NRMCA unveils managerial seminars

Pit & Quarry, March, 2004

The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) is sponsoring a series of managerial seminars for its members. The first, Employment Law and Workforce Seminar, was held in February.

The course was designed to help attendees identify the most common workplace mistakes executives and their department managers make with their employees and why they make them, including how a manager's natural instincts can produce unanticipated results.

The session was conducted at the RMC Research Foundation Education Center in Silver Spring, Md., by Jathan Janove, a Utah-based attorney who specializes in employment law. Janove discussed how to avoid workplace claims while emphasizing how managers should act as leaders by not relying on instinct in handling tough situations. These methods have helped managers simultaneously comply with the law, stay out of court, improve employee relations and provide workplace leadership.

Peter Colangelo, general manager of RMC Inc., Mokena, Ill., says that Janove "covered many topics that directly affect our business, including hiring, evaluation, discipline, harassment, termination. All apply to my position. The course was very helpful."

Other course attendees were equally pleased. "It was very informative and helpful," says Joseph J. Ferrara, vice president and general counsel of Ferrara Bros. Building Materials Corp., an NRMCA producer member in New York City. "He (Janove) certainly gave me some interesting little tidbits to take back to my office."

The series of managerial seminars was created on the recommendation of NRMCA's Educational Activities Committee. The second in the series, RMC Finance for the Non-Financial Manager, will be offered March 30-31, also at the RMC Research Foundation Education Center. The next Employment Law seminar will be held September 21-22 in Houston. NRMCA, 888-84NRMCA