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Save when you buy a bundle! Want to learn better ways to maximize worker productivity and customer profits? This bundle of courses will provide information to help you accomplish more with better and fewer workers, as well as learn ways to increase the chances you receive payment for all the work you perform.  Upon completion, this bundle provides a total of 6 elective hours and includes the following courses: Managing Change Orders + Attracting and Retaining Good Workers in Construction. Read more

Save when you buy a bundle! Looking for ways to increase productivity and profits, while decreasing procurement costs? This bundle of courses will provide tips and strategies to help you manage two of your most important assets: your workers and your suppliers. Upon completion, this bundle provides a total of 6 elective hours and includes the following 2-hour courses: A Dive Into the Supply Chain + Best Hiring Practices in the Construction Industry + Building Worker Loyalty in Construction. Read more

Save when you buy a bundle! Looking for ways to increase productivity and profits, while decreasing procurement costs? This bundle of courses will provide tips and strategies to help you manage two of your most important assets: your workers and your suppliers. Upon completion, this bundle provides a total of 6 elective hours and includes the following courses: A Dive Into the Supply Chain + Attracting and Retaining Good Workers in Construction. Read more

The change order, a basic fundamental concept in the construction industry, gives owners and contractors flexibility to address the “unexpected”. After all, the “unexpected” is inevitable at some point during the execution of almost every construction project, simply due to the complex nature of the building project itself. That flexibility to alter original construction plans, afforded through the execution of a change order, often comes at a cost, however. This course will help you better understand the change order process, how to handle change orders correctly, and the pitfalls to avoid, so that you minimize potential change order disputes and associated litigation, and instead, increase the chances that you receive payment for all the work you perform. Read more

Today’s construction market is facing increased competition, higher wages, and a weaker talent pool than previously. Recent industry growth, coupled with the loss of workers, has contributed to a significant shortage of skilled construction workers at nearly all levels. Worker retention is at an all-time low. Therefore, it is more important than ever to find and hire the right kind of workers, and then hold on to them as long as possible. This course will teach you strategies to help you recruit and hire better workers, as well as strategies for keeping your workers loyal, and hopefully, with you longer. *Please note: This course contains content from both the 2-hour course titled "Best Hiring Practices in the Construction Industry (#5062)" and the 2-hour course titled "Building Worker Loyalty in Construction (#5063)". If you have taken either of these 2-hour courses, please be aware of this repetition of content. Read more

So, as a business owner or hiring supervisor in construction, you feel like you’ve mastered hiring the right people with the right skills, for the right positions, but how do you, now, hold on to what you’ve got? Workforce retention is vital for any healthy business, but especially so in the highly competitive construction industry already suffering from a major skilled trades shortage. Therefore, it is critical for you, a business owner or supervisor in construction, to better understand how to keep those good employees on your payroll, so your business keeps moving in the right direction. So, what can you do to stop your good workers from leaving? This course will teach employer, individual worker, and teambuilding strategies, that if implemented, will help keep your workers happier and with you longer. Read more