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Workforce Management

Workforce management for contractors—hiring, training, retention and labor strategies to build a skilled construction team.

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    Recruiting and Hiring for the Right Position

    By definition, an employee is: ‘A worker who is hired to perform a job.’
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    Mentoring to Reduce Turnover

    As a business owner or manager, if you are spending time searching for that “silver bullet” solution to stopping turnover, you will find that there is no perfect strategy, no earth-shaking news-no “silver bullet.”
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    Tech Traps No. 8: Not Getting All Users to “Buy-In”

    In my world, finding time to relax and watch TV is a luxury I don’t often have. To complicate matters, there are primarily four programs on TV that I like to watch (namely City Confidential, Law & Order, Boston Legal and Biographyon the History Channel, and not necessarily in that order).
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    Bad Employee Attitudes? Dangerous for Your Business!

    There’s a guy in the company who does great work but has a really sour attitude.When I talk to him about this, he gets insulted and angry, and it just makes things worse.
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    Write an Employee Handbook that Your Employees Will Read

    10 must-have policies for effective staff manuals
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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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    Drug Testing and Internal Security

    John Smith seemed like the ideal employee. With tons of relevant experience and an easy-going personality, how could Construction Company X not hire him?
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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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    Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent

    The challenge of retaining your employees, especially your best, is universal in today’s construction market.
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    Ensure Excellent Performance with Incentive Plans

    Creating a culture of employees who think and act like owners can lead to amazing results, both financially and culturally. In this article series, Brad Hams shares three elements required to create an ownership culture.
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    Techniques for De-Stressing Your Workplace

    Tips for destressing your workplace…
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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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