Leadership

Increasingly, Owners, Managers & Supervisors are challenged with emotional, stressful & potentially volatile situations. Threats, high-risk terminations, and disgruntled & violent employees can become costly and dangerous if not handled properly. Faced with the need for quick decisions, fear often constrains their thinking as they attempt to sort through an overwhelming situation. In this highly facilitated session, participants become the investigators of real-world cases.

Become the ultimate coach for a new leader with this course. Learn how to structure and conduct impactful one-to-one meetings, empower your new leader to evaluate their team, and confidently guide them through their first 90 days with our High-Performance Dashboard. These tools will set your new leader up for long-term success.

Many leaders in key positions are becoming eligible for retirement. There is a great sense of urgency to plan to replace an essential talent proactively. The expense and risk of bringing in candidates from the outside are high. Compounding this problem, the supply of job-ready replacement candidates is often limited. If you’re unsure where to begin or are looking for a fresh approach to speed up the process, this webinar can help.

In this engaging course, attendees will learn to identify personal stressors and their impact on well-being, develop effective time management techniques, and create boundaries in an era of constant connectivity.

The workshop will introduce mindfulness practices to reduce stress, along with personalized self-care routines that incorporate sleep, nutrition, and exercise. Participants will also explore flexible work arrangements and build resilience to navigate workplace challenges.

This class is all about strengthening your business by taking relationships seriously, inside and out.

This is a no-fluff, action-oriented workshop where you’ll roll up your sleeves and learn how to assess, improve, and sustain the key relationships that matter most. You’ll walk away with practical steps to build trust, add value, and set up a network that works as hard as you do.

Hosted by UCON & AGC

Jointly hosted by United Contractors and AGC, this webinar will examine the expiration of the Construction Trucking Exemption at the end of 2024 and expl

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 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?

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.

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