by FLCC Team | Jun 12, 2025 | Construction Leadership
Recently I was listening to a news segment entitled “The Family Behind Father’s Day”.From it I learned that although Father’s Day was first celebrated in 1910, it did not become a national holiday until 1972. Sonora Smart Dodd, who initiated and petitioned for the...
by FLCC Team | Apr 8, 2025 | Career Development, Construction Industry
March 20, 2025, marked the first day of spring this year from an astronomical perspective; from a meteorological perspective, spring is defined as March 1–May 31 each year. This day is defined as when the vernal equinox, which occurs when the earth’s axis is not...
by FLCC Team | Mar 19, 2025 | Career Development, Construction Industry
Wow, the first quarter of 2025 is coming to an end, and LinkedIn currently lists 26,000 construction-related job openings across Florida. I often talk about wishing we had a cloning machine to duplicate the hundreds of construction management professionals we’ve...
by FLCC Team | Mar 5, 2025 | Construction Industry, Workplace Behaviors
I will never forget the day in the 2002 when Dan Shaw, then president and CEO of our local chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, took me to lunch to recruit me to help launch a Women’s Council for the chapter. My initial thought was, Am I really the right...
by FLCC Team | Feb 12, 2025 | Construction Industry, Workplace Behaviors
Last month, my team and I led an interactive presentation highlighting the magnificence of the construction industry and exploring the many career opportunities, directly and indirectly, that students can consider as they further pursue their professional paths. Each...
