The Critical Path with Mary and Jason

This week, we’re talking about diversity in construction again. With the launch of our new Build the Circle scholarship program, we’re spending some time talking about the problem, as we see it, and the logic that went into our approach at one solution. If you have ever felt like things aren’t right in this industry, but you have no idea how to go about making a change, this episode may be relevant to your interests! We talk about: Some of the more subtle forms of bias All of the voices that

This week, we’re taking another dive into our new model of organizational change, the newly named “Groundswell Theory.” As we prepare to roll out our new PM Basic Training program in a couple of weeks, we wanted to spend some time talking through the details of the framework that supports all of our construction training, Arcade’s Project Life Cycle. We talk about • Phases of a construction project • Construction Processes • Roles on a project • The Steps of each Process • Why understandin

This week, we are talking about growth, hiring and promotion – all of the ways that a company gets an infusion of fresh blood. Of course, being the nerds that we are, we went ahead and made the vampire analogy. We talk about: • Promoting from within the company • Hiring people from outside the company • Sources of new talent and information • Case study of companies who get left behind • How to promote from within the right way • How to make sure you are still bringing new knowledge and i

This week on The Critical Path, we are talking about a subject that is at the center of a great deal of stress and drama in the industry – Value Engineering. We talk about: •What Value Engineering is and who is benefits • Understanding which pieces of the puzzle are immovable • Understanding the role of the building life cycle in Value Engineering • ‘Smart Value’ Engineering • Finding more appropriate products or applying the economy of scale • Cutting Scope / Quantity • Cutting Profit L

Last year, just before Covid hit, we recorded an episode about how to manage schedule in construction. The plan was to record a second part to that episode where we addressed how to handle impacts to the schedule, once it was all built out. Now that we’re getting back on track with the podcast, we thought it might be a good time to revisit that subject and finally talk more about managing impacts from the field perspective and from the office perspective. We talk about: • The importance of un

It’s been a while since we have made an episode of The Critical Path, but we’re back and we have lots to talk about! After a long break to think about our business, our podcast, and what’s next for Arcade and The Critical Path, we’re talking this week about what’s been going on, and how we’re changing our whole outlook on Organizational Change. Stay tuned! The post Episode 74 – Now What? appeared first on Arcade Construction Academy.