The Building Podcast
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, vice-chair at Constructing Excellence Midlands and a Governor at Construction College, Moulton College. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide CPD on the go. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast
Mark talks to Sara Barnes
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One in four employees in the construction sector identify as neuro-divergent, meaning that they believe that they think differently, their memory works in a different way and they communicate differently to the norm. These people may be neuro-diverse, responding in a different way to the stimuli that we use at work and the traditional management techniques that used to be commonplace within the sector.
Sara Barnes, Pre-construction & Marketing Manager at regional contractor Interclass has been steering a programme of training on neuro-diversity within construction. She has been on her own journey of discovery and in this podcast she explains the value of diversity within the industry and the tangible benefits of addressing this diversity in the way that we manage our fellow workers. Sara is passionate about the industry and believes that if we can treat people as individuals, providing reasonable measures to support effective and efficient working practices, the companies will reap the rewards. Her message is really important at a time when the sector is short of some 250,000 people and we have some of the worst mental health results of any industry.
Listen if you want to be positive about the outlook for employing people and want to better understand the power of thinking differently and how to manage it.
Construction | Surfacing | Civil Engineering Contractor | Interclass