Contact Tracing

By Kyle Peacock Contact tracing is critical for helping to stop the spread of COVID-19 on jobsites. Yet managing it is challenging. A lot of...
Confidence

Confidence Compounds

One of the most significant leadership skills you need to develop is your confidence. It is an essential core leadership competency. Confidence allows you...

Stick to the Plan

It’s time to stand up for what’s right. As a contractor, you’re required to build per your contract—no more and no less. But often...

What to Expect in the New Year

With the New Year stretching before us, it is worth our time to look back at 2014, and see what we might learn about...

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...

Builders Risk Today

Material prices fluctuate, subcontractor availability shifts, and catastrophic events—from floods to wildfires—can grind projects to a halt overnight. For many contractors, builders risk insurance...

Are You Stuck in Your Critter Brain?

Brett is over the moon. He has just received a long-awaited promotion and with it the opportunity to present to his firm’s key clients....

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...

Workforce Development

Like many of the skilled trades, the communications infrastructure industry finds itself confronted with a workforce shortage at a time when generational type investments...

Solid Ground

Modern construction equipment generates far greater loads onto the ground (reaction forces) than many contractors realize. While reaction forces are often discussed in the...