Training
Equipping your team with strong contract drafting and negotiation skills is a proactive investment that can significantly reduce the risk of future disputes, improve your bottom line, and foster stronger business relationships. DDR offers practical training programs designed to empower your sales, procurement, and other client-facing teams with the knowledge and techniques needed to create robust agreements and negotiate confidently and effectively.
Contract Design & Drafting
Our training is practical, engaging, and tailored to the specific needs of your industry and your team.
We go beyond theoretical concepts, providing participants with:
Real-World Case Studies:
Analyze actual contract scenarios and negotiation challenges to apply learned principles.
Practical Tools:
Gain access to valuable resources that can be immediately implemented in their daily work.
Interactive Exercises and Role-Playing:
Develop and refine their skills in a safe and supportive environment.
Customized Content: Training modules can be adapted to address your organization's specific contract types, industry regulations, and negotiation challenges.
Focus on Key Principles:
We emphasize clarity in drafting, understanding leverage in negotiation, identifying underlying interests, and building collaborative relationships.
Adjudicating Contract Disputes
Adjudicating Contract Disputes: A Practical Guide for Arbitrators and Mediators
This online course provides a focused and practical guide for arbitrators and mediators tasked with resolving disputes arising from complex commercial contracts. Participants will learn how to effectively analyse key contractual terms from a neutral adjudicator's perspective, identify common drafting errors that lead to disputes, and understand the relevant surrounding circumstances that influence dispute resolution. The course focuses on seven frequently disputed commercial terms, equipping participants with the tools and knowledge to confidently navigate these challenges in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Accurately interpret dispute resolution clauses to determine their jurisdictional scope and procedural requirements.
- Identify and analyse critical information within purchase and sale agreements, master service agreements, and related contracts from an impartial standpoint.
- Locate and interpret key clauses related to price, delivery, scope, service levels, payment, responsibilities, liquidated damages, amendments, and warranties, with a focus on their implications for dispute resolution.
- Recognise common drafting errors that contribute to contract disputes and assess their impact on the parties' obligations.
- Determine relevant surrounding circumstances that can be considered in ADR proceedings and evaluate their evidentiary weight.
- Develop effective strategies for managing and resolving disputes related to the seven identified commercial terms.
- Draft clear, defensible, and enforceable awards or proposed solutions based on contractual analysis, relevant evidence, and applicable law.
Contact Us
Invest in your team's future success. Contact Duursema Dispute Resolutions today to discuss your organisation's training needs and how we can develop a customized program to empower your team with essential contract drafting and negotiation skills.
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