Project Cycle Management (PCM)

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Project Cycle Management (PCM)

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Objectives:​

  • Understanding project management discipline.
  • Gaining practical knowledge in related project management areas such as: project selection, project planning, and project evaluation.
  • Enhance participants’ skills in the project management field.
  • Training participants to using proper and effective project management tools and techniques.

Topics:

Aligning Projects with Strategic Intent

  • Project selection criteria
  • Feasibility studies
  • Projects and organizations’ strategies.

Foundation Principles of Project Management

  • What is project and why projects are needed?
  • Project management vs. operations management.
  • Types of project life cycles
  • Essential processes in project management.
  • Organization structure and culture and their effect on projects.
  • Project environment and inflicting forces.
  • Project Phases

Project Planning

  • Defining scope and creating work break down structure.
  • Estimation technics for duration and cost.
  • Project schedule development.
  • Risk identification, analysis, and response planning.
  • Using proper quality tools.
  • Contract types and procurement processes.

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Data analysis and decision making
  • Problem solving and conflict resolution
  • Managing change.
  • Reporting and documentation.
  • Measuring project progress, success, and impact.

Project’s Relations

  • Stakeholders and communications management
  • Defining roles and responsibilities.
  • Team formation and motivation

Recent Trends in project Management

  • Lean management in the project context

Prerequisites

Practical experience in a work environment.

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Digital Marketing – DM

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Digital Marketing - DM

Objectives:

Digital Marketing aims to:

  • Develop your social media and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) skills
  • Advance your skills in organizational relationship
  • Promote your content marketing skills
  • Enhance your understanding of the Online Marketing Metrics
  • Grow your knowledge about the relationships and the strategies of the customers
  • Enable your forecasting skills.

Topics:

  • Personal Selling and Organizational Buying
  • Customer Relationships and Strategies
  • Organizing a Sales Force
  • Organizational Relationship
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Managing Information for Marketing Insights
  • Buyers and Markets
  • The Offering – Product and Service
  • Communicate the Value Offering
  • Facebook page management, advertising, campaigns optimization, targeting and retargeting
  • Instagram advertising
  • Google ads and SEO

Prerequisites

Bachelor’s degree and/or experience in marketing.

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Financial Analysis (FAS)

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Financial Analysis Skills (FAS)

مهارات التحليل المالي

FAS Objectives

  • Understand the fundamentals of financial statements, including how the statements link and the key accounting principles that govern them
  • Analyze the balance sheet of companies and assess their position
  • Analyze the income statement of companies and assess their performance
  • Carry out ratio analysis and assess the drivers of performance
  • Analyze the cash flow statement of companies and assess the cash flow drivers
  • Carry out an overall appraisal of a company based on financial and operating data
  • Compare a company’s performance against that of its industry peers to gain valuable insights.

FAS Topics

The process, purpose and context of accounting

  • Background accounting knowledge for analysts to help understand the basis of financial statements

The primary financial statements and how they link

  • Balance sheet: Showing the position of a company
  • Income statement: Showing the performance of a company
  • Cash flow statement: Showing the difference between a company’s ability to generate and spend cash

Key accounting principles and terms

  • Accruals concept
  • Going concern
  • Double entry
  • Accounting Standards

Analysis of the Balance Sheet

  • Non-current assets
  • Intangibles
  • Current assets
  • Creditors and debt
  • Equity capital and reserves

Analysis of the income statement

  • Different types of profit metric: Gross profit, operating profit, net profit
  • Classification of expenses: Cost of sales, operating expenses
  • Capitalization vs. expense
  • EBIT, EBITA, EBITDA

Ratio analysis

  • Horizontal Analysis
  • Vertical Analysis
  • Liquidity Analysis
  • Solvency Analysis
  • Profitability Analysis
  • Asset Management
  • Performance: Margin ratios, return on equity
  • Working capital: Inventory days, receivable days, payable days
  • Debt service: Interest cover
  • Leverage: Debt: EBITDA, Debt: FCF

Analysis of the cash flow statement

  • How to analyze the cash flow statement: Asset management, operational management, financing strategy

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of accounting and/or finance.

