Leadership Development Programs

Increasing Your Potential with UCON's Professional Educational Series

UCON’s ongoing professional development courses support member skill development, leadership capacity, and problem-solving.

Participants are more effective in the workplace, make meaningful contributions to teams, and advance in their careers. They lead, manage, influence, coach, and elevate others.

Recruiting & Retaining the Next-Generation: DEI HR Leaders Roundtable

  • September 29, 2021 10:00am  -  1:00pm
Recruiting & Retaining the Next-Generation: DEI Executive Roundtable

Join United Contractors for an interactive HR Leaders Roundtable focused on how company practices around “DEI” (Diversity, Exclusion, and Inclusion) can help leaders: Recruit and Retain Gen Z and Millennials.  

Millennials and Gen Z will soon make up the majority of the workforce. For this next generation of employees, team members, and future construction leaders, inclusive cultures are not a “nice to have” but a “need to have.” What does this mean for our industry and what can company leaders do?  

Recruiting & Retaining the Next-Generation: DEI Executive Roundtable

  • August 26, 2021 10:00am  -  1:00pm
Recruiting & Retaining the Next-Generation: DEI Executive Roundtable

Join United Contractors for an interactive Executive-Level Roundtable focused on how company practices around “DEI” (Diversity, Exclusion, and Inclusion) can help leaders: Recruit and Retain Gen Z and Millennials.  

Millennials and Gen Z will soon make up the majority of the workforce. For this next generation of employees, team members, and future construction leaders, inclusive cultures are not a “nice to have” but a “need to have.” What does this mean for our industry and what can company leaders do?  

Mastering the Art of Feedback

  • July 21, 2021 2:30pm  -  3:30pm
Julie Zhuo

Feedback makes all the difference. Engagement. Retention. Performance. But for many leaders, managers and employees, one of the most stressful situations can be the giving and receiving of feedback. When done well, feedback can help people improve and thrive in a position. When done poorly, feedback can create a culture of tension or defensiveness. Using stories from her experience in Senior Leadership at Facebook, she provides actionable takeaways that can improve the experience for both parties.

No BS Leadership

  • July 27, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm
No BS Leadership

This class will teach you how to be an effective leader with a no BS set of exercises for you to do the following; take a hard look at your own performance and behaviors; assess what strengths you can lead from and what issues you need to address now; focus on how to be a change leader to advance your career and organization; obtain resources and ideas on taking ownership of your own development and advancement.

From Battlefield to Boardroom

  • August 18, 2021 2:30pm  -  3:30pm
Ron Bailey

Ron will talk about a combat philosophy and its applicability in today’s boardroom. You will learn how to reshape your organization based on the following eight guiding principles: Intellectual Innovation, Boldness, Trust, Integrity, Teamwork, and Surprise, and how it can improve your organization. You will leave with a different model of thinking in an uncertain environment.

Tastes Great – Less Filling: The Confusion Between Leadership and Management

  • August 19, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm
Confusion between Leadership and Management

Leadership and management are very different but equally important for project and business success. The problem is we never talk about the distinctions and end up doing both poorly. This session will explain the differences and give you simple to use steps to insure successful implementation. 

Countdown to Teamwork: Guarding Against a "Normalization of Deviance"

  • September 15, 2021 2:30pm  -  3:30pm
Mike Mullane

Insights from the heavens comes with Mike’s story as an Astronaut. His lessons from space exploration and the Challenger explosion will motivate you; push your practice of teamwork: guard against a “normalization of deviance,” and enhance responsibility, trust, self-leadership, and courageous team leadership.

Speaker:

Mike Mullane, Astronaut

 

 

 

 

 

Fearless Field Leader

  • October 19, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm
Fearless Filed Leader

Do you want to be recognized as a Professional Foreman, Leader and Manager?  Take the next steps and register for this seminar that focuses on key strategies and techniques to emerge as leaders, mentors, and innovators on the jobsite. There is no other program in the construction industry that provides a more comprehensive, uniquely focused people skills training specifically for construction Foremen. Over 15,000 graduates across the U.S. This class includes access to the PCL video series.

Redefine Impossible

  • November 10, 2021 2:30pm  -  3:30pm
James Lawrence

When James Lawrence (aka the Iron Cowboy) announced his plan to complete 50 Ironman’s in 50 consecutive days in all 50 states, the only person who believed that he could pull it off was James himself (and his wife, Sunny). But with the support of Sunny, their five children, and with grassroots support conjured at the last minute, he accomplished what he set out to do. You will leave inspired that no goal is too big – you just need the right steps.

