Mastering the planning and management of job role transitions will set your career and company apart. Whether it is transitioning from a craft to a Foreman role or succession at the ownership level, all job role transitions in the construction industry are challenging.
Careers, compensation, customers, projects, profits, and entire construction businesses are all impacted negatively when job role transitions are poorly planned and managed. Almost 3 hours of practical examples including 25+ additional resources (tools, books, training, and articles) to keep your career and company growing.
Video Speakers
Video Timestamps
- 00:00:00 - Intro - Percent of People Performing to Standard
- 00:01:26 - Discussion Overview, Resources, and What's Next
- 00:05:23 - Building Your Perfect Life and Retirement Masterpiece
- 00:13:26 - Stages & Seasons of Life and Career
- 00:18:58 - Aligning Projects and People
- 00:20:10 - Stages of Growth and Progression of Standards
- 00:31:03 - Contractor Needs (People + Performance)
- 00:40:02 - Talent Value Stream (Overview)
- 00:45:19 - Organizational Development (OrgDev / OD) Defined
- 00:55:39 - Job Roles, People, Performance, and Compensation
- 01:01:40 - Mastering the Wide Range of Job Role Transitions
- 01:16:35 - Four Interrelated Career Progression Paths
- 01:27:08 - The Many Dimensions of Wealth
- 01:39:35 - Development Phases at Each Stage of Growth
- 01:42:45 - Development Phases Within a Role
- 01:49:42 - 2 General Strategies for Integrating Someone Into a New Job Role
- 02:00:00 - Selection for the Job Role: Intentional or Biased
- 02:09:22 - Top 11 Challenges With Job Role Transitions
- 02:21:47 - Resources
- 02:22:45 - Floors, Ceilings, and Scaling - No Single Path
- 02:31:57 - Coming Next
- 02:33:25 - Thank You / Outro
Resources Referenced
Definitions
Certification
The Verified Ability to do something (skill) to meet a certain level of performance (standard / competency).
Desire
Strong feeling of Wanting something.
Development (Talent)
Longer-term refinement of someone’s current capabilities Towards Mastery while preparing them for future roles and the ideal Career Path for them.
Organizational Development (OrgDev / OD)
Organizational Development is an effort that focuses on improving the organization’s capability through the alignment of strategy, structure, people, rewards, metrics, and management systems.
Summary Definition: Aptitude X Desire X Learning and Practice = Capability and Capacity
This is the basic formula that determines what an individual and team will have in terms of capability and capacity.
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Related Books
Rock Retirement - Roger Whitney
Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink
It's the Manager - Jim Clifton
Kiewit - An Uncommon Company - Jeffrey L. Rodengen
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
Now Discovery Your Strengths - Gallup Press
Outlive - Peter Attia MD
Managing Corporate Lifecycles - Ichak Adizes
The Leadership Pipeline - Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel, and Kent Jonasen
Other Resources
- Deliberately Building Your Perfect Life
- Aligning Career and Company Trajectories
- Aligning Projects and People
- Headcount, Stages of Contractor Growth, and Growth Inflection Points
- 6 Progressive Levels of Standards Development
- Management Accountabilities: Two Foundational Basics
- The ABCs of Strategic Market Choices
- Business Model Basics for Contractors
- Enabling Hierarchies are Critical for Success
- Effective Job Role Descriptions for Organizing, Recruiting, Developing, and Retaining Talent
- Attracting and Retaining Talent: The Five Most Important Questions
- Planning for the Continued Decline of the Deep Expertise Age Band in Construction
- Construction Contracting, Materials Science, and "People Science"
- Levels of Strategic Decisions (The Basics)
- Off-Boarding: Basic Categorization and Management
- Different Stages of Market Growth and the Types of People Required
- Job Role Complexity: Four Major Factors
- Required Leadership Focus Changes at Each Stage of Growth
- From More Generalized to More Specialized with Growth
- Longevity 101 (Attia)
- Singing in the Mud (Admiral McRaven)
- Prioritized Development and Improvements
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) and Contractor Growth
- Selecting and Managing People for a Job Role
- Sharpening Your Thinking Through Writing
- The Leadership Pipeline Intro (2H)
- Management Role Promotion Checklist (8 Steps)
- Org Structure Planning (2X)
