Getting Construction Project Teams on the Same Page
Learn how an open, transparent and collaborative culture helps owners and construction managers create transformative projects.
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Quick Reads
Improving Your Leadership Starts with Being Self-Aware
There is a clear link between companies with stronger financial rates of return and leaders with higher levels of self-awareness. Focus on developing your self-awareness and watch how it challenges and raises all the leaders around you.
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Don’t Just Train Your Workers: Build Construction Intelligence
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.
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Invest in Your High-Potential Employees as Part of Succession Planning
By identifying high-potential team members and developing them to take on their next roles, companies can build a consistent culture of leadership and sustain that through the succession process. These development efforts, paired with open dialogue early in the succession process, ensure E&C firms realize the benefits of quality succession planning.
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Why Investing in Your Emerging Leaders Now Matters More Than Ever
All too often companies cut investments in people development and talent management when times get tough.
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Adopting a Proactive Mindset During a Crisis: The Faith Technologies Approach
While almost every business has been deeply affected by the COVID-19 virus, few have been able to successfully deploy solutions to the urgent problems facing society. The FMI team had the opportunity to interview Faith Technologies’ senior vice president John Gunderson, who runs Faith’s manufacturing division, Excellerate, to learn how his team is leveraging existing capabilities to innovate […]
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Crisis Leadership: The Importance of Leading Oneself
In the COVID-19 world, leaders are being asked to do what can feel like impossible tasks. Not only are they dealing with the uncertainty brought on by this crisis at a societal level, but also they’ve had to figure out how to lead virtually, manage family schedules and dynamics at closer range, think through their COVID-19 business recovery plan, and stay in touch with and care for their people.
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How to Truly Care for Others…in Good Times and Bad
If you are a leader during COVID-19, it’s likely that you and your co-workers are going through an extremely difficult time. Chances are you’re trying to balance some diametrically opposite forces: the personal stress of radical uncertainty versus the imperative of leading and inspiring others.
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5 Ways to Ensure Succession Transitions
A preparation process that can take years to fully develop and implement, succession planning has become a hot topic in today’s labor-constrained work environment. Not only are new, qualified workers getting harder and harder to come by, but also some of the most talented veterans are exiting the labor force and heading off into retirement.
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How to Prioritize Talent as a Strategic Imperative
Originally printed in CFMA Building Profits Magazine, January/February 2018 edition. Developing and engaging employees, as well as managing their performance and providing clear direction for their careers, are critical steps toward company success. However, achieving that goal in today’s tight labor market has become exceedingly difficult. While the national unemployment rate hovered…
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