For Construction Pros

3 Tips for Managers with Hispanic Workers

Construction business managers should have a coherent strategy for managing and leading Hispanic employees with an emphasis on understanding cultural differences

Article • June 13th, 2012

How to Find and Foster Great Employees

Concrete foundations contractor Ekedal Concrete of Newport Beach, Calif., offers its thoughts on finding and keeping good construction employees.

Article • June 6th, 2012

Bob Stewart

Bob Stewart is a founding partner and serves as a principal consultant for Construction Change Partners, where his responsibilities include ERP system evaluations, selections, implementation management, and data conversion services. Bob has over 20...

Contact • May 23rd, 2012

Training the Construction Challenged

Five tips that will help you train your new construction employees.

Article • May 18th, 2012

Do Not Litigate – Arbitrate

Employee arbitration agreements can save you money and help you avoid court

Article • May 18th, 2012

HCSS Launches Field Entry Mobile Apps

New mobile applications from HCSS allows contractors to collect field data using smartphones and tablets and integrate the data with HCSS's back-end databases

Press Release • May 15th, 2012

Can You Use A Smartphone to Promote Safe Driving?

App4Drivers is a new smartphone app designed with the concept of improving driving behavior by tracking texting, excessive turns, excessive speeds, quick accelerations or sudden braking

Blog • May 4th, 2012

Build An Accountable, Responsible Team

Follow these five steps to empower employees to be accountable and responsible contributing members of your team

Article • April 17th, 2012

Plan for the Future of Your Business

The demographics in the construction industry are changing and as a construction business owner you need to take time to plan how it will affect and influence the future success of your business

Article • April 3rd, 2012

4 Ways to Improve Owner-Employee Relations

I recently presented a workshop entitled “10 Actions of a Successful Construction Owner and Leader.” One action in particular I felt needed more expansion — maintaining employee relations. For construction owners and leaders, maintaining...

Article • March 5th, 2012

Dude, Are You Positive?

Creating a workplace drug testing policy.

Article • March 5th, 2012

Act Your Way to Better Jobsite Safety

When it comes to safety, sometimes you have to act your way into a new way of thinking - and that includes taking action to ensure your Spanish and non-Spanish speaking workers are working safely

Article • March 2nd, 2012

Minnesota Training Center for Heavy Highway Workers Celebrates Milestone

Event recognizes more than 1.35 million hours of training

Press Release • March 1st, 2012

US Department of Labor 2013 Budget Adds $1.8 Billion for Employer Enforcement

OSHA would get an additional $5 million and 37 new inspectors, Wage and Hour Division requested a $4 million increase and 35 new inspectors

Press Release • February 23rd, 2012

12 Tips for Preventing Back Injuries in Construction

25% of construction injuries are back injuries, so it's worth planning, equipping and staffing sites to preserve back health

News • February 22nd, 2012