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

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

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