Contractor's Best Friend: Page 13

Personnel Management

How to Build Accountability Into Your Construction Company’s Culture

Making accountability a 'non-negotiable' requires positioning it as a company value and communicating its importance at every opportunity

If accountability is not part of the overall culture, embraced and practiced from the owner to the front line laborer, a contractor will always struggle with this trait.

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Clean Construction Equipment Projects a Positive First Impression

Whether you’ve considered it or not, your equipment is often the introduction to your company for many prospects

Whether you’ve considered it or not, your equipment is often the introduction to your company for many prospects — and equipment can help you sell.

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Is Your Construction Company Website Creating a Good First Impression?

Make the Internet and your website an integral part of your business strategy to make and improve the first impression experience of future customers

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How Contractors Can Make a Good First Impression with Phone Etiquette

Study revealed 40% of customers left a contractor because of poor treatment over the phone

A contractor's first-impression efforts must be positive, encouraging the prospect to feel satisfied about their first experience with your company.

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How Construction Contractors Can Become Strategic Thinkers

Strategic thinking requires discipline, energy, focus and incorporating some best practices

Contractors who set the example and prepare the table for greater thinking, become a more strategic thinker while creating an entirely new culture of better thinkers.

Reduce Unnecessary Motion in Your Construction Business to Become More Lean

Wasted motion eats up time, quality attitudes and bodies

Reduce the amount of extra motion so that you and your workers can be better, faster and more profitable performers.

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8 Tips for Improving People Utilization in a Construction Business

Improving people utilization can help construction contractors reduce waste and operate in a lean construction manner

Getting the best performance from your workers requires you to be strategic in utilizing their skills, talents and attitudes — all of which should produce greater results and profits.

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How Lean Construction Methods Put an End to Overproduction

You have to plan, organize and communicate carefully every day to avoid throwing excess, profit-killing resources – labor, materials, equipment – at project challenges

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10 Tips to Cool Summer’s Hot-Tempered Construction Workers

Tips on how construction leaders can approach hot-tempered employees and help them cool down, especially as the outside temperatures heat up

Heat exhaustion, impatience and hot tempers can happen to even the best of your workers. Don’t push them to the point where tempers might flare, exhaustion might set in and you are risking good results.

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A Construction Company Vision Should Be Like a Compass Not a Road Map

A construction company's vision should provide everyone with an overall view of the general direction of the company

A vision is what is felt, desired, even forecast by the owner as to what he or she sees as worth striving to achieve in the next year.

How Pinnacle Development Group Can Help Take Your Leadership to the Next Level

Brad Humphrey and Pinnacle Development Group can help leaders improve their skills through 10 coaching sessions

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Six Financial Reports You Must Use to Lead Your Construction Company

As a contractor you don’t need to have a degree in accounting or financial management but you do need to be more thorough in your financial decisions

Construction business owners should know how to read and monitor their Accrual-based Income Statement, Accumulated Gross Profits, Cash Flow Statement, Aged Accounts Receivables, Budget Variances and Labor Productivity reports.

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