It's simple; leaders train their teams. We know this from our annual research and see it in successful client implementations.
To be a high-performing procurement or supply chain function, your people's approach must be research-based, aligned to corporate objectives, and tailored to your team's needs.
Teams engage more effectively when topics, activities, and workshop exercises have a clear line of sight to day-in-the-life application and action. Bringing a live supplier relationship, category, or sourcing project into the learning environment delivers measurable and evidence-based outcomes, helping you and your team leaders demonstrate a clear return on investment.
Depending on the scale of your team, our training can be delivered using a range of standardised modules or by designing a more tailored program informed by a team competency assessment and your business needs.
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Description: Understand your team's strengths and development opportunities to deliver business value.
Description: Develop and create new value though your most important supplier relationships.
Description: Protect value with a practical and structured approach to proactively manage risk.
Description: Develop and create new value though your most important supplier relationships.
Description: Examine the skills of negotiation you need to build better long-term value for your business.
Description: Understand how to sell to procurement teams; how they buy and how they manage suppliers.
Description: Develop and apply the skills to source strategically and deliver a value creating supplier to the business.
Description: Understand why supplier diversity can help unlock innovation and agility, and improve ESG credentials.
Description: Learn the behavioural skills that "make" a supplier relationship, or "break it".
The Benefits for your Business
Attracting and retaining talent
The greatest asset of any business is its people. Employees see development opportunities as an important benefit.
Strategic execution
Having the right people with the right skills is central to delivering your business strategy.
Efficiency
The right people, right skills approach also ensures that a business can do what it does more efficiently.
The Benefits of choosing State of Flux Training
Collaborative working
We don’t just deliver courses, we back them up with coaching support to ensure everything we teach is embedded – this is how we ensure the return on investment is delivered.
On the job application
Our learning programmes are structured around action learning principles – we bring participants' real on-the-job examples into sessions, driving immediate improvements and measurable ROI.
Research based best practice
The content and structure of our programmes is shaped by the findings of our global annual research into supplier management best practice and thousands of real-world consulting engagements.
ART AND SCIENCE
of a high performing procurement team
To create a strategic procurement function, technical skills are needed alongside the right interpersonal behaviours.
As set out in the graphic, the highly modular content library covers the full procurement lifecycle enabling quick and easy creation of your bespoke learning programmes. Integral to your training, we provide tools and templates to ensure that best practice is bought to life in your team.
Over 18 years of training experience has taught us that your team will get the most benefit from an informed approach to developing their capabilities. Using the State of Flux competency assessment tool will help you develop an objective viewpoint of your organisational capability across the full procurement lifecycle - from understanding business requirements through to creating new value with your suppliers. Insights from the team capability heatmap enables us to tailor training programmes for individuals and teams respectively.
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