Change Happens: Lead Your Crew with Confidence

Do changes in your working environment leave you feeling overwhelmed? Do you get frustrated and experience a lack of communication or dissention within your team? In construction, it’s not if change happens, but when. Changes in construction affect everyone -- general contractors, subcontractors, supervisors, journeymen and apprentices.

Lead your crew through change with confidence and professionalism. In this session, you will learn tactics to strategically empower yourself and guide your team successfully through the numerous changes that come your way.

Topics:

• Define how change comes at you and why it can feel so overwhelming
• Learn how people see change differently and how it affects your crew and/or jobsite
• Discover how you as the leader can create a solid strategy to reduce the negative impact when change comes your way
• Develop eight tactical steps to protect yourself and your crew as you lead them through changes to get the job done

Construction Supervisors looking to refine and enhance their leadership skills. To maximize your learning experience, ideally you will have completed the BST program and/or have experience leading teams.

Wendy Hofford, President, WH Strategic Drive Inc.

Wendy is the President of WH Strategic Drive Inc. a facilitation, training and consulting firm specializing in leadership, human resources, and human behaviour in the workplace. Wendy brings her experience as a human resources director and director of operations to organizational leaders from the front line up to senior management.

Wendy has spent the last nine years working in the construction industry as an HR Director, a national safety officer and a strategic leadership advisor. Prior to that she fulfilled a role as a director of operations in Saskatchewan and Ontario.

As a professional speaker, trainer and facilitator with the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, certified speaker and trainer with John Maxwell Leadership and the Gallup Strengths Organization along with a diploma as an adult educator, Wendy shares her skills, education and experience with her audience. Wendy recently published her first book: Rip Off the Bandaid! Have that tough conversation.

Wendy previously held a seat on the Divisional and Advisory Committee for the Construction Safety Association of Manitoba, and on the board of directors for Manitoba Women in Construction. Through engaging, energetic facilitations, presentations and consultations Wendy works to help individuals and organizations develop, grow and be better than they thought they could be.

The Building Supervisors in Leaders (BSL) program builds on the previous modules in the Building Supervisors for Tomorrow (BST) program by introducing more comprehensive leadership skills and complex issues.  The program is intended to propel on-site supervisors into authentic leaders – trusted, genuine, motivated individuals who are mission-driven and consistently generate positive results.

This comprehensive program provides it all, and is delivered in manageable segments by industry experts with extensive hands-on experience in construction’s ICI sector. Participants have the flexibility to attend modules in any order. Upon completion of all seven sessions participants will be awarded a Building Supervisors into Leaders (ICI) certificate.

2022 BSL Schedule: 

• Building and Managing Customer Relationships: The Supervisor’s Role - Thursday, March 3, 2022
• Managing Field Productivity to Improve Bottom Line - Wednesday, March 16, 2022 
• Building Leaders: One Step at a Time - Wednesday, April 13, 2022  
• Controlling Financial Risk: Best-in-Class Tools for Supervisor’s - Friday, April 22, 2022   
• Change Happens: Lead Your Crew with Confidence - Wednesday, April 27, 2022 
• The Supervisor’s Role in Quality Management: Managing Shop Drawings, Samples and Submittals - Thursday, May 5, 2022 
• Lean Construction for the Job Site - Thursday, May 12, 2022