Clarity in job role descriptions is a foundational building block for successful careers and contracting businesses. Each stage of growth makes clarity in job roles more critical and difficult.
The job description itself is relatively simple if you just look at a single role. The challenge is integrating all the different roles together to build a project and company.
Dive deep into what truly makes job roles effective. We build upon the last five modules with over 3 hours of practical examples and 50+ additional resources (tools, books, training, and articles) to keep your career and company growing.
Video Speakers
Video Timestamps
- 00:00:00 - The Mission of the Job Role
- 00:01:37 - Intro to 007 - Job Role Descriptions
- 00:02:14 - Job Role Clarity = Consistent Outcomes
- 00:04:32 - Topics Covered - Past & Present
- 00:11:22 - Aligning Projects and People
- 00:13:03 - Standards
- 00:28:00 - Strategy > Systems> Business Model
- 00:29:54 - Definition: Value Stream (System, Process, Workflow)
- 00:36:12 - Systems & Process - The Foundation of a Job Role
- 00:42:33 - Business Model Basics - Making the Math Work
- 00:48:39 - Equipment and People - The Analogy
- 00:56:51 - Effective Grouping of Tasks for a Job Role
- 01:04:51 - From More Generalized to More Specialized With Growth
- 01:09:01 - Degree of Discretionary Time
- 01:13:02 - Time, Tetris, and Standard Work
- 01:20:00 - Prioritization: What Impacts Your Outcomes the Most?
- 01:23:39 - How Much Would You Bet on the Outcomes?
- 01:34:09 - People Are Not Equipment
- 01:38:45 - Construction Docs & Business Docs
- 01:46:38 - Unpacking a Job Role (From Concept to Concrete)
- 01:48:57 - Specific and Measurable Outcomes
- 01:57:17 - Tangible Things to Do (Tasks, Decisions, Meetings)
- 02:01:04 - Levels of Work: a Critical Grouping of Tasks
- 02:10:44 - Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 02:16:08 - Why Most Job Descriptions Fall Short (Survivorship Bias)
- 02:25:25 - General Competencies Required to Do the Job
- 02:28:40 - Required and Desired Behaviors + Boundaries
- 02:33:12 - Integrated Business Docs: From Values through Procedures
- 02:47:49 - Build Your Org Chart from the Front-Line Up
- 02:58:37 - Start Simple & Evolve With Growth
- 03:03:00 - Standard Work & Quality Control: Field Example
- 03:05:20 - Synthesizing Information vs. Synthesized Information
- 03:14:42 - Coming Next
Resources Referenced
Definitions
Business Development (BizDev)
The process of creating new business opportunities through targeted networking, education, and awareness-building activities.
Competency
The ability to do something (skill) at a certain level of performance (standard). A Skill Performed to Standard.
Skill
The Ability to do something. Sometimes combined with performing to a certain level (standard / competency) and possibly the verification of that performance (certification).
Training
The process of Increasing the knowledge and skills of someone, typically shorter-term and in the context of being able to perform in their current role at a competency level that meets standards.
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Related Books
The Essential Deming - W. Edwards Deming
Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
It's the Manager - Jim Clifton and Jim Harter
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Other Resources
- Management Accountabilities: Two Foundational Basics
- Scoreboards & Scorecards: Talent Development + Business Results
- Clear Installation Information
- Contractors Exist to Build Projects - The Business of Building
- Headcount, Stages of Contractor Growth, and Growth Inflection Points
- Headcount, Management Structure, and Systems
- 6 Progressive Levels of Standards Development
- Contractor Business Model - Evolution with Stages of Growth
- Management Systems - 10 Principles for Effectiveness
- Levels of Strategic Decisions (The Basics)
- Business Model Basics For Contractors
- The Sales Funnel (Scope and Key Roles Involved)
- Opportunity Evaluation (2 Critical Dimensions)
- Opportunity Pipeline Target Size: The Basic Math
- Org Structure Planning (2X)
- Cash Flow (Series)
- Resource - Equipment Fleet Management for Contractors
- Selecting and Managing People for a Job Role
- Construction Contracting, Materials Science, and "People Science"
- Resource - Stratified Systems Theory (SST) and Timespan 101
- From More Generalized to More Specialized with Growth
- Degree of Discretionary Time with Growth in Role Levels and Business Size
- Deliberately Building Your Perfect Life
- Job Descriptions Full (Video)
- Risk Schmisk (Annie Duke)
- Accountability Prerequisites
- Theory of Constraints (ToC) Basic Overview
- Seven Basic Project Team Objectives
- Project Cash Metric for Work-in-Progress (WIP)
- Lead Measures and Outcomes: Starting with the Schedule of Values (SOV)
- Accountability + Compensation: The Myths and Realities
- Enabling Hierarchies are Critical for Success
- Integrating Metrics and Organizational Structure
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) and Contractor Growth
- Structure, Decision Rights, and Information Systems
- The Leadership Pipeline Intro (2H)
- Continuous Improvement Plan, Do, Check, and Act (PDCA)
- Job Descriptions Basic (Video)
- List of Cognitive Biases (The Decision Lab)
- Climbing the Mountain - Navigating the Stages of Contractor Growth
- Continuous Improvement (PDCA Full Video)
- Coaching and "GPS Feedback" - John Wooden Example
- Resource - Elevating Construction Superintendents (General Contractors)
- Standard Work and Quality Control (Field Example)
- How to Make Toast (TED Talk Tom Wujec)
- Job Instruction (JI): A 1940s Solution to the Craft Labor Shortage
- Effective Job Role Descriptions for Organizing, Recruiting, Developing, and Retaining Talent
