Fast Start is an exciting new breakthrough skills development package for a new generation of managers that comprehensively covers the skills and knowledge underpinning commercial decision-making in a five-day modular programme.

It is designed to meet the needs of organisations striving to achieve a competitive advantage through their relationships with their suppliers and customers and to reduce their exposure to commercial risk – fast!

Fast Start provides an alternative and flexible approach to ad hoc training and skills development by addressing the commercial skill set as a whole: it draws together the most sought after commercial attributes and builds them into a holistic approach to commercial decision making. FastStart covers contracts, contract governance, risk management, financial management, negotiation skills, pricing, managing projects, and supplier management. 

This is a high energy, stimulating and interactive modular programme which immerses participants in business case studies and exercises, providing extensive opportunities for debate, peer and tutor feedback and review, developing self awareness and skills practice and improvement. By using detailed case studies across all modules we can help build the links between subjects and issues which can be hard to achieve in standalone one or two day modules.

Our aim is for participants to leave the programme with greater confidence and a step change in their thinking and approach to commercial decision-making. Fast Start can be run as an intensive one-week residential programme or as a series of non-residential linked modules.

The programme works optimally with 12-16 delegates.This is a great group size for lively and varied plenary session discussion, but also ideal for participants to work in small groups for many of the exercises.