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Management

Build stronger teams and better businesses. Discover leadership strategies, workforce solutions and operational best practices that help construction companies improve productivity, culture and long-term growth.

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    Guide Employees Through A Successful Merger

    Engage your employees in the transition process to create a unified company.
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    How to Develop Effective Training

    Use this guide to implement a process that yields lasting results for your construction business.
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    Put Paperwork in its Place

    How to reduce the time and money spent on HR tasks, payroll and healthcare.
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    Ask the Construction Expert, August 2011

    What incentives encourage employees to continue improving?
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    Effective Gifts to Give Customers

    George Hedley answers your business management questions
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    Hiring Strategies for Your Construction Business

    If you were the owner of an NBA basketball team, one of your top goals would be to have the best players on your team.
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    The 5 Percent Factor: Produce More to Make More!

    Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in our 2009 series, “Earn More, Work Less.” To read the previous article, click here. To read the next article in the series, click here. In the good old days, construction companies were owned and run by builders. These proud, tough, hard working men and women learned their trade in the field, had years of practical experience and knew what it took to get their projects finished on time. If they didn’t produce quality workmanship, they didn’t last long. Back then, it was all about getting the work done no matter what it took to meet obligations. It was about delivering solid structures with unsurpassed craftsmanship. The contracts were negotiated face to face and enacted with handshakes based on…
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  • Construction Business Management and Leadership

    Understand the difference in leading and managing your construction business in this creative economy
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  • Develop and Maintain an Effective Workforce

    In order for the construction industry to adapt to an ever-changing business environment and meet current market demands, the industry must evolve on a number of levels. One long-standing industry objective has been to build and maintain a highly skilled, efficient workforce. Such a workforce pays for itself by ensuring that work is done right, on time and on budget. Additionally, developing and maintaining skilled workers can reduce insurance premiums and litigation.
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  • Creating an Effective Return-to-Work Program

    As many of us in the construction industry, I was fortunate to learn the business from the ground up. Growing up on a farm in central Virginia, I had been running equipment of some sort since I was twelve years old, so naturally becoming an operator was my calling.
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  • Prequalifying Subcontractors

    With this new infusion of subcontractors to the commercial marketplace, are you, as a general contractor, being selective with regard to which subcontractor you will use? As a subcontractor, are you trying to position your business to be a preferred subcontractor?
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  • Stellar Customer Service

    I continually struggle to get my people to provide good customer service. It’s one of my hot buttons, and I’m always after them. Sometimes they do a great job, but, more often, they do not. Any magical answers?
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