TOOL: Your Leadership Pipeline and Business Model
D. Brown Management
June 9, 2024
With each stage of growth or new job role, your individual leadership focus must change along with how you view your leadership pipeline. This learning and application guide will help you start that process.
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1 Million Point Evaluation for Contractor Operations
D. Brown Management
June 2, 2024
How effective is your whole system from strategic market choices through project exit? This simple evaluation exercise with your team will help you align then eliminate your key bottlenecks and constraint.
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Project Value Stream (PVS) - The Extended View
D. Brown Management
June 2, 2024
The degree to which contractors understand and fully integrate their Project Value Stream (PVS) internally and externally determines their ability to grow sustainably and profitably.
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Competition - What Do You Really Know?
D. Brown Management
June 2, 2024
Contractors typically pay too much or too little attention to their competition. The best contractors strike the right balance spending most of their time focused on customers while being deliberate in knowing their competition.
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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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