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September 2019
Competent Person Training for Silica
Employers are required to have a Competent Person to oversee the day to day operations and to minimize the exposures related to respirable crystalline silica. Gain the knowledge and skills required to be considered a competent person for silica.
Find out more »ABC Keystone Apprenticeship Craft Competition
Stop by the Chapter and cheer on the best of our fourth-year students as they compete against each other and the clock during a timed craft competition for an opportunity to move on to the 2020 ABC National Craft Competition.
Find out more »SalesWorks!
September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 2019. Generating Revenue & Developing 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 »Competent Person for Excavation and Trenching
Gain knowledge critical in protecting employees from the dangers of excavation and trenching.
Find out more »October 2019
Mental Fitness for Leaders: Building Healthy Teams & Organizations
Fridays, October 4, 11, 18, 25, & November 1, 2019 / 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Learn, practice and develop a set of skills that result in health as well as personal and professional success.
Mobile Elevating Work Platform (Aerial Lift) Training
Reduce injuries, product and structural damage, and aerial work platform repairs while promoting an increase in safety awareness. Thank you to Sunbelt Rentals for sponsoring equipment use.
Find out more »OSHA 30-Hour Construction
October 8, 10, 16, & 17, 2019 - 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 »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 »ABC Keystone Tailgate Party Featuring Chili, Cornhole and Homebrew Competitions Presented by Barley Snyder
ABC Keystone Chili, Cornhole & Homebrew Tailgate Party - Start your homebrew now! Open to ALL ABC Keystone Members and friends! Companies are invited to serve up your best chili and homebrews and compete for the honor of earning the top votes! Register your team for the cornhole tourney and take on the competition! Beer, Wine & Soda thanks to 2019 C.O.R.E. sponsors!
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 »Introduction to the Human Resources Management Academy
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy - Human Resources Strategic, Operational, and Administrative Roles - Get a superb foundation of what is expected by and for the HR Administrator. Review on the specialized information and skills training on the key issues, basic laws, and best practices necessary for companies to compete for the labor needed to drive their businesses successfully. Targeted in-depth training because when it comes to HR. You can't afford to get it wrong!
Find out more »Human Resource Management Academy – The Series
Comprehensive Skills Training on Key Issues, Laws, and Best Practices in HR. Entire Series Registration.
Find out more »Rough Terrain Forklift Training
Reduce injuries, product and structural damage, and forklift repairs while promoting an increase in safety awareness. Get certified and meet OSHA requirements. Thank you to Sunbelt Rentals for sponsoring equipment use.
Find out more »Developing a Social Media Marketing Plan
Strategically Attract New Clients and Talent! Take a walk through a Social Platform Marketing Strategy, including details about audience building, tailoring content to specific audiences and reaching potential new customers and employees.
Find out more »Executive Leader 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 »Material Takeoffs from Blueprints
October 24, November 7, 14 & 21, 2019 | Estimate Quantities Accurately Each Time. Receive hands-on experience figuring on an actual set of working drawings!
Find out more »ABC Keystone Lancaster Regional Construction Wake-up Call Event – Labor Law Update Wedding Checklist
No-cost to attend! Fall Topic: "Your Labor Law Update Wedding Checklist" - Something Old (Union Salting) - Something New (NLRB and DOL New Rulings and Regulations) - Something Borrowed (Aggressive Prevailing Wage Enforcement) - And LOTS to Make You Blue
Find out more »Harnessing the Power of Supplemental Unemployment Plans A No Cost Seminar Presented by: DirectAdvisors
A No Cost Seminar Presented by: DirectAdvisors | Recruit & Retain Employees in a Seasonal Environment. Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plans provide compensation to employees in addition to state unemployment during periods of layoff. When designed correctly, these plans offer employers a way to provide them with enhanced income during periods of unemployment without diminishing state unemployment benefits.
Find out more »November 2019
Productive Conflict: Communication, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Skills
Create Positive Working Relationships with Confidence - This comprehensive, interactive course explores how to approach difficult situations for positive results
Find out more »Self-Management
Part of the Leadership Development Series - Great Teams Start with Great Leaders. Strategies to Improve Productivity and Results. Discover strategies for goal setting, making them SMART and how to make sure they stick. Gain awareness and understanding of self-management tools and strategies to help everybody improve productivity in the company.
Find out more »Leadership Development – Entire Series!
