Contractor's Best Friend: Page 13

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How to Teach Construction Employees to Make Decisions on Their Own
Defining what decisions can be made by different levels of authority can help construction workers understand what decisions they are responsible for making
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Raise Construction Worker Productivity with a Team Scoreboard
Using a Team Scoreboard to address "team" items can go a long way toward building greater team thinking and building
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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.
Construction Technology
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.
Business
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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Personnel Management
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.
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