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Built for Companies & Individuals

Whether you want employees to train independently or together as a team, this program fits your goals. Choose a self-paced track or launch a cohort model using NCCER’s ready-to-go facilitator guide. Cohorts encourage regular group discussions, shared insights, and team-building through hands-on activities.

Assess and Advance Your Team

Use the included Foreman Assessment to:

  • Evaluate current field leaders
  • Identify skill gaps with a personalized report
  • Create targeted upskilling plans

Those who meet the requirements and pass earn a national certification. Those who don’t? They get a clear path forward to grow and succeed.

Pricing

Full Programs
Fully Facilitated Program
$590
 Includes all five courses, assessment & one assessment retake
Assessment Only
$229
 Includes one assessment retake
Remediation Course Package
$361
 All five courses – Only available after assessment purchase

Facilitator Cohort Program

Participants complete an online course every two weeks, then join a live, instructor-led session via Zoom to review and reinforce their learning.

•Facilitated by NCCER Master Trainer Mike Farrar

•Topics include leadership, communication, productivity, quality and safety

•$590 per participant

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Course Details

Each of the five courses is designed to engage learners and support comprehension. An introduction course is included to provide a learner everything they need to know to be successful. Each course includes:

  • Learning Objectives help prepare and set expectations for what learners will learn in each course 
  • Learn and Engage lessons provide instruction using text, audio, scenarios, and videos that provide practical and actionable lessons on key topics . There is also a feature that offers additional opportunities to enhance learning.
  • Apply and Reflect activities provide opportunities to put new learning into practice. 
  • Continue Learning provides practical forms, checklists, guidelines, expert videos, and links to recommended reading to help expand the learning experience. 
  • Review and Practice Questions at the end of each course tests to ensure comprehension of the materials and practice for taking the end-of-program assessment. The Review and Practice tests can be taken as many times as an individual likes to prepare for the certification assessment. 
  • How Did We Do? Each course concludes with an opportunity for you to share your thoughts and feedback about the learning experience in that course. 

This course includes:

  1. Leadership and Supervision: Driving Results and Motivating Success
    In the Leadership and Supervision course, you will explore the connection between ethics and leadership and learn about leadership principles and strategies. You will also learn about the role of a supervisor, including solving problems, coaching, and managing performance.
  2. Communication: Connecting Effectively
    The Communication course covers the effective communication methods critical to a foreman’s success. The course covers specific communication challenges you will face and offers practical advice and techniques to improve your communication skills.
  3. Productivity: Maximizing Project Outcomes
    The Productivity course covers the processes critical to making work productive, including planning and scheduling, and managing tools, information, materials, and logistics.
  4. Quality: Delivering Value
    In the Quality course, you will learn about the importance of doing work right the first time and the need to understand and communicate the quality requirements for your work. You will recognize how you can build, support, and maintain quality work and a quality culture on your projects.
  5. Safety, Health and Environment: Safeguarding the Future
    The Safety, Health, and Environment course covers key topics, such as leadership in safety, the cost of incidents and injuries, safety best practices, hazard recognition and remediation, safety education and training, incident and emergency preparedness, and protecting the environment.

Certification

Participants will earn the NCCER Construction Foreman Certification upon:​

  • Passing the rigorous program-level assessment. ​
  • Demonstrating two or more years of verifiable, qualified journey-level experience in the craft the participant currently leads or will be responsible for leading (prior to or after successfully passing the foreman assessment).

Support for Facilitated Cohorts

If your company decides to set up a cohort to go through the program together, this tool will help the facilitator guide learners through mastering the content and passing the certification assessment. It provides an overview, a program tour, a sample Facilitator Plan, Learners’ Guide and recommendations for successful program facilitation. 

  • Enables any organization, association or training center to deliver a facilitated program, supported by online learning. 
  • Allows your organization to add its own content to the program. 

FAQs

How is the content delivered?
  • An easy-to-access, online program that is mobile friendly. Learners can train anytime, anywhere.
  • Individuals can work at their own pace and complete the program without any guidance.
  • The program can also be delivered to a cohort within a company led by a facilitator. Organizations are encouraged to include their company-specific information as part of the cohort delivery.
What are the benefits of having learners take the program as self-paced online learning?
  • For your company, assigning learners to take the course as self-paced online training makes it easy to get started immediately.
  • For participants, self-paced online learning gives them the flexibility to gain new skills while on the go. Participants can fit training into their busy schedules without sacrificing time on the job.
  • Training in this way also allows aspiring or experienced foremen to learn at their own pace and apply new knowledge directly in the field, boosting quality, safety and productivity on-site.
How is the program organized?
  • The Construction Foreman Certification Program includes five online courses that present instruction through text, audio, scenarios, videos and activities.
    • Leadership and Supervision
    • Communication
    • Quality
    • Productivity
    • Safety, Health, and Environment
  • There is also Introduction: Getting Started that explains to the learners how to be successful in the program.
  • The courses can be completed in any order.
How long does it take to get through the full program?
  • This depends on the learner and the expectation of the company. Since it is self-paced, the learner can work at a speed that is appropriate for their level of comprehension.
  • If a person was dedicated and completed every section, activity and video, it would take approximately three hours to finish one course. So completing one course a week plus the assessment, it could potentially be finished in six weeks.
How do participants measure their learning during the program?
  • Within each lesson, participants encounter Check Your Understanding questions to help them measure their learning progress.
  • Review and Practice questions at the end of each course provide a way for the learners to evaluate their understanding of the full course content and practice for the end-of-program assessment.
If I decide to create a facilitated model, what type of facilitator is needed?
  • The specific responsibilities of a facilitator are at your discretion
  • Familiarizing themselves with the program content
  • Determining the frequency of group meetings (e.g., weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly)
  • Helping learners apply program concepts to your company’s construction practices
How can we be sure this program is effective?
  • The program was designed and created with industry subject matter experts, technical writers and instructional designers to ensure the program meets quality online learning standards. The program includes clear learning objectives, authentic content, engaging activities, review questions and an end-of-program assessment.
  • The end-of-program assessment evaluates the knowledge of the learner and provides a personalized training prescription that shows which areas or knowledge domains the learner has mastered and the ones on which they require remediation. You can give the assessment before a learner takes the course and after to see the increase in knowledge.
  • You will have access to a dashboard in our learning platform that allows you to see learner progress through key course components and monitor grades and completions.