Contractors Guide for Success - Project Management Course

Contractor Guide for Success - Project Management was our second course after the fundamental electrical estimating course. The need for this course became apparent after a few of our estimating students began to estimate in a more accurate manner, lack of project management skills began to caused serious problems. It is possible to realize a profit on a project that has a faulty electrical estimate, (depending on how faulty), with good project management skills. It is far more difficult to make a profit on a well estimated project that has had ineffectively managed.

This course is available as an individual class for electrical contractors or in classes in various cities across the United States. Text can be purchased and mailed to your office for home study. It is important to note that this project management module leads into many different areas depending on the type of work that your firm completes and the clientele you contract with. It is basic in nature, and the common sense of the material is overwhelming. We believe the need for this class is great; this is a influential course that can increase profit while reducing stress in your firm.

Designed to improve and/or develop skills that will increase profitability while reducing stress. Organization of everyone's time is critical to a contractors success. This course is the ABC's of project management. These ideas are time tested and proven to work. While running an electrical project, large or small, returning to the basics may result in stress relief while increasing profit, a Win - Win situation. Topics covered in this class;

1. Business Strategy - Business Plan
2. Budgeting
3. Change Orders
4. Claims
5. Commodity Material Buyout
6. Commodity Material Release
7. Contracts
8. Design / Build Projects
9. Estimating
10. Job Closeout
11. Jobsite Reports / Daily Reports
12. Jobsite Visits
13. Marketing
14. Method to Improve Productivity
15. Negotiations
16. Ongoing Training
17. O&M Manual
18. Organizational Skills
19. Productivity
20. Progress Billings
21. Proposals
22. Pre-Job Start Up Meeting
23. Project Schedule / 3 Week Rolling Schedules
24. Purchase Orders
25. Quality Field Labor
26. Quoted Material Buyout / Purchase Orders
27. Quoted Material Release
28. Submittals
29. Supervisor Review Time
30. Time Cards
31. Value Engineering / Option
32. Warranty Work / Warranty Letter

This course has several possible formats,

Local Contractor Guide for Success - Project Management

Our local training which is held in various cities is an opportunity to exchange views with your local contractors and to hear views and questions they may have. This is a fine opportunity to gain a tremendous amount of information in a short time. This class room training is our most common form of training as it is thorough, convenient and quick. This training is typically paced as a two day class consisting of two four hour long classes, each class is generally two weeks apart allowing time for our students to study the text and files on CD and develop questions for the following class. A minimum number of students are required to conduct this course. Visit our calendar to see when a class is scheduled around your area. If a class is not shown on our calendar, email us using our contact us page and let us know you want one scheduled.

Home Study Contractor Guide for Success - Project Management

Our home study course is a powerful method of learning this basic material. Once a client has registered and paid their tuition our text, including Microsoft 2003 Word and Excel files (on CD) are mailed to the students. We will have a total of six - hour and a half long webinar sessions over a six week. This class is scheduled to meet both out students and teachers schedule, we will mail your class material after receiving your enrollment and tutition. A telephone call will be made after we know you have received the class materials to arrange the best weekly time for our six weekly telephone calls. To save on telephone expenses these calls can be scheduled by e-mail and we will place the calls at our mutually agreed upon time. A handicap to the home study version is the lack of participation from other contractor’s opinions that are shared in our class room setting.   Our home study course consists of six specific powerpoint presentations given via our webinar service. Because this class is a one on one class we can and will deviate from the prepared text if a student has a particular need. We suggest that the class stays on track as we have thirty-one items to cover and our time is limited. Some items will be of particular interest while others may not be of particular interest to you, this is why we will deviate - if requested - in our one on one class. We always allow for questions during our class that result from our students review of our text or files on the supplied CD.  This class allows for questions between class via email correspondence, we extend that time for up to a month after your six class sessions are complete.

This option is not for everyone, but it has many advantages, you do not need to pay for a private class, or wait for a scheduled course in your area. It also allows you the time to read, review and digest this material on a six week schedule, allowing you time to think about the items in class. We suggest that you make this a high priority to avoid the problem of "I’ll do it tomorrow", procrastination may cost you - increased stress and reduced profits. We are ready to start within days of your decision to take the class.

Enrollment requires each student to have a high speed internet connection, head sets and microphone for your computer and Adobe Flash installed on your computer.
Adobe Flash is a free download and must be completed before class starts instructions will be shipped with your class materials.

The course tuition is $1,445.00
for contractors in the United States, contractors outside of the United States contact us for rates.

In-house Contractor Guide for Success - Project Management training at your office

Our in-house training is intended for contractors who want specialized Contractor Guide for Success – Project Management training for their office staff, while not being in the same class as your competition. It can be tailored to meet your firm’s individual needs, be elementary or advanced depending on your firm’s project management needs. Residential, commercial or industrials, which ever suits your companies needs.

For any of our Contractor Guide for Success - Project Management class options we offer,

We extend the option to continue generic questions relating to this class for up to a month after the course is complete via e-mail.