Programs · Intensive Professional Course
Program overview
Contracts & Negotiation for Independents
Build and enforce contracts that protect your work and your payment.
Key facts
- Qualification
- Intensive Professional Course
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Entry requirement
- Open entry
- Format
- Online
- Credential
- Certificate
- Accreditation
- Credence Institute certification
About this program
Contracts and Negotiation for Independents covers building and enforcing agreements that protect your work and your payment. It works through essential contract clauses, scope definition and change control, deposits and payment milestones, intellectual property and usage rights, termination and kill fees, negotiating terms without losing the client and what to do when an invoice goes unpaid.
(opens full size in a new tab)Who should apply
- Professionals
What you leave with
Contracts and Negotiation fThe skills to build and enforce contracts that protect your work and payment, from scope and milestones to termination.or Independents
Where it can take you
- Protecting your work and payment through clear agreements
- Enforcing contracts and recovering unpaid invoices
- Negotiating terms without losing the client
The award
On passing the assessment you receive a certificate for this Intensive Professional Course program. Verification arrangements for this program are stated at enrollment. Issued under Credence Institute certification.
Who teaches it
If you want to know who leads this program before you apply, ask us and we will tell you.
Paying for someone else?
If you are funding someone else’s studies, here is what you are paying for. Contracts & Negotiation for Independents is an Intensive Professional Course program taking 6 weeks, examined and credentialed, and issued with a certificate that any employer can verify publicly at any time. It prepares the learner for protecting your work and payment through clear agreements, enforcing contracts and recovering unpaid invoices, and negotiating terms without losing the client. With the learner’s consent we will confirm enrollment, attendance and completion to you in writing at each stage.
Next intakes
Dates for the next cohorts are being confirmed. An advisor can tell you when this program next runs, and put you on the list for it.
Ask an advisor about datesFees and payment
Multiple payment options are available, with installments on programs of six weeks and longer. Employers can be invoiced directly against a purchase order or a letter of undertaking.