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An Inside Look at the Current State of Cost Management in Construction 0
- Best Practices, Cash Management, Improving Productivity
- October 26, 2021
John Biggs, writer The wave of new construction technologies has been dramatically transforming the industry. On today’s construction sites, robots conduct building inspections, drones buzz overhead capturing a project’s progress, and every drawing and plan is accessible to workers in real-time through the cloud and mobile devices. Still, despite construction’s significant digital transformation, it seems
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Building Tomorrow Today: How You Can Shape the Next Generation of Craft Professionals 0
- Best Practices, Improving Productivity, Leadership, Outlook & Trends, Workforce & Professional Development
- October 26, 2021
By Nicole Needles, NCCER The construction profession has been a generational and long-standing career path for many families. Others have found success working their way up from apprentice to journey-level to owning their own company. Using creativity, employing critical thinking skills and working with their hands to make something tangible leaves craft professionals feeling accomplished
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Contractors: You Can Do More to Motivate Workers’ Compensation Insurers to Compete for Your Business 0
- Best Practices, Insurance, Outlook & Trends, Risk Management
- October 26, 2021
By Bob Tuman, CCR Consulting In my almost 40 years as a construction safety consultant, I worked with hundreds of contractors and performed several thousand workers’ compensation Loss Control Surveys. In completing the insurers’ Survey Report, I compared the newly insured’s ACORD and Supplemental Applications’ answers with my Survey findings, identifying and citing discrepancies. Surprisingly,
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Construction Outlook: Retaining Top Employees Should be Your Top Priority 0

By Dale Carnegie staff o Most employees are confident in their organization’s future. At the same time, there are a ……considerable number who do not intend to be part of it. Employee exits are on the rise. o Clues to why this trend is occurring can be found in how leaders are handling the closing

Employer’s Prepare to Comply with the Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements 0

By Jamie Hasty, SESCO Management Consultants On Oct. 12, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sent a draft of the emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring vaccination or weekly testing of workers for employers with 100 or more employees to the White House’s regulatory office for approval. The ETS is expected to be reviewed

Motivating Different Generations 0

By Dale Carnegie Research HR is often tasked with raising employee engagement scores. Looking across the ranks, HR sees a multi-generational team. Each generation has its unique mindset, work style and ways of communication. This translated into different attitudes and concepts of what drives employee engagement. To cope, HR sets out to train managers to