Employee Engagement & Development
by Simplar | Mar 24, 2021 | Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
Employee Engagement and Development Drucker Success Element #2 In our 2021 quest to define the success elements that mark a “best-in-class” construction company, we began with the Drucker Institute’s five success elements: 1. Customer satisfaction 2. Employee...Weekly Construction Message: Getting The Work – Quality Based Pricing
by Simplar | Mar 17, 2021 | Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
“Getting The Work” Quality Based Pricing Best-in-Class Contractor Series March 17, 2021 In our 2021 Best-in-Class Contractor series we began at the beginning – signing and executing contracts. This is the stage in the construction process that most of the risk...Weekly Construction Message: Attention Owners – Look Beyond Low-Bid
by Simplar | Mar 10, 2021 | Leadership, Leadership, Procurement, Procurement, Weekly Construction Message
ATTENTION OWNERS Look Beyond Low-Bid For the past two years, I have been preaching to contractors the wisdom of looking beyond low-bid. I have been frustrated to receive less than enthusiastic responses from a greater majority of contractors. Their reaction to my...Weekly Construction Message: Beliefs and Harmful Bias
by Simplar | Mar 3, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Weekly Construction Message
Beliefs And Harmful Bias Continuing our Best-in-Class series: Last year we discussed the concept of “unexamined beliefs” and the role they play in the management decision-making process. We talked about how these deeply held beliefs go largely unexamined....Search Past Blogs by Keywords