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Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

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Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

CFA Objectives

By the end of the trainings, participants will be able to:

  • To identify the main tested areas in the CFA level 1
  • To introduce an efficient methodology to prepare for the CFA
  • To discuss tips and tricks to pass the exam
  • To manage time in order to cover the material
  • To prepare practically for the exam

CFA Topics

Level I CFA exam will cover the following topics:

  • Ethical and Professional Standards
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Economics
  • Financial Reporting and Analysis
  • Corporate Finance
  • Portfolio Management
  • Equity
  • Fixed Income
  • Derivatives
  • Alternative Investments

Prerequisites

An individual wishing to enroll in the CFA Program and register for the Level I exam for the first time must possess an international travel passport. In addition, candidates must meet one of the following requirements:

  • Have earned a bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree, or be in their final year of a bachelor’s program.
  • Have accumulated four years of applicable professional work experience (not required to be investment related).
  • Candidates may also have a combination of full-time professional experience and education that totals a minimum of four years. The four years of experience/education must be accrued prior to enrollment in the program. This article has more details.

Delivery

The content is divided into 6 sections. Participants are expected to study each section before the session.

Plan

Introduction to the methodology
Study time (section 1) two weeks
Seminar 5 hours
Study time (section 2)
Seminar
Study time (section 3)
Seminar
Study time (section 4)
Seminar
Study time (section 5)
Seminar
Study time (section 6)
Seminar
Review workshop day 1
Review workshop day 2
Review workshop day 3
Review workshop day 3

Study Plan

The average candidate for Level I of the CFA exam should spend roughly 300 hours over the course of six months preparing for the exam

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English for Beginners (EFB)

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English for Beginners (EFB)

EFB Course:

Topics

  • General review of grammar and sentence structure
    • Five major grammatical rules
    • Sentence formation
    • Question formation
    • Prepositions
  • Introduction and greetings
    • Habits, routines and interests
    • Speaking in occasions
    • Compliments
  • Jobs, careers
    • Application forms
    • Job titles and task description (org. structure)
    • Interviews, at the office, office equipment
  • Telephone speaking techniques
    • Common phrases on the phone
    • Handling business calls, personal calls
  • Giving directions
    • Phrases and prepositions to give directions
    • Learn about names of places
    • Give directions to actual places in Ramallah e.g. their work, home, draw maps
  • Traveling and business trips
    • Related terminology
    • Airports, car rentals, hotels
    • Short dialogues at such situations
  • Political words (News headlines today in Palestine)
    • Present vocabulary used to talk about the general situations in Ramallah
    • Preparation from English newspapers for group discussions in class
  • Health issues
    • Minor health problems vocabulary
    • At a clinic, talking with a doctor
    • Medical /dental care role play
  • Money and banking
    • Related terminology
    • At the bank
  • Making suggestions and recommendations
    • Structure
    • Common expressions
  • Evaluation
    • Oral and written exam

Prerequisites

A placement test.

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Personal Branding for Freelancers – PBFF

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Personal Branding for Freelancers - PBFF

PBFF Objectives

By the end of training, participants will

  • Understand the impact of the personal image for a long-term success
  • Identify the requirements for effective and strong personal branding
  • Develop relationship building as one of the keys for branding

PBFF Topics

Brands as an Asset

  • What is a brand?
  • Value of branding
  • Branding Model
  • Creating compelling ideas

 

Parallel Branding

  • The people element of the Corporate Brand
  • How much of your brand investment are you really controlling?
  • Keeping your brand messages in sync
  • Brand consistency via the people

 

The Brand called ‘ME’

  • The 30-second power of first impressions and non-verbal communication – Creating immediate impact
  • Why it’s not all about image
  • Defining your Personal Brand
  • Packaging and marketing yourself
  • Increasing visibility and profile with your authentic brand
  • What do you want to be ‘famous’ for?
  • The Walking TALL ‘7 Big Strides’ ® to Personal Branding
  • How well are you being ‘heard’ – voice quality
  • Perception Management – how are you perceived by others?

