AGC Nevada Chapter Leadership Series
Leadership for Construction Industry Professionals
Breakthrough Training has been facilitating the Associated General Contractor Annual Leadership Program for the last 18 years.
The series is designed to be an educational leadership training experience that rewards your company, your employees, and the construction industry. Participants will develop strong leadership skills, communication skills and team building skills, and gain a better understanding of the roles Associated General Contractors plays in the construction industry, and how AGC services benefit their companies.
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This module will introduce members to the various aspects of leadership. The purpose is to develop a broader understanding of leadership and its applications and implications to personal and professional life. The program focus is on understanding the different personality types and how to best work with, and to best lead others.
- Develop a clearer understanding of what leadership is.
- Practice the fundamentals of leadership.
- Increase personal initiative to solve problems.
- Gain an understanding of your dominant communication style.
- Introduction to effective project management as a team leader.
- Create a greater familiarity among members of your team to achieve goals.
- Understand and practice a proven process of achievement.
- Maximize your leadership by understanding who you're working with.
- Create personal and professional goals to improve performance.
- Learn how to motivate your self, and how to motivate other people.
- Create a positive working environment needed to achieve goals.
- How to strengthen the relations among members of your team.
This program provides participants with the essential tools to communicate effectively with other people. The program focus is on practicing positive business communication skills that propel participants along the path to career success and personal achievement.
How to receive and give effective feedback is highlighted. Participants learn the different components of communication including verbal, tone and non-verbal. Communication styles and how to create positive relationships with co-workers, business associates and customers are examined and performed. In-depth assessment of the 4 main communication styles is the core of the content.
- Practice listening strategies that dramatically improve communication.
- Improve your communication as a leader.
- Communicate skillfully and confidently with other people.
- Learn ways to best persuade and negotiate to achieve goals.
- How to effectively deal with and resolve conflict within a team.
- Communicate in a clear manner to create mutual understanding.
- Build trust and establish cooperation with others.
This program provides participants with the essential tools to communicate effectively with other people. The program focus is on practicing positive business communication skills that propel participants along the path to career success and personal achievement.
How to receive and give effective feedback is highlighted. Participants learn the different components of communication including verbal, tone and non-verbal. Communication styles and how to create positive relationships with co-workers, business associates and customers are examined and performed. In-depth assessment of the 4 main communication styles is the core of the content.
- Build trust and establish cooperation within the team.
- Create a ‘can-do’ encouraging spirit that uplifts all members of the team.
- Establish clear, confident, and effective team communication skills.
- Establish a stronger bond between team members.
- Develop a powerful team to achieve common goals.
- Build greater familiarity among members of your team.
- Improve company culture and employee morale.
This module gives greater insight on the importance of education. The program focus will be on how to positively affect the reach of education as a vital way to enhance your personal life, your company and your community. A field trip to ACE High School is scheduled. This module will start at the AGC office.
- Learn about the educational system.
- Interface with ACE Charter School and how it works.
- Knowing the responsibilities of citizens to the educational system.
- Understanding of how the ACE educational system is run.
- Meet the students and the people behind the success of ACE.
This module gives a thorough understanding of how to get your message out through the various media sources. The program focus is to help participants have a greater media impact on their business and community efficacy. Developing an on-camera presence is practiced.
- Dealing effectively with TV, Print, Radio & the Internet.
- How to deal with during a crisis.
- What to say to the media to promote your position.
- Ways to get the media to share your story with the public.
This module educates participants on the functions of local, state and federal government and how it impacts our daily lives. The focus is on understanding the various processes of government and how to effectively interact with it. A review of the ways laws are enacted and a re-visitation of the Constitution of The United States is performed.
- Understand how government works & how it affects you as a citizen.
- Increase awareness of proposed changes before they happen and how to get involved.
- Recognize the different roles of elected officials.
- Get to know your elected officials and what they do for you.
This module allows leadership participants to articulate benefits received by giving a report on their AGC experience while practicing the 7 Steps of Speech Format. Each graduate provides a presentation in the presence of peers and the companies that sponsored their attendance.
- What have you learned from your AGC experience?
- What result have you gained from your AGC experience?
- What part of the AGC program was most valuable to you?
- What do you plan to implement as a result of your AGC experience?
AGC highlights graduates of the Annual AGC Leadership program with membership during the President’s luncheon. Graduates received recognition and graduation plaques while hosting a recognized national speaker during the transfer of power to the newly elected AGC president.
- Interact with ACG Members during luncheon event.
