Episodes

Nov. 11, 2020

Respect People, Respect the Work

Many people start with Lean tools first, most experienced practitioners later focus deeper on Lean thinking, values, and mindset. Stan Chiu is Director of Healthcare for Gensler’s Los Angeles Practice and is a leader in Lean Design and Integrated Project...

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Oct. 28, 2020

Scrum Beyond PDCA

Dr. Jeff Sutherland invented Scrum to help people make better stuff faster and have a good time doing it. Avi Schneier helps Jeff do that, specializes with Scrum outside of software, and shares how using Scrum with large firms led to the Scrum at Scale G...

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Oct. 10, 2020

Changing Mental Health at Work

Today is World Mental Health Day (10/10/2020) and The Easier, Better, for Construction Show BONUS episode is for us to see how to spot and help ourselves and others make building easier and better while improving our mental wellbeing. Michelle E. Dickins...

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Oct. 7, 2020

Building Team Culture with Positive Adaptation

Denis Stroup continues building upon nearly three decades of experience focusing on lean integrated project delivery and healthcare design. We explored how to build continuous improvement culture with owners and teams along with pivoting to overcome COVI...

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Sept. 23, 2020

Emotional Intelligence

Since 2000, Brent Darnell has been actively teaching #constructionindustry professionals people skills and emotional intelligence. He is a best-selling author, engineer, playwright, teacher, trainer, speaker & coach. We dive deep into how emotional intel...

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Sept. 9, 2020

Building Mental Health (Suicide Prevention)

Currently, the United States construction industry now leads with the highest suicide rate at 50 people taking their lives for every 100,000 industry workers according to the CDC. There are about 11 million industry workers as of 2019.Β  We share ideas to...

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Aug. 26, 2020

Make Work Visible

The ideas and actions that made it possible for an architect and general contractor to work happily together include thinking we have the power to make our work better and a knack for making it visible to let it flow easier. Can the Last Planner System (...

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Aug. 15, 2020

People First Construction - Stephanie Roldan

Stephanie Roldan and I explored the people side of construction, core values, mental health, Last Planner System/Pull Planning, and encouraging our kids to join our industry. If you underestimate your span of control and influence, this episode will reve...

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July 29, 2020

Disruption Has Arrived

The Easier, Better, for Construction Show is where people working to make building easier and better share how. Mike Williams and I explored Lean construction, Scrum, Prefabrication, construction software, Waste, Design Phase Planning, Problem-Solving, D...

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July 16, 2020

Construction Systems

Josh Mischung and I explored construction systems including economic incentives, work planning, profits, and safety. The Easier, Better, for Construction Show is where people working to make building easier, better, faster, and cheaper share how.

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