Our blog for news and advice for increasing performance and productivity on the worksite.

A career in sales is an exciting option for recent grads and career changers, but building a successful one can be challenging. That’s why sales training programs are so important...

Delivering construction projects on time and on budget remains a major challenge for construction companies. According to a global 2017 KPMG survey, only 25 percent of senior...

It’s not uncommon to see signs in workplaces reminding employees to clean up after themselves. If doing so is important in office kitchens, it’s doubly important on construction...

When Adam Hergenrother discovered that most of the bathtubs in a 56-unit Alzheimer’s care facility his company built were installed improperly, he didn’t immediately look for...

Passion, personality and availability all count. In the construction industry, lessons learned from a book can take an employee only so far. Most skills are honed on the job over...

Doing a material takeoff right means you'll order only the materials you need, in the quantities and types you need. This can not only save you on money and labor costs, but also...

Conflicts are inevitable. It's how you handle them that counts. It’s no secret that conflict happens on construction projects. Most flareups — whether between a project manager and...

Get your message heard — and get the outcome you want. In a fast-moving business like construction, with its countless moving parts and multiple stakeholders, miscommunication can...

How do you get the job done well, and finish on time, when you’re installing 5,600 tons of cooling equipment and 25 miles of piping in the second-largest facility in North America...

Completing a building project on time keeps your customers happy, helps you stay profitable and allows you to move your resources on to the next job. Creating and sticking to a...