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Superintendent's Academy online series

THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS EVERY CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR MUST HAVE TO BE EFFECTIVE

The Superintendent's Academy designed to give your people the skills and knowledge they need!

This program is a construction-specific training curriculum developed, updated and field-tested by and for contractors. Supervisory skills - or the lack of it - directly affects every company’s bottom line. You make your money in the field, and we can help you improve your organization’s bottom line.

If you are a manager of people, time, equipment or materials, this program can help you improve your supervisor skills and your organization’s bottom line.

The comprehensive 7-course program focuses on the knowledge and skills that every supervisor must have to be an effective manager of people, time, equipment and materials.

This 1st session in the series is an overview course focused on building construction for new supervisors or those wishing to become supervisors.

Topics Include:

• Attributes of a construction supervisor

• Accident prevention and loss control

• Effective communication

• Problem solving and decision making

• Project planning and scheduling

• Productivity improvement

• Cost awareness

• Contract documents

Sessions Within the Series Include:

Construction Supervisor Overview

Site Supervisor Communication Skills – Gain the knowledge and skills today's construction supervisors need to be effective communicators on job sites. We’ll cover effective communication, learning to listen, conversations, persuasion, negotiation, confrontation, and communicating with your crew.

Construction Site Planning & Scheduling – This course will help construction supervisors understand the important role that planning and scheduling plays in the successful completion of a construction project. Topics include: preparing the project plan, communicating the plan, computer use in scheduling, using the schedule on the jobsite, updating the construction schedule and using the schedule as documentation.

Site Supervisor Leadership & Motivational Skills – Learn the value of effective supervision and improve the construction supervisor's ability to lead and motivate others. Topics include: dollars and sense of people in construction, role of the construction supervisor, helping people perform better, motivating others, leading others, training and orienting crew members, and team building.

Understanding & Interpreting Construction Documents - Learn about contract documents and construction law to help supervisors recognize the roles and responsibilities of all contracted parties, to develop an understanding of how contract documents can be helpful to solve problems and resolve conflicts, and to develop positive relationships between all parties in the construction process.

Construction Site Risk Management & Problem Solving Skills – This course will help construction supervisors identify problems and how they occur and learn effective problem-solving techniques. Supervisors will learn how to use the decision making process and acquire skills that will enable them to immediately function more effectively. In addition, this course will cover the roles and responsibilities of a construction supervisor in accident prevention and loss control.

Improving Worksite Productivity & Reducing Jobsite Costs - This course details how productivity is measured, how the supervisor plays a major role in increasing jobsite productivity and how a small increase in productivity can have a significant impact on the time and cost of a project. In addition, this course covers understanding how project estimates are compiled, how to compare actual project costs with those estimated and how to control costs to meet the estimate.

Series starts Wednesday, January 16th

Meets for 7 Consecutive Wednesday's from 8 am - 12 pm

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