Welcome to the Upcycle Performance Solutions Learning Portal

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

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

In today's highly competitive labor market, retaining loyalty among workers in the construction industry is harder than ever. Leadership plays a vital role in retention efforts, and it is crucial for a construction business to have leaders who can implement strategies that foster loyalty and enhance retention, while safeguarding profitability. A company’s efforts to develop leadership skills, as well as an individual’s unique leadership style, directly impacts business objectives. Utilizing a strategic approach to leadership in your business can yield greater success, more stability, and higher profitability. This course, “Leading for Results”, is designed to not only help you enhance your own leadership skills, but also to help guide you in placing the right type of leader at every level of your business to maximize returns. Read more

While having strong technical expertise in the best techniques and processes related to the building of structures is critical to one’s success as a contractor, the mastery of soft skills is just as important for elevating your construction business and profits to the next level. Possessing and utilizing a variety of soft skills is essential for both you and your workers, and will help you build and strengthen relationships, better manage teams, and navigate more successfully the many diverse challenges associated with a construction project. This course will help you recognize, develop, and then teach others, to better hone those interpersonal and behavioral qualities that complement technical expertise, such as how to navigate complex or difficult relationships, how to communicate more effectively, and how to better adapt to the unique challenges and changing environments in a construction project. 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