Educational seminars last 1.5 hours.

December 4, 2009
8:00 AM	B-09: Effective Leadership Skills for Owners Brad Humphrey Pinnacle Development Group Leaders are born, not made?or are they? Even if you don?t believe you have natural leadership traits, all is not lost. You, too, can become a great leader of your business by acquiring and practicing the skills and habits common to successful leaders. You?ll learn the key traits of successful leaders, how leadership differs from management, situational leadership ? flexing your style to meet the situation, gathering followers ? and how to stimulate teamwork and motivation by leading. A great course for owners, managers, and supervisors to stimulate new growth in their business skills.
8:00 AM	B-10: Better Estimating on Sealcoating Jobs Jeff Stokes Next Level Contractor System Knowing how to bid competitively ? while still being able to increase your profits ? is one of the secrets of running a successful sealcoating business. And this highly successful session will do more than reveal the secret ? it will show you how to better calculate the actual cost of each sealcoating job. You will learn bidding techniques that ? based on the actual job cost ? will ensure you a reasonable job profit, and you?ll also work through a step-by-step example of a sealcoating job, learning all the factors that must go into costing and bidding each type of work. Don?t miss this chance to increase your profits by improving your estimating and bidding. What you learn in this session can reap profits on your very next bid!
8:00 AM	B-11: Sealing & Repairing Joints in Concrete Mick Vinckier Miktom Parking Lot Maintenance Repairing and sealing concrete joints is an essential part of concrete paving and the maintenance of concrete pavements ? and it can be a lucrative part of your business. This seminar, which will feature on-the-job video, will concentrate on a full-time pavement maintenance contractor?s view of how to cut and install joints in green concrete and how to clean and repair joints and cracks in existing concrete pavement ? and how to make money doing it. Mick brings with him 16 years of experience in using both hot-applied products and cold-applied urethane, and he?ll cover materials, tools, and techniques in both words and video. Emphasis will be on cleaning and sealing control and expansion joints in concrete ? and how to make money doing it!
8:00 AM	B-12: Improving Asphalt Mat Quality John S. Ball III Top Quality Paving If you?re looking to improve the quality of your hot mix asphalt mat, this highly rated ?must attend? session is back! Segregation of hot mix asphalt will result in long-term pavement distresses, will affect your job-quality bonus, and could result in the job failing to pass inspection. In this session you?ll learn what segregation is, the different ways it can occur, which mixes are more susceptible to segregation, what problems segregation can cause, how to identify segregation before it reaches your paver, and how to identify segregation in the mat. You?ll learn the steps you can take all along the way ? from the plant through delivery and installation ? to reduce mix segregation. And, you?ll learn the steps you should take once you realize segregation is evident behind the paver screed.
10:00 AM	B-13: Building Teamwork within Your Business Brad Humphrey Pinnacle Development Group Those contractors who are the fastest growing have learned how to tap into the diversity of their workers. Building teamwork within your business requires that you learn how to bring the "melting pot" of differences in employees? age, color, experience, and egos into balance. Brad Humphrey will give you practical team-building techniques for you to take back to your business and use with your workers that will change the manner in which you lead people.
10:00 AM	B-14: Parking Lot Layout & Striping Basics Robert Liles Robert Liles Parking Lot Service Laying out parking lots for striping follows a series of steps that need to be taken in the right order, and this new session by a veteran striping contractor lays it all out for you ? starting from the beginning. You?ll learn how to read specs and blueprints, what it means to ?square up? a lot, the importance of a base line and how to find or establish one, how to create a perpendicular line and what you can do with it, how to create the various types of angled spaces ? and more! Paint and equipment basics will also be covered, plus you?ll learn what every striper needs to have in his truck to get every job done. If you want the basics of parking lot layout? for yourself or your crew members ? this is the place. Striping veterans attend at your own risk!
10:00 AM	B-15: Time-Saving Solutions for Managing Your Electronic Office Giselle Chapman Chapman Business Solutions Time is money, and the better you manage your time, the more time you have to make sales, work in the field, and improve your business. This new session addresses the top ?time thieves? in many companies - dealing with e-mail, managing your ?to do? list, and calendar coordination. You?ll learn about the necessary tools ? tools you already have on your computer -- that will help you get time back in your work day. You?ll learn how to reduce email volume, how to create a robust subject line, and how to improve the quality and effectiveness of emails. Plus, take home tips on how to touch emails only once ? keeping your inbox clean, and how to use the task list to prevent tasks from slipping through the cracks. Come learn how to get the most important things done first, every day!
10:00 AM	B-16: Best Practices for Installing Paving Synthetics Mounque "Monk" Barazone Geotextile Apparatus Company Paving synthetics now include a wide range of products including fabrics, grids, hybrid mats and composites. Each product is meant for a specific application and requires different installation techniques for the materials and oils. In this session -- by a pro with 6 patents in the field and 30 years of international installation and specification experience on parking lots, highways, city streets, airports, mountain roads, mobile home parks, and tennis courts ? you?ll learn how to avoid costly mistakes, increase profits by reducing installation costs, increase project efficiency, prevent injuries, and maximize the synthetics long term benefits. Plus, take home insights about synthetic specifications, the best installation techniques, tricks of the trade, and installation equipment ? and put it all to use immediately. Take the step that will make you a paving synthetic installation pro by learning these state-of-the-art "best practices.?
2:00 PM	B-17: Setting Strategy to Build Your Business Jeff Stokes Next Level Contractor System Studies show that just 4% of all owners have a written plan for their business -- but this 4% makes 10 times more than the others. Building a business that has significant value requires more than hard work and luck. It requires the focused attention of all personnel toward planned strategies to achieve goals. In this session, you will learn how to develop a simple yet effective process of strategy formulation that will grow your business and keep you focused for the upcoming year. You?ll learn the value of vision, mission, and strategy in daily activities; why trust is critical to development of strategy; how your past efforts impact your future plans. Plus, learn how to align resources to a strategic plan, and the value of planning on motivation and profits. An essential session for growing contractors.

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