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CITB Understanding Commercial Awareness
Why the commercial team wants what it wants, and what it costs when they do not get it. A CITB Leadership and Management short course for supervisors and managers, assessed on the day with no assignment to write up.
About this course
CITB Understanding Commercial Awareness is one of twelve CITB Leadership and Management standards, written for construction by the industry training board rather than adapted from a generic management course.
It is about cost, waste, records, stakeholders and the client: why the commercial side asks what it asks, and what a supervisor controls.
The standard runs to 14 hours. There is no assignment and no portfolio, and the certificate does not expire, so nobody sits it twice.
- Explain the role of the supervisor in managing and controlling costs
- Describe the role of the supervisor in minimising waste in an organisation
- Explain how keeping records contributes to making an organisation successful
- Explain the importance of stakeholder relationships in making an organisation successful
- Explain the role of the supervisor in meeting client requirements
How completing this course helps you
- See where a supervisor actually controls cost, and where they do not
- Cut waste on your section and know what it is worth
- Keep records that stand up when the commercial team or the client asks
- Handle stakeholders and client requirements without over promising
Who should attend?
Site based and office based supervisors and managers, anyone who could be managing a team in future, and employees not yet ready for a supervisory role who would benefit from the development.
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Method of assessment
How Understanding Commercial Awareness is assessed
CITB set the assessment for this standard. It is taken at the end of the course.
Take part in full
CITB require full attendance across the 14 hours before the assessment can be sat.
Assessment
A question paper of 15 questions plus a practical exercise. 75 per cent to pass the paper.
Certificate
Issued against CITB grant code GET3259. It does not expire and there is no refresher requirement on this standard.
Ways to learn
How you can take this course
Every route covers the same accredited syllabus and the same support. Pick the one that fits how your people work.
Classroom
Tutor-led at one of our centres, with everything provided.
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The same tutor and the same timetable, joined from anywhere.
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In-company training
We run this one to order, at your place or ours.
Onsite / in-company
Run Understanding Commercial Awareness at your site
We deliver anywhere in the UK, on your dates and around your shift patterns. For six or more people it is usually cheaper per head than sending everyone to a centre, and nobody loses a day travelling.
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What onsite includes
- The same tutor, materials and certification as our centres
- Your venue or one we arrange near you
- Dates and start times built around your operation
- One invoice and one point of contact for the whole group
- Content examples drawn from your own workplace
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