If you write frequently, you already know the basics. But could you write more clearly and concisely? Would you like to use fewer words to get better results? If so, then this interactive workshop is for you.
What You Will Learn
Clarifying you goal
Structuring messages for maximum impact
Formatting to enhance readability
Avoiding confidentiality and legal issues
Editing and proofreading to enhance your message
Target Audience
Anyone who knows writing basics but wants to be more precise and concise.
Alternative project delivery methods are not new but are becoming increasingly more popular as project Owners search for more efficient ways to finance, design, build, operate, maintain, and manage facilities. This 90-minute overview of various methods of delivering completed projects provides a high-level analysis of their advantages and disadvantages for stakeholders.
According to the Center for American Progress - The Women's Leadership Gap (2018), women make up 50.8 percent of the U.S. population and earn almost 57 percent of the undergraduate degrees and 59 percent of all master's degrees. They account for 47 percent of the U.S. labor force and 52.5 percent of the college-educated workforce. And yet, women make up just 26.5 percent of executive and senior officials and managers, 11 percent of top earners, and 4.8 percent of CEOs in S&P 500 companies.
This course is an overview of CA Code 4216 and how to apply it in your USA Ticket Management. As an industry, it benefits all of us to master this and use it so that our interactions with utility operators are more productive and less contentious. Each party's obligations will be less a matter of opinion and more the execution and conformance to the designated standard, the law. The end goal is that we can work together as excavators to hold utility operators to the same standard as we are.
This course overviews heavy crane (subject to the SWCV regulation) and the Truck and Bus regulation requirements. These on-road vehicle overviews will include frequently asked questions, TRUCRS reporting, the impact of Senate Bill 1, and funding/loan opportunities. In addition, a brief overview of the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation and proposed Advanced Clean Fleets and Heavy-Duty Inspection and Maintenance regulations will be provided.
This workshop will offer cultural intelligence insights across multiple levels of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) acumen and provide a framework for reinforcing the connection between diversity, leadership, and business results to their constituents. Your leadership teams will better understand the role effective and ineffective D&I methodologies play during manager/employee/customer engagement as well as their crucial role in the ability for individuals, teams, and your organizations to achieve goals.
The ability to read and understand construction drawings is an essential skill set of the industry. This quick-start approach exposes participants to the fundamental nomenclature of construction drawings and specifications and works systematically through the plan set with a specific focus on the Civil drawings.
Even though many people use Microsoft Word, not everyone knows how to maximize the program's capabilities. Word is packed with a multitude of features that can help make the creation of documents and reports easier. And when your day-to-day work becomes faster and easier, you become more productive and more efficient — the ultimate goal for using any piece of software.
In this course, you'll learn valuable shortcuts, tips, tricks, and timesavers to maximize your use of Microsoft Word and leave with a concise handout for easy future reference.
Contracts are at the heart of every construction project. And whether administering prime contracts, sub-contracts, or purchase orders, the required contractual tasks can be overwhelming. This 2-hour window into the life of a Contract Administrator will serve as an excellent overview of the contracting life cycle and critical associated tasks. Participants will work through identifying essential requirements, setting up effective systems, and managing within them. From negotiations to final closeout, every important step is considered.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) isn’t just a set of soft skills that are “nice to have.” It’s been proven to be an essential factor in work and life success. Learn to understand the impact your emotions and reactions have on others. Leverage your strengths to build stronger interpersonal skills, cultivate self-awareness, and positively impact performance.
Identify potentially high liability risk employee terminations and strategies for reducing/eliminating liability risks associated with terminations. The program will also discuss legal and practical strategies for reducing a terminated employee’s hostility towards managers and co-workers, as well as legal avenues available for addressing potential workplace violence threats posed by certain terminated employees.
The list of stress factors in today’s world grows longer every day. People react differently to living in this pressure cooker. Some become aggressive, while others become passive or just shut down altogether.
Regardless of the reaction, the results are the same – individual and organizational productivity grind to a halt, creativity dies, and momentum vanishes. Now you can do something about the destructive forces of stress in the workplace. Learn to assess your current reactions to stress so that you can stop worrying and start working up to your full potential.
Do you struggle to focus on what matters most? The Construction Leaders Dashboard is the right tool to help you clarify what's most important to your leadership, so you can stop struggling, stay grounded and focused, and maximize your leadership impact. Learning how to use the Dashboard will help you understand eight critical areas that have a tremendous effect on your leadership effectiveness: Vision, Mission, Values, Edge, Performance Metrics, Initiatives, Relationships, Development Opportunities. No project gets completed without identifying and using the right tools.
