Construction Project Management is Growing; Steps to the Top
For engineers, architects and experienced construction professionals, knowing the tools and techniques of project management substantially increases your marketability and career potential. Our construction project management courses are taught by experienced construction project managers and are recognized as giving our graduates solid practical tools to manage engineering and construction projects.
Project Support Positions
- Project Coordinators
Add project skills so you can help coordinate the projects in your organization. Add specialty skills in coordinating project resources, updating schedules, costs, etc. by becoming a Certified Project Coordinator for $180.
- Project Leads
Share your technical expertise and guide less experienced professionals in their project work. Become a Certified Project Lead for $380.
Project Manager Career Steps
- For Construction Professionals New to Project Management
You need to learn a proven set of best practices which you can apply to every project you manage. In our #121 Essentials of Construction Project Management Course, you'll work one-on-one with an experienced construction professional who will tailor the course to fit your schedule and learning style. It's personal training with the same instructor talking to you on the phone, answering all your questions and sending you feedback and coaching on all of your assignments. You will learn how to:
- Define the scope of the project with a customer
- Identify the risks the project faces
- Write a concise and informative project plan
- Develop a project schedule that finishes as early as possible
- Track actual progress versus the plan and spot problems early
- Present the project status to the customer along with your solutions to any problems
- For Experienced Construction Project Managers
If you have a solid foundation, our #123 Advanced Construction Project Management can add to your tools and techniques to equip yourself to be even more effective and to manage larger more complex projects. Our Advanced Construction Project Management gives you the techniques to take the next step up the career ladder including:
- Planning strategically with senior management
- Advanced estimating techniques
- Advanced risk management and mitigation techniques
- Earned value management for tracking larger projects
- Presentation skills including the ability to adapt your presentation to the personality styles of the audience you face
- Stakeholder management to continuously build support for your project
-For Construction PMs: Learn the Basics of Contracting
Learn the basics for making money on projects and having satisfied customers. This is an enhanced eBook with videos on planning, estimating, cost tracking, field operations and client relations. Also includes templates to follow for each step in the project. Amazon eBook with videos $9.99 Learn through three steps:
- Read about each step in a project.
- Watch a video of a PM with the customer and foreman with the PM making common mistakes.
- See the same PM, customer and foreman with the PM doing things the right way.
- Construction Project Management Certifications
The combination of the two courses discussed above:
comprise our Construction Project Management Certification. You need to pass both courses including the exam at the end of each and then you'll have a Construction Project Management credential that is recognized worldwide.
We also offer Construction Certification programs that include preparation for the certification exams from the Project Management Institute:
Associate Construction Project Manager Certification - Teaches you the basics of Construction Project Management and prepares you to pass the Certified Associate in Project Management exam from PMI (described below).
Advanced Construction Project Manager Certification - Teaches you advanced techniques in Construction Project Management and prepares you to pass the Project Management Professional certification from PMI (described below).
- Certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
If you want to get into project management, the CAPM certification is a good starting point. You'll spend 50 hours in our #102 CAPM Prep Course learning the basic concepts and techniques in project management. Then you can add CAPM after your name and on your resume. It tells employers that you have a solid foundation to assist more experienced project managers or manage small projects on your own.
If you have 3 to 4 years of experience and 4500 hours of documented experience managing projects, the PMP certification is a powerful credential that gives you credibility in your organization and recognition around the world. In our #104 PMP Prep Course, you'll spend 60 hours working one-on-one with one of our certified PMP's to learn all of the information required to pass the difficult PMP certification exam.
Pass the Exam the First Time...Guaranteed All of our PMI-approved courses come with the best learning materials in the industry. The high definition lecture videos are interesting and we make the learning enjoyable with practical stories about project management as well as a little bit of humor. You see movies of project managers actually doing the best practices that you have to learn. You have access to our learning library with hundreds of articles and examples of project management schedules, plans, statements of work, change requests and much more. Best of all, you're in control of the schedule and can study when it suits you. Your instructor will always give you feedback within 24 hours and talk with you by phone as often as you wish.
Our only goal is that you pass the exam the first time and we guarantee our work. If you don't pass the first time (over 97% of our students do) we will continue to work with you at not additional cost until you do pass.
- The top of the Ladder: Program & Portfolio Management for Chief Construction Officers
201 Program & Portfolio Management - Learn the specialized skills required to manage portfolios of programs and projects, including managing and developing a team of project managers. Focus on a methodology, project prioritization, resource allocation and the organizational processes that make it all work.
203 Professional Communications Skills- Hone your communication skills to the highest professional level with techniques for reading the personality types of the executives with whom you deal. Then learn to tailor your message and delivery to maximize the impact on each individual and group. Practice your observation skills with movies of executives in meetings. Then design your approach for them. Last practice your communication delivery in live online sessions with your instructor. Get feedback and coaching and study videos of yourself to further refine your delivery.
