Plus, four ways to make your feedback more effective. Kim Ruyle, a member of the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM’s) talent expertise panel, remembers the first time a...

In his keynote address at the recent 2018 Lean Coaching Summit in Seattle, Charles F. Murphy, senior vice president of the New York business unit of Turner Construction Company...

Granting authority along with responsibility is strategically smart. You rely on your foremen to keep crews in line, keep daily work on schedule and maintain tools and equipment...

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...

Delivering a fully completed project on schedule is the goal every time, but punch list items can make it seem unattainable. Wrapping up — and getting paid — faster requires...