The Profit Happens Here! series is the result of codifying the experiences of our senior consultants into modules that can help our clients grow, change and train their teams more effectively. These modules are delivered in a variety of formats including:

• Training: These are each designed to be delivered in short 2-3 hour training sessions with a focus on specific action items that can be executed immediately. Click here for a complete training schedule.


• Speaking: Elements of these modules can be broken into short 45-60 minute talks that are perfect for industry events, company and trade association meetings.


• Consulting: The modules provide the foundation for many of our hands-on consulting programs where we map out a long-term plan for the company with quarterly goals.


• Books: Buy single copies on particular topics or buy a company-wide license for the electronic version that will you to use the content for your own internal training programs.

We are constantly adding new modules and enhancing existing ones based on feedback, client projects, changing industry conditions and input from new team members. Current modules include:

• Construction Documentation Overview: This module explores everything from stakeholders, to managing a project, to changes and impacts, to record keeping, to close-out, and finally to logging and filing for easy tracking. With hands-on examples, you’ll learn how proper documentation can reduce time, money, and frustration for every project, while increasing productivity, communication, and profits. You CAN create a streamlined and organized method of documentation to use on all of your construction projects – we’ll show you how. Contact us today for more information.


• Schedule Management: This module covers the ten steps involved in Schedule Management and how you can use them today to create a profit filled tomorrow. Schedule Management gives you the information you need to effectively analyze and manage your project schedule. You CAN have greater control over your construction projects – from beginning to end, with D. Brown Management’s The Profit Happens Here! Schedule Management Training Module. Contact us today for more information.


• Pre-Planning For Profitability: This module shares how the same subcontractor can bring about organizational change in the use of pre-planning – and in the process, save money, increase efficiency, and better focus their organization to maximize profits. Contact D. Brown Management today for more information.


• Impacted Jobsite Productivity: Impacted Jobsite Performance Training Module explores what productivity is, how it is measured, the key factors affecting productivity on a jobsite, and how you can give your company the competitive edge it needs in today’s market. One of the most important activities for a foreman, superintendent, or project manager within the construction industry is to maintain a high-level of jobsite production, day in and day out. Simply stated, if production rates are monitored closely, and improved upon constantly, then a competitive advantage will be gained in the market. With detailed examples, this module will give you the information, tools, and processes you need to increase your jobsite performance and production ratios. Contact us today for more information.


• Production Tracking: The Profit Happens Here! Production Tracking Training Module provides crew leaders, foremen, superintendents, and project managers with the information they need to create a culture of productivity within their organization. This productivity culture gives the entire organization a competitive edge that little else can. Focusing on the critical concepts of productivity, and how to utilize these concepts in every step of the production schedule, this module teaches how to track production and make adjustments on a daily, or even hourly, basis, instead of weeks, or months, later. This saves money, time, and helps keep a project on track. Contact us today for more information.


• Customer Service and the Project Team: The Profit Happens Here! Customer Service and the Project Team Training Module details how and why delivering outstanding customer service is one of the critical ingredients to a company’s success. Within this module, you’ll learn how to satisfy your customers, the tie-in between Kaizen and customer service, and how you can improve your customer service in every aspect of every project. Increase your organization’s longevity – increase your profits – by developing top-notch customer service, from beginning to end. We’ll show you how. Contact us today for more information.


• Change Orders: Construction is rife with changes, and by taking control of them as they occur – preferably before the start of a project; time, money, and labor can be saved. Within this module, project leaders will gain the knowledge they need to keep their projects on course, and to receive proper compensation from the costs that result in changes. Contact us today for more information.


• Talent “People Processes”: This module is focused on cutting the fat out of your organization’s team of people and helping the cream rise to the top. You’ll learn how to classify your team – so you know who your top talent is, who’s carrying their weight, and who isn’t. With this information, you’ll learn how to retain, recruit, and reward your people, to build a strong foundation on which your company will thrive. Top Talent = Higher Profits! Contact us today for more information.


• Profit Dynamics for Construction Projects:


• Cash Flow and the Project Team: This module explores the question of what is more important, cash flow or gross profitability, and gives thought provoking ideas on how cash flow can be improved upon. Good cash flow is critical to a business’s success. We can help you be successful! Contact us today for more information.


• Priorities (Time Management for the Project Team)


• Construction Financial Basics


• Integrated Operations and Accounting


• General Project Management Overview


• Process Documentation


• Effective Superintendent Processes


• Implementing a Standardized Project Management System: The Implementing a Standardized Project Management System Training Module explores the systematic use of weekly and daily processes that will help your organization stay on track, earn higher profits, and save on time, labor, and expenses. It’s the grinding details that separate the best performers – the highest achievers – from everyone else. Implementing and following a standardized project management system will help you raise the average bar of performance within your company. Contact us today for more information.


• Organizational Planning:


• Construction Documentation Overview


• Construction Financials (Advanced)


• Construction Documentation Overview


• Construction Documentation Overview