business analysts, database administrators, project managers and executives. The course is delivered as an interactive workshop, enabling you to learn from our trainer’s wealth of experience, as well as having the opportunity to address issues relevant to your own experience. This will help increase the likelihood of a successful adoption of Agile for your software development project.
We can also offer follow-on training. Because we believe adopting Agile is very personal to each team and organisation, we offer this on a company basis. Our trainer works with your team to enable them to take on specific Agile roles. Typically this would be a two day on site coaching-style course, which would cover:
- one to one sessions with key team members including managers
- coaching on test driven development, continuous integration and other Agile techniques
- Development of an Agile process specific to your organisation
- Development of Agile documentation (user stories, product backlogs etc)
The funding also applies to this offer - please contact us direct to discuss your requirements and we will be able to provide further details and costs.
Your trainer is Nick McKenna, Certified Scrum Master and Practitioner. Nick runs his own successful software development house using Agile principles and practices. Nick is also treasurer for the Agile Yorkshire group which meets monthly to promote Agile development in our region.
Introduction to Green Computing
£499
In an increasingly connected business world, how you serve your customers becomes more important every day. To keep up usually means bigger, more expensive systems using more energy.
In a typical office, at least one fifth of the electricity supplied is used by IT and our course will help you address this.
A sustainable business needs green computing at its centre and this introduction will help you understand how to make your IT sustainable, allowing you to:
- Reduce energy bills
- Meet government regulations
- Enhance your reputation as a “sustainable company”
This 2-day course can be taken on its own, and is the first of 5 connected courses covering: the technology of green IT; using IT to support a sustainable business; the legal and regulatory framework of green IT and the creation of a green IT strategy.
Managing the Magento Ecommerce Store
£295
This is a one day introductory course to the Magento e-commerce system. Magento is an awesomely powerful cutting edge open source e-commerce package that is quickly gaining a large following due to its impressive array of powerful enterprise level features.
This course will give you the background understanding and practical skills needed not only to get the best out of your Magento store; but also presents principles which are relevant to all e-commerce platforms.
You will also leave with a clearer understanding of some of the more complex principles in Magento and will learn how to leverage some of the core features of Magento to get the most out of your store.
The Magento course can be delivered online or in a training enviroment please see our calendar for scheduled online and classroom based training sessions
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January 8th 2010 - January 8th 2010
PRINCE2® Practitioner
£1100 includes all materials & examination fees (Foundation and Practitioner)
PRINCE2® is a structured project management method that has become an effective standard for organising, managing and controlling all types of projects. Its reputation as a highly effective, process-based approach to project delivery is widespread across public and private sectors in the UK and worldwide. In recent years an increasing number of smaller organisations have embraced PRINCE2’s® ’structured common sense’ method in order to effectively manage their growing portfolios of client projects. Our primary trainer Marian Watson is a highly experienced PRINCE2® trainer and we believe she is one of the best.
PRINCE2® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries.
NTI Leeds is an Affiliate of NES AIM Academy, a PRINCE2 Accredited Training Organisation, and are registered as such on the APMG website
The Swirl® logo is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce
January 11th 2010 - January 15th 2010 (City Centre training site in Sheffield please contact us for further details)
January 25th 2010 - January 29th 2010
February 22nd 2010 - February 26th 2010
March 22nd 2010 - March 26h 2010
Search Engine Optimisation
£260
This one day Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) course highlights simple steps that will improve your website ranking and visibility for organic search engine results (visitors who find your site using keywords in Google, Bing or other search engines).
The course provides an in-depth explanation of SEO factors including: keyword research - which keywords are your potential clients using; campaign tracking - checking how successful your efforts are in directing traffic to your site; competitor analysis ; on-page optimisation - could your page layout be changed to improve results for example; link building and best practice.
The course is practical, so you’ll be able to try out many of the approaches on the course, and uses case studies, quizzes and exercises to show you how to carry out a properly planned SEO campaign that will deliver real results for your website.