This course presents a body of knowledge and skills that today’s construction supervisors need in order to be effective communicators on their job site.

• Effective communication
• Learning to listen
• Carrying on conversations
• Persuasion, negotiation, and confrontation
• Communicating with your crew
• Putting it in writing
• Meetings that work
• Electronic communication
• Improving communication

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This course will provide information about contract documents and construction law to help supervisors recognize the roles and responsibilities of all contracted parties, to develop an understanding of how contract documents can be helpful to solve problems and resolve conflicts, and to develop positive relationships between all parties in the construction process.

· Introduction to contract documents and construction law

· Creating a positive environment through partnering

• Contractual relationships
• Contract forms and documents
• Managing general conditions
• Good documentation practices
• Changes
• Differing site conditions
• Time impacts
• Negotiation of resolutions

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This course covers understanding how project estimates are compiled, how to compare actual project costs with those estimated and how to control costs to meet the estimate. This course also details how productivity is measured, how the supervisor plays a major role in increasing jobsite productivity and how a small increase in productivity can have a significant impact on the time and cost of a project.

• Construction estimates
• Who controls project costs
• Reporting and analyzing actual costs
• Planning for cost control
• Cost control strategies
• Labor cost variances
• Working with project partners
• Managing risk and loss potentials
• Cost control strategies
• Post-project evaluations
• Benchmarking construction productivity
• Improving productivity through pre-planning
• New skills for effective supervision
• Personnel management

· Equipment management for productivity improvement

• Jobsite productivity, planning and scheduling
• Quantifying lost labor productivity

· Record keeping, control, changes, and defect analysis

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This course will cover the roles and responsibilities of a construction supervisor in accident prevention and loss control.

· Safety leadership, communication and expectations

• Planning for site safety
• Site safety management
• Site security and protection
• Multi-employer jobsite safety
• Construction risk management
• Safety and human resources

· Regulatory procedures, record keeping and documents

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The AGC Supervisory Training Program (STP) is designed to meet the specific needs of the early-career construction supervisor. The Construction Supervisor Overview Unit, 7th Edition, describes the value of effective supervision of workers to improve the supervisor's abilities.

Unit CS focuses on the building construction supervisors and covers: leadership, communication, problem solving, cost awareness, planning and organizing, accident prevention and loss control, and much more.

This Instructor's Guide assists course instructors in leading participants through course discussions and activities.

Learn more about the entire program at www.agc.org/STP or by emailing curriculum@agc.org.