The Complete Course on Contracts and Project Management
Details
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- 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
Outline
- 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?
- Securitising 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, and new best practices in dispute resolution and management
- Final questions and review of course
FOR WHOM:
Legal Officers and others who perform related functions
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.
Speaker/s
Special Offer
Schedules
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri | 10:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
Alpha Partners is a reputable firm of Training and Management Consultants with many years of corporate training experience in Finance, Accounting, Auditing, Banking, Management, Information Technology, Oil and Gas Sector, Security, Engineering, Public Relations, Secretarial Studies, Leadership, Marketing and other fields of human endeavour.
We are one of the leading players in the profession. Our firm, a multi-disciplinary one with highly talented, experienced and dedicated partners and staff who have experiences in different facets of working life was established in 1996 and has branches in Lagos, Enugu and Awka.
We offer a wide range of professional services, which covers audits, accounting, finance, taxation, ICT, security, engineering, insurance, human resources management, secretarial and consultancy services in all ramifications.
Our numerous clients attest to the high quality services we offer which contribute in no small measure in ensuring sound and efficient management of their resources.