- Duration: 5 Days- 25 Hours
Course details
Objectives:
- Define and understand the role of the general service administration.
- Make better general services management decisions
- Acquire time management skills required for better office productivity.
- List the main causes of stress and the techniques needed to control
- Learn communication strategies needed for carrying out responsibilities in an effective manner.
- Develop a service attitude and mindset aimed at the internal and external customer
- Manage a network of working relations
- Communicate effectively
- Manage time for yourself and others
- Organize office systems
- Review their working relationships
- Develop an action plan to help your manager
- Evaluate your Key Performance Indicators and make them more useful
- Use simple frameworks for planning, including allocating and managing priorities, scheduling work, working proactively and reactively and project planning.
- Identify and avoid causes for contractual claims.
- Recognize the different types of claims and how to prevent and/or deal with each type.
- Understand the different approaches to claims handling including alternative dispute resolution.
- Practice and discuss, through a project, all aspects of handling and resolving contractual claims.
Course Outline
1. The Role of the General Service Administration
- The role and duties of general service administration
- Setting work objectives
- Identifying common issues and challenges
- Handling petty cash, estimating costs and monitoring expenditures
- Administration development tools
- The planning process
- Planning work in progress
- Analyzing and managing risk
- Contingency planning
- Developing procedures
- Problem solving techniques
- Defining Business Processes
- Defining Roles and Responsibilities
- Work Performance
- Sourcing suppliers and negotiation skills for contracts and services
- Equipment Effectiveness
- Staff Competence
- Organization policy and procedures
- Organization and contractor's relationship
2. Managing Time & Desk Management
- Managing interruptions and access
- Planning and priority setting
- Office layout and ergonomics
- Managing the paper-load
- Getting the best from e-mail and office technology
- Report and letter writing
- Setting & developing company writing standards
- Editing and proof-reading skills
- Dimensions of performance
- Motivation
- Appraisal
- Coaching and on-job training skills
- Action planning and influencing others
- Identifying and Eliminating Time Wasters
- Setting Goals and Priorities
- Delegation - giving and receiving
- Communication and listening skills
- Assertiveness, conflict and criticism
- People problems and problem people
3. Effective Communication Skills
- Improving communications within an existing team
- Oral and listening skills
- Reporting to Management
- Negotiation skills and techniques
- Managing difficult people
- Comparison of telephone / face to face / written communications, their effectiveness and suitability for different situations
- Improving Credibility and Gaining Recognition
- Speaking and Listening
- Being Assertive
- Selling Your Ideas to the Boss, Colleagues, Subordinates and Clients
- Handling requests and conflicting priorities
- Briefing skills - giving, receiving and passing on
- Delegation - giving and receiving
- Assertiveness, conflict and criticism
- People problems and problem people
3.1. Written Communication Style
- Layout
- Clear Writing
- Proof Reading
3.2. Using the Telephone Properly
- Professional Telephone Behavior
- Rules for Good Listening
- Making Appointments
3.3. Controlling Stress
- Symptoms
- Causes
- Solutions
3.4. Serving the Internal and External Customer
- Understanding the Needs of Internal and External Customers
- Having the Right Attitude
- Providing Excellent Service
- Handling Complaints
4. Organizing Meetings, Setting and Meeting Objectives
- Planning skills
- Project management approaches for support staff
- Managing time
- Strategies for managing change
- Identifying and dealing with Pressure Points
- Implementing Action Plans
- Preparing the Agenda
- Taking Minutes
5. Claims
- Nature of Claims
- Types of Claims
- Claims Process
5.1. Claims Management
- Collect and review data regularly
- Highlight potential issues as they arise
- Identifying specific claims
- Following the timing within the contract/or be reasonable
- Issue with applications for payment
- Maintain communication to achieve agreement
5.2. The Claims Process
- The legal principles and practical procedures of payment claims
- Key considerations in valuing claims
- Claim generation
- Charge entry
- Payment entry
- Payment claims
- Delay costs and damages
- Procedures for variations
- Extensions of time
- The key elements of a contract
- Oral or written?
- Terms of the contract
6.1. Contractors' Objectives
- Profits
- Fair and Unfair Practices
- Keeping Records
6.2. Contracts in Progress
- Avoiding Problems
- Know Your Contract
- General and Special Terms
6.3. Relationship with contracts
- External and internal dimensions of a business relationship
- Formation of a Contract
- The key elements of a contract
- Terms of the contract
- Inter-business contracting
- Developing legal knowledge and skills
- Potential Problems with Standard Form Contracts
6.4. Payment Issues & Post contract Liability
- Variation of Contract Terms
- Variation of Scope of Work
- Management of Variations and retaining control of the contract
- Payment and money events
- Delay, suspension and extension of time
- Finance and Payment in International Trade
- Bonds and Guarantees
- Defects Liability
- Termination of the Contract and Remedies
- Mitigation of losses and claims
6.5. Issues of validity of a contract
- Precedence of documents in a contract
- Delivery, acceptance and transfer of title and risk
- Liability in negligence - relationship with contract conditions
- Product liability and defective goods
- Overview of requirements of a valid contract
- Letters - Intent; Instruction/Award; Comfort; Awareness
- Conflict of Laws and Choice of Law and jurisdiction Clauses
7. Resolution of Disputes
- Negotiation, compromise and settlement
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Litigation
- Arbitration
- Managing disputes
- Developing an exit strategy
- Review of programme, and final questions
Updated on 15 October, 2016
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