Leadership means continual learning You’re a construction contractor. By default, that means you’re a leader. Through reason, that means you want to be the best leader you can be. Because of experience, you know there are things you can do to improve your leadership ability. In the first part of this four-part series of articles concerning leadership in the construction world, the subject is improving your leadership skills through continuous learning. Therefore, making time

The story about how we REALLY feel about our clients. Our clients Run With the Big Dogs! While some might see us as contractor fans, screaming at the back door after the concert, we’re more than that. Yep, we ask for autographs, and we know details about our clients that others are not privy to. But, we’re more than fangirls getting our excitement on. Demonstrating success We try not to get to “uppity” about it, but we believe we are part of something big. You see, we firmly

Focus for Construction Contractors Focus is a core factor of business success Yet focus, simply for the sake of focus makes no sense. Because, let’s face it, focusing on a screen (be it large or small) is rather an easy accomplishment. Think TV viewing, social media, or electronic games. Or you could find yourself focusing on the daily minutia in the office or on the site and never on the growth of your construction contracting business. So yes, focus is core. Yet, when build

Delegating in the Construction Arena Delegating: a leadership tool Every day you send people into the field or to their desks to accomplish a variety of tasks. You’ve delegated a certain portion of the work to each of them. How well they perform is based on their skill level and on how well you’ve delegated. Therefore, your job isn’t to accomplish the things your employees or subs are tasked with. Furthermore your job is to see to it they have the proper understanding and the

Frequently, what we do to aid our clients as they grow their construction contracting businesses is a steady process wherein the gains are best noticed in hindsight. After a few months of working with us we hear things like, “Yes, that is exactly how I always wanted it to be, but didn’t know how to get there,” or “I had no idea it would be that easy, thank you,” or “This makes so much sense now, we had been doing it wrong for so long I didn’t think we could ever get it straig

A successful construction contracting or service business means having great people on your team. Finding and keeping those great people is a vital part of maintaining the success. So, how do you go about not only finding them, but also keeping them around? Long term thinking Of course, people who are looking for a job are concerned with both salary and benefits, yet those two items are only part of the equation. Just as on the sales side of your company it is important to bu