2015 ACPA Education Conference

• Hill Country Golf Club and Pro Shop
• Windflower—The Hill Country Spa and full-service salon
• Hyatt Fast Board™
• Hyatt Web Check-in
• High-speed wireless Internet access
• In-room dining
• Concierge and Hyatt E-Concierge
• 24-hour Business Center
• Multilingual staff
• ADA/Assistive devices
• Camp Hyatt®—supervised children’s program
• Safe-deposit boxes at front desk
• On-site laundry/dry cleaning
• Valet parking; complimentary self-parking

• 500 casually elegant guestrooms
• High-speed wireless Internet access
• Flat screen TV with HD cable channels, on-demand pay movies
• Video messages, video account review, video check-out
• Work desk with power and data port
• In-room electronic safe
• Electronic door lock
• Full bath amenities, hair dryer and bathrobe
• Refrigerator, Starbucks® coffee, coffeemaker
• Iron/ironing board
• Individual climate control
• iHome® alarm clock radio
• Daily newspaper delivery
• Pet friendly rooms available

Throw Out the Fishbowl! The Economics of Concrete Pumping
Vaughn Burbidge – Burbidge Concrete Pumping
Did you determine how much profit you made last year simply by looking at how much money you had left in the bank? You don’t have to be an accountant to understand some of the factors affecting the real profitability or perhaps more importantly, the actual worth of your business. This session gives you the simple, easy to learn basics of determining the genuine costs associated with pumping concrete so that you can price your services according and attain greater profitability while building value for a more sustainable future.

Developing Emerging Leaders to Run Your Company
Mike Clancy - FMI

• Position your future leaders as interdependent members of your management team;
• Instill a commitment to proactively lead and manage all elements of your human capital to get the most utilization of your organizational resources;
• Establish a culture of building long-term client relations that will permeate your organization; and
• Create a future legacy for your firm.

Acrobatics for Over Achievers
Ron Black – The Mentor Group
Multiple deadlines, churning priorities and long hours plague today’s top achievers. This novel control-point technique combines what we know about project management, life-balance and high-performance to improve productivity, job satisfaction and our overall sense of well-being. Participants learn how to get in control of results that count, how to reduce stress and lead a healthier, more productive work-life balance. This upbeat program delivers a novel control-point management technique, practical strategies, tactics and techniques that can be quickly learned and applied:

• How to use time control points to add hours back to your week
• Traction-point thinking that eliminates your time wasters
• Spot the most common stressors and how to bust them
• Discover how to get it done and get home sooner, and have more energy to live

What to Know Before You Sign – Legal Contracts
John J. Duffy & Michael S. Eisenbaum – Gray•Duffy, LLP
Contractual exposure can eat away your company’s profits. Before entering into any contract, you need to understand the risks involved that can expose your company to severe consequences if something goes wrong. Know what you are giving away when you sign someone else’s contract and be sure you are protecting your company with your own job ticket.  Sometimes changing just a few words can save you from a multi-million dollar lawsuit.  This session offers practical strategies and legal guidelines about how to protect your company from contractual risks, to avoid paying claims for additional insureds and ensure your policy has the coverage you are agreeing to in a contract.  All these tips can save your company thousands of dollars in litigation costs and in future premiums, but more importantly, will allow you to operate your business safely with less fear of liability.

Measure, Understand, GET IT DONE! 6 Numbers You Can't Live Without
Barb Nuss – Profit Soup
A culture of continuous improvement will help build value in your business - more sales, profit and cash now and more wealth in the future. To validate that we’re realizing the improvements we seek, we measure results, make changes and then measure again. This session will describe a process for continuous improvement employing the Profit Soup recipe for success:

• Measure what’s important: the numbers you can’t live without
• Understand what the numbers tell you about your business, your priorities and your opportunities.
• Get it done! Take action to implement change enhancing your strengths and addressing critical weaknesses.

There are many things you can measure in your business. Faced with so many possible metrics, it can be challenging to identify the most important things to measure – things that will help you focus on your business priorities and make the real improvements required to make your business as efficient as possible.

Emerging Data & Technologies in the Transportation Industry
Robert Moore & Chris Nelson - NBIS
With emerging data and technologies like CSA, ELDs, GPS and in-cab cameras, where is the transportation industry headed? Real risk management is about addressing the unpredictable, which includes managing your company’s total cost of risk and aligning your culture around data performance.  The availability, analysis and utilization of data is changing the profession, equipment and operational landscape for those who have discovered how to capture and harness it. 

During this session, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Moore will provide you with a better understanding of how business models are changing as a result of this new data and technology; plus reveal strategies to improve your safety culture resulting in a safer, more productive and profitable operation.