Productivity

Recognize Signs of Burnout Before It’s Too Late

Nothing can hurt your bottom line faster than burnout. After all, you have spent countless hours searching for the perfect employee, only for their productivity and enthusiasm to start to fade. If they leave for another position, you will be right back where you started. Burnout costs companies time, money, and energy. And you don’t

Ways to Reduce On-Site Stress Levels

The construction industry is both mentally and physically demanding. The stress that an individual can feel on the job can quickly take a toll on their work, lowering the quality of the final product and hurting your bottom line. It’s important to find positive ways that you can help lower the amount of stress that

Is Caffeine Squashing Your Potential?

Across the world, many of us share the same potentially dangerous addiction: Coffee. You probably know people—or maybe this describes you—who “can’t function” until they’ve had their first cup. And the feeling is very real, on both a physical as well as an emotional level: they need caffeine just to get through the day.

How to Set Your Business Up for Success in the New Year

A new year is essentially a fresh start—not just for individuals, but for companies as well. It’s your chance to check in on all of your business happenings to determine where time and energy should be focused, and where any course correction needs to take place. As the calendar year comes to an end, take

3 Major Ways Complaining Kills Office Productivity

Sure, we all have complaints about work, but there are productive and unproductive ways to express this frustration. When an individual or team begins to frequently complain—whether about a project, client, colleague, or the office structure—without focusing on a solution, this negative talk can quickly have devastating impacts on a workplace. Complaining Greatly Affects an

How to Motivate Yourself After Failure at Work

Maybe you lost a major account, slumped in this quarter’s sales figures, or perhaps you were even fired for mishandling a situation. Failure at work happens to the best of us. The real determining factor here is how you deal with failure. Believe it or not, failure can be a real game changer, spurring you

Home Construction Boom Benefits Manufacturers and Consumers Alike

The Commerce Department reported an 11 year high this May in housing starts which, despite thirty year mortgage rates increasing, puts manufacturers on solid ground. In the past year, metals such as aluminum, copper and nickel have increased 21 percent in value and trends show that increase to continue. One indication that the home construction

Anger Management Strategies to Use in the Office

Your daily office life can be stressful and our emotions can get the best of us. There are many stressors in the workplace – unpleasant employees, lost profits, marketing mistakes, and much more. Even the jobs that seem easy have their fair share of stressful situations. Your ability as a leader is not determined by

Improve Safety Without Sacrificing Productivity

A common misconception in the construction industry is that to improve safety, you must sacrifice productivity. This is simply not true. With the immerging technology and new approaches to safety, construction businesses can improve safety on site, while still achieving optimum productivity. Now, your employees can work smarter, harder, and faster. Consider adding these steps

How Construction Managers Improve Productivity

On a construction job, we take pride in how many things we can get done at once. Safety professionals panic when we share this dirty little secret. Believing we are more productive, we tackle several tasks at once. I have learned from some of the top construction managers in this industry that the opposite is