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April 2021
Executive Leader Contractor Peer Group (CEO/Owners/Executive Leadership)
Exclusively for Executive Leadership in ABC Member Contracting Firms: ABC's Executive Leader Peer Group has proven to be an invaluable resource for CEOs and top-level decision-makers representing companies of diverse size and industry. The first half of the workshop will consist of an introduction and instruction on the subject of the day and the second half will be spent focused on real world application. This could include case studies, attendee trouble shooting, best practice sharing, and peer coaching.
Find out more »Employment Laws, Compliance, and Minimizing Risk – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy - Understand Specific HR Laws and their Potential Impacts. Get up-to-speed on the legal aspects of HR legal and compliance issues. Understand the laws affecting employment, their impact, and why they are important to the company. Learn more regarding discrimination/harassment; recognition and prevention strategies; federal and state issues, including: agencies and enforcement; job classification (exempt/non-exempt); wage/hour violations, FLSA; Union/Non-Union concepts and avoidance strategies; and employee handbook content including key policies. Apply knowledge gained in this session through case studies of employment legal decisions.
Find out more »Microsoft® Office Training Excel® 2016: Intermediate I
Create 3-Dimensional Spreadsheets, Use Logical Formulas & Create Charts! Learn the skills and concepts necessary to create and use three-dimensional spreadsheets and use logical formulas. Use Excel’s database functions and create charts. This is an interactive, hands-on learning experience! Course prerequisite: Must have Excel – Basics or equivalent experience.
Find out more »Adult AED, CPR & Basic Medic First Aid – SOLD OUT!
SOLD OUT! Learn the lifesaving skills needed to protect your family, friends and co-workers! Hands-on and classroom training designed to give you the skills you need to stay compliant. Feel confident and ready to act in an emergency.
Find out more »ABC Keystone Spring Construction Wake-up Call – Virtual Event!
Virtual Event! Connect with Your Colleagues and Gain Relevant Information! Spring 2021 Topic: "Workforce Development at ABC Keystone: Filling the Pipeline" | Discover how ABC is building tomorrow's workforce and meeting member needs.
Find out more »May 2021
Electrical Safety – Protection Requirements from OSHA & NFPA 70E
This training will discuss the primary requirements of NFPA’s 2015 version of its 70E (arc flash) standard. In addition to live electrical work and arc flash safety, the program will discuss lockout/tagout and hazards of electrical energy.
Find out more »Delegating for Results – Part of the Professional Development Series
Develop Talent, Streamline Processes & Increase Team Output! | One of a manager’s most important skills, successful delegation helps you tap staff potential, accomplish much more, and devote efforts to your most critical tasks.
Find out more »Microsoft® Office Training Excel® 2016: Intermediate II
Protecting Worksheets, Manipulate Data, Creating & Using Macros!! This is an interactive, hands-on learning experience! Course prerequisite: Must have Excel – Intermediate I or equivalent experience. SAVE - Register for the series of four Excel classes for the price of three!
Find out more »Adult AED, CPR & Basic Medic First Aid
Learn the lifesaving skills needed to protect your family, friends and co-workers! Hands-on and classroom training designed to give you the skills you need to stay compliant. Feel confident and ready to act in an emergency.
Find out more »Productive Conflict: Communication, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Skills
May 6 & 11, 2021 | Create Positive Working Relationships with Confidence! This comprehensive, interactive course explores how to approach difficult situations for positive results. Learn to choose and execute strategies that best fit the situation, successfully handle conflict and build cooperation.Gain informative “take away and use immediately” training in the areas of communication, conflict resolution and negotiation skills, when it comes to working with others.
Find out more »Understanding Financials for Non-Accountants – Part of the Leadership Development Series
Break down of the P&L, Balance Sheet & Financial Trends. Learn how to interpret Profit and Loss statements and understand the numbers important to your business.
Find out more »ABC Human Resources Contractor Peer Group
Exclusively for HR Professionals in ABC Keystone Contracting Firms. Get together with fellow HR professionals to share experiences and help one another improve personal and company performance in an encouraging environment. Offered quarterly.
