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Business Services
8 Steps to Improving Mediocre Workers
August 8, 2016
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Business Services
How to Retain Great Workers Through Coaching, Mentoring
It is critical contractors make a clear, consistent and thorough effort to incorporate coaching and mentoring into the fabric of any construction company
August 8, 2016
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Construction Toolbox
ForConstructionPros App of the Week: TSheets
TSheets is a cloud-based time tracking and scheduling mobile app that allows field employees to clock in and out from the jobsite with their own mobile devices
July 26, 2016
Employees can clock in and out on their desktop, laptop, or mobile phone—using iPhone or Android apps, text messaging or dial in. It even works offline and has voice commands in English and Spanish.
Paving
Increase Bottom Line through Education and Aggregation
Join professional organizations to gain knowledge, industry contacts and discounts.
June 22, 2016
Paving
How to Overcome the Hiring Challenges of Millennial Workers
As a part of its focus on labor series, NPE 2017 will have a special emphasis on employees - specifically finding, hiring, training, retaining and getting millennials to work together
June 14, 2016
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Business Services
How to Effectively Manage Construction Employees to Drive Profitable Results
The Contractor's Business Coach
Owners need to maintain a balance between driving for results and helping their people succeed and grow
June 1, 2016
Owners need to maintain a balance between driving for results and helping their people succeed and grow. To do so requires them to help their people enjoy their jobs, develop their careers, and be effective in their current assignments.
Business Services
Contractors Must Adapt to Attract, Develop and Sustain Effective Employees
Stay ahead of the trends and you might find yourself finding, leading and keeping more quality workers than imagined
May 30, 2016
Stay ahead of the trends and you might find yourself finding, leading and keeping more quality workers than imagined. Sure enough, these same people are looking to spend their careers working with the more progressive contractors.
Business
NY Contractor Pays $364K for Cheating Workers Out of Prevailing Wages, Benefits
Beacon Restoration falsified payroll reports and cheated 24 workers out of prevailing wage and benefits from a 2010 public works project
May 24, 2016
Business Services
How Employers Should Handle the New Overtime Rules
Pay options, scheduling and morale are three important issues construction employers will need to address with the new overtime rules
May 24, 2016
Sustainability
Building Professionals Can Achieve LEED Credentials in Just 4 Weeks with New Courses
Green Building Research Institute (GBRI) prep courses help green building professionals pass USGBC LEED exams with in-person, live online and on-demand education
May 24, 2016
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Business Services
Build the Right Company Culture to Attract, Develop, and Sustain Effective Employees
Many of the newer workers to construction will just pack up and move on if their work culture is not progressive, positive and supportive
May 23, 2016
The work culture of the contractor’s business is a bigger deal to the workers today than perhaps the workers of the past. If any contractor, no matter his size, wishes to keep the best workers the longest amount of time then they had better consider and address the sort of culture the workers are experiencing.
Business
IL Contractor Charged with Fraud for Underpaying Union Employees
Co-owner of A Lamp Concrete Contractors Inc. faces up to 20 years in prison for underpaying workers by more than $1.5 million for five years
May 20, 2016
Financing, Insurance & Leasing
How to Avoid Excess Risks When Filing a Construction Lien or Bond Claim
Risks associated with construction liens and bond claims can be complex, but there are best practices to minimize risks when securing payment
May 19, 2016
Risks associated with construction liens and bond claims can be complex, but there are best practices to minimize risks when securing payment.
Business Services
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
May 16, 2016
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.
Business Services
How Working Nights Can Affect Your Employees
Fatigue-related accidents are considerably more common at night -- drivers are 50 times more likely to fall asleep at 2 am than at 10 am -- and absenteeism nearly doubles in work places with fatigue issues
May 9, 2016
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Business Services
18 Ways Contractors Can Improve How They Find and Hire Workers
Tips on how to avoid the most-common hiring mistakes contractors make before, during and after hiring process
May 9, 2016
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Business Services
New Overtime Rule Could Pass in May
It is possible the Department of Labor (DOL) will act by the end of this week in attempts to publish the final new overtime rule and provide the required notices to Congress by May 16
May 9, 2016
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The “.01 Second” Winning Job
May 9, 2016
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