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This five-day programme empowers participants with the skills and knowledge to understand and effectively apply best practice commercial and contracting principles and techniques, ensuring better contractor performance and greater value add. This is an assessed programme, leading to the International Association for Contracts & Commercial Management (IACCM)'s coveted Contract and Commercial Management Practitioner (CCMP) qualification. By the end of this comprehensive programme the participants will be able to: * Develop robust contracting plans, including scopes of work and award strategies * Undertake early market engagements to maximise competition * Conduct effective contracting and commercial management activities, including ITT, RFP, negotiated outcomes * Understand the legalities of contract and commercial management * Negotiate effectively with key stakeholders and clients, making use of the key skills of persuading and influencing to optimise outcomes * Undertake effective Supplier Relationship Management * Appreciate the implications of national and organisational culture on contracting and commercial activities * Appreciate professional contract management standards * Set up and maintain contract and commercial management governance systems * Take a proactive, collaborative, and agile approach to managing commercial contracts * Develop and monitor appropriate and robust KPIs and SLAs to manage the contractor and facilitate improved contractor performance * Appreciate the cross-functional nature of contract management * Collaborate with clients to deliver sustainable performance and to manage and exceed client expectations * Understand the roles and responsibilities of contract and commercial managers * Use effective contractor selection and award methods and models (including the 10Cs model) and use these models to prepare robust propositions to clients * Make effective use of lessons learned to promote improvements from less than optimal outcomes, using appropriate templates * Effectively manage the process of change, claims, variations, and dispute resolution * Develop and present robust propositions * Make appropriate use of best practice contract and commercial management tools, techniques, and templates DAY ONE 1 INTRODUCTION * Aims * Objectives * KPIs * Learning strategies * Plan for the programme 2 THE CONTRACTING CONTEXT * Key objectives of contract management * Importance and impact on the business 3 CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS * Essential features of professional commercial and contract management and administration * The 6-step model 4 PUTTING THE 'MANAGEMENT' INTO COMMERCIAL AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT * Traditional v 'new age' models * The need for a commercial approach * The added value generated 5 DEFINITIONS * 'Commercial management' * 'Contract management' * 'Contracting' * ... and why have formal contracts? 6 STAKEHOLDERS * Stakeholder mapping and analysis * The 'shared vision' concept * Engaging with key functions, eg, HSE, finance, operations 7 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES * Contract administrators * Stakeholders 8 STRATEGY AND PLANNING * Developing effective contracting plans and strategies DAY TWO 1 CONTRACT CONTROL * Tools and techniques, including CPA and Gantt charts * A project management approach * Developing effective contract programmes 2 THE CONTRACTING CONTEXT * Key objectives of contract management * Importance and impact on the business 3 TENDERING * Overview of the contracting cycle * Requirement to tender * Methods * Rationale * Exceptions * Steps * Gateways * Controls * One and two package bids 4 TENDER ASSESSMENT AND CONTRACT AWARD I - FRAMEWORK * Tender board procedures * Role of the tender board (including minor and major tender boards) * Membership * Administration * Developing robust contract award strategies and presentations DAY THREE 1 TENDER ASSESSMENT AND CONTRACT AWARD II - PROCESSES * Pre-qualification processes * CRS * Vendor registration rules and processes * Creating bidder lists * Disqualification criteria * Short-listing * Using the 10Cs model * Contract award and contract execution processes 2 MINOR WORKS ORDERS * Process * Need for competition * Role and purpose * Controls * Risks 3 CONTRACT STRATEGY * Types of contract * Call-offs * Framework agreements * Price agreements * Supply agreements 4 CONTRACT TERMS I: PRICING STRUCTURES * Lump sum * Unit price * Cost plus * Time and materials * Alternative methods * Target cost * Gain share contracts * Advance payments * Price escalation clauses 5 CONTRACT TERMS II: OTHER FINANCIAL CLAUSES * Insurance * Currencies * Parent body