Developing Skills

•  BT and Siemens offer mentoring and coaching schemes so that commercial experience can be passed from senior executives to newer, more junior staff;

•  TPR offers a management diploma which incorporates modules on business finance and corporate awareness; and

•  Partnerships Victoria, part of the Department of Treasury and Finance in Victoria (Australia), has launched a five-day course on contract management in conjunction with Melbourne University, which is mandatory for contract management staff.