Leadership

High Stakes, High Performance from the Oscar-Nominated Film Molly’s Game, Molly Bloom Shares Her Playbook for Success

Knocked Down Six, Get Up Seven: Where Character is Defined

  • June 15, 2022 2:30pm  -  3:30pm PDT

Molly Bloom shares her playbook for winning, derived from her experiences skiing for the US Ski Team, running the largest poker games in the world, writing a bestselling memoir, and making an Oscar-nominated movie. Throughout her presentation, she breaks down her philosophy for growth and success into seven major points, which audiences will leave invigorated, informed, and primed for their own success.

How to Make Yourself Indispensable and Build a Rewarding Career

  • August 18, 2022 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PDT

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.

The Glue: How Project Managers and Superintendents Excel in High-Pressure Environments

  • May 17, 2022 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PDT

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.

Conflict Resolution in the Construction Industry

  • April 28, 2022 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PDT

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.

Construction Leaders Dashboard

  • April 21, 2022 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PDT

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.

Risk Taking and Decision Making

  • March 08, 2022 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PST

Most people agree that they could stand to take more risks in work and life. Of course, doing so in a thoughtful and calculated way is the key because it reduces the likelihood of getting harmed. This workshop is about getting an edge so that when faced with situations and decisions involving risk, you stack the odds in your favor. Bill Treasurer, the facilitator of this workshop, has been writing about risk for a long time. His first book, Right Risk, drew on his experiences as a former professional high diver and fire diver!

How to Overcome Barriers to Team Success and Achieve High-Performance

  • February 01, 2022 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PST

Construction is a team sport. To succeed, leaders must understand how to build and lead high-performing teams that execute safe, high-quality projects on time. This session teaches leaders the mindset that leads to high-performance, how to achieve excellence by identifying and improving the execution of their most important tasks, and how to teach their teams to achieve consistently high performance on every project they build.

Women in Construction Leadership Panel

  • October 20, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:00pm PDT

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. Join us as experienced panelists detail their careers and identify barriers and solutions to inclusion in the male-dominated construction industry.

Fearless Field Leader

  • October 19, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PDT

Do you want to be recognized as a Professional Foreman, Leader and Manager?  Take the next steps and 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. Over 15,000 graduates across the U.S. This class includes access to the PCL video series.

Influence: Leading Others Even When You’re Not the Boss!

  • March 18, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PDT

This workshop will draw on scientific research around what makes a person influential. It will explain the factors that go into influencing others and provide tips for building on those factors. A clear connection will be drawn between influence and leadership, and how you can lead others regardless of your title or rung on the hierarchy.