Title: The Construction Skills Gap with Chrissi McCarthy

Duration: 1:53 minutes

Description:

An industry expert viewpoint video covering the skills gap in construction with Managing Director of Constructing Equality, Chrissi McCarthy.

The Construction Skills Gap with Chrissi McCarthy Transcript

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The Construction Skills Gap with Chrissi McCarthy

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Chrissi McCarthy

Managing Director

Constructing Equality

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Chrissi McCarthy

We’re an industry that’s very focused on task and we get very good at putting different measurements and processes in place to improve task time and time again.

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One of the things that we don’t spend as much attention looking at is people: how people communicate, how people act, how people manage one another.

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And so what that means is when we’re promoting people from trades, up into management roles, they often don’t have that skills base.

And essentially, we are an industry of managing people. And if we don’t have that skillset it’s, for me, what is causing some of the biggest challenges in the sector at the moment.

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According to Shell’s Powering Peak Performance report, 42% of construction managers face a lack of expertise or training.

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Chrissi McCarthy

For me, the key point in that is people training, management training, leadership training.

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And not just a couple of days course somewhere that people are going to forget within two weeks, but actually a blended learning approach that enables people to really update, use and continue their skills and see the benefit of them as well.

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Modern Working in Construction

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Are there different ways of working?

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Chrissi McCarthy

Can we think about how to timeshare, remote work.

I know a lot of people don’t think that can be done on sites but actually it has been.

It’s been piloted successfully and I think that’s one of the key things we need to think about working towards.

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Women in Construction

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The way to keep more women in the sector is pretty much the way to keep more people in the sector.

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We need to improve the way that we manage people, that we treat people and that we think about our staff.

In environments where people feel the organisation is fair, and is just, and will look after them

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we tend to act in a much more collective manner.

And that means that we want to help other people, because we see what’s good for others is as good for the business and therefore is good for us.

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