This course is designed specifically for CAD Managers and Drawing Office Managers

How a Drawing Office Functions

• Chief Draughts Person / Office Manager
• Section Leader
• Designer
• Senior Draughts Person
• Trainees
• Technical Clerks
• Standards Section
• Checkers

Office Management

• Main Functions
• The Goals of an Office Manager
• The Authority of an Office Manager
• Building a Trusting Relationship

Effective Work Relationships

• Creative Ways to Motivate Employees

Project Success

• Starting Out
• Deliver your Projects Faster

Design and Develop Processes and Procedure

How to Budget for a Project

• Basics of Budgeting
• Set the Budget
• Identifying Porject Costs
• Backup Funding
• Weekly Tracking
• Realignment
• Cash Flow Management
• Risk Assessment

Doing an Interview

• Interviewing Potential Employees
• Job Interview Questions for Employees
• How to Select Candidates for the Job Interview
• Telephone Screen Candidates Prior to a Job Interview
• How to Prepare for the Job Interview
• Interview Questions to Assess Cultural Fit

Performance Management

• Managing Performance
• Benefits of Managing Performance
• Appraisals

Office Design and Layout

• Convenience
• Efficient Workspace
• Private Spaces versus Open Plan
• Planning your Office Layout Design
• Communal Spaces

Running Effective Meetings

• Establishing an Objective and Sticking to it
• Use Time Wisely
• Satisfying Participants that a Sensible Process has been followed
• Key Points

Engineering Drawing Practices and Standards

• History
• Relationship to Artistic Drawing
• Relationship to Other Technical Drawing Types
• Specialists
• Legal instruments
• Standardizing
• Relationship to Model-Based Definition (MBD)
• Systems of Dimensioning and Tolerances
• Engineering Drawings: Common Features
• Conventional Areas of an Engineering Drawing
• Views and Sections
• Abbreviations and Symbols

Configuration Management (CM)

• History
• The Scoop of Configuration Management
• Application
• Why would a Drawing Office need a Configuration System
• Construction Industry

Maintenance Systems

• Preventive Maintenance
• Predictive Maintenance
• Corrective Maintenance

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.