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With Michael Baer from Sunland Asphalt
Let’s take an industry that is not known for an incredibly uplifting or encouraging culture and mix it with a niche that is hard to hang with for a number of reasons, and we have ourselves an uphill battle when it comes to fostering an empowering and career-boosting environment. This is one of the most important factors when we choose jobs in this era. We’re looking for where we will feel valued and taken-care-of, and with present business saturation, we don’t really have to settle for less anymore.
Asphalt work is among the trickiest of the facility management niches to work within. Not only are we struggling with our main topic, company culture, which we will cover below, but we also fight against external factors like ever-changing safety regulations, weather, other subcontractors working on the larger project, and the list goes on. But there are several elements we can control, and one of the most impactful of those is workplace environment.
With a severe lack of people going into the construction industry as our biggest strategic weakness in growth, how do we make our company stand out as an amazing place to work and thrive? Sunland Asphalt, where our special guest, Michael Baer works, openly strives to be “The best place in the world to work.” That’s a high standard, but we believe that anyone can get there by doing a few key things:
We believe that by following these 5 rules, we can retain our good people and weed out those who will not match these values and help us reach our goals. These are Michael and Sean’s best pointers for building an amazing company culture. Comment below and tell us yours!
Sunland Asphalt has been around for over 40 years. It is still run by its original founder, which it truly something they can boast about. They have moved from a one-man operation doing seal-coated striping to around 600 employees doing about $200 million in asphalt maintenance a year across 38 states. Right from the root of the company, they have worked with large facility management companies and they pride themselves on company culture and making that the top priority as they grow
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With Michael Baer from Sunland Asphalt
Let’s take an industry that is not known for an incredibly uplifting or encouraging culture and mix it with a niche that is hard to hang with for a number of reasons, and we have ourselves an uphill battle when it comes to fostering an empowering and career-boosting environment. This is one of the most important factors when we choose jobs in this era. We’re looking for where we will feel valued and taken-care-of, and with present business saturation, we don’t really have to settle for less anymore.
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