A big part of collaboration is listening to your team, including giving
and receiving feedback. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of
your teammates so you can delegate roles based on experience and
optimize performance based on expertise.
Today's construction projects tend to be more complex and demanding,
and everyone—project owners, the lead contractor, subcontractors,
field teams, vendors, architects, back office staff and more—needs to
be on the same page at all times to ensure success.
Create an effective communications plan and stick with it. Throughout
the project, communication should be consistent, open, honest,
and clear. Having regularly scheduled meetings is the best way of
keeping everyone involved in the project up to date and informed of
any problems—even if that meeting is just a brief weekly check-in or
conference call.
5. Facilitate Real-
Time Collaboration
and Communication
Technology
Advantage:
Email tends to be the default
method of keeping in contact
with construction teams, but
it can be time-consuming and
efficiency-draining. In fact, a
recent industry survey found
that construction project
managers spend an average
of three hours a day reading
or writing emails to their
teams. Instead of relying on
email, find ways to leverage
technologies that promote
collaboration and real-time
data delivery and workflows.
When digital software provides
team members with a single
source of truth, they are
not left waiting for the right
information—or worse, working
from the wrong information.
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