Tender Training – Writing Powerful Tenders – How to Write a Successful Bid

Tender Training – Writing Powerful Tenders – How to Write a Successful Bid

Navigate Change Consulting deliver a core tender training programme designed to help businesses build capability and confidence on tender writing. The one-day Writing Powerful Tenders programme is aimed at introducing a sustainable and continually improving tender-writing capability within each organisation or with individuals.

The aim of this highly acclaimed tender training programme is to “provide participants with the knowledge on how to develop persuasive written tenders and proposals and to promote a strong and sustainable bid-writing capability.”

Click Here for more information including a programme outline can be downloaded from the links below. We also offer the Writing Powerful Tenders training programme – tailored to the needs of the Voluntary and Community (Charity) and Social Economy sectors. This is particularly focused on developing the tender writing capability of organisations bidding for government contracts and other funding.

Autumn Training Ireland Programme Announced

Autumn Training Ireland Programme Announced

Ian McKay of Navigate Change Consulting is please to announce the autumn training Ireland schedule (Ireland):

Thursday 19 September 2013: Writing Winning Tenders: Limerick City Enterprise Board, Absolute Hotel, Limerick.
Friday 20 September 2013: Winning Tenders One-to-One Mentoring, Limerick City Enterprise Board Office, the Granary, Limerick.
Tuesday 1 October 2013: Winning Tenders One-to-One Mentoring, Offaly County Enterprise Board Office, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
Wednesday 23 October 2013: Writing Winning Tenders: Kildare County Enterprise Board, Osprey Hotel, Naas, Co. Kildare.
Thursday 24 October 2013: Winning Tenders One-to-One Mentoring, Kildare County Enterprise Board Office, Clane, Co. Kildare.
Monday 18 November 2013: Creative Marketing on a Shoestring, South Cork Enterprise Board, Cork International Airport Hotel, Cork.
Tuesday 19 November 2013: Powerful Tenders – How to write winning bids! South Cork Enterprise Board, Cork International Airport Hotel, Cork.
Wednesday 20 November 2013: E-Tendering – A Guide to Public and Private Sector Procurement, Westmeath County Enterprise Board, Annebrook House Hotel, Mullingar.
Thursday 21 November 2013: How to Market Your Business Effectively, Westmeath County Enterprise Board Offices, Church Avenue, Mullingar.

For further information on Navigate Change Consulting, please click here.

Innovative Training Ireland

Innovative Training Ireland

Ian McKay of Navigate Change Consulting provides highly innovative, inventive and engaging training and development to build the capability and confidence of our clients and their people. Ian is a highly experienced and qualified trainer with a strong reputation for dynamic yet flexible training that makes a tangible difference to individuals, businesses and wider organisations.

A small selection of Ian’s current training portfolio includes:

Powerful Tenders: How to Write a Successful Bid – please see our page on Writing Winning Tenders for more information on the impact of this training.
Marketing on a Shoestring.
Consultancy Skills.
Introduction to Project Management.

For further information please click here.

Navigate Change Consulting

Consultancy Support to the Small Business Sector of Ireland

Consultancy Support to the Small Business Sector of Ireland

Ian McKay of Navigate Change Consulting provides a wide range of support across the private, public and community sectors. In particular Ian provides consultancy, training, coaching and mentoring support across a wide range of areas to help the small and SME Irish businesses survive and thrive.

Ian works closely with a wide range of Enterprise Boards, Partnerships and Councils to support the small and SME sector throughout Ireland. In the last few weeks this has included support to businesses across Cork, Monaghan, Limerick, Cavan, Sligo, Clare, Offaly, Westmeath and Kildare.

Ian believes that consultancy support to the small business sector of Ireland is fundamentally about: making a difference, achieving a positive impact and ultimately attaining value and benefits for our clients. For further information please click here

Win That Tender: Support with Writing Tenders

Win That Tender: Support with Writing Tenders

Ian McKay of Navigate Change Consulting has an extensive track record of providing support on the writing of powerful tenders. This can include support ranging from full bid management (e.g. writing the bulk of the tender) or ‘lighter’ support with writing tenders such as guidance, tips, recommendations for improvement and quality assurance.

This is provided by Ian McKay, who has widespread portfolio of clients that have engaged Ian to provide support with writing tenders. This includes winning significant public and private sector contracts. For further information please click here.

Navigate Change Consulting and Millar Grattan Media – Writing Powerful Tenders

Ian McKay of Navigate Change Consulting has completed an important assignment for Millar Grattan Media – supporting the design of an innovative tender document for the delivery of five films – based in Ireland.

