BST: Building High Performance Teams

To hit your project goals, you need more than a group of people—you need a team that works together. This course shows supervisors how to turn a crew into a high-performing team that delivers on time, on budget, and to the level of quality expected.

You’ll explore how teams form, what makes them thrive, and how to lead with purpose and consistency. Learn how to identify where your team is at today and how to take them to the summit of high performance through practical leadership and team-building strategies.

Topics:

• Understanding team development and team stages

• Characteristics of high-performance teams

• Assessing your current team and your leadership style

• Becoming a consistent high-performance supervisor

• Strategies to take your team from base camp to summit

Up-and-coming and mid-level Supervisors.

EARN YOUR BST CERTIFICATE

This course is part of the Building Supervisors for Tomorrow (BST) program—a certificate series designed to help up-and-coming and mid-level supervisors lead with confidence.

Supervisors today need more than just technical skills. The BST program builds leadership, communication, planning, and people management abilities—giving you practical tools you can use on the job site right away.

To earn your BST Certificate, you must complete the following 10 courses (in any order):

1. Oh Crap, I’m a Supervisor

2. Building High Performance Teams

3. Mental Health on Construction Sites

4. Construction Industry Ethics

5. Effective Meetings & Delegation

6. Conflict and People Management

7. Coaching Skills for Supervisors

8. Leadership for Safety Excellence (delivered by CSAM)

9. Project Scheduling for Supervisors

10. Great Communicators Make Great Supervisors

You can register for courses individually as your schedule allows.

PAM GRAHAME, SHOP FLOOR LEADERSHIP

Pam Grahame is a customer-centric leader, a certified coach and facilitator who spent 25 years in the steel industry.  Working in a traditional manufacturing industry Pam has been through the tough stuff and knows what works and what doesn’t. Currently the Principal of Shop Floor Leadership, Pam is a passionate negotiator who knows what it takes to get people talking and realizing their best versions of themselves. A straightforward style helps drive decisive results-oriented people who have courage to challenge the hard stuff and succeed. 

Her mantra:  Wear a hard hat – Succeed – Be You!

Pam has achieved a Certified Professional Facilitator designation (CPF) using ToP Methods of Participatory decision making, group facilitation and training, strategic planning and stakeholder engagement which support an excellent crossover framework between industry and process.