Based around the principles recommended by BS 8903 - the world’s first standard for sustainable procurement published in 2010 this brand new MasterClass will help you lead your business into a new era of sustainable procurement.

Facilitator Shaun McCarthy, Director of Action Sustainability and a leading expert in sustainable business will examine how to manage your supply chains in ways that offer long-term commercial value and competitive advantage.

Style your Leadership – You may already be leading your organisation, the key challenge is to keep your leadership fresh, inspirational and relevant to your changing environment.

This one day MasterClass will allow you to develop your skills – match them to different situations and enhance the tool-box of techniques at your disposal to really make a difference in your business.

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 When procurement purchasing becomes a high value spend it can become a natural target for fraudsters.  Fraud within the procurement life cycle is high risk and often becomes embedded within the organisation and can result in recurring losses.

This course provides training using practically gained commercial procurement fraud experience and is supported by academic research.

Designed to stimulate personal growth and capability around influencing strategies, whether it be internal or external to the organisation.  This MasterClass provides a comprehensive overview of powerful behavioural tools that are regularly used by some of the most successful business people in the UK.

 "The best event I have ever attended is without doubt the CIPS Executive influencing strategies MasterClass" Belinda Prince, Cancer Research UK

6 November 2012 event full - extra date of 29 November added

Many procurement groups find it a tough battle to get their voice heard within their organisations.  They are often involved too late, or even not at all.  Companies still have a rather out-dated view of what procurement can do, and can see the function at best, as administrators and at worst, as obstructive and bureaucratic.

This MasterClass will give you the tools, techniques and insights on how to change that perspective, and to start being the real business partner that procurement can be.