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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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    The Business Owner Toolbox Part 9: I Can’t Find Any Accountable or Responsible People!

    What drives you crazy about owning or managing your construction business?
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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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  • Outsourcing Hiring: A Competitive Business Advantage

    It seems as though everyone’s doing it these days. Outsourcing is becoming a common practice among organizations’big and small. Today, more functions than ever are being outsourced to those who offer companies a dual benefit of increased success coupled with meeting high expectations of lowering overall costs. Employers are coming to understand the reality of internal hard and soft costs and the benefit of outsourcing to realize an overall cost savings.
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  • Stop Doing Their Jobs for Them

    Several years ago, I made a commitment to take charge of my company, put my priorities first, and focus on building a business that works for me. I committed to working smarter, getting organized, being in control, focusing on things that produce bottom-line profits, delegating as much as possible, spending more time with customers and getting home at a decent time! When Monday morning rolled around, I couldn’t wait to get to the office. I arrived at work at 6 AM and made a list. I prioritized these tasks into the following categories:
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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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  • How Successful Contractors Motivate Employees

    In soft construction markets, it may be difficult to conduct business as usual.
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    Open-book Style Management for Your Construction Company

    Open-book management is a system that teaches managers and employees how to win the game of business.
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    The Role of the Owner

    I do HVAC service work, and one of my techs gets more bad feedback on his attitude than any of the others. The problem is, he’s also the best tech I have. What should I do?
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    Motivate Employees to Behave Like Construction Company Owners, Part 2

    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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    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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