Find out more »Virtual Safety Forum – HAZCOM and How to Put Together a Program
Save the Date! Safety Forum - HAZCOM and How to Put Together a Program. Check back soon for more information!
Find out more »Job Descriptions, HR Recordkeeping and Reporting – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy. Key Areas of Focus in HR Evaluation Audits. Discover the importance of key HR processes, including clearing the confusion and keeping in compliance. Discover why job descriptions are important and how to effectively write descriptions used in the hiring process. Learn more about key records employers must create and retain; reporting requirements; setting up personnel files and HR records retention schedules; EEO and affirmative action plans; conducting an HR compliance and effectiveness audit and key areas HR auditors evaluate.
Find out more »Microsoft® Office Training Excel® 2016: Advanced
Advanced Techniques for Analyzing, Manipulating & Presenting Data! Make professional looking spreadsheets for your next presentations! This is an interactive, hands-on learning experience! Course prerequisite: Must have Excel – Intermediate Part II or equivalent experience.
Find out more »OSHA 10-Hour Construction
May 24 & 25, 2021 | This course serves as the benchmark for introductory jobsite safety and OSHA compliance education.
Find out more »Virtual Training: Submitting Certified Payroll – A No-cost Seminar Presented by Beneco
A No-cost Seminar Presented by Beneco! Protect Your Company and Avoid Mistakes! Avoid common mistakes in the reporting process and streamline your processes for easier payroll & reporting. Contractors face unique payroll challenges that traditional payroll companies are often not equipped to handle. Join Beneco and ABC Keystone for a seminar where you will learn the ins and outs of certified payroll and how you can protect yourself and your growing company.
Find out more »Suicide in Construction: Building Awareness
Free to attend! ABC Keystone is committed to providing education in identifying risks among the workforce, creating a normalized culture for conversations about mental health and training helpers for individuals who are struggling. Virtual Seminar - No cost to attend! Open to members and non-members.
Find out more »ABC Keystone’s Construction Wars – A Middle School Hands-on Career Exploration Event
Experience Hands-on Construction Career Exploration! Over the course of three days, 200 area middle school students from Lancaster, York and Lebanon Counties will be attending this year’s Construction Wars, an interactive career exploration event to experience hands-on activities with the help of construction professionals. Interested in volunteering? Contact stephanie@abckeystone.org
Find out more »ABC Keystone’s Construction Wars – A Middle School Hands-on Career Exploration Event
Experience Hands-on Construction Career Exploration! Over the course of three days, 200 area middle school students from Lancaster, York and Lebanon Counties will be attending this year’s Construction Wars, an interactive career exploration event to experience hands-on activities with the help of construction professionals. Interested in volunteering? Contact stephanie@abckeystone.org
Find out more »ABC Keystone’s Construction Wars – A Middle School Hands-on Career Exploration Event
Experience Hands-on Construction Career Exploration! Over the course of three days, 200 area middle school students from Lancaster, York and Lebanon Counties will be attending this year’s Construction Wars, an interactive career exploration event to experience hands-on activities with the help of construction professionals. Interested in volunteering? Contact stephanie@abckeystone.org
Find out more »June 2021
Accountability for Results – Part of the Professional Development Series
Accountability Building for Successful Teams | Student focused learning with group skill practices, role playing, and coaching that completely immerses participants into active learning! Master the skills needed to address personal and work accountability successfully.
Find out more »Adult AED, CPR & Basic Medic First Aid – SOLD OUT!
SOLD OUT! Learn the lifesaving skills needed to protect your family, friends and co-workers! Hands-on and classroom training designed to give you the skills you need to stay compliant. Feel confident and ready to act in an emergency.
Find out more »Laws of Leadership – Part of the Leadership Development Series
Leadership is a learned skill that requires practice. You can learn about effective leadership skills and practices, but being able to implement them yourself may require an altogether different set of skills and attitudes. Gain the knowledge you need to become the leader you were meant to be!