Great teams start with great leaders. This series features ten interactive sessions in personal and professional leadership development. Highly relevant information is taught through hands-on activities and thoughtful discussion. Techniques and lessons learned can be immediately implemented on the job; accelerating managers to highly effective, successful leaders over the progression of the course.
Find out more »Safety Academy – The Road to World Class Safety
Discover how an enhanced safety culture can play an important role in maximizing your profits.
Relying on the extensive data that ABC National collects regarding safety and key elements that top performers in safety have in common will help you and your company to improve safety. Deep diving into successful business models will reveal that top businesses have models that indicate that safety is part of the equation that maximizes their profits. Join us to discuss safety and how to make it part of your company’s DNA.
This interactive forum is provided to discuss the methods and means to develop a world class safety culture.
Find out more »Optimizing Websites and Analytics to Increase Profit
Learn the ins and outs of good website design, how to deliver targeted traffic to your site and use the analytics to gain higher Google ratings and increase profits for your company.
Find out more »Employment Laws, Compliance, and Minimizing Risk – Part of the Human Resource 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 are they important to the company: Discrimination/ harassment: Recognition and prevention strategies; Federal & State: Agencies and Enforcement; Job Classification: Exempt/Non-exempt, Wage/Hour violations, FLSA; Union/Non-Union: concepts and avoidance strategies; Employee Handbook: Key policies. Apply knowledge gained in this session through case studies of employment legal decisions.
Find out more »Human Resource Management Academy – The Series
Comprehensive Skills Training on Key Issues, Laws, and Best Practices in HR. Entire Series Registration.
Find out more »December 2019
Leadership vs. Management
Part of the Leadership Development Series. Characteristics of Great Leaders and Developing Talent. Learn the differences between leadership and management. Learn how to recognize and develop your next leaders.
Find out more »Leadership Development – Entire Series!
Great teams start with great leaders. This series features ten interactive sessions in personal and professional leadership development. Highly relevant information is taught through hands-on activities and thoughtful discussion. Techniques and lessons learned can be immediately implemented on the job; accelerating managers to highly effective, successful leaders over the progression of the course.
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 »Employee and Contractor Compliance Concerns and Best Practices
Don’t Trip into the Misclassification Pit! Gain knowledge and understanding of the PA Workplace Misclassification Act
Find out more »ABC Keystone Ugly Holiday Wear Mixer
Save the Date! Celebrate the season with your colleagues and help those in need! Donations items will be accepted for the Water Street Mission:
Find out more »PowerPoint Tips & Tricks
Power Up Your Presentations with Advanced Features. This course is intended to help users become familiar with a more advanced selection of features in Microsoft PowerPoint. We will cover how to change the PowerPoint environment, create customized presentations, and more.
Find out more »Job Descriptions, HR Recordkeeping and Reporting
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy. Key Areas of Focus in HR Evaluation Audits. Discover the importance of key HR processes: Clearing the confusion and keeping in compliance! Discover why job descriptions are important and how to effectively write descriptions used in the hiring process; key records employers must create and retain; reporting requirements; setting up personnel files and HR records' retention schedule; EEO and affirmative action plans; conducting an HR compliance and effectiveness audit and understanding of the key areas HR auditors evaluate.
Find out more »January 2020
OSHA 10-Hour Construction
January 8 & 10, 2020 / 7:30 am - 1:30 pm each day - This course serves as the benchmark for introductory jobsite safety and OSHA compliance education.
Find out more »Communication for Success – Discovering your DiSC Style (Session 1 of 2)
Part of the Leadership Development Series. Ever feel like you just can’t “get through” to the other person? Learn your communication style and how to morph to the style of others for success.
Find out more »Communication for Success – Communication is Everything! (Session 2 of 2)
Part of the Leadership Development Series. Understand your communication style and how to morph to the style of others for success.
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 »Effective Recruiting & Hiring
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 »Qualified Crane Signal Person and Rigging
Anyone and everyone who connects a load to a crane, hoist, backhoe, pulley system should attend this program. If you are a supervisor or project manager who has been charged with safety oversight for your project (as you should be), this course is for you.
Find out more »Executive Leader 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 »February 2020
Engaging and Mobilizing Your Team
Part of the Leadership Development Series. Engage and inspire your team. Utilize the seven drivers of high engagement.
Find out more »ABC Keystone’s Human Resources Contractor Peer Group A
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.
Find out more »Networking, Referrals, Strategic Alliances
Part of the Leadership Development Series. Networking is a contact sport. Learn how to properly network and get results.
