This Contracts Management training course covers the contracting process from contract award, through planning and management to contract close-out and resolution of disputes. The intention is to develop a delegate’s existing skills in a wide range of contract management situations and to allow participants to have an awareness of practices in many business sectors including construction, petroleum, engineering, and other industries.
Select the appropriate type and form of contracts for different situations
Understand the legal framework in which contract management takes place
Understand the contract complexities that need managing
Explain the practical steps in obtaining and analyzing performance data
Be more effective in contract management activities
Anticipate problems and manage risks
Integrate contract management with contract needs
Understand the best means of handling claims, disputes, and performance issues
Contract Managers
Contact Professionals
Project Managers
Construction Managers
Procurement Managers
Commercial Managers
Persons who are involved in the acquisition of materials or equipment, or the management of suppliers and contractors delivering services
Overview of the tendering and contract award process
Understanding contracts – a refresher on legal requirements for a contract
Formal and Informal Contractual documents, including
Standard terms and conditions
Letters of intent
Letters of comfort
The specification and scope of work – linkage to price and payment
Recognizing where the contract risks lie
Tools and techniques to manage contract risks
The role and value of an effective contract manager
Implementing the new contract
Effective Review processes
Inspection and certification of contractual performance
Managing suppliers of professional services
Working with contract management reports
Using KPIs ineffective contract management
Selecting the right model for the contract
Standard form Contracts – ICC, FIDIC, NEC, and others
Force Majeure clauses
Indemnities and Insurance clauses
Warranty clauses
Bonds and Guarantees
Contract variation clauses
Managing Price escalation
Getting a breakdown of costs
Cost and price analysis techniques
Tracking changes
Managing variations to the work
Changes to timing, accelerating delivery
Increase or decrease in scope
Changes to work methods
Negotiation techniques for price and contract variation management
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
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