What Women Want (at Work): Building a More Inclusive Construction Industry
The Training Doctor, LLC
September 12, 2025
Construction is facing a talent crisis: for every new worker who enters, three are leaving. That’s not just a labor issue—it’s a leadership issue.
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Tags: HR, Leadership, Management
60 Minute Training Needs Analysis
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September 08, 2025
It’s a poorly kept secret that when performance is down, companies, specifically managers, will say “obviously these folks need training!” But it’s not obvious at all. It takes a lot of time, money, and effort to create and deliver training in the workplace and more than 75% of the time it is ineffective (according to McKinsey, only 25% of training programs measurably improve business performance).
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Tags: Analytics, Leadership, Management
The Hidden Gap
The Training Doctor, LLC
August 22, 2025
When a regional VP was promoted to CEO at a 600-person civil engineering firm, he arrived with strong relationships and a fresh perspective. What he saw, however, gave him pause.
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Everybody Is Retiring!
The Training Doctor, LLC
July 25, 2025
When two long-time engineers stepped into ownership roles at a 30-year-old construction management firm, they inherited more than new titles.
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Using Assessments for Professional Development
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October 03, 2024
Assessments are also used to help develop role descriptions, analyze the abilities and habits of people who succeed or did not succeed in particular roles, and thereby build “profiles of success” for future candidates.
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Tags: Leadership
7 Phrases Every Leader Should Have in Their Vocabulary
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March 23, 2023
For a long time when I was a new leader, my thinking was that I should intervene only if someone needed guidance / correction - otherwise they “knew” that no news was good news. WRONG. Not only is thanking someone for doing their job well, polite, it also goes a long way towards employee satisfaction and loyalty. Would you rather work for a boss that acknowledges your good work, or ignores it? No brainer. But it took MY brain a long time to figure that one out.
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Tags: Leadership
Is There a Difference between Leadership "Training" and Leadership "Development?"
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February 12, 2023
Recently I attended a webinar with a panel of training and development (T+D) experts discussing the topic of Leadership Training. One individual's statement stood out in particular. This person declared that it takes 32 hours of development (instructional design) to create one hour of Leadership Training.
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Tags: Leadership
A Year's Worth of Leadership Development Articles
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December 05, 2022
For the past year, I have been writing a column on Leadership Development for the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA). Here is a round-up of all the articles. You don't have to work in the AEC world to gain value from the articles, however, 98% of leadership concepts and competencies are universal.
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Blended Learning: That Word Doesn't Mean What You Think it Means
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May 09, 2022
After spending two weeks scoring Chief Learning Officer Learning Elite submissions it's imperative that I inform you that the word blended does not mean what you think it means.
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What? Successful Virtual Instructor-Led Training Has Nothing To Do With the Technology?
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September 30, 2020
There are a LOT of virtual training platforms out there. Zoom has become the “Kleenex” of the industry as of late, but there are easily a dozen more. If your organization is new to Virtual Instructor-Led Training (vILT), the good news is: It doesn’t matter which platform you choose, they all pretty much work the same. What you DO want to ensure is that participants have the ability to chat with one another, write on the whiteboard (also known as annotate), and go to breakout rooms. With those three features you can recreate virtually (pun intended) anything you might do in the classroom. All other features are nice-to-haves but aren’t going to measurably increase the effectiveness of your virtually-delivered training.
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Tags: Leadership, Management
What Women Want (at Work): Building a More Inclusive Construction Industry
