Strategies II News

At the March Employee Recognition event, the Mindset Team presented the Strategies II marketing brochure that defined the direction for the various Strategy Teams.  Included in the brochure was a letter from Leadership supporting increased participation. Embedded in the roll out of this brochure were specific change principles that Mindset Team was testing.  The success of change principles was measured by the growth in the membership of the Teams.  As of the April 16^th sign up deadline, 58% of all employees were participating in Strategies II, representing an increase of 19%.  The lessons the Mindset Team learned regarding change principles will be applied by other Teams in order to achieve similar benefits.

A forthcoming campaign is being launched by the Subcontractor Relationship Team.  In consideration that 85% of our project success depends on the performance of subs, we want to continue to improve our relationships with our subcontractors.  As a result, the goal of this campaign is to identify more “Power” subs with whom we need to further develop our relationship.

The Lean Team and Hagerman Institute are working together on the roll out of the new Quality Management Program.  Another forthcoming initiative of the Lean Team is a 2-day training opportunity to be conducted by WCM Associates.   A Lean Last Planner scheduling meeting took place on May 14 for the IUPUI Neurosciences Research project.  Hagerman is one of five prime contractors for this new job.

Lean Planning Meeting - 5/14

On May 3, the Client Focus Team and its Young Development Group conducted an informative seminar on Construction Financing led by Chase Bank and financial consultants Umbaugh.  The Client Focus team is also working with the Business Development Department supporting a new Business Development Program.

The Volunteer-Community Involvement Team has been active in both Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis.  In Ft. Wayne, this Team assisted Fort Wayne Community Schools with their referendum.  The Referendum was successful and this project represents $119 million of project opportunity for Hagerman.  Additionally, on April 28 Rebuilding Together was held in Indianapolis.  Hagerman has been involved with this community organization since the Indianapolis charter was formed, and this year two homes were removed through the effort of Hagerman employees.

A new community participation event called Canstruction will be announced in the near future.  The event will consist of a competition at the State Fair Groups where Contractor-Architect-Engineer teams build sculptures of cans of food.  For this event we are collaborating with Ratio Architects and C.E. Solutions; the employees of each firm will raise money for the cans of food that will then be donated to Gleaner’s Food Bank following the competition.

On a related initiative, congratulations to  Leigh Ann Leazier,  Tony Suter, and Glenn Gmitter for their success in the Ft. Wayne annual Earth Day competition.  This program, sponsored by THG Sustainability Department, included a photo scavenger hunt of “green” objects and activities.

For future blogs, we will have guest writers who will focus on the work of their individual Strategies II Teams.

Terry Greene
Executive Vice President