 

Presentational Brand

  • Presenting your authentic self in front of audiences, consistently
  • Creating brand impact and charisma
  • The personal brand and the community
  • The personal brand on social media

Prerequisites

N/A

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Advanced Costing Management – ACM

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Advanced Costing Management - ACM

ACM Objectives

  • Building the capacity of precisely determining the costs of items
  • Pricing the items in a manner that achieves the targeted profits
  • Determining the profit and safety margins and the break-even point on the levels of the unit, the department, the factory and the market.
  • Achieving efficiency and effectiveness in utilizing the available materials
  • Using the cost management to contribute with achieving the strategic goals
  • Achieving the competitive advantage through reducing the costs and increasing the competitiveness in pricing
  • Focusing on the high-profitable item

ACM Topics

  • Classifying product costs
  • Fixed, variable and mixed costs
  • Other costs and their classification
  • Introduction to costing systems
  • Cost of sold products and manufactured products
  • Calculating the absorption costing and calculating variable costs
  • Review the income statement under:
    • Absorption Costing
    • Variable Costing
  • Costing systems
    • Costs measurement methods
    • Cost collecting methods
    • Additional costs distribution methods
  • Cost collection system
    • Productive stages
    • Productive orders
    • Operating cost
  • Cost of Additional Burdens
    • Distribution of additional burdens
    • Calculating the absorption average of additional burdens
    • Determining the cost of each additional burden unit
    • Absorption of fixed additional burdens
    • Increasing the gap in the absorption of administrative costs
    • Traditional costs against accounting the costs of activities
  • Analyzing the costs and profits
    • Calculating contribution margin
    • Calculating the safety margin
    • Calculating the break-even point
    • Target sales to achieve certain profit.

Prerequisites

Degree in accounting, financial management, economics and any other related field.

Industrial engineering, chemical engineering, operation management, and quality management.

And others interested in learning about cost management.

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Professional Interpreting Certification – PIC

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Professional Interpreting Certification – PIC

Objectives:

The Professional Interpreting Certificate program is tailor-made to:

  1. build up interpreting-related skills, including public speaking, mental alertness/split attention, note-taking and listening skills;
  2. give the participants a space to practice sight translation and consecutive and simultaneous interpreting;
  3. offer specialist training on sight interpreting and consecutive and conference interpreting;
  4. familiarize the participants with the interpreting equipment;
  5. provide guidance on interpreting ethics and conduct; and
  6. equip the participants with the tools needed to expand their knowledge.

Topics:

Placement Test

  • The PIC Placement Test: A 60-minute assessment;

Welcome to the PIC training

  • Introduction of trainers and guest speakers
  • Methodology
  • Outline
  • House rules
  • Kick-off assignment

Interpreter’s general knowledge

  • Read around your subject
  • News round-up
  • Wiki-parallels

Interpreting-related skills

  • Public speaking
  • Split attention
  • Alert listening
  • Note-taking
  • Shadowing

Sight translation

  • Sight translation practice
  • Sight paraphrasing

Consecutive interpreting

  • What to note
  • How to note
  • When to note
  • Consecutive interpreting practice

Conference interpreting

  • Practice

Booth Behaviour

Booth Interpreting Ethics

Interpreter’s Resources for further CPD

Branding for Interpreters

  • How to locate and land jobs on local and international markets.

Guest speakers

  • Interpreting as a freelance job
  • Court interpreting
  • Whispering interpreting

Final Assessment

  • 3 hours final assessment.

Prerequisite(s)

    • The PIC Placement Test
    • University degree (or equivalent) in translation, interpreting, English Language, English Literature, Arabic Language, Arabic Literature
    • Note: Arabic Language and Literature degree holders should provide evidence of their English fluency.
    • Very good command of Arabic and English
    • Strong professional development motivation
    • Basic computer skills
    • Self-Commitment

The minimum requirements needed to succeed in this training:

English proficiency
80%
Very good command of Arabic and English
85%
Strong professional development motivation
80%
Basic computer and MS skills
80%
Self-Commitment
90%
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English Language Program (ELP)

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English Language Program

ELP Courses:​

Participants can sign up to any of the listed courses based on a placement test:

