October Events

Below is a list of all of the events we are running in October. Click on the course title for the date, venue and full programme.

To view a list of events in specific areas, click on the category headings above.

• The Bribery Act 2010

  In view of the implications of the Bribery Act it is recommended that training of staff is put into place as soon as possible so staff are aware of all the changes which will come into place . This new seminar will provide you with the latest information on all of the policies and procedures to ensure that your organisation is compliant.New

  
  

• A concise guide to managing COSHH

  An intensive one-day workshop which covers all aspects of COSHH management, from new regulations to policy implementation within the individual organisations.

  
  

• A practical guide to health and safety

  Two days of advice and guidance to help you implement and maintain effective, day-to-day, health and safety practices

  
  

• Accounting standards update

  This course provides a detailed overview of the International Standards that are due to change for 2011, amendments made to the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM) and Finance manuals compared to 2010 and practical problems encountered in the first year of IFRS.

  
  

• Achieving results through effective time management

  This course shows how to use a simple results-driven approach to focus yourself and the people around you to produce better results every day, whilst at the same time reducing stress and 'overwhelm'.

  
  

• An introduction to commercial contract law and language

  This course will explain the fundamentals of contract law. It will help you deal with customers or suppliers to avoid potential legal problems.

  
  

• Annual in-house lawyer summit

  This conference is an opportunity for all senior in-house counsel & heads of legal to get an update on recent legal developments from experts with the opportunity to hear from key senior counsel on best practice in managing the in-house function.

  
  

• Assertiveness for maximum impact

  This seminar will give you the skills and techniques needed to increase your personal effectiveness. Spend one day learning how to stand your ground, stake your claim and gain what's owed to you, in all types of situation and in a constructive way.

  
  

• Commercial and company law update conference

  An intensive one-day review, presented by a panel of expert speakers, to keep you fully up-to-speed with the latest developments.

  
  

• Commercial contract drafting - an advanced level workshop

  This practical workshop will provide training and ‘hands-on’ experience in the drafting of commercial contracts. It is intended for people who already have several years experience of drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, and who wish to take their drafting skills to an advanced level.

  
  

• Commercial skills for financiers

  This workshop will allow attendees to explore their own behaviour and provide some techniques to improve their awareness and creativity.

  
  

• Competitive bid management

  A day of practical advice and guidance on how to win business - consistently, more efficiently and more profitably.

  
  

• Contracting with the MoD

  This seminar has been designed to help you understand the Smart Acquisition System, the structure of integrated project teams it has introduced and the conditions of contract currently employed.

  
  

• Corporate acquisitions and disposals

  This popular conference reviews in detail the key legal and other relevant aspects relating to a corporate acquisition or disposal.

  
  

• Croner Training's 10th Annual Update on Fitness for Work 2008

  Now in its 10th year, this intensive one-day seminar will provide updates on legislation, case law and occupational health. This seminar will benefit all HR Managers and occupational health practitioners.

  
  

• Current Legal Issues in IT and Software Conference

  Covers copyright protection, the competition regime and the latest issues such as data protection, human rights, spam and distance selling.

  
  

• Designing and implementing competency-based frameworks

  Competencies are now part of the standard toolkit for all HR professionals. This one-day seminar will help you learn how to design and review a competency based framework to suit your organisation.

  
  

• Education law

  This seminar examines the key aspects of education law which schools must understand. It explains what is required by law, plus the various best practice requirements outlined in codes of practice and guidance from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

  
  

• Effective HR assistant

  This popular one-day seminar is an ideal introduction to the main issues which would face an HR professional. Whilst it is designed for those with little or no knowledge of the HR function, this seminar will also serve as a useful update for those more experienced in the field.

  
  

• Effective HR officer

  HR policies and procedures have to move with the times. To keep them up-to-date and effective, you need to know the very latest developments in employment law and best practice. This very popular, practical, one-day seminar has been designed specifically to help you bring your knowledge completely up-to-date and show you how to apply it to best effect.

  
  

• Effective writing skills for business

  Letters to customers, memos to staff, communications to suppliers, reports to the board - even messages to motivate and inspire. This one-day seminar will enable you to portray yourself as professional, friendly, considerate and capable in every business communication you write.

  
  

• Efficient office space planning and design

  This one-day seminar delivers practical, proven techniques to ensure effective supplier performance.

  
  

• Employee handbooks - the policies and the practice

  A highly interactive, one-day course providing you with all the advice and guidance required to make sure your employee handbook is up-to-date and in line with the law.

  
  

• Employing overseas nationals

  An intensive one-day programme on an increasingly contentious issue designed for in-house lawyers and HR professionals, including a half-day practical workshop on making work permit and HSMP applications.

  
  

• Employment law aspects of restructuring, M&A and outsourcing

  This is a must-attend conference for all those involved in the employment aspects of business transfers. The programme will to guide you through the minefield of employment law.

