Soft Skills

The key to good relationships is emotional intelligence and soft skills, which we are becoming increasingly important to our profession

Stakeholder Management

Stakeholders are any individual or organisation that has an interest in or can be affected by a project, product, service or venture

Influencing Skills

Influencing skills are the ability to bring people round to your way of thinking about a certain topic, without force or coercion

Risk Analysis and Management

Risk analysis and management are techniques applied to ensure that contracts are successful, it allows procurement to minimise or overcome risk impact

Negotiation

Negotiation starts from the first communication between the buyer and the supplier right through to the final signing of the contract

Change Management

Change management in a structured process to move individuals, teams and organisations to the desired state

Behavioural procurement

The evolution of the principles established in Behavioural Economics. When people talk about developing soft skills, what do they mean

Procurement Team

Procurement Team encompasses all aspects of managing and developing your team to realise their true potential

CIPS Knowledge

Essential procurement and supply resources for your development and enhanced team performance

CIPS YouTube

Subscribe to the CIPS YouTube Channel for the latest procurement and supply videos

Global Standard

The CIPS Global Standard for Procurement and Supply is a competency framework used to enhance efficiency and performance

Procurement Systems

Learn when the right time is to invest to gain competitive advantage for your supply chain