Give Your Field Leaders the Tools for Success at the 2024 Field Leaders Conference

May 27, 2024

June 17 – June 19, 2024 | Philadelphia, PA

MCAA’s Field Leaders Conference is where field leaders realize their importance and value as professionals and members of the management team. When your field leaders join us in June, they will learn the skills they need to be business, and results, oriented managers focused on growing company profits and brand. Your lead field personnel cannot afford to miss this conference. Register them today!

SESSION HIGHLIGHT

Legacy Leadership
with Mark Breslin, President of Breslin Strategies

Your field leaders are professionals who build people as much as they do projects. Do they have the skills needed to motivate people, use influence over authority and mentor, coach and empower their crews? Mark Breslin’s presentation at the Field Leaders Conference offers new ideas, strategies and tools to help them enhance crew performance. Your field leaders will leave Mark’s presentation with a new level of energy and vision for their future.

Mark Breslin, President of Breslin Strategies in Alamo, CA, is the fourth generation of his family engaged in the construction industry and he knows its issues first-hand. Mark is known for his straightforward presentation style and as one of the foremost speakers on labor-management relationships, change management and workforce development. He is the author of several books including The Five Minute Foreman—Managing the People Side of Construction and Alpha Dog—Leading, Managing and Motivating in the Construction Industry.

Financial Assistance Opportunities

The United Association’s (UA) International Training Fund (ITF) is offering $5,500 grants for UA/MCAA foreman administrators who attend one of the 2024 MCAA Field Leaders Conferences. These are UA members who have completed the UA Education and Training Department’s Foreman Certification Course 2012 and are responsible for proctoring and maintaining the integrity and security of the UA Foreman Certification Examination at their local union training center. Find additional information about these grants and learn how to apply in this article.

The conference will be offered again November 11 – November 13, 2024 in Atlanta, GA for those who can’t make it to the June conference. Watch the MCAA website and MCAA’s National Update for details as the event gets closer.

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