_{How to Expense Procurement Soft Skills Mastery}

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1. Notify your manager early.

Give your manager a heads up to signal your interest and prepare the groundwprk.

Here’s how casual this conversation should be positioned.

“Hey boss! I just saw a Procurement Soft Skills Mastery course, and I think it’d be really useful for our work.

Can I send you the details?”

Here’s what any decent manager or leader should to be saying to that.

“Oh…sure!”

(Hint…if they stutter or splutter or something similar, it’s a sure sign you’re in the wrong environment to develop. See this as a data gathering exercise for your own career).

…or send your manager a quick message.

“Hey boss, I just saw this Procurement Soft Skills Mastery course given my that fellow who calls himself the Procurement Protagonist. He’s worth following on LinkedIn didn’t you know? Can I send you the details?”

COPY THE TEXT ABOVE - I dare you!

2. E-mail your manager.

Hey boss,

There’s a Procurement Soft Skills Mastery course.

Registrations end on Friday 11th October, so we’ve still got time for approval process and I’d like to join.

It’s a Procurement Soft Skills Masterclass that helps Procurement professionals like me to master their Soft Skills (EQ) and supercharge their Procurement career. It’s just £1000 and the reviews are crazy good.

There are alumni from some major companies like Aerospace, Amazon, Nestle, Lego Group, Pepsi…

The course is packed with practical tactics and tools (like Procurement frameworks and templates) that I can use for our work.

It’s a workshop based course but I can also access all the lessons online at any point so I can take it in my own time and will take me just 10 weeks to complete (1-3 hrs/week).

I’ll get access to group coaching with a select cohort of Procurement pros too and 1-1 time with Tom.

In short, it’ll help us increase our Procurement impact, drive compliance and delight our stakeholders if I can take this course.

Tom Mills is well-known in the industry and all the details of students who have benefitted from this course are here: Join the February cohort of PSSM.

Is it OK to expense this?

P.S. should we offer it to xxx in the team? (I know someone who could really benefit).

Thanks for considering this.

I don’t know why we’re so shy to ask businesses to support our development?

I work in a finance team where the business is shelling out thousands of pounds to support qualifications.

When it comes to Procurement though, we’re typically money savers, prudent cost cutters so we worry about asking a business to invest.

Even when we know the investment will benefit us personally and help drive impact and deliver savings in the business we work for.

So, don’t sit around on this one.

It’s performance review (objectives setting) time of year and there is no better time than now to ask the business to support you with this relatively small investment to support your career growth.

You deserve it (so do they).

P.s. Let me know how you get on with the request.