This intensive 10-day training course offers complete guidance for managing all types of projects that include the complexity of commercial and business relationships. The training course explores how to ensure projects deliver outcomes that are client-focused, contractually appropriate, and organizationally relevant.
This training course covers key aspects of project definition, planning, control, and handover to ensure relevant quality within time, budget, and resource constraints. It explores in detail what a contract does (and does not) require each party to the contract to do and the consequences for both parties of any failure. It also tackles team leadership, stakeholder management, and project communication.
Develop project plans focused on delivering sustainable benefits
Lead project teams in the use of contracts and delivery of projects
Manage relationships with project stakeholders and contractual partners
Improve their understanding of the role of contracts within a business
Apply the latest international thinking in dispute resolution
Contract Administrators & Contract Professionals
Contracts Managers
Engineers or contracts operatives
Existing & New Project Managers
Project Team Members & Sponsors
Managers of project portfolios
The need for contractual relationships
What is needed to create a valid contract? Ingredients and formalities
Authority and agency
The tender process
Alternative sourcing
Making contracts enforceable – with particular emphasis on the international context
Form of Agreement
Hierarchy of Terms and Conditions
Different contractual structures? Traditional and new
Risk and Title (ownership) in international trade - When does it transfer?
Notices and other formalities
Which law and which courts?
Securitizing performance obligations
Bonds and guarantees
Parent company guarantees
Letters of intent, comfort, or awareness
Insurance policies
Assessing the need for financial security
Changes to Contract documents
Assignment/Novation explained and distinguished
Variation clauses and changes to the scope of work
Claims – what they are and how they arise
Delay and disruption
Force majeure
Conflict avoidance and tiered dispute resolution clauses
Negotiation
Litigation
Arbitration
Mediation, ENE, and new best practices in dispute resolution and management
Final questions and review of course
What is a project?
Mature project management
Selecting projects to meet organizational goals
Managing programs and portfolios
Uncertainty in project selection decisions
Project data, information, and knowledge 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.
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.