Training

1. Online MicroTrainings:
   
   QUESTION: What is the answer to the severe shortage of skilled project managers, superintendents, resident engineers and construction managers? How can project teams better understand the problems immediately in front of them?
   
   ANSWER: Short, 15-minute, fast-paced bursts of training on-target, when needed. Our PodCasts are authoritative, no-nonsense cram courses in HOT TOPICS like:
   
   
   • Project Delay
     • How to identify, prevent, overcome and resolve disputes about it
   • Scheduling
     • What kind of schedules are needed to run projects and keep them on schedule?
     • What are the basics of creating and updating a CPM Schedule?
     • How can owners and contractors use schedules to resolve delay disputes?
   • Change order backup
     • What is reasonable and necessary backup to permit quick resolution of change orders and change order requests
   • RFI - Requests for Information
     • How to write and process effective RFI's, avoiding the frivolous and the non-answered
   • Preventing RISK
     • What specific steps can project leaders take every month to identify present and future risks, and work together to mitigate them?
     • How to fairly allocate risks among the parties on the project
   • Resolving Disputes
     • How to keep disagreements in the Change Order process - avoiding claims and lawsuits
     • SlateTracker - A proven monthly technique to identify risky disputes early, and nip them in the bud
     • How to Wipe the Slate Clean - resolve difficult disagreements WITHOUT claims, lawyers, anger and huge costs (It's not arbitration, it's not mediation, it's not DRB, it's an entirely new, project-proven tool.)
   • Project Management excellence - build top skills brick by brick
     • The 3 Levels of Thinking on every project, and how to keep your project leaders at Level 3/Project First Thinking
     • How to make monthly project meetings short and productive - using our copyrighted Focus/Forecast technique
     • Identify the Enemy - how to keep project leaders working together to overcome the common enemy (hint: it is NOT the other person)
     • Problem Solving 101
     • How to deal with design disputes - quickly, fairly, effectively
   • People Skills
     • Red Behavior - how to identify when you or "the other guy" are about to go ballistic, and what to do when it happens
       
       
   EVERY MONTH WE POST A NEW PODCAST ON ONE OF THE ABOVE TOPICS.
   
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2. Facilitator Training: TRG is in almost constant need of trained facilitators to assist us in delivering services. Please contact us if you are interested in pursuing TRG facilitation.