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 »OSHA 30-Hour Construction
February 6, 7, 13, & 14, 2020 / 7:30 am – 4:30 pm each day - 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 »7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Revolutionize Your Personal Effectiveness and Productivity! Exclusive ABC Keystone member-only event - Limited to the first 30 registrants!
Find out more »ABC Keystone’s Human Resources Contractor Peer Group B
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.
Find out more »Behavioral-based Interviewing
Part of the Human Resources Management Academy. Determine a candidate’s potential for success! Gain tools for establishing critical competencies for positions, developing your own "STAR" interview questions that target critical competencies, interviewing for organizational cultural fit and values, and hands-on interviewing activities followed by coaching to refine your interviewing skills!
Find out more »Project Management & Leadership
February 19, 26, March 4, 11, 18, 25 & April 1, 2020 | Be the Project Manager that other companies want to work with by improving your management style. This comprehensive, 7-week course will yield immediate and lasting results in new efficiencies, effectiveness and communications in all aspects of the project from pre-bid presentations through the final payment. This course is perfect for those in their first five years of Project Management, transitioning from the field, current Project Coordinators or those looking to grow into this role in their companies.
Find out more »Competent Person for Supported Scaffold Training
Gain a better understanding of the OSHA requirements for supported scaffolding in construction and increase your knowledge of the necessary requirements to be considered competent under OSHA's rule as it relates to scaffolding systems.
Find out more »How to Buy and Sell a Business
Start planning for your company's future now! 67% of businesses fail to succeed into the second generation!* ABC Keystone has partnered with a team of Succession Professionals who will share years of experience and best practices on how to design your transition strategy. By spending time planning now for how you will transition out of your business, you can ensure a smoother exit.
Find out more »Competent Person for Excavation and Trenching
Gain knowledge critical in protecting employees from the dangers of excavation and trenching.
Find out more »March 2020
Competent Person for Fall Protection
Gain knowledge critical in protecting employees from the dangers of working at heights. Discover more about both regulatory (OSHA) requirements and best industry practices through both lecture, hands-on activities, and table-top-style exercises using potential workplace scenarios.
Find out more »Delegating for Results
Part of the Professional Development Series | 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 »The Professional Development Series
March 5, 2020 - September 2020 | Seven engaging, interactive sessions provide the specialized knowledge, skills and experience necessary to effectively thrive in today’s marketplace. Develop into a professional with the agility to adapt in all circumstances positively for the best possible outcomes.
Find out more »Presentations – Removing the Fear
Part of the Leadership Development Series. Hands-on opportunity to learn and receive immediate feedback on the fine art of presenting! You'll walk away better prepared to address future audiences by using a “toolkit” of tips to establish rapport, develop compelling content, control pre-stage jitters, and manage last-minute glitches. Prepare yourself for that public speaking debut.
Find out more »OSHA Recordkeeping
Come join us on March 12, to take advantage of a session devoted exclusively to maintaining OSHA injury/illness recordkeeping and calculating injury rates. Our time together will provide you with the knowledge and skills you will need to confidently and correctly maintain your OSHA #300 & #300A injury and illness logs.
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 »Employment Assessments
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, a little background and science, the variety of tests available, effectiveness and legalities, additional use beyond hiring: employee development, team building, and technical skill assessment. Review of individual participant assessment and predicting performance to make the right hire.
Find out more »OSHA 10-Hour Construction
March 26 & 27, 2020 / 7:30 am - 1:30 pm each day - This course serves as the benchmark for introductory jobsite safety and OSHA compliance education.
Find out more »Creating an Emergency Action Plan
A business disaster can strike without notice or warning. Is your company prepared? This session will discuss the implementation of company policies that should include many different types of workplace disasters.
Find out more »April 2020
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 »So…You Want Your Final Payment?
Don't Fumble During the Close Out Phase - Learn the ins and outs, pitfalls and tips on seeking and obtaining your final payment on successfully completed projects.
Find out more »Mental Fitness for Leaders: Building Healthy Teams & Organizations
Wednesdays, April 8, 15, 22, 29 & May 6 2020 | Learn, practice and develop a set of skills that result in health as well as personal and professional success.
Find out more »Mobile Elevating Work Platform (Aerial Lift) Training
Reduce injuries, product and structural damage, and aerial work platform repairs while promoting an increase in safety awareness. Thank you to Sunbelt Rentals for sponsoring equipment use.
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