BCS Online IT professional development courses
Digital Leadership: Communication and Influence
What you’ll learn:
- Communicate as a digital subject expert, understanding how to adapt your communication style for non-technical stakeholders
- Explain methods of influencing without authority (upwards and sideways communication)
- Explain the concept of emotional intelligence and understand how to demonstrate it
- Understand how to demonstrate leadership behaviours
- Know how to use feedback as a tool to improve your own and other’s performance and satisfaction
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Leading Teams and Projects: Unlocking Performance and Driving Success
What you’ll learn:
- Leadership versus management – learn how to maximise a team’s potential to get the work done effectively and efficiently, thus fulfilling an organisation’s objectives
- Ensure compliance – explore how a leader’s knowledge and application of professional standards, legislation but also ethics can ensure decisions are made effectively or escalated if necessary
- Toolkit for a diverse team – how using certain tools and techniques can help a leader treat their team equally and how a diverse team brings many benefits to an organisation and to each other
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An Ethical Framework for Using AI
What you’ll learn:
- What it means to be an ethical IT professional.
- How to identify threats to our ethical behaviour and safeguards to mitigate them.
- Understanding the guiding principles of ethical AI.
- Understanding the role of regulation in managing AI risk.
- The use of the DIODE framework in ensuring an ethical by design approach to AI.
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Leading Change: Navigating Digital Transformation
What you’ll learn:
- The need for digital transformation – find out why it’s essential to transform digitally to keep an organisation competitive and successful, and how to make a business case for it
- People’s response to change – discover how to manage a team through organisational change and to take individuals along on the journey, minimising friction and maximising opportunity
- Navigating and implementing a digital transformation – learn about practical tools and techniques that a leader can employ to successfully manage change
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Innovating Ethically with AI to Drive Business Change
What you’ll learn:
- The benefits that AI can provide in driving organisational and societal change.
- The subsets of AI and examples of their use.
- Common ethical concerns about the development and use of AI.
- The stages within the AI lifecycle.
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Leading Teams: Thriving in a Digital World
What you’ll learn:
- Ensuring team cohesion and success: learn about team dynamics and choosing the right person for changing jobs to meet organisational objectives effectively in a digital world
- Minimising team friction: explore tools and solutions to identify skills gaps in a team, invest in training and development, and employing techniques if conflict arises
- Become an effective leader: consider how enabling delegation and taking on a different leadership style may achieve a team’s goals more effectively
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Data Privacy, Governance and Policy in AI
What you’ll learn:
- The key aspects of data governance.
- The challenges of working with different types of data.
- The regulation and authorities that govern the legal and ethical collection, storage and use of data and information.
- The seven data protection principles of the Data Protection Act 2018.
- The use of the Data Ethics Framework in guiding responsible data use.
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Collaboration: Building Effective Business Teams
What you’ll learn:
- Effective collaboration and constructive communication: learn how initially disparate teams can network, develop positivity and speak a common language to achieve their objectives
- Techniques to develop understanding: explore tools such as storytelling and skills such as emotional intelligence to overcome barriers in process and delivery
- Maximising team performance: develop leadership skills from adaptive communication to fostering a culture of feedback to drive digital transformation and growth
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Developing an Agile Mindset
What you’ll learn:
- Explain the principles of an Agile Mindset.
- Identify common techniques and tools within the Agile Framework when implementing change.
- Identify the challenges in applying Agile and how to overcome them.
- Identify common techniques and tools within the Agile Framework to deliver continuous improvement.
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Data Architecture, Sustainability and Ethics
The role of data architecture.
- The different stages of the data lifecycle and the associated ethical and legal considerations.
- Approaches that support the identification and management of data architecture risk.
- Sustainability measures to help reduce the environmental impact of AI and its data usage requirements.
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An Introduction to Information Security
What you’ll learn:
- Explain the key roles and function of information security in the context of a business.
- Explain the stages of the information lifecycle.
- Describe security standards, legislation and ethics in relation to the management of information.
- Explain different types of threats to information systems.
- Describe vulnerability and risk assessment.
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Building and Testing AI Solutions
What you’ll learn:
- Organisational considerations in developing AI solutions.
- The principles of human-centred design.
- The processes and key considerations in the training of AI.
- Key areas of scrutiny in the ethical and reliable testing of AI.
- The processes involved in the continued safe running of AI.
