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03 Feb - 05 Feb, 2025 | Classroom | ₦350,000 | Register | |
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10 Jul - 12 Jul, 2025 | Classroom | ₦350,000 | Register | |
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03 Feb - 05 Feb, 2025 | Classroom | ₦350,000 | Register |
Event Details
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Plan and draft a range of service level agreements & construct and control contract negotiations & disputes
- Articulate how quality SLAs should be included within the Procurement processes
- Negotiate service level agreements with internal and external suppliers
- Document appropriate quality outcomes from service contracts
- Evaluate the likely results from alternative service performance frameworks
CONTENT
Principles and functions of Service Level Agreements
- The need to measure quality of performance
- Why, when and how can SLAs help to achieve quality
- Key Objectives
- SLAs: Contracts or Contract substitutes?
- Introducing SLAs for services bought in from contractors
- Use of corporate SLAs between in-house departments
Key elements of a Service Level Agreements
- What services are being measured?
- Typical quality measures
- SLA Governance Frameworks: Managing, measuring and reporting service performance
- Duties of the customer
- Risk sharing and SLAs: Managing problems
- Termination of the agreement
Drafting your Service Level Agreement
- Drafting principles
- A model structure for the SLA
- Essential elements of a quality SLA
- Using appropriate measurement language
- Carrots or sticks to encourage achievement
- SLA checklists
Managing the in-life SLA
- Review processes
- Using escalation to manage quality performance
- Keeping the SLA relevant: Managing changes
- Negotiation techniques to manage the variation
- Customer intervention options with an underperforming contractor
- Learning and applying lessons for the next SLA
Using a scorecard approach to SLA management
- Origins of the scorecard approach
- Aligning the SLA with the corporate strategy
- Balancing the needs of stakeholders
- Planning and Constructing a SLA scorecard
- Key Performance indicators to support the SLA
- Business process quality improvement
FOR WHOM:
Legal Officers and others who perform related functions
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.
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Venue
Alpha Partners Professional Training Conference Centre. 200, Muritala Mohammed Way (3rd Floor), Yaba Lagos.
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