Find out more »OSHA 30-Hour Construction
June 10, 11, 17, & 18, 2021 | The OSHA-30 represents the “standard” in training for those assigned safety supervision responsibilities. Gain the safety knowledge base attendees will need to confidently fulfill your role as a competent person.
Find out more »ABC Keystone’s All ’bout Construction (ABC) Girls Camp – 2021
Construction – It’s Not Just for Boys! Careers in Construction offer competitive salaries, unparalleled skills, potential for leadership growth, and a feeling of satisfaction. ABC Keystone encourages young women to learn more about these career opportunities during our inaugural All ’bout Construction Girls Camp open to girls ages 14-19 in Lancaster County and scheduled for June 14-18, 2021.
Find out more »Growing with Traction Workshop
Helping Leaders Achieve Their Vision! Even the most successful leaders occasionally find running a business more challenging than expected. Working longer hours and getting lower returns in time and financial investments become unfortunate outcomes. This course is designed to help leaders simplify, clarify and achieve their vision.
Find out more »Effective Recruiting & Hiring – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy. Help your organization succeed and grow using effective recruiting strategies and sources. Create an attractive employment brand and advertisements; establish an effective hiring process, looking from within; understand legalities during interviewing; and develop resources for handling difficult hiring topics. Learn how to face the challenge for top talent while the qualified candidate pools are shrinking.
Find out more »July 2021
Managing Change – Part of the Professional Development Series
Smooth and Successful Change Management Yields Lasting Results! Change must be realistic, achievable and measurable. Learn aspects relevant to managing personal and organizational change for positive outcomes.
Find out more »Executive Leader Contractor Peer Group (CEO/Owners/Executive Leadership)
Exclusively for Executive Leadership in ABC Member Contracting Firms: ABC's Executive Leader Peer Group has proven to be an invaluable resource for CEOs and top-level decision-makers representing companies of diverse size and industry. The first half of the workshop will consist of an introduction and instruction on the subject of the day and the second half will be spent focused on real world application. This could include case studies, attendee trouble shooting, best practice sharing, and peer coaching.
Find out more »Behavioral-based Interviewing – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy. Determine a candidate’s potential for success! Gain tools for establishing critical competencies for positions, Developw your own "STAR" interview questions that target critical competencies. Learn interviewing techniques for organizational cultural fit and values, and gain hands-on interviewing activities followed by coaching to refine your interviewing skills!
Find out more »August 2021
Time Management – Part of the Professional Development Series
Increase Efficiencies to Achieve More! Learn to schedule your time more effectively, stay on track and keep important goals top of mind so you can stay in balance and be more effective and productive each day.
Find out more »ABC Human Resources Contractor Peer Group
Exclusively for HR Professionals in ABC Keystone Contracting Firms. Get together with fellow HR professionals to share experiences and help one another improve personal and company performance in an encouraging environment. Offered quarterly.
Find out more »Employment Assessments – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy | Maximize the opportunity to get to know your candidates! Learn more about incorporating assessments into the hiring process; understand the background and science, the variety of tests available, effectiveness and legalities, and additional uses beyond hiring including: employee development, team building, and technical skills assessment. Understand how to review the individual participant assessment and predict performance to make the right hire.
Find out more »September 2021
Conflict Management – Part of the Professional Development Series
Improve Outcomes Through Positive Strategies! Discover how to choose and execute the strategy that best fits your situation to successfully handle conflict while developing cooperation with co-workers and organizations.
Find out more »Coaching Employees, Performance Feedback & Appraisals – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy | Gain best practices on developing and delivering performance appraisals and beyond! Learn more about effectively setting expectations and goals for employees; the importance of coaching and engaging to improve understanding, attitude, and performance; managing critical conversations in identifying individual and organizational performance and improvement; establishing appraisal instruments and processes; and taking a look at traditional vs. new innovative resources. Build organizational efficiency by ensuring that individuals perform to the best of their ability and develop their potential through coaching and appropriate rewards.
Find out more »SalesWorks!