guarantees * Tender bonds * Performance bonds * Retentions * Sub-contracting * Termination * Invoicing 6 CONTRACT TERMS III: RISK AND REWARD * Incentive contracts * Management and mitigation of contractual risk DAY FOUR 1 CONTRACT TERMS IV: JURISDICTION AND RELATED MATTERS * Applicable laws and regulations * Registration * Commercial registry * Commercial agencies 2 MANAGING THE CLIENT-CONTRACTOR RELATIONSHIP * Types of relationship * Driving forces * Link between type of contract and style of relationships * Motivation - use of incentives and remedies 3 DISPUTES * Types of dispute * Conflict resolution strategies * Negotiation * Mediation * Arbitration DAY FIVE 1 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT * KPIs * Benchmarking * Cost controls * Validity of savings * Balanced scorecards * Using the KPI template 2 PERSONAL QUALITIES OF THE CONTRACT MANAGER * Negotiation * Communication * Persuasion and influencing * Working in a matrix environment 3 CONTRACT TERMS V: DRAFTING SKILLS * Drafting special terms 4 VARIATIONS * Contract and works variation orders * Causes of variations * Risk management * Controls * Prevention * Negotiation with contractors 5 CLAIMS * Claims management processes * Controls * Risk mitigation * Schedules of rates 6 CLOSE-OUT * Contract close-out and acceptance / completion * HSE * Final payments * Performance evaluation * Capturing the learning 7 CLOSE * Review * Final assessment * Next steps

Masterclasses? Refreshers? Introductions? It depends what you're looking for and where you want to pitch them, but here are six tried-and-tested highly focused sessions that organisations can take individually or as a series, to help develop their teams' project management capabilities one topic at a time. Objectives for each individual session are set out below, as part of the session outlines. Taken together, as a series, however, these modules are an ideal opportunity to develop your team's levels of project management capability maturity, whether that's by introducing them to the basic principles, refreshing them on best practice, or giving them the opportunity to really drill down into a specific area of challenge in your particular operating environment. SESSION OUTLINES 1 Stakeholder management SESSION OBJECTIVES This session will help participants: * Understand why stakeholders matter to projects * Be able to identify and engage stakeholders * Be able to categorise stakeholders by their significance 1 KEY PRINCIPLES * What does 'stakeholder' mean - in theory? * What does this mean in practice? * Why stakeholders matter * Consequences of missing stakeholders * The stakeholder management process: * Identify * Assess * Plan * Engage 2 IDENTIFYING STAKEHOLDERS * Rapid listing * CPIG analysis * PESTLE analysis * Drawing on the knowledge and experience of others * Other ways to identify stakeholders 3 ASSESSING STAKEHOLDERS * Which stakeholders are significant? * Stakeholder radar * Power-interest maps * Power-attitude maps 4 PLANNING * The adoption curve * Dealing with obstacles * Who should engage which stakeholder? * How should the project's organisation be structured? * How will communication happen? 5 ENGAGING * Seven principles of stakeholder engagement 2 Requirements and prioritisation SESSION OBJECTIVES This session will help participants: * Understand how clarity of requirements contributes to project success * Use different techniques for prioritising requirements * Agree requirements with stakeholders * Manage changes to requirements 1 UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING STAKEHOLDER NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS * What are 'requirements'? * What is 'requirements management'? * Sources of requirements - and the role of stakeholders * Are stakeholders sufficiently expert to specify their needs? * Do they understand the detail of what they want, or do they need help to tease that out? * What do stakeholders want to achieve? * Working within constraints * Prioritising requirements - three techniques 2 MOSCOW PRIORITISATION * 'Must have', should have', 'could have, 'won't have this time' * When to use MoSCoW 3 THE KANO MODEL * Customer satisfaction - 'attractive' and 'must-be' qualities * When to use Kano 4 VALUE-BASED PRIORITISATION * Understanding risk v value * Using risk v value to prioritise features and schedules 5 AGREEING REQUIREMENTS * Perfect v 'good enough' * Establishing acceptance criteria * Requirements traceability * Agreeing project scope 6 CHANGING REQUIREMENTS * Why requirements change * Why change control matters * Impact on projects * A formal change control process * Paying for change - managing change for different types of project 3 Estimating SESSION OBJECTIVES