Commercial Awareness
This course provides a practical understanding of what it means to “be commercial” and how to apply commercial thinking across the full contract lifecycle.
Synergie Training offers a range of awareness courses designed to boost your professional skills. These courses help you understand key contract principles, commercial practices, and health and safety standards. You will learn how to manage contracts effectively, avoid conflicts, and resolve disputes confidently.
Our training covers essential legal and commercial topics tailored for construction and engineering professionals. Whether you want to improve negotiation skills or gain a solid grounding in contract management, these courses provide practical knowledge you can apply immediately. Training is available online, onsite, or at locations across the UK, making it easy to fit learning into your schedule.
Explore our range of training courses in this category to find the right fit for your learning goals.
This course provides a practical understanding of what it means to “be commercial” and how to apply commercial thinking across the full contract lifecycle.
The Online Contract Negotiation Training Course equips professionals with essential skills for successful commercial negotiations. The course covers negotiation strategies, stakeholder management, interpersonal skills, and building power dynamics. Participants will learn to manage relationships, minimize value leakage, and reduce disputes. The program is designed for individuals involved in commercial contracting. Sessions include topics such as commercial management, stakeholder prioritization, negotiation styles, and overcoming deadlocks. The course aims to enhance negotiation abilities for achieving mutually beneficial outcomes in business relationships.
The Online Contract Management Training course focuses on teaching the principles of contract administration to engineers, professionals entering the commercial world, and those needing commercial skills.
The Commercial Specifications Training Course is a two-day program that aims to provide delegates with the necessary skills to create effective specifications for commercial purposes. The course covers topics such as scoping requirements, clear writing, editing, and addressing commercial risks and regulatory requirements. Participants will learn how to write robust specifications that meet the needs of customers and work effectively with suppliers and contracts.
The Construction Dispute Training Course focuses on conflict avoidance in the construction and engineering industries, exploring various resolution options. Topics include the Conflict Avoidance Process, senior management intervention, mediation, dispute boards, expert determination, adjudication, costs, outcomes, and case studies. An additional session covers JCT2024 changes. The course lasts half a day.
This Conflict Avoidance Training Course focuses on providing training related to conflict avoidance in construction and engineering projects in Scotland. The course covers various topics, including the causes of construction disputes, measures for public sector involvement, the Conflict Avoidance Process, the Conflict Avoidance Pledge, Best Practice Guide by the Construction Industry Collaborative Voice, adjudication procedures, mediation as an alternative, case studies, and a Q&A session.
This online Scottish Construction Contract Training course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding and practical application of construction contracts in the Scottish construction market. It focuses on key principles, tendering, essential contracts, and achieving successful project outcomes. The course targets civil, structural, and building engineers, project managers, and construction professionals seeking knowledge of construction contracts. By the end, delegates should have the ability to apply construction contracts practically, appreciate Scottish legal principles, understand key contract components, and have knowledge of dispute avoidance.
The Online Preliminaries & Specifications Training course covers contract components, writing preliminaries, detailed prelims writing, and specifications. It focuses on topics like scope of work, pricing, liabilities, and contract forms. The course includes exercises using project scenarios to reinforce learning. Duration: 1 day.