Welcome to the Upcycle Performance Solutions Learning Portal

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 purchase this bundle! Enhance the essential non-technical skills needed to successfully run a construction business - including leadership, effective communication, and navigating challenging relationships - as well as uncover strategies to help ensure you get paid for all the work you perform. Upon completion, you'll earn 6 elective hours through the following 2-hour courses:  Leading for Results + Catch More Flies with Honey: A Guide for Mastering Soft Skills in Construction + Managing Change Orders. Read more

Achieving optimal well-being in the workplace goes beyond simply meeting basic OSHA regulations. To be truly productive at work, and maintain balance at home, we must prioritize both physical and mental health. Construction professionals face a wide range of challenges, including job security concerns in fluctuating markets and the constant risk of physical strain or injury. These factors can significantly affect overall health and productivity. Isolation, stemming from small team sizes or remote jobsites, can lead to feelings of loneliness, and long working hours only intensify these challenges. Combined with the industry’s high rates of alcohol and substance abuse, these threats underscore the urgent need for effective strategies to support well-being. This course highlights the importance of maintaining both mental and physical health in the construction industry, and provides practical tools to build resilience and foster not only a healthier work environment—but a healthier YOU. 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