Understanding and Managing Contracts to Achieve Better Results Training Course (ONLINE EVENT: January 22-23, 2025)

This highly interactive programme will enable delegates to understand the different elements which make up a legally binding contract: implied terms, set in statute; and express terms, those terms negotiated between the contracting parties which amend or deviate from statute. 

The course will enable delegates to learn how to break down the express terms into three categories: promise; procedural; and liability clauses, removing the complexity of reviewing a contract, as well as giving delegates a best practise methodology. 

The course will guide you through making an action plan to bring together all stakeholders, internal and external, to enable the smooth running of a project with the contract at the centre acting as a pro-active risk management document, as well as a legal document. 

You will learn how to identify possible areas of risk, understand how to mitigate against them, and get to grips with potential consequences if promises are broken.

You will learn how to apply a logical, systematic and comprehensive approach to reading, managing and implementing a contract so that you are confident in your role and contribution, and fully appreciate what is required of you, your team and the other contracting party(ies) to satisfy the legal obligations laid out in the contract.

Drawing on real-life experiences and using many workshop-style exercises, case studies and examples, the expert trainer will focus on giving you the necessary knowledge, tools and processes to be able to read and review contracts and make them work for you not against you.

Benefits of attending

A contracts manager has an important and, sometimes, onerous responsibility of administering an organisation’s contracts in the most efficient and effective way. This practical course provides an in-depth understanding of how everybody involved in the creation and management of that contract has an active role to play in ensuring the contract adds value in providing legal protection but also clarity of understanding of obligations and liabilities, and proactive risk management.

It is important to understand the interdependency of the contracting parties - if a supplier fails, the buyer fails. The aim of this course is to ensure all stakeholders appreciate this interdependency and how to communicate and work together for the optimum outcome for all.

Whether your contracts are local, national or global by attending this programme you will:

• Understand the structure of a legal contract
• Boost your knowledge to understand and manage the legal obligations and requirements set out in a contract
• Be confident that you are operating under a legally binding contract
• Appreciate fully what has been agreed between the contracting parties and what the legal obligations and responsibilities of each are
• Recognise the allocation of liability and risk between the contracting parties
• Realise what the consequences will be if either party does not comply with the contract
• Grasp the importance of being proactive in establishing a project plan, monitoring work and driving progress
• Get to grips with the importance of the interdependency of a contracting relationship
• Value the benefits of undertaking a recap at the end of a contract’s life to capture lessons learned and gain from the learning curve of ‘what went well’
• Master new skills through the use of practical exercises and case studies with feedback from the expert trainer

Practical exercises, facilitation and discussion sessions are used throughout the course to ensure delegates have a clear appreciation of the added value gained from being proactive in the planning and management of a contract. Attendees will be shown how to anticipate problems and resolve them before they become critical and potentially very costly, rather than managing the project in a reactionary manner.

Certifications:

• CPD: 12 hours for your records
• Certificate of completion