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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.

  • Hiring Trends

    Organizations are adopting a variety of efforts to recruit, attract, hire and retain top candidates.
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  • Improve Productivity with Performance Evaluations

    Amidst a sea of policies, procedures, tactics and best practices, one of the most critical tools an organization must have in place is a credible performance evaluation system that will serve to increase productivity and efficiency, improve customer satisfaction and market share and increase employee commitment. With a well-developed system in place aligning organizational, team/departmental and individual goals, the organization will be in a much better position to achieve their overarching financial goals.
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    Understand and Manage Passive-Aggressive Employees

    From identification to intervention: a supervisor’s response plan
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    Motivating Strategies to Gain Better Performing Construction Employees

    Use four simple steps to get the most out of your employees; learn about them and use that knowledge to motivate them to do their best work.
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  • The New Era of Immigration Enforcement

    Will you be ready if the government puts your employee work authorization records under the microscope?
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  • A Healthy Employee Equals a Healthy Bottom Line

    Is the high cost of providing health benefits for your employees getting you, and your company, down?
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  • How to Eliminate Turnover

    Did you know that turnover is the most expensive invisible cost contractors suffer?
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  • Partnering with Training Programs to Recruit Employees

    Corporate social responsibility programs are generally selfless; they help companies mostly by generating goodwill.
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    Institute Screening Technologies Into the Hiring Process

    Nearly all executives have a different opinion as to what keeps their organization in a leadership position, and these answers can range from innovative products and service to competitive pricing and advertising.
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    The Business Owner Toolbox Part 5 : Get Results or “You’re Fired!”

    I hate to fire people. Last week, I was forced to make a tough decision on one of our construction and development projects.
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    Motivate Employees to Behave Like Construction Company Owners, Part 1

    Creating a culture of employees who think and act like owners can lead to amazing results, both financially and culturally. I am on a mission to eradicate entitlement. People with this mentality believe they deserve things because of who they are rather than what they do. It is my opinion that this mentality has been cultivated over several decades by lowering standards in schools (it is more important to feel smart than be smart) and eliminating the competitive element in games and sports (it is more important to feel like a winner than be one). The result is a workforce of some individuals who feel entitled to a work environment and compensation that is not equivalent to the work they perform. So, how do you, as a business owner, deal with this?
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  • There Just Aren’t Any Good People to Hire

    I keep hiring lousy employees. Where are all the good people? How come I can’t seem to hire them?
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