September 28, October 5, 12 & 19, 2021 | Generate Revenue & Develop Long-Term Clients | Challenge yourself and join us at ABC Keystone for “Sales Works” – four interactive sessions that will improve your sales performance while focusing on ways to maximize your impact on your customers. It’s all about “focus and awareness” in using the best “tools” in delivering your service or product in a way that fulfills the needs, wants, and values of your customer…. BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE!
Find out more »October 2021
Quality Customer Service – Part of the Professional Development Series
Discover Keys to Attract and Retain Customers! Gain insight into your Customer Service Culture! Discover what leads to dissatisfaction and the processes you can implement to grow solid, lasting relationships within the industry.
Find out more »OSHA 10-Hour Construction
October 11 & 12, 2021 | This course serves as the benchmark for introductory jobsite safety and OSHA compliance education.
Find out more »ABC Keystone’s Tailgate Party Presented by Barley Snyder
Save the Date! ABC Keystone Tailgate Party Presented by Barley Snyder
Find out more »Conducting Investigations, Disciplining, and Terminating Employees – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy | Determine appropriate action in a difficult situation. Learn more about conducting a professional internal employee conduct investigation, effective disciplinary actions and termination processes, steps in a progressive disciplinary action process, typical disciplinary action steps for a variety of infractions, key issues to consider to ensure fair investigation outcomes, and maximizing legal compliance and minimizing legal risks.
Find out more »Executive Leader Contractor Peer Group (CEO/Owners/Executive Leadership)
Exclusively for Executive Leadership in ABC Member Contracting Firms: ABC's Executive Leader Peer Group has proven to be an invaluable resource for CEOs and top-level decision-makers representing companies of diverse size and industry. The first half of the workshop will consist of an introduction and instruction on the subject of the day and the second half will be spent focused on real world application. This could include case studies, attendee trouble shooting, best practice sharing, and peer coaching.
Find out more »November 2021
Positive Assertiveness – Part of the Professional Development Series
Successful Interactions Result in Win-Win Outcomes! | Gain valuable tools for developing your positive assertiveness resulting in win-win outcomes in negotiation, conflict resolution and normal day-to-day business dealings. It’s OK to be assertive. In fact, positive assertiveness will help you create and maintain honest, healthy working relationships.
Find out more »ABC Human Resources Contractor Peer Group
Exclusively for HR Professionals in ABC Keystone Contracting Firms. Get together with fellow HR professionals to share experiences and help one another improve personal and company performance in an encouraging environment. Offered quarterly.
Find out more »Employee Relations and Engagement – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy | Cultivate an environment of employee engagement and reap the rewards! Team workers will be more productive, customers will be happier, and your business will be more profitable. HR has an important role in employee relations. Understand the impact and elements of engagement, how to measure it, and gain practical strategies to retain key employees and improve overall retention rates.
Find out more »December 2021
Employee Orientation, Training, and Development – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy |Go beyond the nuts and bolts by providing key elements for effective employee orientation programs; learn how to identify and use competencies for positions; learn to create a skills gap analysis and development plans; discover more about succession planning; create career ladders; learn how to effectively promote leaders from within; and discover which key competencies to evaluate. Invest in your most valuable resources, provide the ladders and roadmaps for success, and successfully grow your own leaders!
Find out more »January 2022
Pay, Benefits, and Other Rewards – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy | Create a total rewards package and understand the "win/win relationship." Discover how to set up a compensation structure. Better understand key steps in job evaluation; variable pay plans and options, developing and executing benefit strategies; the value and method of benchmarking benefit plans; elements of cafeteria benefit plans; and ther creative rewards that can engage and retain the workforce.
Find out more »February 2022
Safety, Security, Health, and Leaves of Absence Management – Part of the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy | Utilize all resources in understanding policies, procedures, guidelines, and legalities in the management of safety, security, and health. Learn more about addressing the challenges and mechanics of managing various leaves of absences; OSHA overview; how to set up and run a safety committee; drug testing; workplace violence; health issues facing HR, including managing ADA; fitness for duty exams; exposure to serious health risks to organizations; and ways to effectively manage workers' compensation including processes, recordkeeping and reporting.
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