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Miron Construction Inspires Youth to 'Build Like a Girl'
Wisconsin contractor launches “Build Like a Girl” program to give young girls a hands-on experience and hopefully inspire an interest in careers in construction
October 10, 2016
The day-long event for girls in 7th through 10th grade included hands-on experiences including pouring concrete, setting block, setting steel and operating equipment
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How to Host a Construction Career Day
Most construction career day events include multiple contractors from the area (or even the state) and give students exposure to many of the different construction trade jobs available to them
October 3, 2016
One great way to attract students to the construction industry is to hold a construction career day.
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Is an Online Job-Matching Website the New Way to Find New Employees?
Hard Hat Hub brings together construction job seekers and construction companies looking to hire through an online search platform
September 22, 2016
An online job matching resource is a great tool for the construction industry, especially as the industry is trying to reach out to the younger, Internet generation. This is where the next generation of workers is. Plus, with smartphones basically attached to our hands, a website like Hard Hat Hub means those looking for construction jobs can find work or employers can find employees almost any time any day.
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How a Contractor's Actions Can Influence Employees to Care More
Getting your employees to care might have more to do with what you care about and what you do than it does about their caring effort
September 12, 2016
Getting your employees to care might have more to do with what you care about and what you do than it does about their caring effort.
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How Delegation Can Be a Contractor's Secret Weapon for Development
If you prepare your people the right way for delegation you will find that there are several “wins” experienced
August 29, 2016
Complete delegation is not complete “dumping.” If you prepare your people the right way for delegation you will find that there are several “wins” experienced.
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How to Re-Ignite a Tired Foreman
Re-igniting the fire under your field leaders isn’t easy nor is it a one-time activity
August 15, 2016
As tempting as it is for most contractors to want to kick a field leader in the pants to “pick it up,” it’s important that contractors discern whether a struggling foreman is just having a bad week or is there something a bit more invasive. Re-igniting the fire under your field leaders isn’t easy nor is it a one-time activity. Consistency is important here.
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8 Steps to Improving Mediocre Workers
August 8, 2016
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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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Surviving the Skills Gap: Three Ways to Acquire a Qualified Team
The Association of Equipment Management Professionals (AEMP) has identified the shortage of skilled labor as a critical issue for equipment fleets in every industry since 2008, and this shortage extends worldwide.
June 28, 2016
Sharon Anderson Young manages AEMP’s professional certification program for equipment fleet managers and suppliers. To learn more about earning your Certified Equipment Manager (CEM) or Certified Equipment Support Professional (CESP) designation, please contact her at Sharon@aemp.org. For more information about AEMP and our EquipmentShift to Lower Costs and Increased Productivity conference in Memphis, TN, Oct. 26-27, 2016, please visit the AEMP website: http://www.aemp.org/ or call (970) 384-0510.
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Increase Bottom Line through Education and Aggregation
Join professional organizations to gain knowledge, industry contacts and discounts.
June 22, 2016
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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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The Value of Developing Young Talent in Construction
The Contractor's Business Coach
A handful of weeks spent mentoring someone on-the-job can have an amazing impact over the long haul
May 4, 2016
Developing talent is the best approach for staffing your business regardless of what position you are staffing for.
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The Making of a Leader: Steps to Develop a General Superintendent
Great generals superintendents can make your company a lot of money, help struggling field leaders to improve and further your customer satisfaction with hard to please customers
March 16, 2016
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