Education Library

Under SB 1343, all California companies with 5 or more employees must provide sexual harassment training to all employees.

Layoffs & terminations can trigger unexpected emotional outbursts, but when it’s a high-risk termination, planning and preparation are key.

Get up to date with new construction industry employment laws affecting your organization’s policies and practices.

Project Foremen and Superintendents have some of the most difficult jobs in the construction industry.  The more they know and understand about leadership, communication, planning, organizatio

The construction industry has specific project documentation, communications, and correspondence requirements that demand focused efforts.

Learn how to craft a strategy that ensures your company thrives through transitions.

Subcontracting violations are the most common and most costly grievance union contractors face.

Step into construction networking with a clear plan and a confident smile, even if you’re naturally more reserved.

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.

Get a jump start on understanding the basics of construction estimating.

This class covers detailed topics and best practices for construction accounting and finance.

This course will introduce the concepts of insurance, surety, and risk management for construction companies and projects.

Construction professionals, are you tired of struggling with time management? Our course teaches you how to ditch time management and use calendar management instead.

Unlock the potential of social selling to boost your personal brand within the landscape of your company's corporate identity.

Building a project plan to implement change is one thing, but it’s another challenge to influence how people behave and adapt to change.

Join Eric Anderton as he sits down with a leading expert to unpack the ESOP model.

Subcontracting violations are the most common and most costly grievance union contractors face.

Unexpected overtime can make or break your bottom line. Yet, the rules are easy to misinterpret or take for granted, causing cost creep and wage claims.

Unexpected overtime can make or break your bottom line. Yet, the rules are easy to misinterpret or take for granted, causing cost creep and wage claims.

Skilled & Trained Workforce (STW) is not just a compliance issue; it's a competitive issue that increasingly favors companies who get compliant quickly and effe

This workshop teaches the concepts of “fearless negotiating” as they relate to the construction industry.

Step one in getting good at this whole relationship game is knowing who you are. And the quickest way to get that self-awareness is by taking a real look at your core values.

You are not alone! About 1 in four people are living with a mental health condition that is impacting their quality of life.

Get ready to ace your performance reviews with our comprehensive course.

Identify potentially high liability risk employee terminations and strategies for reducing/eliminating liability risks associated with terminations.

This course will review the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration drug and alcohol testing regulations for drivers with a CDL.

Leaders define culture for better and worse. Is our culture empowering for those in it? How would our teams describe their prevailing experience?

This class will cover mechanic's liens, stop payment notices, and bond claims. You will learn practical tips to get paid!

Are you looking to boost your networking skills and make meaningful connections with current and potential clients and industry partners?

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.

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.

The most common word shared across many definitions of leadership is influence!

Sit in with Eric Anderton as he breaks down, with a seasoned expert, the essentials of an internal sale of your company to the next generation.

Contractors are, unfortunately, easy targets for all kinds of legal claims.

Love them or hate them, PLAs are an increasingly common feature of the industry and one that contractors need to get more sophisticated at to survive.

This course, presented by Workers Comp experts, will cover best practices for contractors around dealing with Workers comp, including the value of Workers Comp Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Beware of “gaps in wraps”! There is no standard “wrap” or consolidated insurance program (e.g., OCIPs and CCIPs).

Unexpected overtime can make or break your bottom line. Yet, the rules are easy to misinterpret or take for granted, causing cost creep and wage claims.

Unexpected overtime can make or break your bottom line!

Performing accurate quantity and material takeoffs is essential to arriving at the proper project price and procuring materials and construction services.

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 disclosur

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 c

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

We will zero in on schedule clauses, including commencement, delays, impacts, efficiency, acceleration, substantial and final completion, and consequential and liquidated damages.

“Safety is our most important job.” All companies say that. Many even have excellent practices for preventing injuries.

This class is for anyone responsible for ensuring that their company has a workforce compliant with Skilled & Trained Workforce (STW) guidelines.

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 de

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.

Explore how subcontracts allocate “credit risk”—the ability of owner and contractor to pay—including a subcontractor’s right to access financial information.

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 maj

Here we discuss subcontract clauses impacting scheduling issues—including schedule control and input, coordination, sequencing, efficiency, and acceleration—compensation and/or liability for delays

In construction, we build complicated projects. Too often delivering successful projects gets over complicated.

Become the ultimate coach for a new leader with this course.

How to navigate and protect yourself while using USA North’s new online ticket management software, OneCallAccess.

Women make up more than 50% of the workforce, but less than 4% in construction. As construction faces massive job shortages, the industry must transform to attract and retain this talent source.

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 c

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 c