An intensive professional development training course on
Certificate in
Contracts Management
Best Practices
The Complete Course on Contracts Management
Why Choose this Training Course?
The Contracts Management Best Practices training course is tailored to help contracts professionals navigate the growing complexity of commercial and business relationships in an increasingly international trade environment. This course is essential for all business professionals to understand their contractual obligations, the requirements imposed by contracts, and the potential consequences of any failures for both parties involved.
Participants will gain insights into managing contracts effectively, ensuring compliance, and mitigating risks, which are crucial for maintaining robust and successful business relationships.
This AZTech training course will feature:
- The differences in approach between different legal and contracting systems
- Risk allocation in contract management and dispute resolution in contractual disputes
- Contracting in an international context
- Protecting your company’s interests
- An understanding of contracting in the English language
What are the Goals?
By the end of this AZTech training course, participants will be able to:
- Improve their understanding of the role of contracts within a business
- Develop more confidence in dealing with contracting issues
- Understand how strategies can be developed to improve the commercial outcomes
- Apply the latest international thinking in dispute resolution
- Increase awareness of the use of contracts in everyday business life
Who is this Training Course for?
This AZTech training course will benefit all levels of personnel engaged in contract management, negotiation, procurement, operations, and disputes. This training course is suitable to a wide range of contracts professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Contract Administrators, Contract Professionals and Project Coordinators
- Specifiers, Buyers, Purchasing Professionals and Procurement Officers
- Contracts managers
- Project managers
- Engineers or contracts operatives
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This AZTech training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes high levels of participant discussion, group interaction, delegate group exercises and case studies. Materials include existing contemporary English language contracts in many jurisdictions. Delegates will be encouraged to raise their own issues and problems faced within their industry or organisations for discussion on a confidential basis.
The Course Content
Day One: What are Contracts and how are they Created?
- 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
Day Two: The Structure of Contracts
- 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?
Day Three: Collateral Documents
- Securitising performance obligations
- Bonds and guarantees
- Parent company guarantees
- Letters of intent, comfort or awareness
- Insurance policies
- Assessing the need for financial security
Day Four: Change and Variation
- 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
Day Five: Resolving Disputes
- 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
The Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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