Construction Supervision Fundamentals | Young Leader Training (June - October)

Young Construction Leader training is back by popular demand.  The newly developed Construction Supervision Fundamentals curriculum is perfect for peer to peer engagement, highly interactive learning, and training your company's future leaders.

The Construction Supervision Fundamentals (CSF) Education Program is designed for aspiring front-line leaders looking to learn entry-level management skills to lead construction activities.

This course is the first step on the path to developing construction supervisors. This interactive course allows the building trades and craft workers to experience construction supervision techniques firsthand and create a professional development plan to achieve personal career goals.

This highly interactive course presents basic information about the skills and knowledge needed for successful construction supervision. This course is around 25 hours of instruction broken down into nine units. 

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Unit 1 - Team Management: This unit identifies basic management functions and responsibilities of construction companies and how supervisors effectively manage the relationship dynamics between employees, supervisors, contractors, suppliers, and others that are part of each project team. 

Unit 2 - Project and Team Leadership:  This unit introduces learners to construction supervision and provides learners with tools that will help them organize and acclimate to the challenges of construction supervision. It offers basic leadership and motivation principles and an introduction to leadership styles to help them build relationships with others. Introduces the Initiation process of Project Management and covers the types of stakeholders involved in the life-cycle of a construction project. Presents the Project Scope and the Planning process group of Project Management including the Project Management Plan and schedule.

Unit 3 - Communication Skills:  This unit is designed to help learners understand the importance of effective communication and emphasizes sorting, facilitating, and managing the flow of information that construction supervisors encounter in their daily work. 

Unit 4 - Time Management and Project Scheduling: This unit presents information about planning, scheduling, and effectively managing time. Supervisors are expected to carefully plan work so that it is completed within the constraints of the budget and schedule. This session provides learners with several tools to help them accomplish these goals. 

Unit 5 - Risk Management: Construction supervisors must actively consider risk, hazards, and safety daily. They must understand that there are risks involved in construction projects. Supervisors must learn how hazards and hazardous conditions create economic and human consequences. This unit presents information about how to eliminate or reduce/manage these conditions that affect the health and safety of their workers and the financial stability of their company. 

Unit 6 - Construction Law and Contract Documents: In this unit, learners will study the definition of contract and peripheral documents used on a construction project. They will learn that various documents have specific roles and functions and facilitate relationships between contractual parties. They will understand their role in controlling quality, time, and cost and how they can help avoid or resolve project disputes. 

Unit 7 - Problem Resolution:  This unit is designed to help learners understand the importance of problem identification and resolution. Coupled with skill in making the appropriate decision at the right time, supervisors will be successful. Their decisions directly impact the people and work they supervise. This session presents a logical, sequential, and analytical method of identifying problems, seeking opportunities, and deciding on effective solutions. 

Unit 8 - Productivity and Cost Control:  In this unit, learners will study cost awareness, cost control, and productivity on their projects. Every supervisor should be able to use unit costs to determine budgetary information. 

Unit 9 - Skill Development: This unit allows learners to reflect upon the information presented in this course and apply what they have learned on their job sites. A self-assessment tool will help them determine the strengths and weaknesses in their supervisory skills and knowledge. Using that information and career information from this session, they will develop a one- and five-year career development plan and review those plans with a mentor from their company.