BEST PRACTICES

It takes years, entire careers, and sometimes split seconds to learn life-long valuable lessons. This section of the course is dedicated to teaching real-life best practices from seasoned construction management and estimating professionals.  The course material entails live discussions of situational anecdotes unique to the construction industry. Topics include:

• Staying ahead and the perils of falling behind

• Familiarity with finding something wrong or missing

• How to "set the table" for the team players counting on you

• How to manage weak-link team members without eroding professional relationships

• Why a company's success stems beyond an individual's critical concerns of today, and how to be the team player that recognizes this

• The real cost of short-term decision making

• Burying problems is like planting a seed

• How to take responsibility when others fall down

• The long-term meaning of on time, on budget, and to the satisfaction of the owner

• How to get someone to do something

• The effective way to approach those who are much too busy

• 90% complete is not complete

• The team approach: Owners, Architects, and Contractors