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Understanding Different Types of Data
What you’ll learn:
- Working with structured and unstructured data
- The data lifecycle and security
- The principles of data architecture
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The Principles of Information Security Architecture
What you’ll learn:
- Explain the key components of a network.
- Explain the use of procedural, physical and technical controls.
- Describe preventive, corrective and detective controls.
- Describe how different controls contribute to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
- Explain the principles of digital forensics and business continuity management.
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Discovering Green IT: An Introduction to Tech Sustainability
What you’ll learn:
- What is Green IT, and why is it important? – Explore the key components of Green IT and the effects it can have.
- Reducing Waste – Learn about the closed-loop man process and the steps to take to reduce the carbon footprint of technology use.
- Past. Present. Future – Discover the history and current reality of energy consumption in the IT industry and how you can impact the future.
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Driving Sustainability: Exploring Green IT Policies and their Impact
What you’ll learn:
- External and internal drivers – Explore the possible drivers of Green IT and the difference between sustainable practices and greenwashing.
- Green IT Policy – Delve into an example green policy and learn how to reduce E-waste and create a carbon reduction plan.
- ICT Contribution to carbon footprint – Learn how ICT impact the environment and how this can be measured.
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Avoiding Greenwashing: Identifying and Addressing the Risks and Roles in Green IT
What you’ll learn:
- What is greenwashing and how do you spot it? – Discover the Seven Deadly Sins of Greenwashing.
- Roles in Green IT- Explore the roles involved in Green IT and the types of platform that can be used to track sustainability.
- Green transformation and management – Learn about the steps in a Green IT transformation plan and the steps of a Green IT audit.
- Green IT plan – Discover the key parts of a Green IT plan and how to implement one.
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An Introduction to Machine Learning
What you’ll learn:
- The different types of machine learning
- The machine learning process
- The concept of deep learningThe use of algorithms to develop machine learning
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Making a Case for an Information Security Management System
What you’ll learn:
- The components that help to build a compelling information security management plan
- How to understand, assess and document risks relevant to your organisational environment
- The ethical considerations of information security and increasing security controls
- The vital role that robust information security governance plays.
- How to communicate your plan effectively to gain support.
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Maximising Potential Through Neurodiversity
What you’ll learn:
- The concept of neurodiversity and how people may experience it
- The models of disability
- Advantages and challenges of neurodivergent conditions
- How communication strategies can be adapted for maximum effectiveness
- Key legislation related to neurodiversity
- Strategies for fostering an inclusive work environment
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Identifying the Need for a Digital Solution
What you’ll learn:
- Apply analysis techniques including SWOT, PESTLE and GAP analysis
- Identifying business stakeholders through the use of Power Interest Matrix
- Use methods for gathering quantitative and qualitative information
- Write a business case to propose a solution to a problem
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The Ethical IT Professional
What you’ll learn:
- Ethical principles and the BCS Code of Conduct
- An introduction to Human Centred Design
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Identifying and safeguarding against threats to our ethical behaviour
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The Business Analyst: Innovation, Adaptability and Mindset
What you’ll learn:
- Evaluate the evolving landscape of business analysis and its role in driving digital success.
- Understand your impact in designing and supporting innovative solutions for future business needs.
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Enhancing Accessibility Through Inclusive Design
What you’ll learn:
- Inclusive design concepts
- Tools and techniques that can be utilised for inclusive design
- The difference between adaptive and universal design.
- The importance of diverse perspectives in testing and evaluating digital products
- Relevant legal and ethical considerations
- The benefits of designing with accessibility in mind
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Finance: Fundamentals for Leadership Success
What you’ll learn:
- Terms and tools to guide financial decision making – learning about financial management basics will lay the foundations for effective decision making
- Engage with the detail – walk through case studies to understand how analysis of figures, including variance, and applying cost-benefit analysis are all instrumental in efficient leadership
- Ensure long-term success – explore how becoming aware of external factors like environmental sustainability can actually super-charge organisational achievements
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Business Strategy: Understanding Business Architecture
What you’ll learn:
- Types of organisations and business success – explore how different types of organisations measure success against a mission, values, KPIs and objectives
- How to achieve success – delve into project approaches, continuous improvement techniques and the role of stakeholders to make things happen
- Relationships with customers – learn how understanding internal and external customer needs and managing reputation is crucial to achieving organisation goals
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