8:00 am
Coffee & Networking
8:40 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
The War for Talent
8:50 am Fireside Chat: How to Create a Positive People Culture With a Commitment to Excellence to Realize Every Employee’s Full Potential
Synopsis
- Discussing where to find new qualified individuals in a constant war for talent
- Creating a welcoming and nurturing environment for young talent to progress through training
- Ensuring every employee has a clear and compelling progression plan to enhance retention
9:20 am Tools of the Trade: A Practical Approach to Workforce Planning in Construction
Synopsis
- An introduction to Workforce Planning Software with purpose in construction and key market trends
- Approaches and Features with an overview of different software types and must-have features for construction
- Evaluating Software Solutions including criteria for selection (cost, ease of use, integration) and steps for a streamlined evaluation
9:50 am
Morning Refreshments & Networking
Track 1
Building Your Strategy for Operational Excellence
Track Chair: Collin Sutt
Building Your Strategy for Operational Excellence
Track Chair: Collin Sutt
The Right People for the Right Role
10:20 am Discover:Creating Effective Leadership Development Programs to Support Long-Term Corporate Growth
Synopsis
- Ensuring credibility and commitment of your business to the growth of its employees
- Discussing the leadership skills and attributes you need from your people to excel personally and professionally
- Creating fast-track leadership development programs for rising stars in the firm: How do we identify these people and effectively on-board them to the program?
- Fostering a culture of self-improvement and empowering your people to seek out further training and development
10:50 am Develop:Ensuring Clarity of Career Progression to Improve Employee Retention & Satisfaction
Synopsis
- Reviewing the areas of your business that commonly have most uncertainty in progression to know where to target first
- Working with managers to effectively use review systems to connect employees to their growth in the business
- Creating stronger connections between L+D and functional management to ensure consistent review of systems
11:30 am Action:Engaging the Whole Labor Force With Effective Communication
Synopsis
Using the takeaways from the previous sessions to build more understanding for effective communication throughout the whole business. Developing on ideas for new possible implementations.
Track 2
Achieving Project Excellence
Track Chair: Heather Ormonde
Achieving Project Excellence
Track Chair: Heather Ormonde
Creating High Efficiency on Projects
10:20 am Discover:Enhancing Scheduling Best Practices Across All Project Teams to Ensure Consistency in On Time Delivery, Every Time
Synopsis
- Educating field teams on the importance of scheduling and their role in reducing backlog and miscommunication
- Using advanced visualization tools to make the schedule easily accessible to all
- Working with teams to use the schedule as a tool not only for effective projects but also time management and self-regulation in the day-to-day
10:50 am Develop:Developing Effective Standards of Practice to Increase Consistency of Delivery Across All Departments & Projects
Synopsis
- Understanding what collaborative operating procedures are most effective to eliminate functional silos
- Creating a centralised system of standard operating procedures (SOPs) to create cohesiveness whilst balancing necessary variation
11:30 am Action:Identifying the Most Impactful Project Inefficiencies to Support Operational Excellence
Synopsis
Developing conversations on project management from earlier sessions to highlight opportunities to grow your companies operational excellence.
12:00 pm
Lunch & Networking
Organizational Effectiveness for Business Excellence
1:00 pm Discover:Ensuring Organizational Effectiveness Through the Effective Deployment of Work Across Senior Management Layers
Synopsis
- Understanding how effective role allocation contributes to more organizational and workforce harmony
- Aligning all departments to avoid duplicated jobs or gaps in roles
- Reducing the backlog of workload without adding additional stress to employees
1:30 pm Develop:Ensuring Effective Knowledge Transfer Across All Staff to Retain Your Competitive Advantage
Synopsis
- Developing a culture of learning from each other regardless of position
- Creating channels for communicating feedback to develop all new recruits and the entire organization
- Utilizing an intelligent knowledge management solution to retain project knowledge and transfer established best practices to new employees
2:00 pm Action:Ensuring Continuous Development & Learning on Your Journey to Operational Excellence
Synopsis
Discussing how to build your playbook for continuous improvement using new knowledge obtained from the previous talks.
Applying Lean Principles for Project Excellence
1:00 pm Discover:Maximising the Benefits of System Updates to Construction Management Platforms
Synopsis
- Creating a pipeline of updates to stagger introduction of change to teams
- Maintaining continuous training to ensure all workers are using the system updates correctly and effectively
- Tracking progress of individual workers learning and development to enhance the support given
1:30 pm Develop:Reinforcing Lean Principles Across All Employees, Top to Bottom, to Ensure Project Excellence
Synopsis
- Developing employee understanding of Lean principles
- Creating effective training practices so that all employees understand Lean principles
- Discussing the most effective Lean practices to introduce to the fields first, and how to scale this as your teams become more comfortable
2:00 pm Action:Creating the Best Working Environments to Get the Most Out of Project Teams
Synopsis
Discussing takeaways from earlier sessions to apply possible changes to ensure improved and ultimate working environments for all employees.
2:30 pm
Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
The Future of Operational Excellence
3:30 pm Panel: What Are Your Future Operational Excellence Practice Plans & How Will They Roll Out?
Synopsis
- Addressing ideas and possibilities to maximize success of operational excellence
- Discussing roll out and what that could look like for different companies of different sizes
- Building on previous gaps and mistakes to ensure correct prioritisation of change