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8:30 am Registration & Networking
9:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Maximizing Talent in Your Organization
9:15 am Panel Discussion: Leaving a Legacy – Developing Leadership Skills Across the Organization to Create a Cohesive Group of Future Business Leaders
- Discussing the competencies of the modern construction leader
- Defining core values among leadership across the organization and how that needs to evolve at different seniority levels
- Developing management coaching and development programs to help employees transition from individual contributor to mid-level manager, to senior executive with influence and credibility
9:50 am Audience Q&A
10:15 am Audience Discussion: Enhancing Employee Engagement to Support Long-Term Organizational Growth
- Facilitating transparent discussions around motivations and compensation with your workforce to determine areas for improvement
- Building a clear framework of incentives to balance fairness across the workforce, yet still align with individual need
- Establishing an organizational culture of transparency and communication to maintain employee engagement
11:15 am Morning Refreshments & Networking
Improving Project Function
11:45 am Improving Company-Wide Data Literacy to Help Leadership at All Levels Evaluate Performance & Drive Improvement
- Highlighting the skills and requirements of different leadership levels when it comes to data interpretation
- Ensuring everyone, from project manager through executive leadership, are effectively trained in the art of data interpretation and manipulation to help them extract maximum value from reports: How do you get everyone bought in and engaged with development initiatives?
- Breaking down internal silos on how to leverage data, using real-life examples of how data has improved performance to improve buy-in to the value of data and reporting
12:15 pm Audience Q&A
12:25 pm Case Study: Effectively Monitoring Project Health to Gain Insight & Reduce Costs by Taking Proactive Course Correction Measures
- Defining valuable metrics to accurately measure project health
- Building easily accessible, interactive reports for leadership to monitor project health, and extract the specific insights they need for their role
- Working with project leadership to harness reports to forecast issues within projects and moving to proactive prevention measures before issues become irreparable
12:55 pm Audience Q&A
1:05 pm Lunch Break & Networking
2:05 pm Audience Discussion: Building a Dedicated Approach to Client Communication to Improve Overall Customer Satisfaction
- Establishing a singular platform for project updates to be shared, centralizing all project information coming from the client, and reduce the need for multiple questions
- Standardizing meeting structures and cadence/volume of reporting across project partners to set clear expectations around communications
- Utilizing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool to create quantifiable feedback and inform your client satisfaction aims
Enabling Growth & Profit Maximization
3:05 pm Evaluating & Expediting Entry into New Markets to Unlock Strategic Growth Opportunities & Drive New Business
- Discussing how to examine and qualify potential new markets for expansion
- Exploring how to identify and navigate potential pitfalls associated with expanding into a new market
- Adapting your existing Standard Operating Procedures to fit alongside the new variables in said market
3:35 pm Audience Q&A
3:45 pm Panel Discussion: Examining How to Prioritize Different Project Pursuits to Maximise Profit & Mitigate Risk
- Creating a decision-making matrix accounting for market specific variables to inform the pursuit of new projects
- Aligning project pursuit and opportunities with your strategic company goals and client consistency
- Optimizing your resourcing to meet project requirements sustainably, without overextending and taking on additional risk
- Managing client communications when decisions are made to protect long-standing relationships, yet uphold integrity of decision making across the business