Contracts establish the responsibilities and rights of the parties. This highly interactive program will provide a practical hands-on approach to the effective management of contracts and offer techniques and contract strategies to assist this process. It will also assist in establishing an international risk management strategy regarding contracts and develop good business practices to take advantage of opportunities, enhance efficiency, and increase profitability.
Understand the necessary contractual and legal knowledge
Understand and apply the different types of agreements
Increase commercial awareness needed to enhance the smooth running of contracts
Increase the ability to manage contracts to reduce claims and conflict
Identify and mitigate risk factors and associated commercial and program implications
Understand the importance of good record-keeping and service of contractual notices
Increase the understanding of commercial liabilities resulting from schedule changes and variations
improve the ability, successfully to negotiate and maintain long term inter-business contracts with confidence
Understand the need to deal with issues as they arise and to resolve disputes within the contract structure wherever possible
Analyze, negotiate and implement the most appropriate method of resolving disputes preventing escalation by early identification
Contract Professionals
Tendering, Purchasing and Procurement Professionals
Project Management Professionals
Engineering, Operational, Finance, and Maintenance Professionals
The need for contractual relationships
External and internal dimensions of a business relationship
Formation of a Contract
The key elements of a contract
Oral or written?
Electronic contracts
Terms of the contract
Inter-business contracting
Law of Agency
Sources of Law
Developing legal knowledge and skills
Precedence of documents in a contract
Obligations to perform
Delivery, acceptance, and transfer of title and risk
ICC Incoterms
Liability in negligence - relationship with contract conditions
Product liability and defective goods
Intellectual Property clauses - some special issues
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.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.