Management and Leadership skills for bidders

Improve your team's bidding by improving your management skills. A Management and Leadership course created for bidders, by bidders.

Why sign up for the course?

You've been promoted to managing a bid team
(or want to be!)

But don't have the management and leadership skills or experience to give you confidence.

You want to improve your bid team's success

But just changing the bid process or writing isn't enough to make the difference you need.

You want a course that's relevant to your bid role

But you can't find a management and leadership course that's relevant to the work you do, and the pressures you face in bidding.

Benefits of our bid management and leadership course

A management and leadership course designed by bidders, for bidders.

Learn key management skills for bidding

Our training focuses on what managers leading bid teams need to motivate the bid team, deliver better bid results, gain confidence and drive their career forward.

A course focused on bidding

Each module is based in the realities of bidding, uses bid language, examples and approaches. By linking skills to the experiences bid leaders have every day, they're easier to understand and learn.

Practical application in a bid environment

Each module focuses on practical ways you can put the skills you're learning into action in your bid team, and as the manager of a bid function. So you can make a positive impact straight away.

Why signing up will help your bid career

01

Confidence

Increase your confidence as a manager and leader by understanding and practicing core management skills effectively.
02

Performance

Whatever bid processes and systems you have in place, bidding is still about people. By creating a more motivated, engaged and effective team, your bid performance will improve.
03

Career

Demonstrating effective management skills and approaches will enhance your reputation as a capable leader across your organisation.

Learn. | Practice. | Improve. 

Our online course fits into your timetable. You don't need to fit into ours.

Fit into your schedule and learn when you want to. Each subject is broken into focused sections which take 10 minutes to an hour to complete. As the course is 100% online it's always available when you're ready, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. You can access it whenever you have time, take as long as you need to go through each video,  or other material, and download booklets and exercises to complete and study in your own time. And you can stop at any point and automatically come back to where you left. 

Spread your learning over time and learn at your own pace. Your sign up is for a full year.  Need to take a break during a busy bid period? No problem. Want to spend time putting a skill you've learned into practice before moving onto the next subject? Go for it. Everything will still be there, ready for you to use when you're ready.

Complete the course in the order you want. We've designed the modules so you can pick the subject you want to learn, when you want to learn it. Learn skills in the order most useful to you. 

Put your learning into practice. Every module includes bid related exercises to help learning, templates to help put skills into practice. Every subject has a Putting into Practice section showing how you can translate what you've learned into your bid team management practice every day.

What does the course cover?

The course modules teach you the key skills you need to lead your bid function effectively:


Develop your Bid Team through Coaching

Learn how to Negotiate effectively

Improve your Delegation skills

Build a High Performance Bid Team

Managing Yourself as a Bid Manager & Leader

Bid Leader & Bid Manager - can you be both?

Leading & Managing Change in Bidding

Planning & Forecasting for Bid Leaders



For more details, flip through or download our Introduction brochure below

The 'hidden' hack to winning more bids

Great bid leadership isn't just about better bid processes, systems and writing skills. It's about the people in and around the team. How you can help them perform, grow, be engaged in, and motivated by, the bids they're delivering and supporting. So they, and you, deliver better bids.

Improving your management skills, confidence and approach is the 'hidden' hack to better bid performance for your team.

Our course is designed by bidders, for bidders and about the bid environment you're managing in.

By signing up you'll learn how to become a better bid manager and leader. And gain management and leadership capabilities that will serve you throughout your career.

Who's behind the Course?

Nigel Thacker

Nigel has been leading bids, bid teams and businesses for over two decades. He has led bid teams in multinational FTSE 100, PE owned Healthcare, medium and small businesses. He has trained managers in bidding across the UK, USA, Australasia, Europe and the Middle East.

Nigel is  APMP Practitioner certified, has a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors, and an MA in Marketing. He is also a mentor on the APMP UK Rapport mentoring programme.

Nigel also runs the leading bid consultancy Rebidding Solutions and has published two books on rebidding, including The Recompete Guide. He has presented on bidding and rebidding at APMP events and conferences in the UK and USA.

Nigel developed and tested the course with the help of bidders and bid consultants from a range of organisations and sectors across the UK.
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