{"id":50063,"date":"2025-03-11T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T05:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/americas-partner-blog\/?p=50063"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T05:29:03","slug":"americas-partner-skilling-news-march-2025-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/americas-partner-blog\/2025\/03\/11\/americas-partner-skilling-news-march-2025-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Americas Partner Skilling News: March 2025 Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Find upcoming skilling opportunities you won’t want to miss.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

See also Partner Skilling Resources<\/a> and the Partner Skilling Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Skilling Spotlight<\/h2>\n
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Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Business Applications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Achieving certification during Business Applications Certification Week helps you stay ahead by deepening your ERP and CRM knowledge, exploring low-code tools, and driving innovation through expert-led training.<\/p>\n

Mar 24-28, 2025
\nIST, GMT, PDT<\/p>\n

Click here to Register<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Spotlight<\/h2>\n
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Cosell Operations Service for Skilling (AskSkilling<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Co-sell Operations Service for Skilling<\/strong> is a new service where partners can submit skilling related questions to our agents. The agents will respond within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

This service helps partners understand the skilling offers available to them in their area and ensures they have the resources they need to build skilling capacity and capability.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re invited to join the upcoming Office Hours to learn more about this new skilling service. During these sessions our team will review the Partner Skilling Playbook, review the H2 skilling events calendar and answer any skilling questions you may have.<\/p>\n

Please find below the schedule for sessions based on your time zone:<\/strong>
\nMarch 12, 2025\u00a0|\u00a0Asia 1:00 PM IST |\u00a0EMEA 9:30 AM GMT | Americas 10:00 AM PDT
\nApril 9, 2025\u00a0|\u00a0Asia 1:00 PM IST |\u00a0EMEA 9:30 AM BST |\u00a0Americas 10:00 AM PDT<\/p>\n

These sessions\u00a0are scheduled for the 2nd Wednesday\u00a0of every month.<\/p>\n

Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For any questions or support, email AskSkilling<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Top<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sales & pre-sales skilling<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Enhance your sales and pre-sales capabilities with expert-led training to boost your skills, communicate value, and accelerate the customer journey.<\/p>\n

Accelerating AI Solutions Partner Series<\/a>
\nMar 25-27 (IST, GMT, PDT)<\/em><\/p>\n

Partner Sales Bootcamp for Secure Productivity<\/a>
\nMar 25 (PDT)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sales & pre-sales skilling<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Azure Project Ready<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Enhance your Azure skills to effectively architect, deploy, and implement cloud and AI solutions, ensuring you are project-ready and can drive customer success.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Fabric Workshop: Real Time Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Insights with AI \u200b<\/a>
\nMar 11-13 (IST, GMT, PDT)\u00a0<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Building governance and security strategy for AI <\/a>success<\/a>\u200b
\nMar 18-20 (IST, GMT, PDT)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Azure OpenAI<\/a>\u200b
\nMar 24-27 (IST, GMT, PDT)\u00a0<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Proactive resiliency: Reduced risk for reliable workloads<\/a>
\nMarch 25-26 (IST, GMT, PDT)<\/em><\/p>\n

Azure Project Ready<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Business Applications Project Ready<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Enhance your expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform to streamline deployments, helping you become the go-to expert for client projects.<\/p>\n

Transform frontline operations with AI in Dynamics 365 Field Service<\/strong><\/a>
\nMar 17-19 (IST, GMT, PDT)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Business Applications Project Ready<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Top<\/a><\/p>\n

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Modern Work Project Ready<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Accelerate your path to Modern Work certification to master Microsoft 365 tools and productivity solutions, empowering your team and boosting efficiency.<\/p>\n

Modern Work Project Ready<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Security Project Ready<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Accelerate your path to Security certification to master cybersecurity and threat protection, ensuring you can effectively safeguard modern IT environments.<\/p>\n

Defender for Endpoint, Identity & OT – Better Together Bootcamp \u200b<\/a>
\nMar 3-4 (IST, GMT, PDT) <\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Implement Microsoft Security Copilot<\/a>\u200b
\nMar 18-20 (IST, GMT, PDT)<\/em><\/p>\n

Security Project Ready<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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GitHub<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Validate your skills with GitHub Copilot to enhance your expertise and drive success across projects.<\/p>\n

Access the GitHub Copilot study guide<\/a>, to help prepare for the exam.<\/p>\n

GitHub Copilot Certification<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Industry events<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Enhance Your Industry Expertise: Leverage sales and AI training to foster innovative solutions, accelerate business growth, and deliver tailored strategies for complex challenges.<\/p>\n

Sustainability Sales Bootcamp<\/a>
\nMar 5 (PST, IST)<\/em><\/p>\n

Retail Sales Bootcamp<\/a>
\nApr 16 (PST, IST)<\/em><\/p>\n

Industry skilling<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Top<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cross-solution area Project Ready Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Build and extend AI-powered agents with Copilot Studio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mar 4-6, 2025
\nIST, GMT, PDT<\/p>\n

Click here to register<\/a><\/p>\n

Secure and govern Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft Purview – Pre-sales<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mar 11, 2025
\nIST, GMT, PDT<\/p>\n

Click here to register<\/a><\/p>\n

Build governance and security strategy for AI success<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mar 18-20, 2025
\nIST, GMT, PDT<\/p>\n

Click here to register<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Partner meetup for Microsoft Azure<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Join this community to get invited to a series of weekly webinars designed exclusively for Microsoft Partners. These sessions will provide an opportunity to connect with Microsoft Experts and learn about the latest Azure, Data, and AI Services, features, programs, and technical content.<\/p>\n

Feb-June 2025 Weekly Thursdays
\nPST\/PDT<\/p>\n

Click here to register<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Copilot Sales Champion <\/strong><\/h3>\n

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. Microsoft 365 Copilot Sales Champion is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a \u201cfirst come, first served\u201d basis while seats are available.
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\n<\/em>Registration link: Copilot Sales Champion<\/a>
\n<\/u>Access Code: XQLW-TDDJ<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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LevelUp for Partners<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NEW<\/strong>: LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft<\/a> is an on-demand, self-paced LMS that provides skilling resources for Technical Project Ready with labs and Sales Ready skilling for the Microsoft Cloud Solution Areas and GTM Solution Plays.<\/p>\n

Partner organizations have the flexibility to purchase additional seat capacity to meet their immediate skilling needs.<\/p>\n

ACTION<\/strong>: For more information on this offer, including how to purchase seats, please refer to the LevelUp Playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For support, please contact LevelUpHelp@technofocus.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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GPS Consumption-Led Skilling initiative<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NEW<\/strong>: Solve critical technical skills gaps in your Delivery teams with just-in-time, live private ILT deployment skilling with access to real-world hands-on-lab experiences.<\/p>\n

This skilling offering is available for MPL SI partners with a confirmed MSX Opportunity ID anchored GTM Solution Plays.<\/p>\n

The initiative covers a wide range of Solution plays available in the\u00a0Partner Project Ready Workshop Catalog. <\/a><\/p>\n

ACTION<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>Please contact CLE_VTEAM@microsoft.com<\/a> or your PDM, PTS, PSA and Account Executive to submit your training request.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Get \u201cDeal Ready\u201d with upcoming partner sales events\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NEW: A series of partner skilling events and webinars designed exclusively for Microsoft Partners. These sessions will provide an opportunity to connect with Microsoft Experts and gain proficiency with proposal building best practices supporting overall deal readiness.<\/p>\n

These weekly series will provide quick sessions with interactive Q&A from our SMEs to better fit your schedule. All content and recordings will be available on-demand.<\/p>\n

Register for the following upcoming partner series below:<\/p>\n