Resource - Negotiation (3 Prerequisites + 4 Perspectives)
D. Brown Management
May 26, 2024
Negotiation skills will enhance nearly everything your management teams do from winning work through building the project to working with your bank and surety. This is a collection of the best resources we've used to build these capabilities.
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TOOL: Leader Standard Work (LSW) Template for Field Managers
D. Brown Management
May 25, 2024
Excel format that you can use to standardize work across your field managers and synchronize that work internally and externally for optimal effectiveness. This tool will help develop your team faster and deliver projects more consistently.
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TOOL: Model Your Business, Prioritize Improvements, and Execute
D. Brown Management
May 25, 2024
Contractor Business Model template you can customize to represent the current and future state of your business. Use this model to identify bottlenecks and constraints to your growth. Learning guide for your team based on The 4 Disciplines of Execution.
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Resource - Leader Standard Work (LSW)
D. Brown Management
May 25, 2024
Leader Standard Work (LSW) is a tool and process that can dramatically improve performance, lower stress, and accelerate the development of people if the timing is right for implementation. This is a collection of resources to help make those decisions.
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Aligning Projects and People
D. Brown Management
May 13, 2024
The business of building is largely about aligning projects and people. Contractors exist to build projects. People design and build the projects. The management team, structure, and systems bring it all together.
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Selecting and Managing People for a Job Role
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
A job role is a collection of related tasks and decisions to achieve a set of outcomes. A person brings a wide range of desires, skills, and experience to that job role. Aligning these is the discipline of management.
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Job Role Complexity: Four Major Factors
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
Job roles have varying degrees of complexity requiring different types of people to fill the role. Understanding the four major factors will help with job role design, organizational structure, and selection of the person for the role.
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No Answers?
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
A handful of quick tips to help you get the answers you need. This is a critical skillset for building projects, growing a contracting business, and developing careers.
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Growth Trajectories for Talent Development
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
Most people want to think about the growth trajectory of their lives, careers, and business as being a steady climb up a 100% grade - reality is very different and organizational development must align with reality.
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Evaluation: Stage of Growth + State of Management Team & Systems
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
Management teams and systems develop through three phases at each stage of growth. Use these 7 steps to evaluate where your team is at.
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