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Kaplan Hawksmere Business Library

Access over 150 sets of authored content on key business areas through the Kaplan Hawksmere Business Library – all at a 50% discount. Our speakers update their presentations in line with legal changes and the latest thinking.

The Kaplan Hawksmere Business Library offers access to our latest speaker presentations including key templates, forms and sample letters saving you significant time and money.

Below is a listing of the current presentation available to purchase at an introductory offer of £49. Simply click on the heading below that you are interested to navigate to the correct section.

To order simply call 0845 120 9602, quoting your Kaplan Hawksmere Membership number and we will do the rest.

COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS, PURCHASING AND SUPPLY  
 

Contract law		  
  • An introduction to contract and sales law
  • Business contract law
  • Negotiating and drafting software contracts
  Contract management and negotiation  
  • Successful contract management and administration
  • Successful contract negotiation
  General commercial skills  
  • Commercial awareness
  • Partnering for success
  MoD  
  • Contracting with the MoD
  
  Procurement and outsourcing  
  • Improving service provider performance
  • IT and software procurement
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INSURANCE
  General insurance  
  • Essential financial skills for insurance professionals
  Reinsurance  
  • Drafting reinsurance wordings
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LEGAL
 

Commercial, company and contract law		  
  • Commercial and company law update
  • Damages and other remedies in commercial contracts
  • Drafting and enforcing R&D contracts
  • Drafting and reviewing standard conditions of contract
  • Drafting commercial contracts
  • Drafting legal clauses in commercial contracts
  • Product liability
  • The role of the company secretary
  • The role of the director
  Intellectual property/IT  
  • Advertising and the law
  • Current legal issues in IT and software
  • Drafting technology licensing agreements
  • Marketing law and best practice
  • The ownership and control of intellectual property rights
  International law  
  • Effective use and understanding of the FIDIC conditions of contract
  • International commercial agreements
  • International intellectual property law
  • International joint venture agreements
  • International technology licensing agreements
  • Preparing, proving and defending claims under the FIDIC conditions of contract
  Mergers, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures  
  • Buying and selling unquoted businesses
  • Corporate acquisitions and disposals
  • Due diligence
  • Employment law aspects of mergers and acquisitions under the new TUPE regime
  • Post-acquisition management and integration
  • Understanding joint ventures
  Professional development  
  • Essential financial skills for lawyers
  Property, planning and environmental  
  • Current issues in planning law
  • Current legal and taxation issues in commercial property development
  • Environmental law update
  • Property joint ventures
  Specialist subjects for the in-house lawyer  
  • Competition law and the in-house lawyer
  • Intellectual property and the in-house lawyer
  • Leading and managing an effective in-house legal department
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MANAGEMENT
 

Commercial and finance 		 
  • Finance for the non-financial manager
  • Overhead cost reduction
  General management  
  • Introduction to management
  • Leadership
  • Successfully improving managerial performance
  • Women in management
  Office  
  • The essential senior secretary and PA
  People management  
  • The people skills of management
  Personal and communication skills  
  • Assertiveness
  • Effective writing skills for business
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Mastering personal effectiveness
  • Perfect presentations
  • Persuasion and influencing skills
  • Results focused time management
  Strategy and planning  
  • Developing and implementing business strategy
  • Planning, forecasting and budgeting
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MARKETING, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS
 

Internal communications 		 
  • Making the most of your internal communication channels
  • Managing internal communications
  Marketing  
  • Sponsorship
  Public relations  
  • Planning and managing special events
  • Successful PR and the regional media
  • Successful PR planning
  • Writing skills for PR
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING
  Engineering  
  • Engineering contracts
  • The commercial engineer
 

Project management

 
  • Project planning and risk management
  • Successful project management
  • Successfully managing smaller projects
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PROPERTY AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
 

Facilities 		 
  • Effective office space planning and design
  • FM cost reduction and supplier management
  • Managing office facilities
  Health and safety  
  • Fire safety legislation update
  • Health and safety for facilities managers
  Premises  
  • An introduction to security law
  • Premises security
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TAX
  • Current issues in property taxation
  • Tax aspects of acquisitions and disposals
  
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