Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

Looking for the perfect supervisor?  Maybe you don’t need to look very far… If you want to develop men and women into managers, or perhaps want to work on your own supervisory skills, this seminar can help.  Geared towards anyone who manages people, including foremen, owners, and project managers, this real world presentation has been used to train over 10,000 supervisors in leadership, transition to management, problem solving, and ending communication conflict.

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

The “Advanced Supervisory Program” is designed to challenge the supervisor to think differently about their supervisory role and responsibilities and provide them the skills to positively impact every part of the organization. This program is for the experienced supervisor who has experience or needs an added push.  Every attendee will take an assessment to help them determine their management style which they can use to assist them in the improvement process.  This is more than a seminar it is a case study on how to improve all aspects of their job from leadership, communication, planning, safety, customer relations, coaching and self-realization.

Instructor: Blake Wentz

Successful journeymen with unique abilities, but with little or no management training, are frequently promoted to “foreman” and lead crews of workers on mechanical projects. This session explores basic management skills relative to the position of jobsite foreman. Understand essential traits, skills, and behaviors that allow a foreman to more effectively manage crews. Topics covered include: the relationship between leadership and management; management ability vs. technical savvy; consistency in managing others; the importance of organization and standardization; motivating others to perform; delegation skills; and working with difficult people.

Instructor: Dr. Awad Hanna

Foremen are the drivers of project success. High-performing foremen are distinguished by their leadership ability and their ability to manage cost and scheduling. The most effective foremen possess certain traits that set them apart from average-performing foremen. This course covers in-depth the “Seven Habits” of the most effective foremen, which include: understanding crew behavior and communicating the rules of the game; effective participation in the turnover meeting; preparing and managing the two-week look ahead schedule; keeping the daily logs; material handling and management; setting production goals and tracking; change order management and T&M tickets.

Instructor: Dr. Perry Daneshgari

The stockman, material handler, or other similar classifications are being used more and more frequently on construction jobsites. Although these workers are less technically-trained, they can have a significant impact on job profitability and productivity by reducing composite crew cost and reducing the time that skilled tradesmen spend handling material and other nontechnical activities. Appropriate training for Project Managers, General Foremen and Foremen on how to manage the stockmen’s activities and time as well as the stockmen’s training in how to support the contractor can help improve the overall job productivity.

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

Interested in improving your communication Skills and being more productive? This program covers proven conflict resolution techniques, communication skills, productivity enhancement, motivational tactics, time management ideas and many more skills that a foreman needs in order to thrive today. This program is designed to help anyone who manages people; from the new foreman to the experienced veteran all attendees will come away with tools that will make an immediate impact on job performance.

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

If you don’t train your supervisors than who will? Every dollar your company makes or loses runs through the supervisor’s fingers. Their ability or inability affects profits. A real world supervisory training program designed to help supervisors deal with today’s issues and improve productivity. This fast paced, entertaining, program will guide the new or experienced supervisor through the tangled web of supervision, allowing attendees to achieve tangible real world results. This program will provide hands on exercises and practical problem solving opportunities to enhance the learning experience and leave participants with renewed confidence and motivation.

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

A program designed for foreman, superintendents, shop foreman and anyone who could make a difference to job profitability. With today’s jobs being: more competitive, having aggressive schedules, being inconsistently managed by the customer, skilled manpower shortages, and every project involving more documentation and administrative needs today’s supervisor is critical for profitability. Gone are the days when the supervisor could wing it, today’s successful supervisor must manage not only the field, but also be able to understand how the whole process fits together. This program will provide today’s supervisor with the tools needed to be successful.

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

With today’s jobs: more competitive, having aggressive schedules, being inconsistently managed by the customer, skilled manpower shortages, with projects involving more documentation and administrative needs, today’s supervisor is critical for profitability. Gone are the days when the supervisor could wing it – today’s successful supervisor must manage not only the field, but also understand how the whole process fits together. This program will provide today’s supervisor with the tools needed to be successful. Topics to be covered in this program include working with chaotic jobs, improving the communication processes, establishing front-line and job leadership, and becoming proactive with managing jobs.

Instructor: Jim Baston

The Proactive Service® Workshop for Foremen is a highly interactive program designed for foremen who supervise project teams in the field. It is based on the highly successful Proactive Service Workshop for Field Service Technicians and has been created specifically for those service companies who recognize that their foremen play a pivotal role in building stronger relationships based on trust. Good, trust-based working relationships translate into smoother operating and more profitable projects. Foremen are learn how to manage deal with emotional situations in a manner that contributes to their overall success. This workshop is relevant and practical and provides approaches and strategies that the service technician can apply immediately for measurable results.