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Advanced Quality Assured Contract Management

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Contract Management 

Using Quality Assurance Methodology

Using ISO-9000, Quality Assurance, Management Improvement & TQM Methodology

A Training Program that Starts You Off in Building Excellence in Contract Management

A 2 Week Training Workshop

Workshop Schedule

Worldwide Training Dates USA Training Schedule
  • 14-25 May 13 (London)

  • 23 May-3 June 13 (Dubai)

  • 3-14 June 13 (London)

  • 16-27 June 13 (Dubai)

  • 24 June - 4 July 13 (New Delhi, India)

  • 24 June - 4 July 13 (Kuala Lumpur)

  • 2-13 July 2013 (New Delhi)

  • 8-19 July 13 (Paris)

  • 5-16 Aug 13 (Singapore)

  • 5-16 Aug 13 (Kuala Lumpur)

  • 5-16 Aug 13 (New Delhi)

  • 10-21 Aug 13 (London)

  • 19-30 Aug 13 (Rome, Italy)

  • 7-18 Sept 13 (Dubai)

  • 15-26 Sept 13 (Dubai)

  • 9-20 Sept 2013 (London)

  • 24 Sept - 5 Oct 13 (London)

  • 7-18 Oct 13 (Rome, Italy)

  • 20-31 Oct 13 (Dubai)

  • 4-15 Nov 13 (Singapore)

  • 4-15 Nov 13 (Kuala Lumpur)

  • 4-15 Nov 13 (New Delhi)

  • 25 Dec 13 - 5 Jan 2014 (London)

  • 6-17 Dec 13 (Dubai)

  • 18-29 Dec 13 (Dubai)

  • 27 Dec 13 - 7 Jan 14 (New Delhi)
  • 6-17 May 13 (San Francisco)

  • 1-12 June 13 (Wilmington, DE)

  • 22 July-2 Aug 13 (Washington DC)

  • 22 July-2 Aug 13 (San Francisco)

  • 31 July - 11 Aug 13 (San Diego)

  • 12-23 Aug 13 (San Francisco)

  • 26 Aug-6 Sept 13 (Houston, Texas)

  • 23 Nov - 4 Dec 13 (San Francisco)

  • 18-29 Nov 13 (New York)

  • 16-27 Dec 13 (San Francisco)

  • 16-27 Dec 13 (Washington DC, USA)

  • 9-20 Dec 13 (New York)

What is Covered in this Workshop?  

This program covers the skills required for Contract Managers to perform their job function Effectively Efficiently.

It also includes:

  • Protecting Your Project Your Organization, Using New Methodologies Techniques, Computer Tools Winning Negotiating Strategies

  • ISO-9000 Quality Assurance Compliance.

  • Management Improvement

  • Review Design of Agreements

  • Ensuring Compliance with Contractual Terms

  • Preparation and Evaluation of Claims for Delays, Cost Compensations Variation Orders.

By the end of the course, participants will also be able to...

  • Examined and Discussed the purpose, requirements and conditions of contracts, including contracts for supply, maintenance and construction work.

  • Reviewed the skills needed to award and manage contracts effectively, whether these contracts are related to projects or the purchase of products and services.

  • Review Design Agreements

  • Ensure Compliance with Contractual Terms

  • Prepare and Evaluate Claims for Delays, Cost Compensations Variation Orders.

He will learn about the Best Worldwide Practices in Contract Management

  • Methodology

  • Planning

  • Tools and Technology Issues

  • Management Issues  

Workshop Content

  • How this Program Can do Wonders for You and Your Department

  • Understand the Processes taking place on Contracts

  • Best Industry Practices

  • Tools and Techniques

  • Set up a Management System for Contracts section (Systematic Organizing, Control & Improvement)

    • How to…

      • Improve Effectiveness Productivity on your Contracts?

      • Develop Capabilities in your Contract Supervision and Control Staff to make sure they understand the "Why", "How", "When" and "What Not to.." of Effective Contract Management?

      • Implement and Supervise Effective Contract Practices – avoiding the pitfalls that lead to delays, disruptions, increased costs and disputes.

      • Negotiate Competitive and Noncompetitive Contracts to Get the Best Deals.

      • Develop Continuous Improvement Excellence in Contract Management in your organization.

    • Contract Management: the problem areas.

    • What is Quality Assurance in Contract Management.

