Field Leadership Essentials (Indianhead)

Presented by Mark Kawolsky with NECA Education

About Field Leadership Essentials
Foremen play a vital role in projects, ensuring on-time, on-budget completion of the essential construction tasks driving America’s progress. They excel in managing time, resources, and personnel, while also tending to their team’s physical and mental needs. Effective task delegation, motivation, and skill enhancement are all part of their leadership. NECA’s Field Leadership Essentials Program is a one-day, in-person field leadership development course designed specifically to meet the needs of electrical contractors. This course focuses on the knowledge and skills that every field leader must learn to be an effective manager of people, time, equipment, and materials.

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Target Audience
Anyone who is currently a field leader, in line to become a field leader, or wants to learn what it takes to be a field leader.

What Participates Will Learn

• Explain the field leader’s roles and responsibilities.
• Use effective communication techniques on the jobsite.
• Describe how you can better support crews.
• Identify the characteristics and behaviors of good leadership.
• Motivate crews based on individual and situational needs.
• Use a step-by-step process to make better decisions.
• Describe the supervisor’s role in harassment prevention.
• Describe the benefits of developing a positive mindset around diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging.
• Describe steps you can take to improve crew productivity.
• Describe the importance of different types of schedules to the construction process.
• Describe the components of costs on a job.
• Explain the business impact of poor tool and material management.
• Define common types of estimates and components of a bid estimate.
• Describe the supervisor’s role in creating and maintaining a safe working environment.