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4 Traps that Trip up New Leaders
Leading looks easy enough until you actually to step into the role. Without the proper development, mentoring and onboarding, new leaders often fall into four common traps that contribute to costly mistakes. This post is about the four traps that trip new leaders, and...
Stepping In to Lead a New Group? Try This Process to Grow Trust and Gain Performance
People do make a difference. Or, more specifically, the right blend of the right people, coupled with the right leadership makes the difference. If you’re an executive or top manager staring at a new group you’ve been assigned to lead and concluding you’ve got a...
How Resilience Training Can Improve Construction Productivity
Life on the job site moves very fast. Your workers are tasked with hard labor, tight deadlines, all under less than ideal, and sometimes unsafe, conditions. All the stress that comes with the job can sometimes wear on your people and lead to poor mental health.Every...
How Blockchain Will Change Construction
Blockchain technology is among the most disruptive forces of the past decade.Its power to record, enable, and secure huge numbers and varieties of transactions raises an intriguing question: Can the same distributed ledger technology that powers bitcoin also enable...
Help Employees Develop Skills Necessary for Succession Planning
The owner of a mid-sized construction firm decided it was time to hang up his boots and sell to a team of his managers.So he appointed a successor—a talented project manager in whom he saw many of his own successful traits. The problem? The heir lacked a crucial...
The Seven Stages of Strategic Leadership
Many young professionals have high ambitions for their career. They want monetary reward, recognition, and a challenging career path; they also want to make a meaningful contribution, through their work, to improving the world at large. Even if they begin in a purely...
How can we increase construction efficiency with BIM and data-driven design ?
The construction industry is facing a lot of challenges, as building projects are growing in size and complexity. At the same time, emerging innovations and advancements in technology are disrupting the industry. Virtual and augmented reality, Artificial intelligence...
Structural Engineers are Critical for Green Building Success
Such was the case for Adam Jones, now a structural engineer at WoodSolutions and recognised by the Green Building Council of Australia as a Future Green Leader of the Year. Jones was at his first job at a structural engineering firm. The lunch and learn was about...
Why Civil Engineers Need Digital Contract and Document Management
In some parts of the world, the construction industry is required by law to file documents and bid for tenders digitally, which is why they’re ahead of the curve when it comes to digital contract and document management.However, for the vast majority in the APAC,...