Leroy Hamm is the Founder and President of IHD Corporation. IHD, a leader in pre-screening and personnel development, is a 33-year-old Human Resources services firm that provides pre-employment assessments and management/team development. These resources and others are available to CLN members in our e-Docs resource library.
This article was originally published by Simplar, one of our industry partners, and is all about uncovering construction’s best-in-class management practices. The construction industry has always excelled at creating the built environment on the leading edge of modern engineering, design, and technology. However, the construction industry has lagged behind in the adaptation of leading-edge management and organizational processes of modern business enterprises.
Building business and making decisions is no easy undertaking. Especially complicated in 2020, our industry is facing some never-before-seen challenges.
In her upcoming LIVE! Training, Tracy will focus on customer acquisition and what to do about projects that are already on the books and may be stalled.
The goal of using a hiring system is to gather information. Yet, one piece that I see neglected the most often is the use of references in researching the past performance of the applicant.
In my years as a corporate recruiter, I found that the feedback I received from references not only added additional light on the performance of the applicant, but in some cases, was directly the opposite of the impression I got in the interview.
The Construction Leadership Network and Bullock Training Present:
Friends, we want to help. We know that large or small, your organization is grappling with determining the best course of action to protect your customers — and employees — while maintaining the semblance of business as usual.
The Series: 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Eastern Time
In my 32-year career as a construction marketing specialist, I have never come across a more challenging time to market than right now. As the entire world is preoccupied with fear, social distancing, and sheltering-in-place, we still need to do everything we can to save our businesses, protect our employees’ jobs, and preserve the work we have already secured.
With many of our member firms working through how best to keep teams connected when staff are in the field and office staff are working remotely, we’ve been asked for recommendations for staying productive and on task. Here are some best practices for fostering collaboration when your teams find themselves working remotely.
So, most of you may not consider yourself a professional service; yet let’s examine this. As a contractor, you know your clients’ budget, their desires and their time line. This is identical to an architect, an accountant and a lawyer; the types of professions we typically describe as professional services.
Growing a professional services business is directly connected to growing and expanding a profitable client base and spending time in Quadrant 2 is one of the paths to success.
For one weekend in January, hundreds of construction professionals will descend on the city of Houston, TX for the Construction Leadership Network 2020 Conference. You can’t miss this.
And while there’s so much to look forward to: the peer-to-peer networking, the learning opportunities, the roster of top-notch speakers and sponsors — Houston is calling us.
Life Lessons from Merril Hoge, Keynote Speaker at the Construction Leadership Network Conference 2020
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