Learn how to identify the warning signs of a claim and processes for recovering appropriate losses, including the use of the change order method and presentation of claims. This class will discuss key differences between public and private projects, general causes of claims, and basic procedures to follow. Learn how to identify, preserve, document, perfect and quantify your delay and disruption damages.
Up to 25% of a manager’s time is spent dealing with conflict – in construction, that number is even higher. Different people have different approaches to conflict – some want to charge and fight, while others want to run away. This course will cover strategies for approaching difficult conversations, teach you how to think like a mediator and share tips and techniques for breaking down team conflict into its parts so that you can work through them.
Even though many people use Microsoft Excel, not everyone knows how to maximize the program. Excel has many features that can help make the creation of spreadsheets and reports easier. And when your day-to-day work becomes faster and easier, you become more productive and more efficient — the ultimate goal for using any piece of software.
In this course, you’ll learn valuable shortcuts, tips, tricks, and timesavers to maximize your use of Microsoft Excel and leave with a concise handout for easy future reference.
Building a project plan to implement change is one thing, but it’s another challenge to influence how people behave and adapt to change. What’s perceived as resistance is often just a result of fear and uncertainty. Learn the skills necessary to lead your team through changes in the workplace effectively.
The construction industry has specific project documentation, communications, and correspondence requirements that demand focused efforts. The major pieces of construction correspondence will be the launching pad for this workshop. Participants will deal with everything from the basic rules of grammar to industry-specific documentation requirements.
Project Managers and Superintendents are the glue that binds construction companies together. To succeed, they must grasp the essentials of leadership: How to communicate with their teams, have difficult conversations, and tap the creativity of their teams to solve challenging project problems. This session will teach PMs and Superintendents how to improve their leadership to build their projects safely, efficiently, and profitably day-in, day-out.
In this opening session, the discussion will include the different types of contracts, from lump sum to design-build, explore clauses addressing the owner’s responsibilities for financing disclosures, time for processing submittals, RFIs, change orders, and payments, and the contractor’s right to stop work.
What You Will Learn
Learn about different types of project delivery structures
Understand contract clauses defining Owner obligations and how to negotiate them
This class takes a no BS approach to teach you how to be an effective leader. By looking at your performance, behavior, strengths, and weaknesses, you can become a change leader to advance your career and organization. You will learn how to take ownership of your personal development and professional advancement.
Even though many people use Microsoft Outlook, not everyone knows how to maximize its capabilities. Outlook has features that can help make the creation and storage of emails easier. In this course, you’ll learn valuable shortcuts, tips, tricks, and timesavers to maximize your use of Microsoft Outlook and leave with a concise handout for easy future reference.
CLASS WAS RESCHEDULED FROM JUNE 16 TO JUNE 8 - THE COURSE RECORDING IS AVAILABLE FOR MEMBERS IN THE UCON EDUCATION LIBRARY
Performing accurate quantity and material takeoffs is essential to arriving at the proper project price and procuring materials and construction services. This overview of principles and techniques will guide participants through various takeoff exercises, arriving at quantities and materials required for several essential construction elements.
Explore standard and master contract forms and how they are used. Learn the power of inclusions, exclusions, and conditions in proposals and how they influence subcontract terms. Identify traps for the unwary that expand scope and liability, such as responsibility for the design and unforeseen conditions, and learn how to avoid them.
Learn how to craft strategic approaches to bidding specific opportunities so that you increase the likelihood of your company being selected to build the project.
The aim of marketing is to attract the right project opportunities from the right clients: ones that build profitably because you understand the work, have a team in place, and are ready and able to bid, plan and build the project. During the session, you'll learn how to improve your marketing by answering these questions: 1. Who is your ideal client? 2. Why do they (in their own words) contract for your type of construction services? 3. How do you craft and deliver a targeted message to your ideal client that motivates them to want to get to know you?
Compromise is a no‐win situation for either party in a negotiation yet is the most used methodology. In this module, participants will understand how to design a win‐win negotiation, some alternative methodologies for approaching negotiations, and ascertain when negative negotiation tactics are being used against them. Participants will learn the basics of good negotiation practices and identify the techniques to use when negotiating with contractors, subcontractors, employees, and others.
The focus of this course will be clauses about the scope of work, the contractor’s responsibility for inspection and conditions, protection of persons and property, warranties, and uncovering and correction of work.
What You Will Learn
Typical Prime Contractor obligations regarding the scope of work, including responsibility for project conditions, protection, and quality of work
How to draft and negotiate clauses covering these responsibilities
Learn a step-by-step process to leveraging LinkedIn to raise your company’s profile, connect with your target audience, and share relevant high-quality content.
