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The Construction Institute is a leading network and a neutral forum for exchanging new ideas, knowledge, and opportunities while creating stronger collaborative relationships among architects, engineers, constructors, owners and other industry stakeholders. Our mission is to promote cross-industry collaboration.
Leadership in the AEC Industry
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There is an overwhelming volume of material available offering to make you a great leader. And they are big on numbers. A quick Google search picked up the following titles on the first page “3 Secrets of Great Leadership,” “10 Things, Every Leader Should Know,” “The Most Successful Leaders Do 15 Things Automatically Every Day,” “25 Leadership Skills You Need to Learn Fast,” and my favorite, “Everything You Need to Know About Great Leadership.”
It’s great to read general information about leadership. But the authors of these articles and the many leadership coaches and programs available don’t know what you do. They don’t know the unique challenges facing our industry, from labor shortages, to safety, to incorporating new technologies, to the day-to-day challenges of designing and producing a quality job that is on time, on budget, and meets the users’ needs. |
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We do. CI’s AEC Leadership Conference is designed to train leaders at all levels to meet our industry's specific challenges. Focusing on different aspects of leadership each year, our purpose driven program gives you the opportunity to forge your unique path to leadership. The program will be a combination of inspiration and informative keynotes, interactive panel discussions and workshops. Let us help you hone your leadership skills and train your team.
Save the date for this year’s AEC Leadership Conference: Discovery, Diversity, and Disruption: The Pathway to Your Leadership Growth, Wednesday & Friday, November 10 & 12, 2021, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm. More information coming soon!
Save the date for this year’s AEC Leadership Conference: Discovery, Diversity, and Disruption: The Pathway to Your Leadership Growth, Wednesday & Friday, November 10 & 12, 2021, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm. More information coming soon!
Mapping Our Journey
A lot can change in a year and there is value to taking a moment to look back and reflect on the journey. Since July 1st last year, the Construction Institute has experienced a year of re-creation, adaptation, and expansion. We recreated ourselves as an independent 501(c)(3). We moved our offices to East Hartford. Our certificate programs, already fully online before the pandemic, attracted students - from Arizona to Wisconsin, to Hawaii. We taught leadership classes to 60 employees at a large infrastructure construction company in Texas. At the beginning of the pandemic, we created a series of free online webinars as a service to our members. We created our own online platform to deliver the AEC Leadership Conference and redesigned the Women Who Build Summit to a series, creating our virtual Pathway to the next Summit. The virtual world enabled us to get a glimpse into Intel's successful construction management systems and learn about building on Mars by including Visionaries from Seattle and California. We've covered topics from economic development in Fairfield County to managing teams in tough times to blockchain technology. And we've had fun!
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*This post is adapted from the Executive Director's remarks at the Institute's Back Together Again Social on June 17th. Read the complete remarks on CI's BLOG.
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