Following on from the last episode of Property Done Properly on Leadership Styles, Ian concentrates more specifically on the built environment and the challenges and benefits regarding the leadership within construction. He will cover how good leaders can improve the industry, capability and scaling up, finding the best people, inspiring your team with the vision, frequent and effective communication, enabling and empowering your workforce, deepening your knowledge with questions and review, making decisions based on available insights and data and becoming a strong leader.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The most potent challenges are balancing technical abilities and leadership skills. You need to come from a basis of substantive knowledge.
- Good leaders can improve the industry with the right people with the right core values, a strong strategy that differentiates you from the companies they compete with, a drive to deliver with flawless execution and good time management.
- Having the right mix of in-house capability and reliable top-grade vendors can ensure success with a dependable strong team.
- As a leader, the team relies on you to set the vision of the project and communicate to motivate their activities. A strategic vision shared by all will require your communication skills as a leader.
- A good leader needs to enable and empower their workforce to succeed. They need the resources and support they need to do their best work. Empower your team to make problem-solving decisions.
- Work to develop a deeper understanding of the project that you're working on. Understand how each team's objectives play into completing the project effectively.
- Leaders must make effective decisions when unexpected problems arise. Your ability to assess a problem and its potential impact on the project and work independently, or with your team, to mitigate the issue is a key aspect of great leadership.
BEST MOMENTS
‘The Construction Industry is one of the most costly and risky endeavours that you can probably undertake. It is also technically demanding and commonly involves long time frames. From inception to realisation can be many, many years.’
‘Unfortunately within the construction industry in particular there are a lot of dictatorial type leadership styles, managed by fear, control and that sort of thing.’
‘Clear and concise communication can improve teamwork and project collaboration. Poor communication can lead to confusion and misunderstandings causing delays and issues in the project process.’
‘It will grow them as individuals so that you can grow as a team. I was always taught that you can’t go to the next stage in your career until you’ve got somebody in your team who is capable of doing your current job.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE HOST
Ian Rogers is an entrepreneur running businesses in the Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management arena. Ian has over 40 years’ industry experience, as he was effectively born into construction with his father having his own building company and Ian spending time working on sites from the age of 11!. As a result Ian has seen the industry from a trades person perspective, as a chartered quantity surveyor working on large commercial projects, as a project manager and then working on structured project finance through PFI/PPP deals. This has given Ian a unique whole-life approach to any project by considering the end game at the beginning.
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