Mastering Contracts equips professionals with critical skills in contract formation, negotiation, and risk management. Learn to interpret key terms, manage legal exposure, and enhance contract outcomes with confidence and clarity.
Mastering Contracts is a practical training programme focused on commercial contract management and negotiation. Designed for executives and managers, this course covers key areas such as contract formation, essential contract terms, risk identification, and legal-commercial alignment. Participants will learn how to manage contracts more effectively, reduce risk, and implement best practices. Through real-life case studies and interactive group activities, the programme ensures immediate, practical application in workplace scenarios.
• Identify legal systems and summarise characteristics of effective contract management.
• Foundations of a contract, jurisdictional aspects, contract formation, key risks, and best practices in management.
Activities: Presentation, discussion, case studies, and exercises.
• Articulate essential elements of a good contract and aspects which take precedence.
• Formation of a good contract, offer and acceptance, ‘Battle of the Forms.
Activities: Review of Module 1, presentation, case materials, discussion, and exercises.
• Describe key contract terms and understand the implications of breach, causation, and damages.
• Contract breach implications, remoteness, mitigation, fairness, and insurance terms.
Activities: Review of Module 2, presentation, case material, discussion, and exercises.
• Appraise and apply key contract terms through practical exercises.
• Application of contract terms in group exercises, final case study, and feedback.
Activities: Review of all modules, group exercises, case studies, and discussion.
Senior Contract Management Consultant with over 35 years’ experience in commercial contracting, procurement, and negotiation.Co-Founder and Director of LevelUp, providing consultancy in leadership, marketing, and strategy. Expert in both common law and civil law systems, with practical training experience across government, industry, and academia. MBA graduate from the University of Nottingham with a background in Aeronautical Engineering. Companion of the Chartered Institute of Management UK, Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM), and Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Renowned for delivering high-impact, culturally relevant training throughout Southeast Asia.