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...

Closing the Gap

The construction industry has been under pressure for years on the labor front. There’s plenty of work to go around but the continuing shortage...

Project Businesses

While the federal government has not announced any guidelines on construction during the coronavirus pandemic, many state and local governments have issued their own...

Warrior Entrepreneur

To be the leader, the owner, the CEO of your construction firm takes determination, a true mission, and an investment to continue to innovate...

Customer Mindset

By Josh White Customers today are continuously evolving, which means the importance of adhering to their desires—also known as being a customer-centric business—is paramount for...

Tool Tracking Solution

Building a successful contracting business is hard work—there’s no doubt about that. Every day you face challenges that threaten to impact project deadlines, profits,...

Key Characteristics

To start building a construction business that works, list and identify all the things that don’t work well in your company. Then, look at...

8 Steps to Making Decisions Decisively

Being able to make good decisions quickly is essential to business success. If you find yourself hesitating when it comes to making a choice,...

Detoxification: Handling A Toxic Employee

Steps to take to remedy negativity in the workplace By Preston Ingalls Often referred to as “bad apples,” or as the French would say, pourri, chronic...

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...