The NECA Leadership Journey is a roadmap to help guide the next stage of your education as an electrical contracting professional. Many of these opportunities are hosted locally by the Wisconsin Chapter and facilitated by NECA Education at the national level.
Field & Project Management
Entry to Mid-Level Management
- Project Management Program
- Safety Professionals Institute
- Estimating Courses
- Future Leaders Conference
- Innovation Institute
- NECA’s Principles of Electrical Contracting
- NECA Now
- NECA Emerge
Executive-Level Management
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 parts 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.
Project Management Pathways
The project manager is an essential part of every electrical construction project. Project managers must determine how to effectively plan, organize and schedule and how to efficiently use labor, subcontractors, materials, time, installed equipment, budgets, construction equipment and company money. They must act as a conduit for information and have great communication skills.
To address the industry’s critical need for project managers NECA has developed two different paths to cultivate these individuals—an online program that addresses the project manager’s role, responsibilities, and tasks within short on-demand modules and a year-long, Department of Labor, registered apprenticeship program that provides hands-on guidance through the project management role with technical instruction, on-the-job learning, and real-world project management scenarios. The Wisconsin Chapter also hosts a local cohort of the registered apprenticeship program. All three options offer flexible and affordable options to help train project managers.
Estimating Courses
Basic and Advanced Estimated courses are provided locally and through live virtual classrooms. These courses focus on understanding the cost components of electrical estimating, instilling industry best practices, all while developing a sound estimating process. Through the hands-on exercises participants will be expected to perform a takeoff, develop a material list, look up and apply labor units using the NECA Manual of Labor Units, summarize the costs of the estimate, and apply overhead and profit to the estimate. Each lesson builds upon the previous one, with all the learning coming together through a simulated bid opening on the final day.