Seven Ways to Strengthen Your Communication Skills

To keep our more difficult, but essential, communication skills limber in an environment where quick and easy communicating is the norm, it’s important to...

Recycling Our Way to Better Roads

Everywhere we look today, recycling has moved from something we do when it is convenient to an everyday responsibility rooted in common sense. We...

Using Objectives and Key Results

Most contractors already have more than enough to manage. There are schedules to keep up with, materials to purchase, crews to lead, and customers...
Successful construction contractors

Taking Control of the Future Brings Success

The construction industry is dynamic—ever changing and evolving through technology. The way contractors work today is clearly much different than 50 years ago—or 20...

WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION: Wise Words

Every October, MCS honors the remarkable women in construction and their words of wisdom to other women seeking a career in the male-dominated industry....

Surety Bonds to Protect Your Success

As construction spending in the U.S. continues to expand—especially bolstered by investment in transportation and public utility infrastructure—contractors must balance the wealth of project...
Pushback

Why Do We Constantly Get Pushback to Change?

It never fails. You go to roll out a new program or process and then you start to hear the grumblings about why it...

Jobsite Mistakes

Turning errors into coachable moments By Chris Galloway I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” Benjamin Franklin famously said...

Mobility Solutions

By Kyle Yencer  Along with unprecedented challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry also saw an unexpected silver lining: the acceleration of...

Are You a Boss or a Leader?

Success starts and stops with an organization’s leadership. And any business is as strong, or as weak, as the leader at the helm of...