Construction PM Training That Protects Margin.
Josh Luebker, author of CONTROL: The Construction Financial Operating System, built five self-paced construction PM courses that run $397 to $1,297. They take a project manager from field fundamentals through the billing, change order, and contract decisions that determine whether a job makes money, the same decisions CONTROL Step 6 turns into a written standard.
The book gives your PMs the standard: when to bill, when to send a delay notice, when to loop in your attorney. The standard only works once someone teaches the PM why each rule exists and how to spot the moment it applies. Josh built these five courses from the same field-level diagnosis behind CONTROL: the project manager is the first place job cost data gets created or lost. Foundations orients a new PM to the job. Execution builds control over schedule and cost. Leadership readies senior PMs and office leaders for the calls that affect cash, margin, and how much the owner has to stay involved in the field.
Five Courses. One Path From Field To Office.
Self-paced, $397 to $1,297, hosted on Thinkific. A PM works through a course around an active job, no live cohort to schedule around.
VIEW ALL COURSES →FIVE COURSES. ONE PROGRESSION.
THE PM IS WHERE JOB COST DATA STARTS.
CONTROL is an 8-step financial operating system for trade subcontractors. Step 6, Project Management Standards, gives a PM the written rule for billing dates, change orders, and notices of delay. This training fixes something upstream of that rule: whether the PM understands the field decision well enough to apply the standard correctly under pressure, on a real job, without a phone call to the office.
A PM who bills late, misses a change order deadline, or codes labor to the wrong job is the reason a Step 1 job cost structure produces numbers nobody trusts. Train the PM first, and the standards in Step 6 and the job cost structure in Step 1 both start from field decisions made correctly the first time.
On a pay app, retainage held at 10% turns a $400K month into $360K, and a GC's 30-day payment cycle stretches that into 60 before it hits your account. A PM who understands that math bills differently from day one.
The Leadership course goes furthest into this: it trains the exact billing and collections decisions that keep a job's cash from falling behind its cost, the same problem Step 6 and Step 7 (Monthly Cadence) exist to catch.
ONE-TIME COURSE PRICE. NO SUBSCRIPTION.
Each course is a one-time purchase billed directly through Thinkific, separate from anything in the CONTROL book or a fractional CFO engagement. No bundling required.
| Course | Price |
|---|---|
| Foundations: Construction Management Fundamentals | $697 |
| Execution: Project Delivery & Control | $897 |
| Leadership: Operational Leadership & Impact Decisions | $1,297 |
| Advanced Blueprint & Spec Reading | $397 |
| Construction Contracts: Business & Operations | $697 |
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