Construction should adopt a coaching style of management to make every person count

By Dave Stitt 2023-04-25T06:00:00

Construction still suffers from a culture more likely to turn workers away than encourage new recruits. Dave Stitt says this has to change.

I get cross when I hear it said that the industry needs so many thousand more workers within the next few years or we are all doomed. It’s not the industry that needs talented staff – “the industry” is an abstraction; it doesn’t care who works in it. Instead, it is companies that need talent – and your company included.

Nor is it the fault of the industry that talented young people avoid construction. That is down to the leadership of the companies lacking sufficient talent.

“The industry” cannot do anything about it because it has no agency or guiding mind. Only companies can.

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