Don’t Just Train Your Workers: Build Construction Intelligence

Successful construction companies realize the importance of their employees and directly relate development to company success. There is a measurable correlation between adequately trained management and increased profitability.

Making a strategic financial investment in the development of your employees will generate a financial return, maximize the use of employee time and increase productivity.

Training links to profitability

• Improve skills and motivation
• Better processes
• Improved customer value
• Increased customer retention
• Increased revenue

While it is often easy to envision a construction training program that emphasizes how to do something or has a technical skills focus, today’s construction companies must balance this aspect of training with soft skills.

In today’s supply chain strained environment, it’s even more critical now to communicate clearly and effectively with owners as well as subcontractors. Understanding your communications style and how to work with different types of people is critical to building productive long-term client relationships.

While many experienced leaders have developed these skills over their careers, those just coming out of school or at the beginning of their careers may need formal training to help them:

• Identify their communications style and discover practical skills for dealing with different types of individuals.
• Learn the difference between leadership and management.
• Understand how to create a culture of accountability, gain respect and develop team to achieve superior performance.
• Build productive, long-term client relationships with a strong commitment to customer satisfaction that will help turn clients into company advocates.
• Learn new behaviors to improve time-mastery skills and personal productivity.
• Create an individual action plan that can be tracked and monitored over time to ensure lasting benefits from attending this program.

Having new managers, project managers, department leaders and field leaders develop the management, leadership and business skills needed to better drive productivity and profitability will ensure that everyone in your company is thinking and acting like an owner.

Investing in your current employees training and helping them develop construction intelligence also helps retain your talent and identifies the next generation of executives, making succession planning easier.

FMI has training available for all levels, yet many companies see incredible value in sending teams to our Emerging Managers Institute . Make plans for your top talent to attend today and start seeing benefits across your firm.