Flexible work arrangements have become the new norm, particularly in tendering where hours can be long. Remote work creates a better work-life balance, however, it can come with its challenges. Here’s how to make working remotely work for you.

Bidding can be incredibly challenging but rewarding work. Resilience as a skill will help individuals to push through challenges so that they can grow both personally and professionally. Try these techniques to help build resilience in bid teams.

It is imperative to adhere to the word limit when tendering, not only for compliance reasons as previously mentioned, but also to show evaluators who they will potentially work with. Here’s why a word limit is important.

I’d much rather read content that’s been written by a living person with feelings that can translate their life experience into words rather than read anything generated by a machine that’s been trained to understand context, grammar and semantics. Wouldn’t you?

To ensure that your bid team thrives during what can be a stressful process, here are five top tips to foster collaboration and teamwork during a tender.

Learn the fundamentals for effectively drafting and reviewing a tender submission. An effective tender drafting and reviewing process ensures consistency across the entire submission and warrants compelling and compliant responses.

Winning tenders is not just about meeting the tender requirements. It’s also about persuasively communicating your value proposition, your capability to deliver and how the benefits of your proposition meet the customer’s needs.

How effective and engaged the bid team is will directly influence how successful the tender management process will be. Try these three surefire ways to communicate effectively and get the best out of your team.

A tender consultant will be able to help you strategise, manage, coordinate, write, format and design your tender submission, saving you time and ensuring a compliant and compelling submission, giving you the best chance of success. 

The storyboard process isn’t just about collecting information. It should be a creative process that includes constructively challenging ideas through collaboration.

If we adopt a ‘Shift left’ mindset and practice there is a much greater opportunity to ‘flatten the curve’ and achieve a far steadier and sustainable workload and cadence during the tender process.