This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

Engagement affects everything. How engaged are you? How well do you affect the engagement of people around you? Research shows that we know more about EQ (Emotional Intelligence/Quotient) than ever, yet very few are masters. Jonathan will discuss the demise of EQ in our text-crazy culture and what that means to leaders, parents, teachers, coaches, and you. This program is full of incredibly memorable stories, real-life scenarios, and a four-part process to take your EQ to the next level. Amygdala “hijacks” can tear apart a business or relationship in seconds. Do you have a strategy to master them? Can you teach your strategy to others? After this hilarious and engaging program, your answer will be “Yes!”

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

When you can’t raise the bridge, lower the river. From mill to installation, profit pockets live in your supply chain but capturing them can be difficult. This session will focus on the key strategies for realizing hard savings that impact the bottom line. Specifically, we’ll discuss inventory control and shop stock, value-based price negotiation, balanced score-carding, upstream strategic sourcing alignment, integrated supply alternatives and the elimination of rogue/overspend.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

The new financial downturn may look different from past recessions, but we can gain insights from construction firms that weathered past storms better than others. In these videos, Stan Halliday, Travelers Chief Underwriting Officer will look at real industry data from the Great Recession to gain insights and identify approaches to help your construction firm get through this latest financial downturn.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

We are facing increasingly complex demands on our time, attention and bandwidth these days. And staying attuned to others feels especially difficult amid a global pandemic. However, research indicates that meaningful connections - in and out of work - are key to reducing stress, increasing efficiency, and generating higher levels of productivity and happiness for ourselves and others. How can we, as leaders, keep our focus on individuals around us while addressing all that there is to do right now?

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

Change orders are one of the greatest sources of margin fade that exists in our industry today. The risk management focus required to minimize the losses in this category are paramount to financial success. During this session, we will discuss best practices around the use of technology and definition to track and manage the process from proposal to collections in order to increase the revenue, and more importantly the margins, in change orders.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

Whether or not the CFM is directly responsible for the IT function of your company, there are still areas you should know and questions you should ask of your IT personnel (either internal or external). This session will explore those areas and get into the details of a highly functional IT department.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

Construction Financial Professionals (CFPs) wear many hats with many difference responsibilities in their companies. Making crisis management a “team sport” is important. In the midst of Critical Incident Responses to major or catastrophic workplace incidents, CFPs frequently are helping coordinate “emergency responses” with Operations, Safety and Human Resources. CFPs are frequently the glue that keeps the team together as coordinators, coaches, and caregivers to their colleague caregivers. This takes a physical and emotional toll on CFPs.

Organizations and the people within them demonstrate widely disparate outcomes in the aftermath of tragedies. Some are permanently impaired and remain victims of the hardship while others operationalize resilience skills and practices that lead to successful bouncing back or even bouncing forward. This presentation will outline the survival tactics and the growth strategies that define those that do it well.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

This session examines contractual risk allocation concepts in construction contracts, focusing on certain clauses that have been problematic of late. In today's market, inequitable risk transfer through the use of onerous contract clauses has become more commonplace. Supplementation, delay, indemnification, force majeure and price escalation are just a few of the contractual provisions that put the contractor in an adverse position. Learn more about the impact of these risk allocations from a practical risk, surety underwriting, and legal perspective.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

Conflict is natural, healthy and an inevitable part of being human. Navigating conflict offers a rich practice grounds for deepening connection with ourselves and each other when handled skillfully. Our capacity to handle conflict skillfully can be the difference between a highly successful team (see Google's Study "Project Aristotle" on high performing teams) or imploding trust, shared commitment and contribution. Learning practical skills to say what we mean, feel truly heard and listening skillfully to others takes courage and genuine leadership (whether you're leading from the bench or from the top of the org chart). Growing our awareness of our own patterns, stories, strategies can help us recognize when we're in reactivity and (courageously) shift towards a more thoughtful and responsive approach.
Join this active and engaging session to learn or deepen your skills in the (Courageous) Art of Managing Workplace Conflict.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

For Heavy/Highway contractors the cost of equipment and operating their fleet is substantial. Ineffective fleet operations can result in a number of profit leaks. Many of these may not be apparent or seem insignificant, but substantially reduce the contractor’s bottom line. This presentation will expose these leaks and show how current technology can stop them.