Education Excellence Award Winners - Best Practices from Member Winners

Learn best practices from AGC member firms that have developed innovative and collaborative training and development programs for craft workers, for supervisors and for executive managers. The craft award winner is a firm that designed a program to strengthen the core of its workforce, maintain its strong reputation for safety, and sharpen its competitive edge in the industry through just-in-time training, advanced classroom training, and skill evaluations. The supervisory award winner is a firm that developed a Feedback for Performance Workshop that was so successful, it was expanded to the entire employee roster and is facilitating a culture shift at the company. The project and executive management award winner is a firm that created a three-year program in-house to develop middle managers. The program has three goals: increase business and management skills as they apply to the firm, enhance the participants' leadership and teamwork skills, and encourage and increase collaboration among employees.

By attending this session, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss core elements that make a company's program successful;
  • Recognize key components in their own programs that could benefit from changes; and
  • Determine changes that can be brought to their own programs.