Commercial Acumen and Practical Practices
Helping bridge the capability gap
Commercial acumen and practical practices for the public sector?
Commercial acumen is a way of thinking, not a process or skill. You have to know how to create the value, claim the value, and keep the value. Understanding how market facing organisations operate, their imperatives, will allow you to build better relationship and derive better value by leveraging what they have to offer.
Learn how industry is structured and what it means for the public sector, how they make money, how the market and sell. How to engage and manage a contactor and a consultant. How to write a better RFT. How to manage a contract so that you get services not just compliance.
Practical Practices are the tools and techniques to uplift effectiveness. Getting more done, better, faster, easier. Clearer communication, critical thinking, gaining insights from numbers, business skills to be effective.
But there is more to this program - for it covers how to apply commercial practices to public sector delivery, in a public sector context. Nothing everything the commercial could or should be applied. But if you don't know what you can consider you can't make an informed choice.
Learn how industry is structured and what it means for the public sector, how they make money, how the market and sell. How to engage and manage a contactor and a consultant. How to write a better RFT. How to manage a contract so that you get services not just compliance.
Practical Practices are the tools and techniques to uplift effectiveness. Getting more done, better, faster, easier. Clearer communication, critical thinking, gaining insights from numbers, business skills to be effective.
But there is more to this program - for it covers how to apply commercial practices to public sector delivery, in a public sector context. Nothing everything the commercial could or should be applied. But if you don't know what you can consider you can't make an informed choice.
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Insights Courses
Masterclass in Commercial Acumen
In this highly interactive and experiential masterclass, discover how to better create, claim and keep value — the three legs of value for money.
This course is for leaders across the public sector. Procurement is a process, but leaders own the business. Learn how to structure and manage your engagement with industry to deliver value, not just compliance.
This course is for leaders across the public sector. Procurement is a process, but leaders own the business. Learn how to structure and manage your engagement with industry to deliver value, not just compliance.
- Understand industry—the big and the small, what drives them, how the behave, how the sell, how they win, profit and other influences,
- Explore how to structure better ‘deals’. Procurement is a process. Deal making is about maximising your outcomes.
- Negotiate strategically, beyond a stage in procurement, create contracts that work
- Contract management, beyond administration and compliance. Keep the value you negotiated and unlock more
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Masterclass in Practical Practices
Looking to uplift your team in basic business and professional skills? Developed at the request of an APS client, this course has been tailored to focus on helping public sector teams be better at their business.
We cover immediately applicable, practical, topics including:
- Persuasion, influence and negotiation
- Impactful written communication and presentations for busy executives
- Meetings and workshop facilitation
- Problem-solving approaches
- Writing an effective paper, rapidly
- Bias
- Understanding numbers for business
- How to engage contractors, consultants and service providers to get better value
- and more...
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