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Association News
Are you or someone in your chapter interested in running for a seat on the National Board of Directors? Applications to run for Officer or Director for the 2020-21 year are due to Crissy Ingram at crissyi@nawic.org by Feb. 1. You can find the application here or on the NAWIC website.
 We loved seeing all the photos you submitted for the Nov/Dec issue of NAWIC Today! In fact, we plan on using more member photos and less stock photos from now on. So please keep sending in your hi-res photos for us to use in publications (Connection, NAWIC Today) AND so that you could possibly be a star of marketing material!
The theme for the Jan/Feb issue of NAWIC Today is Technology, so start sending in those photos now, and you could be on the cover next month! Also, a big congrats (and THANK YOU!) to Mandy Alfaro and Katherine Depablos, whose photo submissions made it to the cover and back cover of the Nov/Dec issue of NAWIC Today! Our updated 2019-20 NAWIC Strategic Plan is now available for download in the Member Center of the website. Be sure to check it out and see what has changed so you can make any necessary updates to your own documents!
Education / Training
 AGC’s Lean Construction Forum Steering Committee has developed the Lean for Trades Toolbox Talk Series to introduce Lean Construction concepts to the job-site. These 10-minute conversational huddles will help your team identify ways to improve processes, eliminate waste and adopt a Lean culture in the shop and field. Each Toolbox Talk session, released monthly, reviews a concept you can use to create discussion, teach and grow your team’s understanding of Lean and determine how you can work more productively and collaboratively . Review the slide deck in an office or on a site, use the lesson to explain the concept, discuss the concept and use the printable handout to pass out to your team as a tool to help implement positive change.
 Lean integrated project delivery has been touted as a silo-busting, productivity-boosting strategy on projects ranging from health care to industrial, but to maximize the benefit, the entire project team has to get involved. From the perspective of several suppliers and subcontractors involved in IPD projects, you will learn best practices to implement on IPD projects, plus concepts or technologies you can use to boost teamwork and efficiency within any project delivery method—and, what firms can do to mitigate risk when there's a teamwork crisis. Nov 7, 2019 - 2:00 pm EST NAWIC Benefits Spotlight
Industry Update
 Through a special career-oriented academic program, students in the Garrett-Keyser-Butler Community School District start exploring construction and manufacturing as early as fifth grade. As the students continue through middle school and high school, they begin to develop interests in specific career paths.
Read on for more about this amazing program!
 Many industry-related companies are employing headsets, simulators and other machines that mimic the real world conditions found on a jobsite. Workers then use these for training on everything from cranes and forklifts to scaffolding setup.
 An overview of The Sustainable Municipal Access to Resilient Technology in Infrastructure (SMART Infrastructure) Act.
 Private company data on employees’ computers has made businesses across many industries attractive targets for hacks. The construction sector, like many others, is unprepared for an attack, cybersecurity experts say. Nearly half of construction executives think their firms are destined to be the victim of a cyberattack, but 68% haven’t assessed their risks or prepared a plan, according to the 2019 Travelers Business Risk Index. Calendar
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