    • Types of Contracts :

      • Supply, Maintenance, Construction

      • Fixed Price or Reimbursable Cost

      • EPC

      • For each type…associated…

        • Productivity Risks

        • Financial Risks

        • Main Conditions of Contract

        • Other Areas of Concern

    • Purpose, Content, Procedure and What Can Go Wrong in Contract Processes…

      • Prequalification

      • The Tendering Process

      • Evaluation of Tenders

      • Flowcharting the Processes

      • Pre-Qualification and ISO-9000

    • Preparing the Contract Plan

    • Negotiating Strategy and Tactics...

      • Pre-award Negotiations

      • Negotiation of Changes and Variation Orders

      • Negotiating Disputes and Claims

      • Win-Win Philosophy

      • Expectations Changing Expectations

      • Planning Preparation

      • Tricks others may play

    • Administering Contracts...

      • The Business Legal Environment

      • The Problem Areas

      • Do’s and Don’ts

      • Letters Notices

      • Documentation

      • Productivity Killer Attitudes

      • Programs, Progress, Delivery Schedules and Expediting

      • Quality and Substitutes

      • Variation Orders

    • Claims and Counter-Claims...

      • What are they?

      • Minimizing Claims

      • Your Counter Claims

        • Penalty Liquidated Damages

        • Consequential Losses

        • Insurance

        • Warranty

        • Guarantees

    • How to effectively use lessons learn’t on a Contract.

    • Preparing Tender Documents

      • Standardization

      • Various Sections – their purpose and significance

  • Finally we will give a thought to…

    • Cost-Benefit Approach to Decisions

    • Longer term interests of company

    • Benefits of Supplier Development

    • Emerging Contract and Procurement Philosophies.

Workshop Outcomes and Take-Away/s

Euro Training is in the business of  providing practical useful training programs. Programs that

  1. Help the participant implement improvements in his organization.
  2. Help the participant gain Multi-discipline understanding of the issues so that he can incorporate the needs and expectations of all his stakeholders/ customers in his improvement proposals and actions.
  3. Help build a knowledge framework in which job related experience can be caught and remembered as his experience.

Typical participant will take away a personalized action plan for himself, his business unit or his organization on how to apply the program contents to improve performance. The action plan may have two components:

  1. A Personal Action Plan
  2. A Business Unit/Organizational Action Plan

Benefits to Organization

Sending participant/s to this program will benefit the organization in the following ways

  1. Quickly makes the participants competent, effective and productive on his job. Useful especially for
    1. Training New employees
    2. Competency Building in Existing Employees Transferred to a New Assignment
    3. Training Prior to a New Project or Initiative Planned in the Organization
  2. Create Competency in the employee to perform his job well. including in relation to
    1. Relevant Technical Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
    2. Organizations' Strategic Objectives
    3. Needs and Expectations of the Stakeholders/ Customers (internal & external)
    4. Good Management Practices
    5. Identifying opportunities to Exceed Stakeholder/ Customer Expectations
  3. Create a pool of trained manpower who can cost-effectively disseminate the knowledge to large number of employees inside the organization. This is made possible by Euro Training's unique easy to understand and use methodology based on Checklist & Quality Assurance Approaches.
  4. Euro Training Instructors often act as mentors for your trained employees. A most effective way to ensure effective competency development and application by your motivated staff. We do have consultants available across Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa (Please inquire about our post program mentoring plans)

Participant Individual Career Benefits

  1. You gain a multi-discipline understanding of the issues. Meaning when you make proposals and decisions on your related job you will keep in mind the needs and expectations of ALL the stakeholders/ customers (internal & external)
  2. The action plan you take away will help you make a difference in your business unit or organization. This difference when added to your resume will make you a prime candidate for career advancement in your own organization or in your next job/s.
  3. Understanding and acting with understanding of the Needs and Expectations of your stakeholders/ customers is known to  to enhance Job Satisfaction and reduce Monday Morning Blues.
  4. As one of your stakeholders/ customers is Executive Management, therefore the program ensures you will know the Strategic Imperatives that Drive the Organization's Efforts in your relevant job area. In the process enabling you to make a leadership contribution.

This Workshop is Intended for…

Those new to the field take away a good multi-discipline understanding of the issues involved in the program works. It helps them become productive quickly and builds in them a knowledge framework that will help identify, understand, classify and remember on the job experiences in his memory.

More experiences participants take-away an individualized action plan as mentioned elsewhere in this technical sheet.

Implementation Teams: This program can be used to train implementation teams where...

  1. a new project or initiative being started in your organization

  2. a new strategic focus is being initiated

  3. just prior to a Consultant being hired to advise the organization.

Each participant will take away a memorable and potentially life changing experience from the program.

