Continuing Education

Whether you are validating current practices, searching for new techniques, or learning from the ground up, this workshop covers all the essentials. What must Project Engineers know and do to become truly great Project Support Specialists? 

From discovering the role of Project Engineers to methodically working through common tasks required for success, participants will benefit from the vast experience of the instructors and the practical advice and work sessions offered.

Limit 25 Participants

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Effective communication lies at the heart of successful leadership. This workshop serves as a dynamic platform to equip leaders with the essential skills and strategies needed to excel in their leadership journeys, by cultivating a culture of open and effective communication within their organizations. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of effective communication principles and strategies, allowing them to inspire and guide their teams with clarity, empathy, and purpose.

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. If you or your organization is not confident in how to navigate PLAs, you’re not alone. UCON can show you how through this short training that will teach participants how to quickly read and interpret PLAs, anticipate issues, and effectively maneuver through targeted hiring and other requirements.

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 on how 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
• Discuss what the new laws mean for you.
• Discuss the implementation of the new requirements

Target Audience

UCON Members
 

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.

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.

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.

Every organization strives for greatness, which comes from the level of engagement and performance of its employees. Psychological safety is not about “being nice” or “being comfortable.”

Rather, it is creating a culture where input is encouraged and recognized. It is an environment where people are unafraid to ask for assistance or admit to making mistakes. It is a space where ideas can be challenged constructively in the desire to pursue continuous improvement.

This workshop will provide construction professionals with a practical understanding of 'Imposter Syndrome' and its impact on their professional and personal lives.

Participants will gain valuable insights into the causes and manifestations of Imposter Syndrome, and leave with actionable strategies to overcome self-doubt and cultivate greater confidence. 

Carpenter Funds Administrative Office is hosting a free Webinar “Cybersecurity in the Construction Industry” for NorCal Carpenters signatory Employers. 

We’ve all heard the stories, someone in the office clicks on a link and unleashes malware that leads to ransom threats or worse. Maybe you’ve been attacked or had a close call…

So, as an industry, what can we do to protect ourselves?

With the emergence of new technologies delivering comprehensive data to contractors, the future of risk management is bright. Implementing these technologies is not only good practice, but insurance companies as well as the DOT are beginning to require reporting on these leading indicators to ultimately save lives.

Predict and Prevent Turnover: Using AI to Assess Employee Retention Risk 

This class will equip you with the tools to proactively assess and address employee turnover risk using AI-driven insights starting with key workforce sentiment fundamentals the session provides a simple repeatable process to measure employee vulnerability and take targeted action before turnover happens.

It caps off with four essential questions you can ask to identify risks early and specify steps to mitigate them helping you maintain a more stable and engaged Workforce.

Cyber insurance tabletop exercise

A cyber insurance tabletop exercise (TTX) is a structured, discussion-based simulation designed to evaluate an organization's response to a cyber incident and the role its cyber insurance policy plays in that response. 

What You Will Learn

Improved Incident Response Readiness: By simulating various scenarios, organizations can understand what is covered by insurance, what falls outside of coverage, and what to measure against with their own policy.

Learn more about the threat that is driving incidents in the construction industry. Learn about the new AI-generated tools that cyber attackers are using to trick employees and what you can do to thwart and respond to the threat.

What You Will Learn

Recognize and understand the threat landscape

AI has become the engine for innovative companies across industries looking to maximize the impact of their ideas.

With the explosion of ChatGPT and the democratization of generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, and overcome some of their business’s toughest challenges.

However, when we look back at use cases for any emerging technology to market, there's a common denominator among the most successful adaptors of these technologies, gleaning the highest ROI.