How to Encourage Cross-Generational Collaboration in Construction
Generations separated by decades have much to learn from each other—and might have more in common than you think.
How to Not Retire Until You’re Good and Ready
Bring your dad to work. It could help solve the skilled-labor shortage.
Bridging Construction’s Gender Gap
Tactics to consider when recruiting women to the construction workforce.
Filling the Boomer Gap
Construction companies were already struggling with a massive talent shortage—but now its effects are being multiplied by the large-scale retirement of baby boomers, who are taking incalculable skills and experience with them. Replacing them will require finding new ways of telling the full story of what it means to be a craft professional.
Yes, She Can
ABC Greater Michigan is on a mission to empower
young girls to explore careers in construction.
Three Best Practices to Attract, Recruit and Retain Women in the Construction Industry
The percentage of women in the construction industry is steadily growing, but many women continue to perceive the industry as non-inclusive. Here are a few ways to change that.
Feedback Loop
Forgot the all-powerful annual review. Employee feedback is best delivered in short, frequent, focused meetings. And remember: ‘Recognition is the greatest motivator.’
A Women’s Institution
With an increasing need for skilled labor, many are now turning to historically underused populations, like women and minorities, to fill this gap.
