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Workforce Management

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

  • Should Construction Employees Pay for Part of the Company’s Vehicle Expense?

    Straight answers to tough business questions for contractors
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  • Meredith Welch: Female Asphalt Paving Trailblazer

    Welch succeeds in male-dominated field with knowledge, honesty and the right equipment.
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  • Hiring Trends

    Organizations are adopting a variety of efforts to recruit, attract, hire and retain top candidates.
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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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  • Work Force Solutions: Using Employee Handbooks and Non-Compete Agreements

    It seems like just yesterday that business was booming.
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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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  • Attract and Retain Better Employees with Pay For Performance Plans

    “The belief that a performance compensation system creates employee accountability is wrong, just as wrong as the company that believes Christmas bonuses create productivity.”  Tony Burruano, CEO Burruano GroupHow to Prepare for Performance Pay Systems This plan should define:  2.  Test the concepts of the plan for three months.  Explain what you wish to accomplish with your plan to your key or critical people.  Let them know that prior to the implementation of a performance incentive program, there will be a three month test period.  Reward them if they achieve their objectives for this three month test period. You will know your company is under control when it achieves its objectives for a three month period. A company out of control will never succeed with…
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  • Guiding Principles and Why Your Business Should Have Them

    My business is doing okay. We get the jobs done, but sometimes it feels like everybody’s going in different directions (and not the directions I’d like).
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  • Implement a Prevailing Wage Retirement Plan

    How business owners can maximize savings, contributions & compliance through a fringe profit-sharing allocation
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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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  • Managing the Multigenerational Construction Workforce

    How one contractor earned accolades for construction safety by bridging the generational gap.
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    Q: I’ve noticed some of my most reliable construction workers are not performing at top level. How should I handle this situation?

    Business today is a battle for victory, not simply survival. Playing to survive is not a winning game plan. If you have seen one of those great epic war movies like ‘Gladiator’ or ‘Braveheart,’ you will remember the early scenes when the armies are preparing for battle. The fearless general rides ahead, along with his top lieutenants, to scout out the enemy’s troop strength and position and to develop his leadership strategy. As an extraordinary leader, he knows that timing is everything and, therefore, comes to the conclusion that his army needs to move quickly and put his vision for victory into practice.
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