Instructor: Phil Perry

The aim of this course is to provide tools for scheduling at the Site and Crew Level. Site Management (Superintendent, General Foremen and Foremen) influence millions of dollars of construction a year. They must ensure that all resources are being used efficiently with minimal waste. Yet often, they receive very little in the way of training on how to plan and schedule field activities.

This one day Workshop will cover:

–     Planning Principles

–     Network Schedules

–     Critical Path

–     Gantt (Bar) Charts

–     Manpower Curves

–     Progressing the Work

–    Productivity and Performance Factors

–    Look-Ahead Schedules

Foremen, General Foremen, Superintendents, Field Engineers, Project Coordinators, Project Managers will benefit from the Workshop.

Instructor: Phil Perry

This is an interactive half-day seminar that will cover the fundamentals of interpreting construction specifications. The seminar will deal with the basics of reading and interpreting both the general and technical specifications.

Course Topics

• Recognize the role of the Project Manual in relationship to the bidding documents, construction contract documents, general requirements and the technical specifications
• Recognize the role of MasterFormat in Construction Specifications
• Recognize the difference between a Prescriptive Specification and a Performance Specifications

Who should attend?

Anyone who is new to using Construction Specifications

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

Time Management Seminar – Do you run your job, or does your job run you?   Does it ever seem like there is just more to do than you can get done?  In today’s world, most of us are asked to get more done in less time.   This program will help you develop the basic personal and organizational skills to enhance your productivity.  More than just time management, this course demonstrates the need to clearly understand leadership priorities and the ways to implement them, offering insights to anyone interested in personal and organizational productivity.

Instructor: Kevin Dougherty

Customer Service Seminar – Looking to leave even the most difficult customers with smiles on their faces?  To each employee, this dynamic and effective program will communicate the need to be more company-minded and sales-oriented.  Practical, proven, and entertaining, this program’s comprehensive approach to customer service makes this program mandatory for anyone who has contact with customers, including service technicians, drivers, dispatchers, foremen, receptionists, salespeople, accounting personnel, and managers

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

Communication Seminar – Get even the most difficult person to act civilized.   This program will help you get even the most difficult person eating out of your hands. You will walk away from this program with some tricks and tactics which you will put to immediate use, and learn how to keep the tempers from flaring.

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: Ron Cruikshank and Murray Guy

LeanCx is a Level 2, full day, interactive workshop on a proactive commissioning approach that utilizes the Last Planner® System (LP®S) to manage commissioning work flow and Target Value Design to help manage the design commissioning process for achieving clearly defined value and system performance targets. The workshop covers lean project delivery fundamentals including eliminating waste, reducing variability and improving work flow. Participants will learn why design commissioning needs to be part of the Target Value Design process and how the Last Planner System can be used to achieve challenging commissioning milestones, what we can “Done is Done”. A hands on pull planning session will demonstrate how to collaboratively plan and deliver on the commitments and promises needed for the reliable work to occur.

Instructor: Ron Cruikshank and Murray Guy

The Big Room is not just a physical space that co-locates owners, designers and contractors to support cross-functional team collaboration. It is about breaking down the ‘silo’ mindset of traditional projects and enabling teams to make more effective, value based decisions. From Transforming Design and Construction, “ The Big Room is more than co-location of people; it is about collaborative behaviour and the work it produces.” This half day, Level 2 presentation will introduce the mindset and purpose of the Big Room present the benefits of using one, and review the operational and physical components necessary for successful implementation of a Big Room. Participants will learn how the Big Room lays the foundation for collaborative team behaviours, eliminating the siloed approach to traditional project delivery. You will learn how the physical set up of the environment contributes to better behaviours, allowing teams to perform at a high level.  This presentation will provide you with the tools and understanding to set up an effective Big Room.

Instructor: Ron Cruikshank and Murray Guy

Target Value Delivery (TVD) is a dynamic, collaborative process that involves establishing a clear target cost and developing a fully integrated design solution that meets that target cost – the budget influences the design as opposed to project cost being the result of the design process. The TVD workshop is a Level 2, hands-on, full day course using presentation material and simulations, supplemented with a guide, which will prepare participants to implement Target Value Delivery on their projects. Participants will learn how Target Value Delivery improves the design process, creating the environment to design to a set target while meeting the Owners requirements. You will understand how working in collaborative cross-functional clusters leverages the full knowledge base of the team resulting in increased value delivered to the client. This course will prepare your team implement TVD on projects.