Gain clarity of mind and an increased capacity to meet and overcome life’s challenges. This training provides both physiological and cognitive techniques to overcome the negative impacts of stress and increase our capacity to bounce back from adversity. Navy Seals use these techniques to calm intense fear before combat. Actors and athletes use them to enhance performance under pressure. Learn how to stop the stress response before it arises and find effective ways to release it once present.
Even though many people use Microsoft PowerPoint, not everyone knows how to maximize the program's capabilities. PowerPoint has features that can help make the creation of presentations easier. In this course, you'll learn valuable shortcuts, tips, tricks, and timesavers to maximize your use of Microsoft PowerPoint and leave with a concise handout for easy future reference.
Here we discuss subcontract clauses impacting scheduling issues—including schedule control and input, coordination, sequencing, efficiency, and acceleration—compensation and/or liability for delays, consequential and liquidated damages, and damages waivers.
What You Will Learn
Explore ways subcontractors may seek shared control over schedule and handling of consequences when schedule problems happen
Learn to negotiate clauses that allocate and mitigate damages for schedule problems
Every company faces increased cyber risk in today’s modern world – and contractors are no exception. The rise of ransomware and social engineering attacks has led many contractors to face crippling financial losses throughout the past few years. Join UCON to learn from cybersecurity and cyber liability insurance experts on best practices required to protect your company and how cyber insurance can support your business when an attack occurs.
Part of successful organizational leadership can assert the power of your position without intimidating others to the point where they are hesitant to take the initiative. For staff members to respect you, they need to feel that you are approachable and keep your emotions in check.
Smoke from wildfires contains chemicals, gases and fine particles that can harm health. The greatest hazard comes from breathing fine particles in the air, which can reduce lung function, worsen asthma and other existing heart and lung conditions, and cause coughing, wheezing and difficulty breathing. This class will cover the following topics:
We will zero in on schedule clauses, including commencement, delays, impacts, efficiency, acceleration, substantial and final completion, and consequential and liquidated damages.
What You Will Learn
Learn about typical Prime Contractor obligations regarding Project schedule, completion, and consequences for delay
Explore strategies negotiating allocating risks of delay
This is a two-part session taking place on August 2 and August 9 from 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm each day. The class takes a deep dive into preparing the work in process schedule and how these schedules can provide value to many segments of the Contractor’s business. The goal is to create a tool that expands further than just financial reporting.
This is a two-part session taking place on August 2 and August 9 from 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm each day. The class takes a deep dive into preparing the work in process schedule and how these schedules can provide value to many segments of the Contractor’s business. The goal is to create a tool that expands further than just financial reporting.
Explore how subcontracts allocate “credit risk”—the ability of owner and contractor to pay—including a subcontractor’s right to access financial information. When is payment due, and what conditions must be met before a contractor is obligated to pay? What security is available to assure subcontractors that funds will be there to pay subcontractor’s invoices, including liens, stop payment notices, and bond claims, and how may contract terms affect these? Terms addressing withholding and release of retention will also be discussed.
When you start your career, you have no skills and no friends. You have to get busy acquiring skills and building your network. This session will show you how to craft a realistic career goal. Understand where you are in your career journey. Figure out the roadblocks to achieving your goals, and build a plan to overcome the roadblocks, so you make yourself indispensable and build a rewarding career.
Every Contractor performing prevailing wage work at either the State or Federal levels must be willing and able to work within Awarding Body’s and third party Labor Compliance Programs to achieve compliance. A Prevailing Wage Specialist will present this 2-hour overview.
This session deals with clauses addressing changes in work. What are the written requirements for changes? How are claims for extra work waived? What about oral change orders? How do differences in conditions impact contract price and time?
This class will cover UCON members' most frequently asked certified payroll questions and common pitfalls. Including Compliance requirements of Labor Code 1776, which is covered by certified payroll and contractor registration; apprenticeship requirements. FFC will walk attendees through finding prevailing wage determinations, completing necessary forms, and accessing other resources. The last 30 minutes of the meeting will be a moderated Q&A with Ruby Varnadore. Attendees can pre-submit their questions or ask during the session.
Active shooter situations are becoming all too common. They are unpredictable, evolve quickly, and are over in minutes. In this webinar, we focus on “survival,” not on fear. In an active shooter scenario, you have only seconds to make a decision!
This program answers your questions & concerns, calms your fears, trains your brain to respond to an active shooter situation, and gives you the information you need to make quick life-saving decisions.
When work and home have overlapping and conflicting priorities, workdays grow longer, and professional life can begin to intrude into personal life. This course is designed to help audiences mitigate stress and pressure and establish boundaries for home and work modes.
