The Shifting Sands of Employee Motivation

I recently attended a speech by best-selling author Daniel Pink1 in which he summarized research on shifts in employee motivators. The old “if-then motivators”...

The Art of Influencing People

As a construction contractor, your experience has likely taught you that you need much more than construction expertise to achieve success. Communication and "people...

Schedule Makeover

By Garrett Harley After a challenging year, many industries are navigating still uncertain waters and adjusting their business models to adapt to whatever the future...

Debunking Myths of Cold-Weather Concreting

As temperatures drop, concrete contractors face a familiar dilemma: press on through winter or pause production until spring. Cold weather has long carried a...

Lousy Leadership

Bad leaders have something over the good ones. Bad leaders have much better job security. Why? Simple. They run off anybody who is a...

5 Marketing Tips to Help Your Construction Business Reach the Right...

The construction industry is always abuzz with activity. It’s one of the most reliable performers in the business world because the work never stops:...

Paper Trail

The five truths of building construction projects are:  Every set of plans is not perfect.Every project finishes over budget.Every project completed is behind schedule.The contractor...
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Challenges of Retaining Your Best Employees

There are plenty of tips, tools, and ideas that can help you retain your best staff. With unemployment finally on the decline, it is...

First Responder Program

Hurricanes bearing down on your geographic area can put everyone on high alert. Days out, facilities managers are monitoring the storm’s progress along with...

Changing the Process of Communicating Change Part 1 of 2

Change is defined as a shift from one way of doing things to a different way of doing things. It can be incremental or...