Instructor: Jim Bain

Everyone talks about the importance of good project management. Are you ready to do something about it? This seminar will equip you with the tools you need to maximize your bottom line results. Strategies on meeting schedules and budgets, managing and motivating staff, client maintenance, time management, fee negotiation, dealing with out-of-scope items, and more are included. This program skips the theories and gets right down to the business of teaching proven techniques from the real world. The whole team should attend, because whether you’re an experienced project manager or a novice, you’ll get new ideas and tools you can use every day.

Instructor: Jim Bain

Learn the fundamentals of quality management and the simplified approach to quality: say what you do and do what you say; develop a quality policy, provide a vision and demonstrate commitment; establish the responsibility for providing quality work and keep everyone informed; define and measure; clearly understand customer requirements, make sure the requirements can be met, keep the customer informed and track customer satisfaction; examine operations and report results to management; determine the root cause of problems, fix the causes and verify the corrections are permanent.  Learn how to practice, practice, practice, continuous improvement.

Instructor: Jim Bain

Every expert in construction productivity agrees, we have A LOT of room for improvement. But how? After an introduction to the concept of continuous productivity improvement, we will examine tools and techniques to deliver real results on your job sites. Learn how to recover 24 minutes each day and double your bottom line profit. Sections on equipment management, planning and scheduling, managing sub-contractors, and the use of measurements and technology are certain to teach you and your staff how to save valuable time and money.

Instructor: Jim Bain

This course is valuable at all levels of a construction firm. All members of the construction team should be involved in the planning process. Your jobs can be significantly more profitable with a little attention to pre-planning them. Topics include: preparing the project plan, communicating the plan, Short Interval Planning, planning for productivity, and planning for safety. The course features planning techniques utilized by Bowen Engineering Corp. in a video produced by AGC of America.

Instructor: Jim Bain

Knowing your overhead is a key to profitability and understanding your business. The learning objectives are understanding your overhead, calculating your overhead, using your calculations, and projecting your future. The materials are presented from a management perspective – not and accounting perspective. What good are the numbers if you don’t know how to use them? Topics include defining overhead, flash reports, profitability, budgeting, and break-even analysis based on overhead percentages. Both service and contract divisions are discussed. The course includes a number of interactive exercises and is sure to improve your understanding of your business.

Instructor: Jim Bain

Telling and Selling aren’t good enough anymore. Marketing in construction today requires relationship building, community involvement, and branding at every level of your firm. Join us as we show you how to develop a step by step process to develop or improve your marketing plan to achieve quantifiable results in 3- 12 months.

Instructor: Jim Bain

The fields of insurance and risk management continue to confuse and confound us. This program presents the fundamentals of managing the risk of running a construction company. Subjects to be covered include an outline of risks facing a construction company, the fundamentals of managing risk, a discussion of surety bonding, property and casualty insurance, workers compensation insurance, professional liability, safety engineering, and contract issues.

Instructor: Jim Bain

Managing your business without financial forecasting is like driving your car by looking in the rear view mirror! Learn the fundamentals of finance in the construction business. In addition to Forecasting, topics will include Profit and Loss Statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow, Work-in-Process Schedules, Over and Under Billings, Tax consequences, and more. You can improve your bonding capacity, your banking relationship, and the value of your firm by learning more about what your financial statement says about your firm.

Instructor: Jim Bain

These processes are vital to the profitable completion of any project. Scope control is a preventative process that starts with a detailed project scope and ensures discipline in changing the scope during project execution. Change Order management involves processes for managing all of the changes and associated documentation that occur on the project. This course includes both insight and tools to improve both scope control and change order management.

Instructor: Jim Bain

Winning in construction isn’t luck. It requires both good coaching and good leadership. Hire for aptitude and attitude. Train for knowledge. Coach to achieve peak performance. Delegate to unleash the power of human potential. All of these are true – and all of them require skills. This course will cover the “HOW?” for Training, Coaching and Delegating. All are critical to productive performance and to success on your projects. This course is appropriate for crew leaders, foremen, superintendents, project managers, and senior management. Absolutely anyone who supervises people will leave this session with a better understanding of how to manage successfully.