No limitations are being placed on who can attend. If you are interested in the Program Outcomes and Takeaways, or, feel you can benefit from the Organizational and Personal Benefits mentioned above - You are Invited to Register for this Program. Program Instructors have the knowledge, experience and access to resources required to customize the program to the specific job related needs of each program group.

This program is intended for personnel who wish to get a fast track understanding of the Advanced Issues in Contract Management job function.

They would typically be looking for promotion to management position in the Contracts Department.

When Experienced Professionals attend this program they gain insight into the Current Best Practices and Tools - this enables them to implement improvements in their work and that of their departments.

When newly promoted Contract Managers attend this program they become productively very quickly and start meaningful and informed management to their department work.   

Language of  Instruction

Unless otherwise stated the program instruction is in Standard Day-to-Day English. Participants can request the instructor to provide a program vocabulary which will ensure they have no problem understanding the content.

Other language versions are being developed by our consultants and regional partners including program in French, German, Spanish and Arabic. Please do contact us for your specific language needs.

Registration Recommendations

Team Nominations: Since the program aims to ensure the participants have his individualized improvement plan at the end of the program, and foreseeing the effort involved, anticipating resistance and implementation requirements it is recommended that the organization nominate at least two participants together (three will be more desirable to allow for attrition) for this program.

It is anticipated that these 2 or more participants will work together as a team or provide mutual support in order to implement the action plan.

Single nominations will also be accepted for the program. Single nominations are typically used  to:-

  1. Develop personnel skills in Critical Skills and Methodologies covered in this program.

  2. Audit this program for deciding its content and methodology's effectiveness in meeting your organizational needs

  3. Train individuals for Leadership Roles in Business unit or department. Here this program will help the participant coach and lead his team in these Critical Skills and Methodologies. (Program does not typically cover coaching skills but provides the related technical  understanding in an easy to communicate manner. )

Workshop Overview 

This is a follow-on Contract Management Skills building program. Participant should have attended  the program CAA301 or equivalent from another reputable organization. If there is any doubt please first attend the program CAA301.

This program develops capabilities in Supervision and Management  - specifically teaching you how to Improve the Productivity, Quality and Management of your Contracts Department.

Best Contract Management, Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement, TQM and Benchmarking Methodologies - as applicable to contracts department - are taught in this program.  

Prerequisites and Workshop Pre-Preparation

This program has prerequisite: This program assumes the participant is familiar with contracts and contract administration issues - this could have come about by experience or attending the program CAA301 or similar.

This program is in English. The participant should understand spoken English. If you wish to study the program materials before the program these can be obtained by payment of half the program fee. Whenever you attend a deduction of this amount will be allowed from payable program fee. Please note this offer is available only to Corporate Customers.  

Certificate of Participation and Completion:-  

On completion participants will be awarded a "Certificate of Successful Completion".
Program Instructor may decide to award a Letter of Recommendation for High Performers during the program.

Benefit of Certificate of Completion  

This certificate & letter of recommendation will certify that you have demonstrated proficiency in Contract Management and this should be considered suitable qualification for your to be considered to work in Management Role in Contracts Department/ Section.

Workshop Style...

The Program extensively relies on Checklists and Case-Study Approach. Program emphasis is on practical skills required by the job function. Management based on facts is emphasized – in place of based on "gut feelings".

Discussion, implementation and case studies will be based on actual conditions prevailing in the area where the program is being held.

For Latest Program Schedule Email:

     caa801@EuroTraining.com

Advanced Contract Management Using Quality Assurance Methodology Using ISO-9000, Quality Assurance, Management Improvement & TQM Methodology

REGISTRATION INFORMATION  

  1. Please complete the Registration Form (Available at http://www.eurotraining.com/etl-reg.html) and FAX to UK +44 207 6811444 or Email to: euro@eurotraining.com

  2. Fee is USD $8900 per participant includes Course Materials, Certificate, Refreshments and Lunch. (Fee at London, Paris and Kuala Lumpur is $9790)

  3. Accommodation is not included in Program fee. Special rates will be available at venue hotel for the participants.

  4. Program Fee information is available by Emailing:  accounts@eurotraining.com. Fee is payable by Bank Transfer only.

  5. Early Registration & Payment discount is 10% - if registration and fee payment is made at least 45 days before start of the program.

  6. Fee includes Course Materials, Certificate/s, Refreshments and Lunch. Program Timings are 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM but on some days (to be announced by instructor/s) you may be asked to attend from 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM. For First Day Program Timings see your Joining Instructions.

Advanced Contract Management CAA-801

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