Unit 1: Leadership & Motivation

Supervisory skill—or the lack of it—directly affects every company’s bottom line. Each day decisions made by every foreman and superintendent are crucialto the success or failure of every construction project. You make your money in the field. Or you lose it.

The Supervisory Training Program (STP) developed by AGC, is designed specifically to meet the needs of the construction industry. Developed, updated,and field-tested by and for contractors, the Program consists of 6 courses that focus on the knowledge and skills that every supervisor must have to be aneffective manager of people, time, equipment and materials.

This course includes the following sessions, case studies and topics:

• Dollars and Sense of People and Construction: Case Study: The Contractor Who Lost the Bid; improving the bottom line by effective supervision; cost ofpoor supervision; cost and causes of personnel turnover; learning new jobs, tasks and skills; communication, trust, respect, teamwork, and cooperation.
• The Role of the Construction Supervisor: Case Study: The Confused Supervisor; supervisory leadership and motivation; crew supervisor in the linkingpin role; positive discipline.
• Helping People Perform Better: Case Study: The Poorly Motivated Crew; assumptions about people; the performance equation; encouraging externalcompetition and self-improvement; delivering timely training and information; encouraging responsibility and self-control; setting positive expectations.
• Motivation: Case Study: The Worker Who Lost Motivation; general motivational strategies; recognizing personality types; internal motivational techniques;job enlargement and job enrichment; construction supervisor’s motivation tool kit.
• Leading Others: Case Study: The Inconsistent Supervisor; leading others; being consistent but flexible; providing consistency; providing flexibility;leadership styles.
• You Get What You Expect: Case Study: The New Crew Supervisor; setting positive expectations; how workers respond to supervisor’s behavior; puttingthe theories to work.
• Positive Feedback: Case Study: The Tough Supervisor; giving positive feedback; benefits of giving positive feedback.
• Training and Orienting Crew Members: Case Study: The Lead Trainer; orientation and training for new workers; training.
• Teams and Team Building: Case Study: The Team That Didn’t Work; why teamwork is important; team types; the construction supervisor’s role; phases ofteam development.
• Leadership Skills in Action: Case Study: The Fleckster Company buyout; review of the course.

 Instructor: Peter Church,

Safety Manager – JE Dunn

• Safety Manager for JE Dunn
• JE Dunn’s safety leader in the Nashville market
• 34 years in the construction industry
• 30 plus years licensed General Contractor Business Owner
• Laborer
• Carpenter Superintendent
• OSHA outreach trainer

“My name is Peter Church, I’m currently the lead Safety Manager in Nashville for the JE Dunn Construction Company. Not counting those years spentworking alongside my grandfather, this is my 34th year in the construction industry. I’ve spent time as a laborer on an erecting crew building in New York Cityalso, spent time as a Carpenter Superintendent holding onto my Carpenter book for nearly 10 years during which time, I received my Supervisor Training Certification. I’ve been a licensed General Contractor for 30 plus years specializing in custom homes and historic restoration as well as all facets of homerepair and remodel. I’m an OSHA outreach trainer and perform all JE Dunn’s required construction and culture classes here in Nashville. Spent nearly 7 years as a construction safety consultant before finally being talked into a full-time safety manager position then subsequently talked into moving my family here to Nashville 3 years ago.”

Registration & Fees

 Registration & Fees cover course books, instructor fees, and drinks/snack in AGC training room. All units can be taken individually but only after completingall 6 units will AGC of America issue the digital badge/national recognition. All participants will be recognized at an AGC meeting upon completion of allunits.

Individual Unit Fee:

• $350/unit/AGC Member
• $550/unit/Non-Member (cannot receive AGC of America digital badge & recognition)

 Class Schedule, Unit 1 Leadership & Motivation:

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