Learning Objectives

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Carrie Harper
Senior Director, Professional Development & Credentialing
Business Development, Programs & Industry Relations
Associated General Contractors of America
2300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 400
Arlington, VA 22201
USA
Phone: (703) 837-5316
Fax: (703) 837-5402
http://www.agc.org

Module 1: Project Planning

  • Identify the importance of pre-planning and its correlation with a company's bottom line.
  • Outline the pre-planning process.
  • Discuss pre-planning and planning tools.
  • Demonstrate team building techniques within the pre-planning process.

Module 2: Safety Management

  • Identify techniques for integrating safety into the overall construction process.
  • Describe how an unsafe jobsite impacts a company's bottom line and jeopardizes future projects.
  • Define legal terms pertaining to safety: imminent danger, exclusive remedy, gross negligence, substantial certainty and others.
  • Discuss ways to build a culture of zero accidents.

Module 3: Construction Productivity

  • Identify reasons for low job site productivity.
  • Discuss the impact of low job site productivity on the project contractor, craftsperson, project owner and designer.
  • Identify practices to ensure each worker is part of the overall project team.
  • Analyze models to measure, predict and improve job site productivity.
  • Identify environmental factors that impact productivity.
  • Describe how to apply short interval schedules and job schedules to increase field productivity.
  • Develop a work plan to increase field productivity.

Module 4: Subcontractor & Vendor Management

  • Discuss information required to evaluate and select subcontractor and vendor services and material and equipment purchases.
  • Demonstrate how to prepare documents for the purchase of the services mentioned above.
  • Describe how these documents aid in maintaining a project within budget, on schedule and with reduced claim potential.
  • Identify effective techniques for dealing with new subcontractors vs. experienced subcontractors.

Module 5: Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling

  • Identify ways to plan and schedule work more efficiently using Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling.
  • Analyze modern scheduling techniques including the CPM schedule, bar charts, computer printouts and plots.
  • Identify how to use the CPM schedule as a tool for avoiding or documenting future claims.
  • Discuss the importance of regular updates to the CPM schedule.

Module 6: Claims Management

  • Illustrate techniques for completing projects with a minimum amount of disputes using effective document control.
  • Examine specifications and contract language.
  • Identify a process for managing change orders.
  • Describe the difference between arbitration, mediation, litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

Module 7: Legal Issues & Contract Clauses

  • Discuss the significant legal implications project managers face.
  • Identify actions, or lack thereof, that can have far-reaching legal consequences for the project manager, their company and many others.
  • Identify specific areas where caution is necessary in order to avoid legal problems.

Module 8: Construction Ethics Discussion

  • Recognize a deeper understanding and role of ethical practices in the construction industry.
  • Assess ethical situations that arise in normal construction business operations.
  • Recognize the importance and consequences of one's actions when making ethical decisions.

Module 9: Cost Control

  • Identify the project manager's role in cost control.
  • Discuss the importance of tracking job costs.
  • Examine sample report forms used throughout the project in order to demonstrate the need for meaningful cost budgets.
  • Illustrate cost analysis through the use of examples.
  • Explain how good cost control practices and forecast probable final project cost.

Module 10: Project Recordkeeping

  • Examine the various types of project records that must be generated, tracked and stored to increase project efficiency and prevent legal issues.
  • Analyze the project manager's role in ensuring that project records are being properly maintained to avoid future conflicts and support claims.
  • Discuss capabilities of various software packages to assist with the recordkeeping process.

Module 11: Leadership Styles & Communications

  • Identify how each personality trait leads to effective leadership in problem solving, communications and teamwork.
  • Describe the correlation between communication skills, personal leadership strategies and high performing teams.
  • Illustrate techniques for effective oral and written communications.
  • Distinguish between listening and hearing.
  • Identify strategies to conduct effective meetings.

Module 12: Human Resource Issues

  • Learn the latest trends in Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Discuss benefits of Lean Construction
  • Explain the origins of Lean Construction
  • Discover how Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is utilized to enhance collaboration and align project team goals

Module 13: Time Management

  • Develop an understanding of how to manage time effectively.
  • Demonstrate how personal behavior affects time management.
  • Examine time management techniques that can be used on the job.

Module 14: Problem Solving & Decision Making

  • Identify tools and approaches for creative problem solving and decision making.
  • Discuss how to use decision making techniques in current challenges through classroom exercises.
  • Develop basic negotiation skills for problem solving and issue resolution.

Module 15: Blending Family & Work

  • Examine ways to leverage time and energy to build and enhance family relationships.
  • Discuss the importance of using time, information, and energy more effectively in work and family settings.
  • Identify optimizers for creating a positive environment in the home.