You have made it to the Request for Proposal (RFP). Congratulations! How can you and your team stand out from the crowd and demonstrate that your firm is the right choice when it comes to collaborative delivery? In this article, I am going to share 5 tips on how to …
There is a conversation in the industry about the role of executive leadership in lean transformation. What is your opinion on this? If you ask ten people, you get probably ten different answers. What I found is that many of these opinions are spot on, however, they lead to different …
Lean Transformation: Is Your Leadership Team All In? READ MORE
Throughout my career, there have been many things that have happened in a somewhat serendipitous fashion. Things have happened without being planned for and without intention yet contributed in significant ways to the lean momentum. In this post, I want to share a few things we did in a construction …
The construction industry is notoriously slow to change and productivity continues to decline. We see this firsthand, we read about it in trade publications and we talk about it at industry conferences. Embracing lean is one of the ways organizations choose to address this, but all too often they run …
Lean Transformation: Are you Talking about Apples or Oranges? READ MORE
This is part 3 of my series Trust in Construction. If you have not yet read parts 1 and 2, I recommend starting with Do You Trust Your Lean Team Members and Going Down the Rabbit Hole first. After unearthing the root causes of a trust breakdown, it is time …
In part 1 of this series, Do You Trust Your Lean Team Members, I discussed internal vs external trust. Once both sides are established and organizations understand their interconnectedness, teams need to go down that rabbit hole to differentiate symptoms of ‘shared pain’ from root causes. A helpful tool is …
Trust in Construction Part 2: Going Down the Rabbit Hole READ MORE
This 3-part series based on my ebook Breaking Down the Breakdown: Trust in Construction explores the importance of trust in the building industry, analyzes the root causes of trust breakdown and offers strategies to build trust in construction teams. We all know that trust is an integral part of any …
It was surprisingly chilly on Monday morning as Sam Brooks, Project Superintendent for ProCon Builders, pulled into the parking lot. His dashboard’s thermostat told him it was fifty-two degrees outside, and he took a long swig of black coffee from his Thermos as he surveyed his vacant jobsite through the …
Are You Leveraging the Power of Your Construction Team? READ MORE
In the first part of this series Getting Decisions that Stick, we looked at the psychology of decisions and what information people need to make informed decisions. This article describes ten techniques to help decision-makers make better-informed decisions in PreDesign, Design, and Construction. Such decisions are more likely to “stick,” …
You Cannot Speak of the Ocean to a Well Frog (Getting Decisions that Stick Part II) READ MORE
In my previous posts, I wrote about the Construction Leaders Dashboard to help newly promoted team leaders become clear about their vision and the EAR Framework to lay the leadership foundations. In this post, I focus on Kick-Ass Meetings (KAM), a straightforward, three-step process that will help Lean team leaders …
Kick-Ass Meetings: The Secret to Epic Problem-Solving READ MORE