The Associated General Contractors of Americas Supervisory Training Program (STP) is a construction-specific training curriculum developed by contractors, for contractors. Supervisory skills, or the lack of them, directly affect every companys bottom line. You make your money in the field, and STP can help you improve your organizations bottom line.
To get started, students should prior to the first day of class. Each student must have their own copy of the Participant Manuals, available in printed and eBook formats. Students can purchase the Participant Manuals on the .
Follow the steps below for more information.
1. Locate and Register for Classes
STP is offered in three course delivery formats:
The offers the same high-quality learning experience and expert instruction you expect from AGC in-person classroom training, from the comfort of your home or work computer. Use the to find a training that fits your schedule.
AGC chapters across the country offer the STP curriculum. We recommend reaching out to your local AGC chapter using the Chapter Finder, and inquire about their upcoming curriculum offerings.
Organizations can offer the STP curriculum by facilitating the curriculum in-house. Learn how to Bring STP to You with this downloadable infographic.
2. Complete All Six Units of the STP 10th Edition Curriculum
The 6-course program builds essential supervisory skills. Each Unit can be taken as a stand-alone course. If all Units of the course are completed, students receive a Certificate of Completion issued by AGC of America and a digital badge. Individual Unit completions may also receive a Certificate of Completion issued by the chapter.
Click on the tabs below to learn more about each unit.
This course will describe the value of effective supervision of workers and improve the construction supervisors ability to lead and motivate others.
- The dollars and sense of people in construction
- The role of the construction supervisor
- Helping people perform better
- Motivating and leading others
- Positive feedback
- Training and orienting crew members
- Teams and team building
- Leadership skills in action
This course presents a body of knowledge and skills that todays construction supervisors need in order to be effective communicators on their job site.
- Effective communication
- Learning to listen
- Carrying on conversations
- Persuasion, negotiation, and confrontation
- Communicating with your crew
- Putting it in writing
- Meetings that work
- Electronic communication
- Improving communication
This course will help construction supervisors understand ways in which planning and scheduling save time and money, while increasing quality in the construction process.
- Preparing the project plan
- Communicating the plan
- The critical path
- Computer use in scheduling
- Using the schedule on the jobsite
- Updating the construction schedule
- The schedule as documentation
- Using planning and scheduling
This course will provide information about contract documents and construction law to help supervisors recognize the roles and responsibilities of all contracted parties, to develop an understanding of how contract documents can be helpful to solve problems and resolve conflicts, and to develop positive relationships between all parties in the construction process.
- Introduction to contract documents and construction law
- Creating a positive environment through partnering
- Contractual relationships
- Contract forms and documents
- Managing general conditions
- Good documentation practices
- Changes
- Differing site conditions
- Time impacts
- Negotiation of resolutions
This course covers understanding how project estimates are compiled, how to compare actual project costs with those estimated, and how to control costs to meet the estimate. This course also details how productivity is measured, how the supervisor plays a major role in increasing job site productivity, and how a small increase in productivity can have a significant impact on the time and cost of a project.
- 勛圖卼 estimates
- Who controls project costs
- Reporting and analyzing actual costs
- Planning for cost control
- Cost control strategies
- Labor cost variances
- Working with project partners
- Managing risk and loss potentials
- Cost control strategies
- Post-project evaluations
- Benchmarking construction productivity
- Improving productivity through pre-planning
- New skills for effective supervision
- Personnel management
- Equipment management for productivity improvement
- Jobsite productivity, planning and scheduling
- Quantifying lost labor productivity
- Record keeping, control, changes, and defect analysis
This course will cover the roles and responsibilities of a construction supervisor in accident prevention and loss control.
- Safety leadership, communication and expectations
- Planning for site safety
- Site safety management
- Site security and protection
- Multi-employer jobsite safety
- 勛圖卼 risk management
- Safety and human resources
- Regulatory procedures, record keeping and documents
3. Submit Evaluation and Certificate of Completion Application
At the completion of the course, please submit the Participants Profile and Registration and Evaluation Form provided at .
Upon completion of each individual STP course, participants receive a certificate from the course sponsor. When participants complete the entire 6-Unit program they are eligible to submit an application for the Supervisory Training Program Certificate of Program Completion and digital badge.