Articles Tagged with ''Leadership and HVACR''

Want to motivate your team? Start by saying “Thank you.” When was the last time you walked around your business and genuinely thanked the people who work for you?

As contractors look to expand or simply replace a worker, those with U.S. military experience may have just the skills and attitude you’re looking for.

In business, we hear a lot of quotes about time. What I would ask you to do right now, is focus on your time. As the leader of your team, your company, your family, your community, what do you spend your time doing?

Tattoos, piercings, suggestive clothing, and other employee wardrobe choices can present sticky issues for employers. While companies generally have wide latitude to create and enforce dress codes, they may face unexpected landmines if they don’t plan ahead and consider the implications of their dress codes policies, or lack thereof.

I recently got a call from friend who is in the HVAC, plumbing and electrical supply business. He asked what my thoughts were on what a supplier’s most marketable skill was to the contractors they serve.

Regardless of the line of work, a company’s biggest and most persistent challenge often revolves around adapting to and implementing technology.

The Internet has made it easy to craft and manage a personal brand. If you want to show up high in search engine results when someone looks for you online, a professional biography is fast becoming a requirement for today’s business executive.

If you have a hard time relating to people in your HVAC company, maybe it’s not what they’re saying, or even how they are saying it, but actually how you are listening. This is especially true with feedback on you or your team.

Maria Blase, president of the HVAC and Transport Solutions Latin America business of Ingersoll Rand, has been announced as a winner of Diversity Journal’s 13th annual Women Worth Watching Award. Blase is among 160 executives chosen for the honor and is featured in Diversity Journal’s September/October issue.

Despite society’s growing acceptance of tattoos and piercings, several HVAC contractors still consider them to be deal breakers when interviewing potential employees.