Level Up Your Construction Business in 8-Weeks

This isn’t your average training – it’s built specifically for SUB leaders. Each week, you’ll learn from industry pros on topics handpicked by general contractors who know what it takes to succeed:

• Banking & Surety: Transform your bond agent relationship from transactional to strategic. Discover how to leverage your surety market intelligence, industry connections, and risk management expertise to gain competitive insights that inform better business decisions and drive growth opportunities.
  • Learn to use your bond and insurance relationship as trusted partners.
• Accounting & Cashflow: Master the critical financial skills that separate thriving construction companies from those that fail despite profitable projects. This essential workshop reveals how to predict, manage, and optimize cash flow in an industry where payment delays and project costs can make or break your business overnight.
  • Better understand the risks and value of cash flow as a business owner/leader in the Construction industry.
• Safety: Develop a comprehensive safety program that matches or exceeds large general contractors’ standards while maximizing your competitive advantage. This workshop shows small business owners how to leverage industry partnerships, association resources, and client relationships to build robust safety cultures that win work and protect your people.
  • Understand best practices from Safety and Health Council leadership.
  • Identify and leverage all of AGC’s Safety resources.
  • Establish a connection with safety professionals who are invested in your growth and development.
• Insurance and Contract Acumen: Provides an overview of understanding insurance for your firm. Will cover the different types of insurance and which liabilities they cover, how to position yourself better to understand contract scopes, and how to negotiate depending on the type of insurance you must have.
  • Understand the nuances of insurance as a business.
• Contract Management: As a business leader in construction, you must understand your contract and leverage all possible resources to ensure that you know what is in your contract, how to negotiate, and ultimately how to use the contract to drive results rather than have the contract be a detriment to your relationship building.
  • Learn the common pitfalls, insights, and nuances to mastering your contract management skills.
  • Identify trusted partners on your “team” that you can use for review and advice.
  • Use your contract acumen to build versus burn bridges with your clients.
• Strategic Growth: When scaling a business, it is essential to build strong relationships with entities that you might not have worked with before. What does that look like? How does one build a relationship from a business development lead and turn it into an opportunity to bid on and win a project? This session will cover best practices for integrating your business development approach with your strategic plan, with a focus on long-term sustainability and growth.
  • Learn best practices for strategic planning.
  • Learn best practices for building new relationships in the business development space.
  • Know what the non-negotiables of follow-through are.
• BONUS: HR & Talent Management: Master the essential HR practices that will protect your business and position you for sustainable growth. This hands-on workshop equips small business owners with practical tools to build effective people operations from day one, avoiding costly mistakes while creating systems that scale with your team.
  • Gain confidence in what matters most for compliance, legal, hiring, retention, and building sustainable systems.
• BONUS: Estimating & Takeoff: Sharpen your estimating skills and boost bid accuracy with proven takeoff methodologies used by successful general contractors. This interactive workshop combines hands-on practice with real project scenarios to help you create more competitive and profitable estimates while minimizing costly oversights.
  • Gain exposure to systematic Takeoff Methods.
  • Learn best practices for Cost Analysis and Pricing Strategies.

Each session is taught by an industry subject matter expert and a GC representative to ensure real-world relevance.

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