by Simplar | Apr 21, 2021 | Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
How to Effectively Utilize a Board of Advisors Now that I’ve convinced you to form a board of advisors, and you are already working to recruit appropriate members, it’s time to discuss how to utilize all the newly assembled brainpower to your advantage.Ā ...
by Simplar | Apr 14, 2021 | Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
How to Assemble a Board of Advisors I often mention that the construction industry has the highest failure rate of all industries with the exception of restaurants. Most of my readers infer from this statistic that Iām implying construction’s failure rate is due...
by Simplar | Apr 7, 2021 | Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Advise and Consent Utilizing a Board of Directors/Advisors Because the construction industry is largely made up of “closely held” companies, it is rare to find a board of directors assisting and advising a construction company. Closely held corporations...
by Simplar | Mar 31, 2021 | Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
How to Engage and Develop Construction Employees “What do you mean, engagement?” That’s the response I get from most construction CEOs when I introduce the concept of employee engagement and development. As I mentioned last week, contractors do not...
by Simplar | Mar 24, 2021 | Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
Employee Engagement and DevelopmentĀ Drucker Success Element #2 In our 2021 quest to define the success elements that mark a ābest-in-classā construction company, we began with the Drucker Instituteās five success elements: 1. Customer satisfaction 2. Employee...
by Simplar | Mar 17, 2021 | Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
āGetting The Workā 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...
