Crushing It In Construction

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I'm your host and this week I am chatting with Phil Chapman, Managing Director of CMW Geosciences. 

Now, CMW  is spread across Australia and New Zealand with over 200 people and I thought it would be good to chat with Phil because they've recently added a people and culture person to their staff and they're seeing some really great results. 

On this episode, Phil and I talk about why they decided to hire a people and culture person, some of the things that they've been implementing and we also talk about whether hiring for this people and culture position actually makes sense for everybody or just some businesses 

Let's get into the show.

CONTACT DETAILS:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-chapman-a7782213/
Website: https://www.cmwgeosciences.com/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I'm your host, and this week I'm chatting with Shivendra Kumar. Shiv is a business advisor and he specializes in helping small - medium sized construction companies maximize their growth potential. 

He is also the host of the Competitive Contractor podcast. 

Now because we are rapidly approaching the new financial year Shiv and I thought it'd be appropriate to dive into the topic of business strategy. We talk about why companies should develop a strong strategy, how to actually do it and what success should look like coming out the other side, if it's done well. 

There's a lot of great stuff in this episode Shiv shares some really good information, so let's get into the episode.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Shivendra Kumar
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivendra-kumar/
Website: https://shivendra.com/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Hello everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of Crushing It In Construction. My name is Jordan Skinner, I am your host, and this week I am chatting with Michelle Blicavs from the Association Of Consulting Surveyors.

Michelle is the CEO of the association and in this episode we talk about how effectively telling your company's story can really help to attract and retain more high quality talent.

This is a topic I'm very passionate about, which isn't surprising considering what my company does. But I truly love this industry and at the minute we have people leaving in droves.  I believe we need to do a lot more to attract people to our companies, we need to do a lot more to retain people at our companies and the natural byproduct of being able to do this will just be an overall boost in interest in our industry.

I really enjoyed chatting with Michelle,  she's a really interesting woman she shared a lot of value and wisdom in this episode, I think you're going to get a lot out of it so let's get into the show.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Michelle Blicavs
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleblicavs/
Website: https://www.acsnsw.com.au/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Welcome to this week's episode of Crushing It In Construction. My name's Jordan Skinner, I am your host, and this week I am chatting to Jarrad Clift from Lucid Consulting. Jarrad is the CEO of Lucid and in this episode, we talk about his journey and how he actually became the CEO. 

Lucid started off as a relatively small operation based out of Adelaide, but today they have over 250 people and they are scattered all over the country. I really enjoyed this conversation, Jarrad is a really insightful and interesting bloke. 

Let's get into the show.  

CONTACT DETAILS:

Jarrad Clift
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarrad-clift-13662755/
Website: https://lucidconsulting.com.au/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. I'm your host, Jordan Skinner, and this week I am chatting to Grant Hailes of Beveridge Williams.

Grant is the managing director of Beveridge Williams and he has worked at the company for pretty much his entire career. In that time, he's obviously seen all of the company's up's and downs and no doubt, he has witnessed all of the wins that the companies had along the way.

But in todays episode Grant speaks with us about why Beveridge Williams became employee owned, the benefits of it and how other companies can do it as well.

CONTACT DETAILS:
Grant Hailes
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-hailes-309a9939/
Website: https://beveridgewilliams.com.au/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website:  https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Hello everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. I'm your host Jordan Skinner, and this week I'm chatting with Gerry Doyle from Tonkin Engineering. 

Now, right out of the gate, I'd just like to thank Gerry for his patience when recording this episode, because we had to actually record the entire thing twice due to some technical issues.

I'm really glad we did manage to get this episode recorded because we speak about an extremely important topic, which is mental health within the construction industry. Gerry was open and honest enough to talk about his own battles with depression and he also shared with us his views on how dealing with depression himself has actually shaped the way that he runs Tonkin as a company today.

So I think there's something for everybody to learn within this episode. Let's get into the show. 

CONTACT DETAILS:

Gerry Doyle
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerry-doyle/
Website: https://tonkin.com.au/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Hello everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. I'm your host Jordan Skinner, and this week I am chatting to Dion Killiby from Western Project Services.

Dion has a really interesting story, he comes from a family of writers and academics and he said that he was kind of the black sheep in the family and that doing things like starting a business and running a business was just not something that you did in his family.

He did it anyway, and he actually went on to build the business to a point where it was a saleable asset, and late last year he sold the company.

In this episode, Dion shares with us his journey, how he went about selling the company and he shares with us what things businesses should be doing to try and prepare for a successful sale as well.

CONTACT DETAILS:
Dion Killiby
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dionkilliby/
Website: https://www.westernprojectservices.com.au/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Hello everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of Crushing It In Construction. My name's Jordan Skinner,  I am your host and this week I'm speaking with the CEO of the Australian Constructors Association, John Davies.

John and I had a really cool conversation and I enjoyed our time together. We touched on a range of topics, including things like, why are we seeing so many insolvencies at the minute, we spoke about their FAIR Program which is an initiative to bring forward a national consistent approach to implementing broad industry reforms.

We also touched on why we're not seeing enough women entering the construction industry and the labor shortages in general. All in all, basically what we tried to do was solve the world's problems in a 30 minute podcast.

I hope you enjoy listening to the conversation let's get into the show.

CONTACT DETAILS:
Jon Davies
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceoofaca/
Website: https://www.constructors.com.au/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I am your host, and this week I'm speaking with Dawn Watt.

Dawn has a really interesting journey, she is originally from Canada and she moved to Newcastle just over 20 years ago and she is now the CEO of Coffey Testing. But she never actually intended on becoming a CEO until a friend told her that all of her attributes, all of the things that make her her would really be suited to completing an MBA.

It was during this time that she discovered her passion for people and for management. Coffey Testing has a really good track record for promoting its employees through the ranks and in this episode, Dawn shares with us how they've been able to make that so successful and what you can do within your company to help the people that you promote be as successful as possible in their new role.

I really think you're going to get some valuable information out of this episode, let's get into the show

CONTACT DETAILS:

Dawn Watt
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-watt/
Website: https://coffeytesting.com.au/

Jordan Skinner
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/

Hello everybody and welcome back to episode number 10 of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I am your host and this week I had the pleasure of speaking with Susie Pascoe. Susie is the group managing director of Sterling Infrastructure, and Sterling is a leading provider of asset management services to the transport infrastructure sector.

 Susie and her husband purchased the company when it only had six employees and started officially running the company in 2010. Since then they've managed to grow the company to over 250 people and take it Australia wide.

In this episode she shares her journey, how she got into the industry and some of the challenges that they had to overcome along the way.

One of the great things about Susie is she has an undeniable passion for the rail sector.
And after listening to her speak on this podcast, I think you'll actually start falling in love with rail as well. I know I did.

I think you're really going to love this episode and enjoy what she has to say so let's get into the show

CONTACT DETAILS:

Susie Pascoe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susiepascoe/
Website: https://www.sterling.com.au/

Jordan Skinner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-skinner-685439178/
Website: https://moonshotmedia.com.au/