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Education is Key to Recruit, Develop the New Construction Workforce
Efforts to improve access and quality of construction education are helping lead the push to recruit, develop and reload the construction laborer pipeline
July 24, 2015
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Business Services
How to Get More Employees Involved
June 15, 2015
Business Services
3 Problems with Using Incentives to Motivate Construction Employees
The Contractor's Business Coach
Bribing employees with money to motivate specific behaviors can be a dangerous path for construction contractors
June 3, 2015
Perhaps the biggest problem with using money to motivate desired behavior is that it leads to employees paying a lot of attention to a specific task or goal and does so to the harm of other duties and objectives.
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
May 20, 2015
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.
Business Services
How to Interview Potential Employees to See if They Fit the Job
The Contractor's Business Coach
How to get a potential job candidate to show you if they are a good fit for a construction position before you lay all your cards on the table
May 6, 2015
Interviewing for fit is a bit of a learned skill. It requires you to get the interviewee talking openly in a very relaxed manner. You need to ask very open ended questions. You need to share minimal information about the job and your company prior to getting to know the person.
Striping
How to Ease & Improve Day-to-Day Operation
Tri-Valley Striping overcomes challenges of owner-focused management
May 1, 2015
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Business Services
The Star Concept: How to Increase Crew Power
The Star Concept assists the crew foreman by getting more support from those already engaged to work on the crew while still holding the crew foreman responsible for the final results
April 20, 2015
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Business Services
The 10 Dangers of Sleep Deprivation Contractors Face
March 9, 2015
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Business Services
Say “Yes” to Considering New Recruits from Outside Construction
The “new recruit” for the contractor may not only not come from the construction industry, they most likely will not even have been close to anything resembling the construction industry
March 9, 2015
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Business Services
How to Get Your Employees to Take More Responsibility Without Harming Your Business
Encouraging employees to be more responsible is great, but have a protection system in place to avoid financial or business disasters
February 18, 2015
To get people to make more decisions and take on more responsibility, give them a system that allows them to do most of the deciding themselves, but a review system can be a lifesaver when a second opinion is needed.
Business Services
How Reconnecting with Your Employees Could Improve Worker Retention
It's important for those of us in ownership and leadership to stand back and just appreciate the workers involved in the day-to-day jobsite grind
February 11, 2015
It's important for those of us in ownership and leadership to stand back and just appreciate the workers involved in the day-to-day jobsite grind.
Business Services
How to Deal with the Angry Ex-Employee
Eight strategies that might be helpful to mitigate the negative impact from an employee termination
February 11, 2015
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Personnel Management
Are You Ready to Lose 30% of Your Construction Workers?
Contractors need to be more persistent, creative and flexible to find new construction workers
February 11, 2015
When you look at costs like that it makes a lot of sense to invest in whatever we can do to retain our current workers and those we’ll be hiring over the next few years.
Business Services
How to Manage High Achievers
The Contractor's Business Coach
If you keep high achievers focused on the win-win they will produce the win-win
February 4, 2015
You must treat the high achiever differently than the rest of your staff. You need to create growth opportunities for them. You need to give them the assignments they want.
Seal Coating
Time is on the Side of Len Riegler Blacktop
Through efficient scheduling alone, Len Riegler Blacktop, now in their 60th year, improves profit and their bottom line.
January 14, 2015
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Business
Why – and How – to Attract the Best Employees
Florida’s All County Paving structures salary & benefits to find and keep the best workers
January 1, 2015
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Business Services
Motivate Employees with Incentive Compensation Programs
Construction Business Coaching
Results of incentive compensation programs are based on how the program is designed, implemented and managed
December 17, 2014
By setting the exact results you want your employees to achieve and measuring results, you can design an incentive compensation program that will reap rewards.
Business Services
It Takes a Team To Build a Business
The Contractor's Business Coach
A team of diverse skills and communication styles will be much more productive than one that is made up of the same type of people
December 3, 2014
It takes multiple people performing the everyday business tasks in order for your business to have work to put in and to get the work in.
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