Target Audience:
The Construction Management & Leadership (CML) curriculum is designed to train residential construction executives and a sub set of the programs are designed to train construction field managers.

Targeted job titles in this category will include Director or VP of Construction, Production Manager, Construction Manager, Operations Manager Superintendent, Construction Coordinator, Warranty Manager, Production Support Manager, Scheduling Manager, Estimating and Purchasing Manager.
Company Senior Management will also find these courses useful and productive.

Delivery Mechanism:
The CML curriculum will be presented in a limited class size forum. Due to the intense dialog and interface between faculty and participants each program will be limited to 12 participating sites per class. Should more people desire to attend these sessions; additional classes or an additional full CML series will be scheduled.

These classes will also be presented over a web and audio based medium (TBD at time of this writing) but due to the limited size of the audience a less expensive mechanism will be employed. KRM, the delivery mechanism for the Executive Leadership Curriculum requires a minimum number of site registrations and costs $7,000 in registration and production fees. These classes are only offered in a series basis. You must register for the entire series of classes so that we can keep the class progressing at the same pace.

Objectives:
The objective of the CML is to teach production homebuilding techniques and management systems to your production or construction department. We want to give them the skills to control costs, satisfy customers, improve quality and decrease cycle time on your jobsites. Emphasis will be on efficiency and a systems approach to solving the common problems associated with building homes in an uncontrolled environment.

Teaching Points:
The teaching points of the Construction Management & Leadership curriculum will include a series of class lessons followed up with assignments to be accomplished prior to the next lesson date.

The CML series will develop the skills of customer and vendor communications, dealing with difficult people, using your job site time effectively and efficiently, effective purchasing, scheduling techniques to reduce cycle time, building a near zero defect home and controlling job cost budgets and variances for the field management personnel.

Additionally, the production department leadership will have an opportunity to learn the skills and systems needed to motivate field supervisors for top performance, maintain an accurate estimating database, develop incentive programs that match field performance with reward, complete a home totally prior to walk-through and closing and establish construction benchmarks for continual improvement.

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Class Schedule:
Starting on March 3, 2005 and the first Thursday in April, May, June, August, September, October, and December the CML series will be presented at 1 PM Eastern Time. Each class is scheduled for 90 minutes in length and includes Q&A time during and after the program and an assignment at the end of each program to each participating company.

The last program is a bonus offered to the firms whose team has attended the CML series during 2005. Participation in the series allows one team member to attend the live practical sessions free of charge. Each additional team member from the same site registered company can attend for the nominal fee of $150. This program will include one day devoted to seeing the systems learned of during the 2005 CML series in action at the site of a participating builder in Orlando. The second day will be dedicated to group dynamic exercises designed to reinforce the concepts learned during 2005 and group exchange of ideas. This will be a capstone course toward becoming eligible to take the BOLT – Construction exam and obtaining the prestigious SMA/BOLT Construction Manager Credential.

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Fees and Tuition:
The entire CML series of nine courses is offered at an upfront cost of $2,599. . Plus the 9th bonus On Site in Orlando Practicum is included in this price for one attendee and additional attendees are eligible from the same firm for the discounted price of $150 each.

Each site registration allows for as many people from the same firm as desire and can listen and see the computer screen or projection device to participate for this one low price. Again, class size is limited to 12 sites, so register early to maintain the above schedule.

SMA Consulting Retainer based clients ( Advisory Board, Executive Management, Controller or CFO clients) are eligible to receive a 10% discount lowering the series annual price to $2,339. This price if three people from each client firm attend amounts to a rate of les than $87/class per attendee.

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