  
  

• Essential guide to customs procedures

  This one-day seminar indicates the Customs facilities available to importers and exporters. Particular emphasis is given to the tariff origin rules and IPR/OPR.

  
  

• Evidence base best practice conference

  Planners are expected to generate an ever growing flow of increasingly complex evidence to inform development plans. This conference will help you make better evidence bases to inform more robust policies. We will look at what the Planning Inspectorate wants to see and how a barrister uses evidence bases.

  
  

• Evidence base masterclass 1 - general housing

  Evidence bases are increasingly important in planning. Producing them can be long, complicated and expensive process. But it doesn’t have to be. As the Planning Inspectorate reminds us, the most useful studies are usually the simplest and most focused ones. These half-day classes will help you build a robust evidence base efficiently and will provide a step-by-step guide to help you build your evidence and translate it into development plan policies.

  
  

• Evidence base masterclass 2 - affordable housing

  Evidence bases are increasingly important in planning. Producing them can be long, complicated and expensive process. But it doesn’t have to be. As the Planning Inspectorate reminds us, the most useful studies are usually the simplest and most focused ones. These half-day classes will help you build a robust evidence base efficiently and will provide a step-by-step guide to help you build your evidence and translate it into development plan policies.

  
  

• Finance for the non-financial manager

  This seminar will explain simply and clearly what the key financial statements mean, how they work and relate to each other and how your actions as a manager affect them and your business.

  
  

• Handling disciplinary and capability issues effectively

  An invaluable day of practical advice and guidance on how to conduct disciplinary and capability issues effectively without falling foul of the law. This one day seminar will help you understand the policies and procedures involved in disciplinary, conduct and capability issues.

  
  

• IFRS for the local government

  The course provides a detailed overview of the International Standards relevant to Local Government financial statements, practical problems encountered in their application so far and a review lessons learned from the problems encountered by Central Government in their convergence to IFRS in March 2010.

  
  

• IFRS update

  This one-day course provides a focused update on the key current issues in international financial reporting.

  
  

• International technology licensing agreements

  This two-day seminar will give you practical advice on understanding, drafting, interpreting and using international technology licensing agreements.

  
  

• International trade procedures update

  Changes to import and export procedures are so common these days that it almost seems like a daily task keeping up-to-date. New regulations can slip by unnoticed or without being fully understood. This seminar is your best way of keeping up to date and saving your company money.

  
  

• Introduction to importing

  This practical one day seminar looks at the interconnected elements of importing goods into the UK. The aim is to look at the supply chain aspects of goods sourced from outside the UK giving delegates confidence and awareness in dealing with overseas suppliers, with transportation and customs procedures.

  
  

• Introduction to management

  This one-day workshop is designed to give you an introduction into key areas of people management.

  
  

• Kaplan Business Challenge

  This one-day workshop simulates a real world manufacturing business with long lead-times, contract-led sales, international operations and highly competitive markets. By working in groups, cting as the senior management team of a failing business, delegates will be tasked with the mission of turning their business around and creating value.

  
  

• Kaplan Hawksmere's finance directors' annual conference

  This event is specifically designed to address the increased challenges facing Finance Directors including developments in law and best practice, key FD audiences and career development, equipping them to make the maximum possible contribution to their businesses.

  
  

• Leadership

  This powerful seminar focuses on the key factors, competencies, skills and techniques that today's senior managers need to be aware of, in order to improve their performance as successful leaders.

  
  

• Lesson observation and performance management in schools

  A seminar aimed at senior and middle leaders in primary and secondary schools who are responsible for observing lessons on a school or departmental basis.

  
  

• Managing people effectively

  Based upon sound people management principles, subjects covered include motivational strategies, team building, delegation and communication. The programme is intensive and uses case studies, practical exercises and discussion.

  
  

• Managing safely

  This IOSH approved comprehensive four-day course provides managers from any type of industry with an introductory grounding in health and safety at work that will ensure safe management of activities in the workplace

  
  

• Negotiation skills

  This training seminar will introduce you to a range of tools and techniques to increase your effectiveness in any negotiation situation.

  
  

• OFSTED - getting it right

  This one-day seminar will look at the current Ofsted framework for inspections, a radical departure from what has happened before. As inspections are shorter, the amount of notice is shorter – are you prepared?

  
  

• Part 36, Estimates and Costs - The Update

  This seminar will work out the real effects on costs post the new CPR Part 36, as well as discuss and explore recent cases specially the decision in Carver.

  
  

• Payroll update

  The contents of the seminar may vary where new legislation is introduced or proposed by the Government or new consultative documents are issued by the Inland Revenue or Contributions Agency.

  
  

• Planning and managing special events

  This is a highly practical workshop and provides you with an A to Z for the successful PR, marketing and management of events.