- Learn from professional speaker on the subject of personal development.
- Understand how to recognize and be recognized during a public event.
materials included
Leadership Journal
Top 5 Goal Card & Action Step Card
Breakthrough Pen
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I thought is was going to be like a college course. It wasn't anything like that. It was more about getting involved in teamwork with 25 other people. It really helped me to apply that to both inside and outside of work.
Jeffery’s training techniques in leadership were in depth and creative. His enthusiasm draws you in to be at your best in a management role in your company or running your own business.
The training is done in a very straightforward, no-nonsense manner. His methods really make you think about what you want to accomplish, setting the right goals, the importance of teamwork, and how you can have a more confident, successful role in life.
Jeffrey's ability to challenge his clients and colleagues is superb; he is able to make them see their strengths and weaknesses easily through activities. The individual growth, focus and goal setting has been remarkable.
Jeff's Leadership Program through his Breakthrough Training was a great resource and a really fun time for me. The information I learned was not only relevant to my work but also something that I could work on during my workday. Jeff was an amazing teacher/leader and would really delve into the conversations you wanted on the topics of the lesson, allowing you to lead the discussion. I had a great time and felt that the program made a large impact.
I never really knew about skills for building your team and effective communications. This class has done an excellent job while doing it in a fun environment, not only sitting in a class, but getting you involved.
After taking the Leadership series I feel more confident and ready to become a leader. I highly recomend this course and think everyone should take it. You will learn so much about how you work as an individual and how you work with other people.
By participating in activities we were able to develop a tool list that every leader requires to make their job successful. Thank you!
It has helped me in my business because I am making better decisions and it has improved my communications with customers. I really feel the course has helped me.
Jeff’s training was fantastic for all levels of Leaders. If you want to be a great manager/leader and you want to know more about your leadership style, this course is a must. His courses are designed to be very interactive and action packed! The team here at USAC had a great time, we had much needed team discussions, and we all left the 2-day training having FUN!
I really like Jeffrey's training style of interactivity. He is not in front of the class lecturing you. He really gets you involved in the process. I find I learn more that way so I can then take back and it practice in my business.
I really enjoyed this class from a personal and a professional perspective This class helped me learn and grow in ways I would not have anticipated and I highly recommend this seminar to everyone. This is the best class I have taken to date in my career.
What a fantastic hands on training. Jefferey does a great job engaging the entire group and relating it to real life situations. I would highly recommend his services to anyone or any size organization. The group involvement makes the classes fun and enjoyable.
I immediately started applying what I learned from the class in life with friends, family and coworkers. It's amazing to learn how to communicate with other people.
Jeffrey recently lead our Management Team through a business development training course on teamwork, leadership, and communication. The feedback from my Management Team was extremely positive and will most definitely help strengthen our team dynamic.
I took Jeffrey Benjamin's Breakthrough Training Leadership modules and highly recommend it. I was able to get a lot out of them that I can apply in my professional career and in my personal life. Everybody wants to be able to communicate better with co-workers, employees, family members and friends. After completing the modules I felt that this was accomplished along with many other skills.
Jeff's leadership training is a must! This training is great for managers, leaders, and staff. Understanding leadership styles, communication tactics, and team building are all essentials for building a cohesive team. This training provides these essentials and more!
By Day 1, Minute 10, the clarity, enthusiasm & sense of purpose that had eluded me for years, started to return. Jeffrey's ability to identify & lead people through mental roadblocks is amazing & his energy, integrity & set of core values permeates everything he does.
I was skeptical. I’ve done leadership classes in the past. I thought if you’ve been to one you’ve been to them all. I could not have been more wrong. It was an incredible experience.
Jeffrey Benjamin and Breakthrough Training are synonymous with great results. Jeffrey has the innate ability to push clients out of their normal thinking and help them excel towards their chosen goal. I have developed myself into an effective leader and use the skills I learned to help improve the company I work for.
It gave me the tools to address leadership, strategic planning, and establishing goals in both my personal and work life. If you invest your time with Jeff, he will teach you how to invest in yourself.
I was really happy to learn about how to achieve goals. Having a guideline to get you there was extremely helpful. I now have it as part of my tool kit. It was great for me.
I loved the Breakthrough Training! Thank you Jeff for getting me out of my shell and helping me find the skills I need to develop as a leader. If you have a chance to take this training, do it!
The communication styles has been a real eye opener in the way people relate to one another in your personal and professional life. I was a great experience for me.
