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

• Identify an effective performance review model.
• Learn how to use performance reviews as positive communication and benchmarking tools.
• Discuss human resource issues that can have implications for project managers, employees and their companies.

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.