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Building Strong Foundations: Effective Team Building on Construction Sites

Effective team building on construction sites is essential to foster cooperation, enhance communication, and maximize productivity in the construction workplace. So, how do construction companies promote strong teamwork structures? We outline 3 key strategies for building strong construction teams below.
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Industry Spotlight: Crafting Leadership Training for Construction Managers

Construction managers play a critical role in ensuring the success of large-scale projects. However, effective leadership skills are often not taught as part of traditional construction training. What can organizations do to ensure their construction managers are set up to thrive? At Trinity Training and Development, we know that with the right training, tools, and opportunities, each person within your organization has the ability to lead and influence others. Read on for more details about the...
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Fostering Trust in a Hybrid Environment

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we work, what we value, and how we spend our time, and companies across every industry continue to establish what this means for them going forward as many jobs leave the traditional nine-to-five schedule behind.
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How to Help Colleagues Take Time Off

You’ve heard the phrase, “you need a vacation from your vacation.” Many times it applies to the packed schedule, late nights, and overall fatigue of traveling. But it is also felt when you return to work. The projects that were put on hold in your absence now require you to work late hours to get back on track. You have endless phone calls and emails to respond to and your weekly meetings eat up so much of your time during the day, any rest you had on vacation is long forgotten. You’re more ...
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5 Tips to Give Your Team Professional Feedback

If you dug through the files in your brain that recorded performance reviews, you will most likely find two categories: “Keep” and “Shred.” You want to shred the memories associated with a bad performance review. But interestingly enough, you received some negative feedback over the years that you’ve filed into the “keep” folders. What makes you want to shred certain memories is not actually the review itself, but the way you received it—the way it made you feel. You felt embarrassed whe...
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Three Communication Principles that Matter

Have you ever discounted someone by their communication style? We analyze tone, decipher honesty, and interpret motives when we hear others communicate, especially those in authority. Whether it’s a news reporter, social media influencer, parent, or manager, we quickly decide who is trustworthy, who is authentic, and who is relevant in just a few minutes. If you want to build a team of men and women who trust your leadership, it may be time to adjust your communication tactics. By adopting thre...
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Is Productive Conflict Possible?

Tension hangs in the air. You can’t believe your colleague just said that--at all, let alone in a conference meeting. Most of the men and women sitting around the large wooden table are pretending to look through their notes, some check email on their phone. No one has said a word in what has been the longest minute you’ve ever endured. Maybe you should have been more understanding, given him another chance to speak up before you shut him down. But now you’re too shocked and angry to give him...
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The Value of DiSC Workplace Training

Have you asked yourself the following questions: ● Am I utilizing my employees correctly? ● Are they in the best position to accomplish the goals of the business? ● Does my staff have healthy communication? ● Do we handle conflict appropriately and effectively? If you’ve contemplated these questions, we believe that taking your team through DiSC Workplace training will give you the answers you need to improve relationships, communication, and job satisfaction in your company.
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How to be an Effective Listener

In today’s fast-paced world, the race to be heard above the din of near-constant chatter and onslaught of non-stop information can be brutally tiresome. However, the late, great Stephen Covey said it best, “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
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Dealing with Change in the Workplace

There are few things that are certain in the world. As said by Benjamin Franklin, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” However, people are wired to prefer consistency and fear change. In our earliest ancestors, change could lead to detrimental circumstances; weather changes, death, location changes, lack of food and water, new, unknown threats. These realities became hard-wired into our psyche and even now in 2020, the instinctual reaction to change is typically fear.
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