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Best Practices for Construction Employee Energy Management
Energy Management addresses how wisely any construction worker, leader or laborer expends his or her energy and focus in a given period of time
To better schedule your day, your priorities and your focus, it just makes sense to be better acquainted with your energy trends and those of your workers.
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Why and How to Implement Standard Operating Procedures at Your Construction Company
You can ill afford to have workers doing whatever they want, however they want to do their work, and expect to realize productive, much less profitable results
Standard operating procedures build consistency, teamwork and common vision for how you approach your construction projects.
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6 Guidelines to Improve Lean Financial Management in Construction
Follow Brad Humphrey's suggested approach to guide any level of construction leader to make better financial decisions
With as many decisions that a construction leader must make during the day, having greater empowerment to make financial decisions must be part of the construction leader’s profile.
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Why a Financial Philosophy Can Help Contractors with Lean Financial Management
Four lean financial principles to strengthen your financial philosophy to be lean yet flexible to address your company’s growing needs
Greater accountability in managing the financial side of construction is most directed at owners and senior leaders, but financial accountability should also be found among even the front line leaders, and even with the laborers.
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Make Your Company Attractive to Attract, Develop and Sustain Effective Employees
Both general and specialty contractors should work on making their companies 'attractive' to current and potential employees
To make the construction industry attractive we must make our construction companies 'attractive' allowing the “non-construction minded” candidate to see our industry as perhaps the greatest industry in the world.
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10 Tips to Get Field Leaders On the Same Page
Implement these 10 efforts to build greater teamwork between and among field leaders
When any project is not going well there is a very good chance that a disagreement, misunderstanding or a lack of information coordination has transpired.
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A Risk Management Conversation with a Risk Management Expert
Ten tips to help construction contractors of all specialties improve their risk management
Risk management is really about more than just safety. If you're reading this article and recognizing these risks for the first time, don’t leave your reading with anything less than a commitment to make sure you are cleaning up the risk that your company might be experiencing.
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How Construction Contractors Can Best Coordinate with Other Contractors
Nine rules of coordination that can assist your effort to be well prepared, well organized and prepare your crews to be efficient and profitable
As a professional contractor take the initiative to reach out and coordinate with other contractors…even if they do not. You will not always “win,” but you will find greater long-term success as you, too, become more experienced in asking, persuading, coaxing and negotiating important changes in work efforts.
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Risk Management: Safety First
Risk management is essentially the effort you take as a contractor or construction leader to limit, reduce or eliminate any construction effort that would pose a safety risk
Prevention in the form of educating, reminding, and having needed safety resources and safe working equipment and tools can reduce your risk ten-fold. But, we need to clearly communicate safety and be consistent in practicing what we are preaching about safety.
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6 Steps to 'Pre-Con' Your Way to Greater Profits
Done correctly, thoroughly and consistently, the Pre-Con process can strengthen your profitability on every project you win
While Pre-Con is a term most associated with construction companies, the principles behind this important building phase are important for any organization engaged with the construction industry.
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The Making of a Leader: Construction Project Manager
A project manager must possess knowledge of constructability issues, processes, technical aspects of projects and a firm hand on documentation that supports the project.
Most contractors are finding that without a consistent commitment to education and training they will eventually build a PM focus that has less discipline, allows poor performance, lacks cutting-edge thinking and results in less profits.
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How to Develop a Winning Presentation - Post-Presentation Phase
Perform a “post-presentation” follow-up to reinforce commitment to the proposal, brand and company’s confidence in performing the work
Perform a “post-presentation” follow-up to reinforce commitment to the proposal, brand and company’s confidence in performing the work.
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