Maintenance Practices

By Preston Ingalls Fleet equipment is usually the single most tremendous asset, outside of people, for construction companies. If operated and maintained efficiently, your fleet...

Streamlining Success

Proactive cost control can help construction fleets considerably when it comes to staying competitive in the market, but the industry is grappling with the...

Hour Banking

Many government contractors probably feel that whenever they turn around the Executive Order or Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is handing them...

A Debt to be Paid: Employing our Veterans: Part 2

What has four decades as an employer taught me about hiring and managing veterans? That it’s the smartest move I can make in terms...

Speaking the Same Language: Part 1

Machine to machine, process to process, result to result. In almost every business or industry, meaningful comparisons and evaluations can make the difference between...

Hourly Investment

“My workers drive me crazy!” “We can’t keep people.” “They’re constantly calling out.”  “They’re so unmotivated.” When I ask my audience members what they find most challenging about...

Employee Gap

It’s not a secret. There has been a shortage of skilled workers in the construction industry for more than a decade. Why? There are...

Cognitive Biases

By Susan Robertson To survive the pandemic, companies were forced to adapt very quickly to radically new circumstances. Even large organizations—where it’s typically difficult to...
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Workforce Development

By Bart Gragg and Peter Krammer Workforce development — recruiting, training, promoting, and retaining—could be a complex system for company leadership to build and maintain....

Exceptional Leaders

Most leaders believe they make good decisions. They believe they already have clarity about their situation. Protecting the status quo is the norm. Then...