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Successful Construction Business Management
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| Price: |
$99.00 |
| Business Focus: |
Business Administration |
| Instructor: |
Gene Fessenbecker |
| Course Code: |
scb |
| Delivery Method: |
Instructor-led Online Course |
| Frequently Asked Questions |
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| Course Overview: |
| Your contracting business can gain a powerful and permanent advantage over the competition by practicing expert business management. Learn how to build your company's business skills up to the same high level as your trade skills. This course gives you hands-on, practical management tools to help you design and construct a superior business operation that serves your customers better and keeps them coming back. This course will show each person on your business team how to understand your entire operation so they can help improve the management process. Production managers will see how the sales people and estimators rely on their performance to meet timelines and project costs. Finance and administration people will learn how to keep other managers and staff current on critical company operations while keeping a pulse on the financial health of the company. The contractor/owner will discover how each part of the management team can affect and improve total company operations. Discover how to get your management group working as a well-informed team. This course will provide you with clear and simple directions to give your contracting company the strongest possible business advantage. |
| Instructor Biography: |
| Gene Fessenbecker brings his years of experience as a remodel contractor, custom home builder and construction manager to a focus in his books and self-study courses about the business of contracting. His published works include the Advantage Contractor Business Success Series, Construction Management Excellence, and 13 accredited self-study courses for the Oregon Contractors Board Education Program. Gene speaks to regional and national contractor association conferences about the business of construction contracting. |
| Course Syllabus: |
| Lesson 1 Syllabus |
General Business Management |
| Lesson 2 Syllabus |
Construction Business Planning |
| Lesson 2 Objective |
Focus on the business of contracting, business tools for contractors and seeking your business advantage |
| Lesson 3 Syllabus |
Marketing |
| Lesson 3 Objective |
Follow a blueprint to set up your business and learn how to build your business from a plan |
| Lesson 4 Syllabus |
Sales and Customer Service |
| Lesson 4 Objective |
Learn how to prepare and use your marketing plan to promote your business ahead of the competition |
| Lesson 5 Syllabus |
Contract and Lien Law |
| Lesson 5 Objective |
Explore the sales process and learn to use sales skills to increase business productivity |
| Lesson 6 Syllabus |
Cash, Finance, and Accounting |
| Lesson 6 Objective |
Design and use a contract form that works for your business and learn how liens can protect you |
| Lesson 7 Syllabus |
Estimating |
| Lesson 7 Objective |
Use your financial plan to make your business prosperous and learn about records management |
| Lesson 8 Syllabus |
Project Scheduling |
| Lesson 8 Objective |
Learn to use an estimating system to control costs and how to work the system to your benefit |
| Lesson 9 Syllabus |
Independent Contractor and Employee Issues |
| Lesson 9 Objective |
Manage your projects for on-time and on-budget performance and use the schedule system that controls your project best |
| Lesson 10 Syllabus |
Safety and Project Security |
| Lesson 10 Objective |
Maintain the legal nature of your business and learn about the requirements of having employees |
| Lesson 11 Syllabus |
Building Codes and Environmental Issues |
| Lesson 11 Objective |
Learn how to use safety to your advantage, find out why risk management is useful and how to set up a safety program |
| Lesson 12 Syllabus |
Office Setup and Operation |
| Lesson 12 Objective |
Find out about the new building codes and learn the dangers of hazardous waste and its safe disposal |