1.      Tips to Improve Your Language Through Reading & Listening – One day course

2.      English for Beginners – Beginners

3.      English Conversational Skills – Upper beginners

4.      Business English – Intermediate level

5.      Business English – Upper intermediate level

6.      Business English – Advanced level

 Sector-specific ELP courses:

7.      English for Banking Communication – Intermediate to advanced

8.      English for NGO Professionals – Intermediate to advanced

9.      English for Business Meetings – Intermediate to advanced

10.  English for Diplomats – Intermediate to advanced

11.  English for Law – Intermediate to advanced

12.  English for Media Professionals – Intermediate to advanced

13.  English for Executives – Intermediate to advanced

14.  ELP – Coaching – All levels

Prerequisites

Each course requires a placement test.

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Advanced Excel Skills – AES

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Advanced Excel Skills - AES

Objectives:

This training course aims to give a hand to the participants in mastering:

  • Building great charts
  • Using conditional formatting
  • Identifying trends
  • Having an online access to Excel
  • Collecting, verifying and analyzing business data
  • Administrating and managing duties
  • Accounting and budgeting
  • Reporting and visualizations
  • Forecasting

Topics:

  • Creating Your First Custom Format
  • Understanding the Date & Time Format Strings
  • Using Date & Time Custom Format
  • Understanding Conditional Formatting
  • Assigning Names to Groups of Cells
  • Managing Named Range
  • Using Names in Formulas
  • Understanding Formulas & Functions
  • Create a Relative & Absolute Reference
  • Working with Logic Functions
  • Working with Text Functions
  • Using More Text Function
  • Working with Lookup Functions
  • Understanding VLOOKUP Function
  • Understanding HLOOKUP Function
  • Challenge Using Formulas & Functions
  • Create and Modify Tables
  • Sorting and Filtering Data in a Table
  • Build an Advanced Filter
  • Getting Summary Information in a Table
  • Calculate Total Row in a Table
  • Display Special Formatting for First or Last Column
  • Summing with Subtotals & Grand Totals
  • Validating Data During Entry
  • Working with Database Functions
  • Challenge 04: Organizing Worksheet & Table Data
  • Summarizing Data Visually Using Charts
  • Customizing Chart Data
  • Format Chart Legend and Titles
  • Changing the Chart Body
  • Saving the Chart as a Template
  • Creating a Pie Chart
  • Creating Combination Charts
  • Challenge 05: Working with Chart
  • What is a Pivot Table
  • Anatomy of a Pivot Table
  • How does a Pivot Table Works
  • Create a Basic Pivot Table Report
  • Rearranging a Pivot Table Report
  • Customizing a Pivot Table
  • Changing Summary Calculations
  • Adding and Removing Subtotals
  • Sorting in a Pivot Table
  • Filtering in a Pivot Table
  • Working in a Group Environment
  • Commenting in Cells
  • Tracking Changes in Workbooks
  • Turn on Track Changes
  • Accepting or Rejecting Changes
  • Review Changes
  • Keeping a Backup of your Changes
  • Create a Change History
  • Linking to Other Workbook
  • Create a Link to Other Workbooks
  • Consolidating Multiple Sets of Data
  • Consolidate Multiple Worksheets
  • Protecting Your Worksheet
  • Protect a Worksheet
  • Unprotect a Worksheet
  • Allowing Access to Parts of a Worksheet – I
  • Allowing Access to Parts of a Worksheet – II
  • Protecting Your Formulas
  • Protecting Your Workbook
  • Save Your Workbook with Password
  • Encrypting your Workbook
  • Recording & Testing a Macro
  • Using the Developer Tab
  • Create a Macro
  • Relative and Absolute Recording
  • Testing the Macro
  • Running and Deleting Macros
  • Using the Macro dialog box
  • Using a Shortcut key
  • Placing a Macro on the Quick Access Toolbar
  • Delete a Macro
  • Saving a Workbook with a Macro
  • Saving a Macro to the XLSM Workbook
  • Saving a Macro to the Personal Macro Workbook
  • Macro Security
  • Creating Practical Macros
  • Inserting a Header
  • Participants should have some knowledge about the basic data warehousing and data modeling concepts.
  • Participants are also preferred to have some working knowledge with Excel.
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