Do you want to find a better job or have the chance to be advanced in your trade? Then you need to invest in trade skills training. In workforce management, we call this investment “upskilling.” While trade skills training is important to many industries, it is especially so for construction. So who is most likely […]
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Construction workforce management is so much more than just scheduling the crews to show up at the job. It is knowing your bench strength and leveraging it to produce better outcomes through people who are safer, more engaged, and highly productive. With the introduction of many pieces of software to support construction management digitally, you
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is what we might have formerly called vocational education. It prepares students on the verge of entering a career field to gain skills and become more actively prepared for what is to come after graduation. The best CTE programs include construction simply because construction is one of the primary ways
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Finding skilled workers can be the hardest part of growing your business. The skilled workforce is dwindling as fewer young people enter the skilled trades and more people age out into retirement. We want that magic bullet to tell us where to find skilled workers ready for job deployment, but seeking an instant solution to
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Safety issues in construction should always be top of the mind for construction leaders at general contractors. As safety has moved to the forefront of job sites across the nation in the last few decades, we have seen a considerable increase in positive safety culture and the ability to prevent injury and lost time for
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I’m sure you’ve read countless articles on the construction labor shortage and the lack of craft trade professionals who can meet the demand for building projects in our current environment. But you are just the construction project owner, and all of those people belong to your GC and their trade partners. This isn’t your problem
4 Ways to Grow a Construction Business in 2023 Everyone wants to see business growth and it generally becomes a focus for organizations as we wind down one year and gear up for a new one. As you are planning for 2023, we want to offer you four practical ways to grow your business and
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C3 Advocate, In my dream world where we can track and measure everything relevant to the success of our workforce, there would be a lengthy list of additional metrics to capture. But in reality, gathering just the raw data of how many laborers or entry-level workers were needed over the next 12 months, and whom
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C3 Advocate, While C3 continues to gain ground and we can see our contractor count growing along with our owner base and project total, we cannot effectively map metrics to program and are left to believe “C3 is doing good” and achieving its mission. But the thing that keeps me up at night is the question – how
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Advocate, Metrics! In one news brief article? It can’t be done y’all. That is the conversation I had with the marketing team, and they smiled and said great make it a series – so here we are a 3 part series on how we can measure the impact we are having on the industry. And more specifically how
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