Available Seminars:

    It’s a Matter of Time

Examine any project’s most valuable resource: TIME. This seminar is intended to develop strategies to create and perpetuate a Virtuous Project Cycle, or break a Vicious Project Cycle. 

The Virtuous Project Cycle demonstrates how a series of sound project policies, team harmony and leadership can set off a chain of advancements in the health of the project. This leads to acceleration in project progress and improved quality that is accompanied by a positive project economic outcome. It’s a matter of time.

  The Tale of Two Stadiums

Delve into the importance of how the client influences design through the comparative study of New York’s two newest major league baseball stadiums, Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.  The key to the success of any design, as well as any project, starts with the client.  This seminar is intended to develop strategies on how to learn what the client wants and how to partner with the client.  

  The Art of Bid and Award

70% of the projects success can be tied to a well-executed bid and award process. It is problematic when a contractor is chosen solely on their lowest bid. The lowest price is just not enough to make that critical choice. You can always find the cheapest car on the lot when you buy the one without wheels and an engine.

This seminar provides detailed instruction into the art of bidding. Topics include how to select qualified bidders, preparing bid forms and assembling complete bid documents. You will then be instructed on how to obtain proper bids, understanding what is included and what is excluded in the bids, level the bids, interview bidders, make final award and contract with successful bidder.

  The Nuts & Bolts Scheduling Primer

This seminar is not a primer on how to create or maintain a schedule, but a primer on the proper use of the schedule and its updates.

For so many project managers and superintendents the schedule is an esoteric project requirement. Often many elements of management believe ‘the schedule’ is some how distant from what they are trying to accomplish, even if they participated in its initial creation. So many times, on so many projects, a request goes out for the ‘Real Schedule’ or to ignore the ‘Project Schedule.’ This seminar applies scheduling basics how it works in our daily life, and yes, to the projects we manage. We will unclutter  scheduling jargon and concepts so that the schedule is a tool and not an anchor. 

Finally this seminar will delve into the ‘Project Schedule’ disconnect. You may ask, “Can it be eliminated?”. I ask, “Is it intentional?”.