Instructor: Phil Perry

Summary: You will create and manage a project schedule using Microsoft Project 2016.

Who should attend:  This course is for any person who has never used Microsoft Project 2016 and would like to use it as a tool to manage their projects.

Prerequisites:

People enrolling in this course should have the following:

• A general understanding of project management concepts
• Basic skills with any Windows operating system.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create a new project plan file and enter project information.
• Manage tasks by organizing tasks and setting task relationships.
• Determine Critical Path, Total Float and Free Float
• Manage resources for a project such as Labour
• Finalize a project plan.
• Print project schedules to PDF

Instructor: Phil Perry

Contractor success depends heavily on the field production of tradespeople. Lead towards efficiency, and start seeing improvements to your bottom line. This seminar will define Field Productivity, discuss the effects of low Field Productivity, and outline approaches to increasing Field Productivity.

This workshop covers:

• Introduction to Field Productivity
• The Contractor’s Role in improving Productivity
• The Supervisor’s Role in Improving Field Productivity
• Labour Productivity
• Equipment Productivity
• Factors that Impact Productivity
• Quantifying Lost Productivity

Who should attend?

Construction Supervisors, Project Managers and Project Coordinators.

Instructor: Phil Perry

When it comes to cost and schedule on your construction projects, do you know where you’re at and where you’re going?

Realizing that you’re aimed at an iceberg when you’re 100 meters away isn’t helpful. It’s so much better if you notice the iceberg when you’re 10 kilometers away, so that you can do something about it! This is part of the “construction management” that owners expect from contractors.

Construction project management is a challenge in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Effective project-planning and -control approaches must often be compliant with owners’ contractual requirements. Successful project managers demand that their projects meet the contracted scope of work, and be completed on schedule and within budget. To ensure success, an effective project control system must be designed, developed, and implemented to provide management with timely and accurate information on deviations of cost and time parameters from the target objectives established during the planning cycle of the project.

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project planning and control approach which provides cost and schedule performance measurements. It compares actual accomplishment of scheduled work and associated cost against an integrated schedule and budget plan. Its benefits include visibility into the true progress of the project work against the budget, projections of anticipated project schedule, and cost trends, and the ability to take timely corrective actions for undesired variances. EVM is one of the most powerful and productive concepts used in managing today’s complex projects in private, commercial, and government environments.

 The fundamentals of EVM will be presented in a down-to-earth, basic approach, along with hands-on exercises and examples that will allow participants to apply the concepts.

Participants will:

Obtain basic knowledge in understanding and using an effective performance management system in managing construction projects effectively.

Detect both positive and negative trends in a timely manner.

Forecast the Projected Final Cost (Estimate at Completion) using several techniques.

Confidently and quickly make project decisions concerning scope, cost, and schedule

Learn to avoid the project-management pitfalls by quickly identifying and mitigating risks

Who Should Attend:

This course is for owner, designer, contractor, and subcontractor personnel who are involved with cost and schedule management.

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

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

A program designed to grow and enhance new and current customer relationships. Want to build a force field around your current and new customers?  Topics include: Developing and using service standards for consistency and customer satisfaction, How making the customer look good insures your survival onsite, Adding and leveraging the value on what you already do, Changing the perceptions on how your techs and dispatchers are perceived, Getting your techs and dispatchers to take more of a consultative sales approach, Turning customer issues and complaints into opportunities, Turn your techs and dispatchers into solution providers, Front-line relationship building strategies and tactics, Empowering your dispatchers and service techs to take care of customer issues on the spot, Technician selling techniques, and Recorded technician sales training role plays.

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.