Best Leadership Practices for Project Managers (VIRTUAL)

2 OCILB Credit Hours

Overview: Leadership is an essential skill in managing construction project teams and  this workshop is for anyone motivated to learn the best leadership practices  to successfully do so. Attendees will be exposed to positive leadership  styles and traits already found within themselves and others that may be detrimental despite good intentions.

What You’ll Learn: 

• Assess and analyze the existing leadership tendencies of your organization
• Identify the positives of many successful leadership styles, how to spot  them, and why they work so well
• Identify the negatives of many unsuccessful leadership styles, how to spot them, and how to work around them if they are possessed by your leader
• Learn how some positive leadership traits can actually stifle your  effectiveness as a team leader
• Understand how learning from mistakes as a team is one of the best ways  to build trust and increase team experience
• Other leadership concepts stemming from Level 5 Leadership and the Law of the Inner Circle

About the Instructor: Troy Aichele has spent 30 years in the mechanical construction industry, with extensive experience in office buildings, high-rise, hospitality, hospitals, casinos, and schools in both remodel and new construction environments. Troy is recognized as an effective team builder as well as a leader in business and sales planning, scheduling, cost-control, design, constructability, value engineering, and labor
productivity. Troy expediently problem solves with personnel ranging from field workers, contractors, engineers, architects,  accountants, purchasing, insurance and bonding agents, auditors, and developers on large scale projects that differ in teams, schedule,  location, and design. While Troy was growing his career as a mechanical contractor, he pursued his passion to contribute to both local and national  mechanical affiliations and contribute to the education and training of current and future mechanical contractors. To serve the former,  Troy served on the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) Board of Directors, the John R. Gentille Foundation (formerly MCERF) Board of Trustees, and as Chairman of the MCAA’s Career Development Committee, overseeing more than 60 student chapters in North America and managing the annual National Student Chapter Competition.