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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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    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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  • 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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  • What are your employees saying behind your back? Why should you care?

    The other day I was having lunch and a crew of guys was sitting nearby, talking about their boss.
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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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  • Humor in the Workplace

    Work… the daily grind’it’s a place where productivity is measurable and the bottom line serves as a necessary evil.
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  • Cooperative Education: The Ultimate Test Drive

    Employers who are seeking to grow organically know that they must feed their talent pipeline from the bottom up.
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  • Compensation: Total Reward Plans that Attract, Retain and Motivate

    With an increasing number of baby boomers retiring over the next five to seven years and a “birth dearth” of sixteen to twenty-four year olds, the coming workforce crisis will present challenging times and will demand that organizations actively take steps to ensure they have the right talent in place.
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  • Trade Workers: Show Me the Money, But Don’t Stop There!

    There’s good news for employers who find themselves torn between the affordable worker and the practiced employee.
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