“Writing powerful tenders is a critical business skill and many businesses need support to help them win important contracts – of all sizes.”

For further information on our work on supporting businesses in writing powerful tenders, visit us at www.navigatechangeconsulting.com

Ian McKay
Navigate Change Consulting

Business Consultancy Services in Ireland

The experience of our consultants includes delivery of a widespread portfolio of consultancy, coaching and one-to-one support across the private, public and community sectors. We believe that consultancy is fundamentally about: making a difference, achieving a positive impact and ultimately attaining value and benefits for our clients. We have a strong track record of helping our clients succeed, change, innovate and improve. This includes:

Supporting Our Business Sector Clients in Achieving Success

We have built significant expertise in supporting existing businesses of all sizes including new start businesses. This has involved consultancy, training, coaching and mentoring support across a wide range of areas to help each business survive and thrive.

Supporting the Public Sector in Change and Improvement

Supporting a wide public service base via an extensive range of support. This includes: Organisational Analysis and Review, structural and Staffing Reviews, Business and Strategic Planning, Viability Studies and project and programme review.

Supporting Our Community Sector Clients in the Delivery of Key Services

We provide management consultancy and training services with a strong focus on the voluntary and community sectors. This has included support to community sector organisations that provide advocacy and essential services to people on matters such as: health and wellbeing, social exclusion, poverty, homelessness and crisis accommodation, addiction, crime and services to children and families.

Business Consultancy Services in Northern Ireland

The experience of our consultants includes delivery of a widespread portfolio of consultancy, coaching and one-to-one support across the private, public and community sectors. We believe that consultancy is fundamentally about: making a difference, achieving a positive impact and ultimately attaining value and benefits for our clients. We have a strong track record of helping our clients succeed, change, innovate and improve. This includes:

Supporting Our Business Sector Clients in Achieving Success

We have built significant expertise in supporting existing businesses of all sizes including new start businesses. This has involved consultancy, training, coaching and mentoring support across a wide range of areas to help each business survive and thrive.

Supporting the Public Sector in Change and Improvement

Supporting a wide public service base via an extensive range of support. This includes: Organisational Analysis and Review, structural and Staffing Reviews, Business and Strategic Planning, Viability Studies and project and programme review.

Supporting Our Community Sector Clients in the Delivery of Key Services

We provide management consultancy and training services with a strong focus on the voluntary and community sectors. This has included support to community sector organisations that provide advocacy and essential services to people on matters such as: health and wellbeing, social exclusion, poverty, homelessness and crisis accommodation, addiction, crime and services to children and families.

Navigate Change Consulting

Ian McKay is the Director/ owner of Navigate Change Consulting and a graduate of the University of Ulster. He has delivered management consultancy and training for over 16 years. This has included working as Principal Consultant with Horwath Consulting Ireland and as Director and Principal Consultant of Navigate Change Consulting.

This comprises the successful delivery of major projects across the UK, Ireland and the U.S. This has included working in partnership with an extensive portfolio of government clients – at all levels of government.

He has also built extensive experience on how to develop powerful tender documents. This has included developing complex tenders in partnership with leading blue-chip companies and high profile academic institutions such as: Mott MacDonald, the Matrix Knowledge Group, Oakleigh Consulting, Green and Kassab, the University of Central Lancashire, University of Glasgow, Cardiff Business School and the Alder Hey Hospital among others.

Ian has also worked in partnership with members of the small and medium sized business community on the development of tenders for important government contracts across Ireland, Northern Ireland, G.B., EU and the U.S. This has included supporting many small businesses in winning contracts – often for the first time.

“Tender writing has become a core business skill… winning a contract helps to build sustainability… if you win a contract and have an income stream for the next number of weeks, months or years, there is a firm and more sustainable foundation to plan, develop, grow and thrive.”

Ian is also highly experienced in training design, development, and delivery and creates high quality materials for all delivery including slides, multimedia, module materials, clinics, group work and a range of free tools for use by businesses. Ian values participant learning and knowledge transfer. He delivers the Writing Powerful Tenders – How to Write a Successful Bid training programme and the other important training programmes mentioned in our training section.

Ian also developed the Winning Tenders Academy and continues to support a wide range of businesses in one-to-one consultancy and tender writing support.

Finally Ian is a Certified Management Consultant with the Institute of Consulting and holds the Institute’s Certificate and Diploma in Management Consultancy among a wide range of other professional qualifications.