b'Yes, You CanLead!bit on what are your expectations for their performance and behavior and for your companys By Brad Humphryreputation for quality, safety, and organization.Like-Incredibly, I find many contactorswise, you will need to develop measureable goals totally inept when it comes tothat can be monitored and integrated into daily and leadership.Talk aboutweekly conversations and meetings to help keep the equipmentGreat!Discuss directentire workforce focused and on the right path. costsGot It!Perform job layout In my sleep, pal!But lead todays worker?The move to the#4 Practice the ACTS of Leadership back of the class.This simply acronym stands for Accountability, Look, you can lead.Yes, you can!Certainly,Consistency, Teachability, and Strategic.Briefly, there are many challenges for todays concretebeing an effective leader begins with you being contractor we must move positively ahead as itaccountable to doing your job each day.Consistency relates to leading our workers. Let me briefly sharerecognizes that you must practice good leadership, three key ingredients to more effective leadership.show respect to others, be thorough in decision making, etc. over and over and over againthus #1 Establish Your Own Clear Leadership Visionconsistency! Coaching construction leaders over the past twenty-years has displayed many examples of how not toTo be teachable is to always be in a mode to learn.do this leadership thing.In every situation that IWhen your followers see you learning, and enjoying observed great leadership being effectivelynew lessons, then you may inspire your followers to demonstrated, there was always a contractor or fieldalso want to grow and learn.Finally, leaders must be leader who had a clear viewpoint of his (or her)more strategic in their decision-making, their leadership presence.scheduling, and their planning.Most laborers in More importantly, their vision was also observed,construction are quite short term in their view and received, and embraced by those following.If youtactical in their approach.Whatever is the easiest to want to take your next step in leadership then youdo is what many workers will choose. leaders must would be wise to begin by clear establishing yourbe strategic and capable of making the best, even vision and then living it daily.thought it may be the toughest decision to make. #2 Get Rid of Me One of the realities of leadership is discovering thatThere are countless other leadership techniques that just as you have made it to the leadership ranks,exist, however, without establishing the leadership you must now realize that it is not about meefforts presented here in your daily walk you will be anymore!Boy, this discovery is quite sobering forleading as if walking on thin ice.Deepen your anyone who has worked hard to become the seniorfoundation and core as a leader by possessing a clear leader.vision for your leadership, taking yourself out and The best leaders in construction recognize thatrefocusing on your followers needs, project clear acquiring the leadership role, whether throughexpectations and objectives, andpractice the ACTS promotion or purchase, that you must quickly andof a leader! consistently lead via taking your personal pride, wants, and benefits out of the picture first andYes, You Can LeadNow Lead! refocus greatly upon those whom will reward your leadership with performance success.Therefore, Brad is President of Pinnacle Development Group, a consulting company getting rid of me must be replaced with givingspecializing in the construction industry.Sign up for Brads weekly column at more to others in your time, availability, support,www.thecontractorsbestfriend.com. expectations, boundaries, and wisdom.#3 Set the Expectations & Objectives For the Thoroughbred employee all you need to do is to share your expectations about how you want to see work performed and the clear and measurable objectives for a project or task.For the more challenged workers you will need to camp out a 3'