Introduction

Construction is a risky business that faces stiff, ever-changing, and highly demanding conditions. Poor construction management skills have been one of the key root causes for continuing failures. As construction projects become more technically complex, there has been an eminent challenge to enhance existing and new skills, capability, and expertise in construction management. Effective construction management toolkits and skills set are critical to enhance organizational maturity level, strategic compliance, and operations consistency.

Goals

Participants will learn:

• Principles of Design and Construction.
• Principles of Construction Planning.
• Principles of Project Management.
• Management of Construction Process.
• Project Control.
• Strategic Management in Construction with emphasis on communication, negotiation, and leadership.
• Organization Skills, People and Teams Management.
• Procurement and Contract Procedures.
• Business Economics and Finance.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

• Develop construction management skills set.
• Know the essentials and critical principles of construction phases.
• Organizational level construction management processes, tools, and techniques capability development.
• Competencies in managing and handling complex stakeholders’ relationship in construction environment.
• Confidence in applying construction management processes.
• Commercial management in construction environment.
• Skills to project manage and project control.

Training Methodology

The Construction Management Skills training course, will combine presentations with interactive and engaging sessions, instructor and student led themes, practical exercises, and critical observations, supported by video materials, activities, international best practices and case studies in construction management. Delegates will be encouraged to participate actively in relating the essentials of construction management to the needs of their workplace.

TRAINING SUMMARY

The Construction Management Skills Training Course covers fundamental principles and advanced skills in construction management processes, how to apply and manage it effectively, identifying root cause problems, gaps, and way forward, construction economics including procurement and contracting methods.  This will allow you to integrate best practices tools and techniques for optimum construction performance. This is critical to organizations aspirations to develop and enhance their construction management capability and maturity level.

Program Content

Day 1 - Principles of Construction Management

• Fundamentals of construction management.
• Essentials of construction design and planning.
• Coordinating various layers, systems, and processes.
• Soft and hard issues in construction management.
• Best practices, what has worked well and what has not.
• Organization maturity in construction management.

Day 2 - Management of Construction Process

• Construction whole life cycle.
• Construction project management and processes.
• Handling various site, technical, operational, and strategic stage gate reviews.
• Control and monitoring mechanisms.
• Risk management.
• Progress, delays, claims and counter claims management.
• Mitigate backlogs with effective use of construction management processes.

Day 3 - Stakeholders’ Relationship Management Skills in Construction

• Handling difficult and challenging stakeholders and contractors.
• Culture of loyalty, ownership, urgency and setting the right priorities.
• Distributed organization and constantly up-to-date.
• Decision making and ability to drive the team effectively.
• Managing 3600 degrees of construction issues, problems and challenges.
• Powerful performance and managing expectations.
• Constructive conflicts and dispute resolution methods.

Day 4 - Construction Business, Economics, Procurement and Contracts Skills

• Internal and external business environment appraisals.
• Economics assessments and feasibility.
• Solid management of cash flows and overhead.
• How not to overextend the resources.
• Procurement and contracting methodologies.
• Contracts risk and reward mechanisms.
• Steering the synergy and ability to see the big picture.

Day 5 - Construction Strategic Management Skills Set

• Navigating strategic layers.
• Leadership vs Management, visionary, inspirational leadership.
• Assertive and powerful communication of critical data, information, and decisions.
• Closely managed projects with early warning systems to catch potential problems.
• Negotiating, influencing, inspiring, convincing, and persuading stakeholders.
• Organization and administration.
• strategic and operational stage gate reviews.