Speaker: 

James Lawrence (aka The Iron Cowboy)

 

 

 

 

Recruiting & Retaining the Next-Generation: DEI HR Leaders Roundtable

  • September 29, 2021 10:00am  -  1:00pm
Recruiting & Retaining the Next-Generation: DEI Executive Roundtable

Join United Contractors for an interactive HR Leaders Roundtable focused on how company practices around “DEI” (Diversity, Exclusion, and Inclusion) can help leaders: Recruit and Retain Gen Z and Millennials.  

Millennials and Gen Z will soon make up the majority of the workforce. For this next generation of employees, team members, and future construction leaders, inclusive cultures are not a “nice to have” but a “need to have.” What does this mean for our industry and what can company leaders do?  

Recruiting & Retaining the Next-Generation: DEI Executive Roundtable

  • August 26, 2021 10:00am  -  1:00pm
Recruiting & Retaining the Next-Generation: DEI Executive Roundtable

Join United Contractors for an interactive Executive-Level Roundtable focused on how company practices around “DEI” (Diversity, Exclusion, and Inclusion) can help leaders: Recruit and Retain Gen Z and Millennials.  

Millennials and Gen Z will soon make up the majority of the workforce. For this next generation of employees, team members, and future construction leaders, inclusive cultures are not a “nice to have” but a “need to have.” What does this mean for our industry and what can company leaders do?  

Mastering the Art of Feedback

  • July 21, 2021 2:30pm  -  3:30pm
Julie Zhuo

Feedback makes all the difference. Engagement. Retention. Performance. But for many leaders, managers and employees, one of the most stressful situations can be the giving and receiving of feedback. When done well, feedback can help people improve and thrive in a position. When done poorly, feedback can create a culture of tension or defensiveness. Using stories from her experience in Senior Leadership at Facebook, she provides actionable takeaways that can improve the experience for both parties.

No BS Leadership

  • July 27, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm
No BS Leadership

This class will teach you how to be an effective leader with a no BS set of exercises for you to do the following; take a hard look at your own performance and behaviors; assess what strengths you can lead from and what issues you need to address now; focus on how to be a change leader to advance your career and organization; obtain resources and ideas on taking ownership of your own development and advancement.

From Battlefield to Boardroom

  • August 18, 2021 2:30pm  -  3:30pm
Ron Bailey

Ron will talk about a combat philosophy and its applicability in today’s boardroom. You will learn how to reshape your organization based on the following eight guiding principles: Intellectual Innovation, Boldness, Trust, Integrity, Teamwork, and Surprise, and how it can improve your organization. You will leave with a different model of thinking in an uncertain environment.

Tastes Great – Less Filling: The Confusion Between Leadership and Management

  • August 19, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm
Confusion between Leadership and Management

Leadership and management are very different but equally important for project and business success. The problem is we never talk about the distinctions and end up doing both poorly. This session will explain the differences and give you simple to use steps to insure successful implementation. 

Countdown to Teamwork: Guarding Against a "Normalization of Deviance"

  • September 15, 2021 2:30pm  -  3:30pm
Mike Mullane

Insights from the heavens comes with Mike’s story as an Astronaut. His lessons from space exploration and the Challenger explosion will motivate you; push your practice of teamwork: guard against a “normalization of deviance,” and enhance responsibility, trust, self-leadership, and courageous team leadership.

Speaker:

Mike Mullane, Astronaut

 

 

 

 

 

Fearless Field Leader

  • October 19, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm
Fearless Filed Leader

Do you want to be recognized as a Professional Foreman, Leader and Manager?  Take the next steps and register for this seminar that focuses on key strategies and techniques to emerge as leaders, mentors, and innovators on the jobsite. There is no other program in the construction industry that provides a more comprehensive, uniquely focused people skills training specifically for construction Foremen. Over 15,000 graduates across the U.S. This class includes access to the PCL video series.

Redefine Impossible

  • November 10, 2021 2:30pm  -  3:30pm
James Lawrence

When James Lawrence (aka the Iron Cowboy) announced his plan to complete 50 Ironman’s in 50 consecutive days in all 50 states, the only person who believed that he could pull it off was James himself (and his wife, Sunny). But with the support of Sunny, their five children, and with grassroots support conjured at the last minute, he accomplished what he set out to do. You will leave inspired that no goal is too big – you just need the right steps.

Speaker: 

James Lawrence (aka The Iron Cowboy)