What we learned is that everyone plays a vital role. And as a leader, if we can draw on the strengths of others, we can create excellence.
The leadership program has taught me valuable skills in communication and how to be a better leader with my co-workers and my family.
I recently attended Jeffrey Benjamin's Breakthrough Training. I have attended several leadership trainings over the years, and Jeffrey's two-day workshop stands out as among the best I've personally experienced. We were a mixed group of individuals who had never met before. We were required to self-organize in small groups to accomplish tasks that were challenging and unfamiliar. Participation was required from all individuals, which elucidated the different types of personalities and how we each find our place within an organization. I plan to send other members of my office staff to the workshops. Highly recommended!
This leadership course has provided me with the opportunity to get outside of my comfort zone, to network with multiple agencies, and to be able to distinguish the different personality types and how to address them in a professional manner.
Jeff has changed the way I run my business. I'm not only more confident in my communication skills, my ability to manage my team, to network effectively, but also how to strategically plan for the growth of my business. Breakthrough Training is an asset to our community and I offer my highest recommendation for Jeff's programs.
This was not one of those death by power point trainings! The leadership training kept me 100% engaged, never got bored! I learned so much about my communication style and others, also the best ways to excite my team. Every company should look into this training for their team!
The leadership series has been a great opportunity to return to the basics and really evaluate your interaction in group environments and to improve your communication as a leader.
The interactive challenges were definitely an eye opener for communication and leadership styles. It really helped me realize and work on approaching each style the most effective way to achieve goals.
I recently participated in a session Jeff facilitated for a large group of high-growth entrepreneurs. Jeff's style was engaging, fast-paced, thoughtful and yielded terrific discussions on the disciplines and critical steps associated with successful leadership.
I had the opportunity to take Jeff's leadership class. It was wonderful! This class worked on team building and communication skills. I think this class would be particularly useful for anyone who is in a supervisory position or plans to be or in sales. It really helps to understand how to communicate with people you interact with in different situations. Jeff kept the class upbeat and was a wealth of knowledge. This was a real eye opener.
It helped to hone leadership skills and communication styles. The program creates a safe environment to challenge fears in a fun way. It gave me the opportunity to break through fears and identify strengths.
What I learned in this class was goal setting, teamwork, leadership and communication skills. I learned to lead by example.
Great experience for me. It has taught me quite a few things that I use in my life and at work. It has taught me things on goals and how to achieve them.
I expected this class to be a typical leadership class where you are preached to. What this class does is teach you about leadership and how you can apply it in a business or personal setting.
Breakthrough offers a unique way to look at communication styles that we have been taught before, but gives us an opportunity to put it into action.
Thank you for all of the past years of training, they are still being used (even in a new and completely different profession)! Jeff, you are the best!
Jeffrey distinguishes himself with the ability to energize a group of people. Jeffrey's leadership training programs are an asset to any organization or group. He is attentive to detail and has a remarkable way of creating fun at the same.
In the first hour of leadership training it was obvious to me that Jeffrey has been doing this for a long time. He is very comfortable leading a group and knows how to handle any situation that might arise. I highly recommend Breakthrough Training for not only a leader of a company but to all the employees of a company.
I have learned many life skills that I will carry with me throughout my career. It has inspired me to become a better leader.
Jeffrey puts together a wonderful Leadership program. It assisted me in the further growth of my own career. I would recommend his programs to anybody that is looking to grow in their life and career.
I learned in this class that to become a better leader you have to plan your tasks and set goals, and you need to get everyone on the same team.
He helped keep me on course between a good business climate into one that was in serious decline. I am able to continue because of the methods, ideas and proceedures Jeffrey helped to develop. He is an excellent coach, motovator and innovator.
I had the pleasure of attending his Leadership Seminar. I strongly recommend Jeffrey and Breakthrough Traning and highly suggest contacting him to see how he can make you better as well.
Jeff is amazing at supporting you but also pushing you out of your comfort zone. His leadership training course prepares you to handle uncomfortable or difficult situations in life as well as improving your communication skills in public speaking.
I highly recommend Jeff’s Breakthrough Training for anyone willing to have fun and be fully engaged while learning leadership and communication skills for personal and professional growth. It is the most enjoyable training I’ve participated in. He is great and so amazing at details!
I've learned a lot of valuable tools that I have been able to apply personally and professionally. One of the greatest ones I have been using is the communication styles to communicate more effectively with coworkers.
I gained better communication skills and new leadership tools. I really learned how good communication is, not just in my professional life but in my personal life as well.