This session takes on changes and extra work for which subcontractors may have rights to be paid and given extra time, such as changes in scope, cost increases, unforeseen conditions, and force majeure. Participants will review language setting up processes and requirements for requesting and documenting the extra work, the amount charged, and the time to be given, and conclude with notice and waiver provisions, their consequences, and how to avoid them.
If you are going to win at the game of contracting, you have to know the score. The score, however, is made up of more than profit. Success is determined by more than whether you made or lost money at the end of the job.
This class will be an overview of the BIT (Basic Inspection of Terminal) program with a brief history and how it has evolved into what it is now. You will gain and retain Compliance with the California BIT Program.
Overcoming Workplace Negativity with Enthusiasm is a live online program that will show you how to use Dale Carnegie’s proven ways to prevent the naysayers, whiners, and downers from robbing you and your group of the energy to succeed. In just 3 hours, you’ll learn specific techniques for dealing with that burned-out feeling so that you can lead with confidence and enthusiasm. Take a positive step toward success right now. Negative attitudes spread to the point where they eventually affect performance and decision-making. That’s the bad news.
In this session, participants will consider different indemnity and insurance requirements, owner requirements for subcontract qualifications and subcontracts, and the owner’s rights to communicate with and pay subcontractors.
This course will introduce the concepts of insurance, surety, and risk management for construction companies and projects. We will review specific insurance coverages, types of surety bonds contractors can expect to see in their contracts, establishing and enhancing safety programs, ways to mitigate risk, and turning your insurance program into a profit center.
Basic Level 1 Inspection criteria for a roadside inspection and the purpose of the Scales is to inspect the size, weight, equipment, and emissions of the vehicles. We will discuss what triggers a Level I Inspection and how a PrePass works at the scales.
This class will cover mechanic's liens, stop payment notices, and bond claims. You will learn practical tips to get paid!
What You Will Learn
Mechanic's liens
Stop payment notices
Bond claims
Practical tips
Target Audience
Everyone: even if you are not responsible for collections in the company, it is good to have at least a basic understanding of time frames and requirements.
Instructor
Janette Leonidou, Leonidou & Rosin Professional Corp.
In this class, participants will learn about different types of indemnity clauses, how subtle differences in indemnity clauses can have large impacts, and how California law limits indemnity and defense obligations owners and general contractors may extract from others. The interplay between indemnity and insurance will be explained, and typical insurance requirements will be analyzed for type of coverage, reasonable limits, acceptable and unacceptable exclusions, and differences in additional insured endorsements. The role of subrogation waivers will also be considered.
Many times, owners will approach project pursuit awards with an eye towards trusted industry partners. Identifying owners that align with your company's approach to winning work can sometimes be challenging. Developing relationships with those owners can seem like an uphill battle. This class is an introduction to developing lasting, responsive relationships with agencies that support better communication, identifying their concerns, and providing solutions for them. In turn, these relationships prove to be trusted partnerships that make it easier to win contracts.
The final session is this prime-contracts series will focus on contractual provisions for claims, limitations of liability – including waiver of consequential damages and liquidated damages – claim dispute resolution processes, as well as suspension and termination.
This workshop will offer cultural intelligence insights across multiple levels of Diversity and Inclusion
(DE&I) acumen and provide a framework for reinforcing the connection between diversity, leadership
and business results to their constituents. Your leadership teams will better understand the role
effective and ineffective DE&I methodologies play during manager/employee/customer engagement as
well as their crucial role in the ability for individuals, teams and your organizations to achieve goals.
Under SB 1343, all California companies with five or more employees must provide sexual harassment training to all employees. Non-supervisory employees must receive at least one hour of sexual harassment training, and supervisors must receive two hours of sexual harassment training. This training must be renewed every two years and be provided to any new hire within six months of their hire date or promotion to a supervisory position. This course meets the state-mandated requirements.
Our final session focuses on contractual provisions for claims (and hoops that must be jumped through to preserve them), limitations of liability—including waiver of consequential damages and liquidated damages—claim dispute resolution processes, as well as suspension and termination, for cause or convenience, by contractor or subcontractor, and related compensation or liability.
Do you want to be recognized as a Professional Foreman, Leader, and Manager? Register for this seminar that focuses on key strategies and techniques to emerge as leaders, mentors, and innovators on the jobsite. There is no other program in the construction industry that provides a more comprehensive, uniquely focused people skills training specifically for construction Foremen. This class includes a copy of the book Five Minute Foreman by Mark Breslin.
Get up to date with new construction industry employment laws affecting your organization’s policies and practices. This program will discuss new laws and court decisions and provide strategies to implement new requirements at your company.
What You Will Learn
Review the labor & employment laws that were passed in 2022 that will affect the Construction Industry
