An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Construction Management Skills
- Format: Classroom
- Duration: 5 days
- Language: English
- Accredited: CPE, KHDA Certified training courses
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 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 organisational maturity level, strategic compliance and operations consistency.
In this EuroMaTech Construction Management Skills training course, participants will develop the following competencies:
- 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
- Organisation Skills, People and Teams Management
- Procurement and Contract Procedures
- Business Economics and Finance
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
This EuroMaTech Construction Management Skills training course aims to enable participants to achieve the following objectives:
- Develop construction management skills set
- Know the essentials and critical principles of construction phases
- Organisational 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
This EuroMaTech 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 particular needs of their workplace.
TRAINING SUMMARY
This EuroMaTech 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 tool and techniques for optimum construction performance. This is critical to organizations aspirations to develop and enhance their construction management capability and maturity level.
TRAINING OUTLINE
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
- Organisation 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 organisation 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
- Organisation and administration
- strategic and operational stage gate reviews
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ACCREDITATION
EuroMaTech is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.
Euromatech is a Knowledge & Human Development Authority (KHDA) approved training institute in Dubai, licensed and approved to deliver training courses in the UAE.
The KHDA is the regulatory authority in the UAE, that oversees administering, approving, supervising, and controlling the activities of various education providers in the UAE. We are proud of our commitment to ensuring quality training courses and status as a KHDA-approved training provider.
Taught by our team of highly qualified trainers, our KHDA approved training courses will provide you with an enriching learning experience and practical knowledge that will help you future-proof your career and support professional development within your organisation.
