by Simplar | Feb 17, 2022 | Facility Management, Facility Management, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Building Your Team – Board of Advisors Continuing our Science of Construction Business Management Series: If this confounded pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that running a construction company during this era is complex. The ever-grinding shortage of...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Project Teams, Project Teams, Project Teams
Building Effective Teams Engineers, architects, iron workers, concrete finishers, sheet metal workers, carpenters, electricians, and plumbers all work together with offsite vendors and suppliers in an intricate dance of coordinated individual functions as a skyscraper...
by Simplar | Jun 22, 2023 | Business of Construction, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
Keeping the Team Together Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. “A closely held construction company can be defined at any given point in its life cycle as the sum and substance of its experience. Almost all of that sum and substance has been created by, and resides in, people,...
by Simplar | Jun 15, 2023 | Business Development, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Growth, Growth, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Project Teams, Weekly Construction Message
Firing Up the Team Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Successful construction professionals build a team in four successive steps: 1. Recruit 2. Train 3. Motivate 4. Retain. This week we’ll take a closer look at motivation. Many in our industry are tough, hands-on personality...
by Simplar | May 26, 2023 | Built Environment, Facility Management, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Planning, PM, Procurement, Weekly Construction Message
Our Team is Our Business Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. The Greatest Generation After World War II the construction industry boomed in the U.S. The G.I.s who saved the world from the evils of Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito were proud of what they had accomplished but...