This session will help participants: * Understand the different purposes estimates satisfy * Be able to use different estimating techniques * Understand how to achieve different levels of accuracy 1 KEY PRINCIPLES * What's an estimate? Informed guesswork * What needs to be estimated? Costs, resources, effort, duration * Tolerances * Precision v accuracy 2 ESTIMATING THROUGH THE LIFECYCLE * Start * Plan * Do 3 EARLY ESTIMATES * Comparative ('analogous') estimating * Parametric estimating * Using multiple estimating techniques 4 BOTTOM-UP ESTIMATING * Bottom-up ('analytical') estimating * Pros * Cons 5 THREE-POINT ESTIMATING * Three-point ('PERT': Programme Evaluation and Review Technique) estimating * Uncertainty and the range of estimates * Calculating a weighted average * Three-point with bottom-up 4 Scheduling SESSION OBJECTIVES This session will help participants: * Understand how to create a viable schedule * Be able to use different forms of schedule * Understand the concept of the critical path 1 KEY PRINCIPLES * The planning horizon * Rolling wave planning * Release planning 2 VIABLE SCHEDULING * Creating a viable schedule * Define the scope * Sequence the work * Identify the risks and build in mitigations * Identify the resources * Estimate the effort and durations * Check resource availability * Refine until a workable schedule is produced 3 CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS * The critical path * Network diagrams * Sequence logic * Practical application: * Network diagram with estimated durations * The 'forward pass' * The 'backward pass' * Calculating total float * Identifying the critical path * Calculating free float * Gantt charts 5 Risk and issue management SESSION OBJECTIVES This session will help participants: * Understand the difference between risks and issues * Be able to identify and assess risks * Understand ways of mitigating risks * Manage issues 1 KEY PRINCIPLES * Understanding risk * Threats and opportunities * The risk management process * Preparation - proactive risk management * The process - identify, assess, plan, implement * Stakeholder communication * Roles and responsibilities * Risk management strategy * The risk register * Risk appetite 2 RISK IDENTIFICATION * Brainstorming * Interviews * Assumption analysis * Checklists 3 RISK ASSESSMENT AND PRIORITISATION * Probability, impact and proximity * Triggers * Qualitative risk assessment * Qualitative impact assessment * Qualitative probability assessment * Probability / impact grid * Bubble charts * Risk tolerance 4 PLANNING COUNTERMEASURES * To mitigate or not to mitigate? * Categories of risk response * Avoid and exploit * Reduce and enhance * Transfer * Share * Accept * Contingency * Secondary risks 5 ISSUE MANAGEMENT * What is an issue? * Tolerances * Issues and tolerances * The PRINCE2 view of issues * Ownership of issues * An issue management process * Issue register 6 Budgeting and cost control SESSION OBJECTIVES This session will help participants: * Understand what to include in a budget - and why * Choose - and use - the appropriate estimating technique * Align the budget with the schedule * Understand how to monitor spend and control costs * Trouble-shoot effectively to get projects back within budget SESSION FORMAT Flexible. The session can be tailored to the participants' average level of project management maturity - a 60-minute session (delivered virtually) is an effective introduction. A 90-minute session allows for more in-depth treatment. A half-day session (face-to-face or virtual) gives time for a more challenging workshop, particularly to discuss specific cost control issues with any of the participants' current projects. 1 WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM? * Can we pay from revenue? Do we need to borrow? How long will the project take to pay back? * The lifecycle of the budget * Through-life costs * Stakeholder involvement 2 ESTIMATING COSTS * Reminder: the relationship between estimates * Reminder: possible estimating techniques * What do we need to estimate? * People * Equipment * Materials * Facilities and operating costs * Work package estimate * Estimated project costs * Estimating agile projects 3 ALIGNING BUDGET AND SCHEDULE * Scheduling and financial periods * Spreading the budget 4 RESERVES AND AGREEING THE BUDGET * Contingency reserve * Management reserve * Agreeing the budget 5 COST CONTROL * Planned spend over time * Actual spend over time * Work completed over time * Evaluating different scenarios: delivery v spend 6 TROUBLE-SHOOTING * Why are we where we are? * What has caused the project to spend at the rate it is? * Why is it delivering at the rate it is? * What are the root causes? * What can we do about it?

