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some of the top experts in our field to give
cutting edge seminars that are certainly
worth your team’s time. Many of these
meetings offer roundtable discussions
that give your team the opportunity to get
personal time with the experts and discuss
trends and pitfalls that come up every day.
Be sure to call on your equipment manu-
facturer as well. Even if they don’t offer in
house training, they are always willing to
do on site product training that will cer-
tainly pay dividends down the road.
Human Resources. Certainly our most
valuable assets are the men and wom-
en that put in the long days in the heat
striving for smooth joints and acceptable
density. The biggest issue that plagues
the paving crews that are forced to lay
off workers in the winter is making sure
they come back in the spring. Hiring
good help is a challenge anytime, but if
you have to do it year in and year out,
well, that puts you behind before you can
start. The answer is typically found from
within your organization. If you build a
working culture that breeds success, you
will no doubt attract and maintain the
in town. out as the ones that consistently pull their
weight will not allow sub-par quality to
exist. Ask them what they need from an
employer. I think you’ll be surprised at
how inexpensive their requests are.
The slower winter months are a great
time to take a deep breath and look back
at the challenges of the prior year. What
did you do right and how can your com-
pany replicate those practices. Even more
importantly, what were some aspects of
your year that you would just as soon not
repeat? Look outside the paving industry
at some of the best practices of successful
friends and neighbors and see what their
secrets are. I think you’ll find that every
successful story has a lot in common.
Time to write your own.
best crew in town. Investing in your team
during the season is easier than you think.
These folks are your family, so treat them
as such. When top performance is re-
warded, the slackers will be easily weeded Brian Hall is the territory manager of Mid
South Region at ST Engineering LeeBoy, Inc.
You can contact him at [email protected]. Ar-
ticle sponsored by LeeBoy and Rosco.
If you build a working
culture that breeds
success, you will no
doubt attract and
maintain the best crew
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