Management and Leadership Skills for Bidders Course
Improve your team’s bidding, your confidence and your career by improving your management and leadership skills – online, at your own pace.
Why sign up for the course?
You've been promoted to managing a bid team (or want to be!)
And want to develop your management and leadership skills to give you confidence.
You want to improve your bid team's success
By motivating, engaging and developing your team.
You want a course that's relevant to your bid role
Which makes learning easy by linking management and leadership best practices to your every day work in bidding.
Benefits of the course
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 challenges bid leaders face 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 leader of a bid function. So you can make a positive impact straight away.
Confidence
Increase your confidence as a manager and leader by understanding and practicing core management skills effectively.
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.
Career
Demonstrating effective management skills and approaches will enhance your reputation as a capable leader across your organisation.
The Management and Leadership Skills for Bidders course Fits around you
It teaches you the key skills every bid leader needs.
- 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?
- Making Better Bid Decisions
- Leading & Managing Change in Bidding
- Planning & Forecasting for Bid Leaders
For more details, please refer to our introduction booklet.
view or download the bookletFit into your schedule and learn when you want to.
Each subject is broken into focused sections which take 10 to 30 minutes 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
Spread your learning over time and learn at your own pace.
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.
Practical application.
Because the course has been created for bidders, by bidders, every module includes bid related exercises to help learning and templates to help put skills into practice immediately. 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.
Get recognition.
As we’re endorsed by the Institute of Sales Professionals, you’ll recieve a certificate from the ISP when you complete the course, adding to your professional bid qualifiactions.
What do leaders who've completed the course say?
Sarah Brown, Head of Bid Management, Love2shop
“The training has been a fantastic opportunity to strengthen my skills in a bid management context, learn practical strategies and develop my management style.
Thanks for developing such a valuable and insightful training course tailored to our profession, covering an often overlooked area of our development”
Janneke Orriens, Director, Strategic Proposals NL
“Thanks for this unique leadership training for bid & proposal professionals.
Unique, because it comes entirely from our practice: influence without power, changing teams and tight deadlines. With practical models, tools and exercises to immediately be stronger in your role.”
Olly Jaycocks, Head of Bid Management, NRS Healthcare
“It’s been a great opportunity to reflect on my own approach to leading bid teams and to learn new ways of building confidence and getting the best out of people.
Here are a few things I’m taking away from the course: Confidence – building the skills (and self belief) to lead with more clarity and impact. Motivating Teams – understanding how to keep a bid team engaged and focused so we can deliver our very best work. Growth- putting these skills into practice to make a difference and continue to develop as a leader.”
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