By deciphering complex concepts into manageable terms, this workshop provides non-lawyers with a foundation in contract law. Participants will gain a basic understanding of contract formation, negotiations, potential pitfalls, contract content including exemptions and terms as well as ending contracts and contract terminations and breaches.
Understand contractual terms and their impact on the business
Explore key elements of commercial contracts
Analyze commercial risks and opportunities in terms of your own business environment
Be able to propose appropriate means to mitigate risks
Discover how to review third-party contracts effectively
Learn how to identify areas that require specialist legal advice or Board-level approval
Find out how to use internal or external legal resources more effectively
While this course would especially benefit those who come into contact with contracts, it is for anybody wanting to gain a basic understanding of contract law.
benefit to your business
A Memory Game - get those grey cells working!
Exercise: Buying a commodity
Consequences of Confusion - the pain of getting it wrong
Defining Commercial Relationships - the fundamental markers
Exercise: Define a typical deal for your business
Exercise: Which legal terms define each area of the relationship?
Who Does What When?
- Vendor Responsibilities
- The importance of clear specifications and change control
- Purchaser Responsibilities
- Delivery
- Intellectual Property
- The importance of timing
When Does Payment Occur?
- Defining Milestones
- Good Acceptance Criteria
- Readiness for Invoicing
- Taxes and other payment headaches
Exercise: Comparing vendor and purchaser acceptance provisions
What Happens if Things Go Wrong?
- Warranties and warranty remedies
- Limiting liability
- Indemnities
- Confidentiality
- Liquidated Damages
- Applicable law and dispute resolution
- Termination
- Survival provisions
Exercise: Comparing vendor and purchaser warranty provisions
Participants will learn about the field of communication for development in this course (C4D). In order to encourage participation and engagement with kids, families, communities, and networks for positive social and behavioral change in both development and humanitarian contexts, C4D is an evidence-based strategy that makes use of a variety of communication tools, channels, and approaches. It incorporates knowledge and ideas from social, behavioral, and communication sciences.
In order to meet these new challenges and take advantage of chances for innovation to bring about behavior and social change, participants in this three-day course will need new and improved communication competencies.
Too often company executives and professionals spend most of their time fixing day-to-day problems. They react to problems, rather than focusing on what they would like the company to be and then on making it happen. This program focuses on changing the way we think from reacting (responding to day-to-day problems, fixing and repairing) to developing plans for what we want to have happened and then implementing the plans.
A document management system is a computer system used to track and store electronic documents. It is usually also capable of keeping track of the different versions modified by different users. The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management systems. It is often viewed as a component of enterprise content management systems and related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow systems, and records management systems. This course shows you how to deal with papers in an electronic way to get rid of the papers hard copy which takes a lot of space and time
This course will help you define and implement the vision you have for yourself, your team, and your organization. Working from an initial understanding of your own capabilities, motivators, and resources, it will build an action plan for moving you and those around you towards a shared perception of the future, able to respond to an ever-changing world.
We all operate in an increasingly complex commercial and professional environment that requires us to negotiate on a daily basis not only with customers, clients, suppliers and contractors but also with managers, fellow employees, and colleagues within our own organization.
When did you last stop to think about how you work at work – and whether the way you work could be changed to help you be more successful? The Business Brain Train Seminar provides a thoroughly enjoyable environment for you to explore these questions. It shows how to make yourself more effective using mind mapping; teaches techniques for faster, more effective reading, and shows how to use memory systems to remember information. It examines techniques for idea generation, creativity and problem solving; planning; time management; and inter-personal communication skills (including making a speech and how to improve meetings. It focuses on the core skills required for success in any enterprise.