  
  

• Planning for Healthy Communities Conference

  This one-day conference is aimed at those in planning, urban design and waste management. It should also be of interest to those from the health sector seeking to engage with the planning community to enhance contributions towards improved public health.

  
  

• Planning, forecasting and budgeting

  A concentrated day of practical advice and guidance on how to improve your planning, forecasting and budgeting processes - for better financial control and performance.

  
  

• Project management for everyone

  This seminar has been developed to meet the needs of those who are managing tasks, assignments or even parts of formal projects who need to meet challenging targets under time and resource constraints.

  
  

• Retail and Town Centres Conference

  This conference will consider possible future directions for retail policy and explore what these mean in practice for retailers, developers and local authorities.

  
  

• Strategic environmental assessments and sustainability appraisal

  This one-day masterclass will explain how to fulfil latest legal requirements, and how to use the SEA/SA process to help improve plans. Strategic environmental assessments (SEA) and sustainability appraisals (SA) help to ensure that plans and programmes are as environmentally sound and sustainable as possible. SEA and SA are required for a wide range of plans and programmes under new legislation.

  
  

• Successful contract management and administration in difficult times

  This two-day seminar will introduce you to the essential aspects of contract management and sharpen your commercial awareness.

  
  

• Successful contract negotiation

  A practical one-day seminar that will strengthen both your knowledge of contract law and your skills in the strategy of negotiation.

  
  

• Successfully implementing business strategy

  A concentrated day of practical advice and guidance on how to bridge the gap between high-level strategy and the detailed changes managers throughout your organisation need to make day-to-day in order to achieve effective implementation.

  
  

• Tax aspects of acquisitions and disposals - Conference

  This conference is a must for all those who have to advise on the tax aspects of acquisitions or disposals and how they might impact on other aspects of the commercial negotiations.

  
  

• The core skills of facilities management

  A practical and highly interactive one-day seminar which will give you the key skills necessary to deliver successful facilities management.

  
  

• The effective training administrator

  Efficient administration is critical to the success of your training function and ultimately your business. This one-day practical programme will help you to develop the key knowledge and skills required to be an effective training administrator. Includes real-life case study exercise and personal action planning sessions

  
  

• The essential management skills for the senior secretary and PA

  This up-to-the-minute seminar has been designed with you in mind - giving you the tools and techniques to succeed in the ever-changing role you occupy.

  
  

• The high performance manager

  An intensive two-day programme to update and upgrade your key skills and competencies for managing, leading, motivating and developing your team.

  
  

• The high performance school leadership team

  Heads who have a 'blended' team are under less strain and achieve much, much more for their students. Discover what this term means on this seminar, how you can identify the stage of development of your own team and how you can identify the competences that are essential for effectiveness.

  
  

• The role of the director

  An in-depth one-day seminar covering the legal duties, responsibilities, liabilities and the latest changes in legislation.

  
  

• Transport and Development Conference

  How can we deliver better transport systems and solutions at a time when major budgets are being cut and radically re-prioritised? This and other key questions will be the subject of the RTPI’s annual transport and development conference this year. Cutting to the heart of this issue for developers, landowners, planners and politicians, how can we achieve better quality places with less resource? From strategic questions to site specific examples this conference is designed to challenge, provoke and use the combined intelligence in the room to generate some real answers If you attend it’s not just about networking and learning from each other. It will be fast, punchy and aim to push the boundaries. A key output will be a think-tank report to the RTPI about ‘what next?’

  
  

• UK GAAP update

  This one day course provides a highly focused summary of the key GAAP differences in an inter-active classroom environment.

  
  

• Urban design in the planning system (Master class)

  This course highlights the importance of design in the planning process and as a component in the development of sustainable communities.

  
  

• Using key performance indicators for business improvement

  This course defines what a true KPI is and provides delegates with the opportunity to define the appropriate KPIs for their own organisation, using certain techniques. The course also considers how financial information generally can be better presented to improve its clarity and impact.

  
  

• VAT: a general introduction

  This interactive and comprehensive seminar is aimed both at those new to VAT and those needing a refresher course. It covers all the key elements of Value Added Tax (VAT) which are necessary to form a practical understanding of the basic requirements.Failure to comply with the VAT regulations can result in assessments, interest charges and penalties.

  
  

• WEBINAR - Negotiation Skills - making the pie bigger

  This webinar will look at the three stages of the negotiation process – Planning, the Conversation and Follow up – and present tools, tips and techniques to consider at each stage. There will also be a brief consideration of personal styles and the impact of emotion on the negotiation process.

  
  

• Writing skills for PR

  The workshop is designed to encourage more understanding and co-operation between PRs and journalists. The focus is on helping PR professionals better understand the needs of writers and editors when they are selecting and sending story material.

  
  

• Writing winning business plans

  This one-day seminar will help you gain the knowledge and skills you require to present your business plans in a winning way, showing you how to avoid putting forward plans that are doomed to fail.