Events & Seminars

The following is a list of events and seminars we are currently offering:

Download the 2008-2009 seminar calendar

 

  • 2009 Seminar Digest

    Almost everyone thinks and learns better when they are relaxed and receptive. Unwinding allows your mind to seek new and creative solutions to problems and to analyze information from a fresh perspective – all without the stress and everyday burdens of the office. Attend at one of two resort locations and return to your business refreshed and full of new ideas and strategies to revitalize your business.

  • 31st Annual Conference On Acquisitions

    At FMI's 31st Annual Conference On Acquisitions in the Building & Construction Industry, master the process of buying, selling, or merging a building and construction company during this two-day program. Gain the knowledge that can make or break your transaction.

  • Contractor Compensation and Rewards

    This intensive two-day seminar will concentrate on developing your ability to design and implement a custom compensation program that aligns with your firm's strategy, attracts top-tier candidates and drives the level of performance needed to compete within the industry.

  • Contractor Selling Skills (formerly Sales Fundamentals)

    FMI’s Contractor Selling Skills, a precursor to our highly successful Selling Strategies, will help you understand the fundamentals of identifying your target audience and utilizing a consultative sales approach that will help you build long-term relationships with your clients. You will learn to sell value versus price while maintaining an integrity-based sales approach.

  • Contractor Strategies for 2009

    Strategic plans are different than business plans. In this two-day course, you will examine the differences between the two and the keys to building a strategy-focused organization, including strategy driven by value chains and by changing markets.

  • Emerging Managers Institute

    Who will run your construction company when you’re gone? This three-day workshop contains a new, updated agenda of topics, designed to be the best leadership development session your emerging management talent needs.

  • Executive Program for Senior Managers

    Strategic plans are different than business plans. In this two-day course, you will examine the differences between the two and the keys to building a strategy-focused organization, including strategy driven by value chains and by changing markets.

  • Improving Construction Productivity

    This intensive two-day program offers your management team the tools it needs to improve productivity and increase company profits. Bring your entire operations management team.

  • Leadership Institute I

    This four-day program fosters professional growth in participants through a variety of hands-on experiences. The program focuses on four main areas: personal assessment and individual development; experiential leadership exercises and small-group simulations; discussion of leadership principles; and leadership models for the future.

  • Leadership Institute II

    Understanding that leadership is a journey and not a destination, we created the Leadership Institute II to assist you on your journey in the 21st Century. It is designed to aid you in taking the next critical step in your individual leadership development.

  • Marketing & Selling Strategies for 2009

    If you are a president, head of business development or head of operations or estimating with seven to 10 years of direct selling experience, this program will provide the skills, strategies, and tactics that position you to sell on value, not price. This course was previously called the Senior Sales Summit.

  • Ownership Transfer and Management Succession

    This executive conference will assist you in developing a proactive plan for transferring ownership and leadership to the next generation in your firm. The three and one-half-day program will provide the basis for a personal action plan to solve the ownership transfer problems unique to owners of construction industry companies.

  • Pricing and Bidding Strategy

    Win more jobs at higher profit margins. Learn how to increase your share of profitable work and decrease the chance of being the low bidder on unprofitable or even disastrous jobs. Two power-packed days focus on getting profitable work and leaving unprofitable jobs behind. Learn how to price jobs around your unique price structure.

  • Project Manager Academy

    FMI’s Project Manager Academy is a tightly structured, four-day program in which project delivery professionals examine themselves, their organizations and their processes in comparison with best-of-class performance through a variety of hands-on experiences.

     

  • Weathering the Storm

    This is a two-day executive forum to focus on practical information and strategies that can help your company through the difficult times ahead.  Along with FMI senior executives, FMI is bringing together a panel of former construction executives who have weathered past economic storms and not only survived, but also succeeded during difficult times.