Develop your Project Management skills and fully understand the entire project lifecycle and key activities that need to be done to deliver a successful project outcome. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COURSE OVERVIEW Duration: 2 days (13 hours) The ability to run a successful project professionally is a valuable transferrable life skill that can enhance your career and opportunities in any industry. Our Principles of Project Management course takes a pragmatic approach to managing a project successfully.  It looks at the entire project lifecycle and key activities that must be done to give a successful project outcome. This course is suitable for anyone who is involved in or about to run a project – either as a full-time project leader/manager or as a part of their role. OBJECTIVES  By the end of the course you will be able to: * Identify 10 key principles for managing a project successfully * Apply a common sense project lifecycle to a project regardless of its size or magnitude * Develop robust project documentation throughout the lifecycle whilst keeping the documents to a minimum * Identify the expectations of key stakeholders and develop a clear communication plan to engage with them * Apply a range of planning and scheduling techniques to help manage the project timeline * Produce realistic estimates to help monitor and control the project costs * Manage key risks and issues associated throughout the project lifecycle * Manage changes through a robust change control process * Manage the Project team through the use of clearly defined Work Packages * Identify and manage key areas of conflict throughout the lifecycle CONTENT INTRODUCTION * Key characteristics of projects v Business as Usual * Definition of Programmes and Portfolios * Project Lifecycles – A structured approach using phases * Reasons why projects fail * 10 principles of successful project management THE CONCEPT (FEASIBILITY) PHASE * Analysing the project context / environment * Stakeholder needs and requirements * Content of a Business Case * Differences between Benefits, Success Criteria, Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) * Purpose of the Project Brief THE DEFINITION (PLANNING) PHASE * Defining the Scope of a project * Assigning Project roles and responsibilities * Product Breakdown structures and Work Breakdown Structures * Approaches to estimating * Detailed planning using Gantt charts * Critical path analysis * Using project management software – an overview * Constructing a realistic project budgets * Resource allocation and optimisation * Producing a Communication Plan THE IMPLEMENTING (EXECUTION) PHASE * Delegating using a Work Package * Project tracking and reporting * Managing contractors * Controlling changes to the project * Risk and Issues management * Managing conflict between stakeholders THE HANDOVER / CLOSURE PHASE * Measuring project success * Capturing Lessons * Post project review and evaluation * Benefits Realisation * Transferring the deliverable into Business as Usual

Learn how create and structure enterprise projects and programmes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COURSE OVERVIEW Duration: 2 days (13 hours) Our P6 Project Planning and Controls Fundamentals course is an intensive two day course aimed at experienced planners and project controllers who need to use Primavera to create and manage detailed plans. It includes creating EPS levels, projects, WBS levels and detailed activity and resource planning. Experience of project planning and scheduling techniques is essential. OBJECTIVES  By the end of the course you will be able to: * Create a programme structure * Create projects and set project properties * Create programme milestones * Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) * Create detailed plans including activities, links and resources * Progress the schedule * Manage actuals * Customise layouts * Use the reporting tools in Primavera CONTENT PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT   * Creating EPS elements * Defining the programme structure * Navigating the EPS structure * Finding programmes PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND WBS   * Creating projects * Setting project properties * Validating projects * Assigning project codes * Building a work breakdown structure * Creating a WBS structure * Creating WBS elements * Work package management TOP DOWN BUDGETS   * Allocating top down budgets * Budget change PROGRAMMING MILESTONES AND ACTIVITY PLANNING    * Creating programme milestones * Setting constraints * Linking milestones * Scheduling * Using the schedule function * Detailed activity planning * Creating activities * Relationship types * Creating relationships * Adding milestones * Assigning activity codes RESOURCING, WORKLOADS AND BASELINING   * Resource types * Creating resources * Resource attributes * Assigning resources * Switching resources * Split load resource assignment * Reduced hours resource assignment * Checking workload * Reviewing workload * Dealing with resource conflicts * Assignments view * Baselining * Creating baselines * Assigning baselines WORKING WITH LAYOUTS   * Creating layouts * Customising columns * Setting filters * Sorting and grouping * Changing the timescale * Customising the Gantt * Creating activity code breakdown structures PROGRESSING THE SCHEDULES   * Updating task status and remaining duration * Setting the data date MONITORING AND REPORTING   * Exporting and importing information * Primavera standard reports * Creating custom reports * Creating portfolios PRINTING   * Printing your schedule * Printing to other packages

Life-Changing Lessons for Teacher  is yet another 'Teacher's Choice' course from Teachers Training for a complete understanding of the fundamental topics. You are also entitled to exclusive tutor support and a professional CPD-accredited certificate in addition to the special discounted price for a limited time. Just like all our courses, this Life-Changing Lessons for Teacher  and its curriculum have also been designed by expert teachers so that teachers of tomorrow can learn from the best and equip themselves with all the necessary skills. Consisting of several modules, the course teaches you everything you need to succeed in this profession. The course can be studied part-time. You can become accredited within 02 hours studying at your own pace. Your qualification will be recognised and can be checked for validity on our dedicated website. WHY CHOOSE TEACHERS TRAINING Some of our website features are: * This is a dedicated website for teaching * 24/7 tutor support * Interactive Content * Affordable price * Courses accredited by the UK's top awarding bodies * 100% online * Flexible deadline ENTRY REQUIREMENTS No formal entry requirements. You need to have: * Passion for learning * A good understanding of the English language * Be motivated and hard-working * Over the age of 16. CERTIFICATION CPD Certification from The Teachers Training Successfully completing the MCQ exam of this course qualifies you for a CPD-accredited certificate from The Teachers Training. You will be eligible for both PDF copy and hard copy of the certificate to showcase your achievement however you wish. * You can get your digital certificate (PDF) for £4.99 only * Hard copy certificates are also available, and you can get one for only £10.99 * You can get both PDF and Hard copy certificates for just £12.99! The certificate will add significant weight to your CV and will give you a competitive advantage when applying for jobs. Life-Changing Lessons Lesson 1: Introduction to the Course 00:04:00 Lesson 2: Life Pyramid 00:05:00 Lesson 3: Getting What You Want in Life 00:06:00 Lesson 4: Everything Has Its Price 00:03:00 Lesson 5: Seneca 00:04:00 Lesson 6: Benjamin Franklin 00:05:00 Lesson 7: Bruce Lee 00:05:00 Lesson 8: Napoleon Hill 00:02:00 Lesson 9: Aristotle 00:04:00 Lesson 10: Marcus Aurelius 00:03:00 Lesson 11: The Buddha 00:05:00 Lesson 12: Roger Federer 00:05:00 Lesson 13: Lao Tzu 00:04:00 Lesson 14: Ralph Waldo Emerson 00:04:00 Lesson 15: Charles Darwin 00:06:00 Lesson 16: Larry King 00:03:00 Lesson 17: Albert Einstein 00:03:00 Lesson 18: Warren Buffett 00:03:00 Lesson 19: William Shakespeare 00:04:00 Lesson 20: Mohandas Gandhi 00:04:00 Lesson 21: Charlie Munger 00:03:00 Lesson 22: Henry David Thoreau 00:02:00 Lesson 23: Thich Nhat Hanh 00:02:00 Lesson 24: Tiger Woods 00:03:00 Lesson 25: Larry Page 00:03:00 Lesson 26: Sam Walton 00:03:00 Lesson 27: Howard Schultz 00:03:00 Lesson 28: Action Part 1 00:04:00 Lesson 29: Action Part 2 00:03:00 Lesson 30: Action Part 3 00:03:00 Lesson 31: Final Thoughts 00:02:00