Learning Business Contracts for Beginners
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Contracts are the lifeblood of most businesses. Unfortunately, too many people sign them without really understanding what they mean.
Taught by a business attorney nationally recognized as one of the best in the country, this course will teach you everything you need to know to minimize your risk, protect your company and create win-win situations when drafting, negotiating, and signing business contracts. You will learn the basics of business contracts including:
- How to decode and understand often confusing legal terms.
- How to personally craft your own contract
- What to look for and negotiate when signing the other guy’s contract.
This is the course that you need to take in order to make sure that you and your company are protected, that you get what you want, and that you can sleep at night without anxiety about your contract.
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Course OverviewThis course overview provides a roadmap, showing students how we will begin with basic concepts, learn to decipher legalese, and negotiate contracts carefully tailored to protect their assets and help them attain their goals.
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Module 1: Introduction to contracts
Even if they understand the words on the page, most business owners never learn the strategy behind drafting and negotiating a solid contract. In this module students will learn to think about their agreements strategically by understanding the nature of risk and learning to ask the two questions most important to drafting a winning contract.
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Module 2: The 5 terms all of your contracts must have
Students will learn the critical importance of identifying the correct parties to a contract and the best way to provide what each side must do in order to fully perform its obligations. In addition, students will also learn how to draft a contract to protect their interests if the other side does not perform as promised.
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Module 3: Terms to help you protect your bottom line (the sword)
A good contract protects your assets and your bottom line. In this module, students will learn the different provisions they should add to a contract to protect themselves when things don't quite go as planned.
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Module 4: Protecting your company (the shield)
This module builds on Module 4 by providing students with additional tools to reduce risk when drafting and negotiating contracts.
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Module 5: Legal terms you need to know
This module takes the intimidation factor out of even the most dense legalese by teaching students what the terms mean and how to draft important terms and definitions in their best interest.
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Module 6: What to look for when signing the other side's contract (Part 1)
Business owners often have to sign the other side's contract. In this module, students will learn how to negotiate on the other side's turf. They will learn to negotiate critical provisions and how to analyze their risk even when dealing with the most densely worded, arcane agreements.
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Module 7: What to look for when signing the other side's contract (Part 2)
Module 8 delvers farther into the S.T.O.P. and L.O.O.K system and continues the examination of the critical issues everyone must evaluate and understand before signing on the bottom line of someone else's contract.
