Events Calendar

• Information Technology Governance and Management Seminar Information Technology: Value or Risk? 
  Sydney: 7 September;
  I don't understand IT: now what do I do? You can't get fired for IT problems, can you? How do I protect my company from IT misadventure? Ai Group's Information Technology Governance & Management Seminars can provide the answers. 
   
• Using Skills Productively 2010 Conference
  Sydney: 6-7 September
  The conference will focus on how we can increase productivity, employee engagement and job satisfaction by making better use of skills in the workplace.
   
• Successful Quoting and Tendering Techniques
  Melbourne: 7 & 8 September; North Sydney: 7 & 8 October; Brisbane: 28 & 29 October
  Ai Group’s interactive and practical workshop will focus on increasing your tendering/quoting success rate through an increased understanding of the overall task that must address eligibility and assessment criteria, present a current and convincing case statement, apply project development skills to ensure conformance as well as innovation, adopt appropriate marketing and sales approaches, and submit a powerful, positive and persuasive document.
   
• Review of EPA Compliance and Enforcement - Industry Consultations
  Melbourne: 10 September
  EPA Victoria is conducting a comprehensive assessment of how it EPA encourages industry to comply and how it enforces against those that don’t. The review will result in recommendations for EPA's approach to compliance and enforcement and to its enforcement policy. To facilitate business input into the review, Ai Group is hosting an industry consultation on Friday 10 September at the Australian Industry Group.
   
• Contract Negotiation Techniques
  North Sydney: 13 September
  Ai Group’s interactive and practical workshop provides you with the practical knowledge and skills for negotiating commercial contracts and contractual variations to solve business problems, using proven methodologies and strategies.
   
• Environmental solutions forum - A Waste or a Resource?
  Ballarat: 13 September
  This FREE seminar will look at opportunities to improve resource use and minimize waste disposal costs.
   
• Managing Employees Behaving Badly seminar
  Newcastle: 13 September; Melbourne: 14 September; Merrylands: 17 September; Sydney: 20 September; Brisbane: 5 October; Rowville: 13 October
  This one day seminar which will provide effective strategies to address issues in the workplace that contribute to poor morale, low productivity and increased risk. Case studies will be used to illustrate the lessons on each topic.
   
• Commercial Contracts & Risk Management
  Brisbane: 14 September
  Ai Group’s interactive and practical workshop provides a quick refresher on the basics of contract law, how indemnity clauses can be used and misused and how to use confidentially agreements. 

• Enterprise Bargaining
  Melbourne: 17 September
  This Ai Group half day seminar covers the new case law related to bargaining and helps companies to develop strategies in preparation for agreement negotiations.  

• Professional Selling Skills
  Brisbane: 17 September; Melbourne: 28 October; Sydney: 18 November
  This dynamic one day workshop provides participants with knowledge and skills to better utilise the sales process and improve their own sales performance. The workshop covers the sales process to win new sales, controlling the sales cycle and building strategic partnerships and customer relationships.
   
• Sustainability Showcase: Foster’s Group
  Melbourne: 21 September
  This half-day onsite program at the Foster’s Group Brewery in Abbotsford will help you improve your understanding of water and waste management and how to operate in a resource constrained future. 
   
• Safeguarding of Machinery seminar
  Sydney: 21 September
  This seminar gives you practical information on how an effective plant safety program can control and safeguard these hazards before they turn into injuries, ensure you are in compliance with the legislative requirements and maintain profitability by protecting against the impact of costly lost time injuries.
   
• Environmental solutions forum - Get started with energy efficiency!
  Port Augusta: 22 September
  This FREE seminar will look at a number of practical measures that can readily be incorporated into your business practices to save money and energy. 
   
• Environmental solutions forum - government funding opportunities
  Adelaide: 23 September; Sydney: 28 September; Melbourne: 29 September
  This free seminar will outline the range of government programs available to assist companies identify and implement initiatives to reduce costs and improve environmental performance. 
   
• Business over Breakfast with Lance Hockridge
  Brisbane: 6 October
  Ai Group is proud to present its members with an opportunity to hear first-hand from QR National CEO and Managing Director, Lance Hockridge.
   
• Managing a Business Restructure seminar
  Sydney: 6 October; Brisbane: 7 October; Melbourne: 8 October
  This half day seminar helps you find the answers, and provides important information for businesses who are undertaking common forms of business restructures resulting from downsizing, outsourcing or acquiring a new business.
   
• Cost Recovery Techniques: Labour and Overhead Rates
  Melbourne: 7 October; Brisbane: 15 October; North Sydney: 20 October
  Ai Group’s interactive and practical workshop includes the fundamentals of quotations, estimating, cost sheets, job costing, cost behaviour and direct costing.
   
• Making Safety Easier seminar
  Keilor: 12 October
  This seminar is aimed at office managers, HR practitioners, payroll staff, administration managers, quality assurance officers, operation managers, small business owners and anyone who is trying to manage the OHS function in their organisation. 
    
• Energy contract negotiation seminar 
  Bendigo: 14 October
  This seminar will assist companies with their energy contract negotiations, including strategies for the negotiation, information on the current electricity market including prices and trends and tips on how to reduce energy costs. 
     
• Annual Forum and Annual National Dinner 2010
  Canberra: 24-25 October
  The theme for this year's Forum is What's Next? New Thinking, New Directions. As the economy picks up pace, it is a chance to be part of a forward looking discussion on the future directions for business and the economy and to be in the moment in this election year.
   
• Production Planning and Shop Floor Control
  Brisbane: 1 November; Melbourne: 15 November; Sydney: 2 December
  Ai Group’s interactive and practical workshop provides you with the right information to solve business problems, using proven methodologies and strategies. The workshop covers the key concepts of production planning and scheduling in the most efficient and effective manner from sales and operations to daily dispatch lists.
   
• Competitive Tendering & Managing Contracts
  Sydney: 4 November
  Ai Group’s interactive and practical workshop provides you with an understanding of the essential aspects of tendering and contract management vital for avoiding the many traps and pitfalls that wait the prospective tenderer. Conditions of contract and tender conditions need to be scrutinised carefully to ensure that any “hooks” are detected before they later take you by surprise.

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