The Construction Profession: Industry, Roles and Leadership for Organisations is a five-day programme that equips facility, quality, and engineering professionals across GCC organisations with the knowledge and frameworks to understand construction industry structure, project participants, and leadership practice within their own portfolios. Delivered through an integrated blend of a globally reco
•The characteristics that define the construction industry and its four major sectors
•Current trends within the construction industry and its role in society
•Positioning facility, quality, and engineering functions within the industry's sector structure
•Comparing building construction and infrastructure project characteristics
•Assessing employment and skills trends relevant to your organisation's workforce planning
Activity: Industry mapping, participants identify which construction sectors and trends most affect their organisation
•The responsibility and authority of the Owner, Designer, and Construction Manager
•Differentiating construction workers, trades, and work experience across a project team
•Mapping internal facility, quality, and engineering roles onto project participant structures
•Building effective working relationships between owner, designer, and construction manager roles
•Applying best-practice communication skills across project teams and field operations
Activity: Role mapping, participants map their own role against the owner, designer, and construction manager framework
•Characteristics of an effective construction management leader and why construction needs leaders
•The three forms of business organisation and continuous quality improvement in practice
•Applying quality-management principles to construction leadership and team organisation
•Organising project teams and resources around clear leadership structures
•Building a personal leadership development plan for construction management roles
Activity: Leadership self-assessment, participants benchmark their leadership style against effective construction management leader traits
•How the life of a facility moves from idea and funding through to a defined project
•Life-cycle cost analysis and assessing whether a facility is economically feasible
•Applying engineering and lifecycle thinking to facility investment decisions
•Understanding how people are involved across the planning, design, and construction lifecycle
•Using project management techniques to track a project through its lifecycle phases
Activity: Lifecycle mapping, participants map a current or recent project against the facility lifecycle stages
•Translating industry and role insight into a leadership agenda for facility, quality, or engineering functions
•Aligning industry structure, participant roles, and leadership practice into one approach
•Consolidating industry, role, and leadership priorities into one portfolio plan
•Defining the first 90 days of action; peer review and facilitator feedback
Activity: Produce a one-page construction leadership roadmap for your portfolio and complete edX assessments for the certificate
Engineering Managers/Leads
Quality Managers
Facility Managers
Project Coordinators
Operations Managers
Asset/Portfolio Managers
HSE Managers