Presentation by Chrissi McCarthy Managing Director at Constructing Equality Ltd at the 2017 COMIT Annual Conference 'Mobilising Digital Assets', to be held at The Building Centre in London on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th of May 2017. More information: http://www.comit.org.uk/live-blog-comit2017

1. Taking Control of your Professional
Development
(The Untaught Secrets of
Progression)

2. Chrissi McCarthy
• Bsc (Hons) Construction Management.
• PG Dip in Equality & Diversity.
• Over 10 years on Site.
– Site Manager
– Setting-Out Engineer
– QS
• 6 Years working in Diversity and Training
• Worked with a wide range.
– CITB
– Vinci
– Salford University
– CIOB
– Taylor Wimpey
– Derbyshire County Council
– Liverpool Community College
Articles in trade magazines.
Presentations to industry
and academia.
Represents industry on
boards for CIC, Industry and
CIOB.
On Construction Strategic
workforce group.
Created the BE FAIR
framework for CITB

3. Why is this subject important to me?
• 10 years in industry
• I loved my roles
• Did not love my experience
• Equality work did not help
• Equality work often made things worse
• I wanted to find out how to really improve the
experience of minority groups in industry so that we
can retain them.

4. Constructing Equality
Constructing Equality looks at how
companies can improve the
experience of its employees
Constructing Careers is an initiative
of Constructing Equality that
focuses on the individual
Our aim is to bridge the gap
between employee perception and
organisational need
Culture
Individual
More
Effective
Organizations

5. Do women have a different
experience in construction to men?
• Average stay of five years
• Assumptions of others
• Protective paternalism
• Overlooked for promotion
• Being the right kind of woman
• Drip, drip, drip

6. Can we overcome this difference?
• Measure
• Stay and fail
• Learn
• Plan
• Support

7. Only women, only construction?
• No.
• More likely does not mean only
• Tailored to your needs

8. Our proven solution
• Trained thousands of employees over ten years
• Exemplary feedback
• Over 80% go on to promotion within 6 months.
Why our solution can help
• Focuses on the individual.
• Can identify skills gaps.
• Provides structured training.
• Measures progress via an online tool.
• Helps to develop long term habit building.
Based on academia and lived experience

9. Target
Your Gaps
Change TACK

10. Target
Your Gaps
Access
Your Training
Change TACK

11. Target
Your Gaps
Access
Your Training
Certify
Your Progress
Change TACK

12. Target
Your Gaps
Access
Your Training
Certify
Your Progress
Keep
Your Account
Change TACK

13. How do we do this?
7-8-9 System

14. 7 Topic Strands

15. 8 Focus Areas
• Identify your image
• Determine how you want to be seen
• Establish change that needs to happen
• Language – what do you tell people
• Physical Image – how do you present to people
• Behaviours – what do you show people
• Reactions – how do you react to people/events
• Maintenance – Habit forming

16. 9 Development Activities
Identify
your
image
• Visual – clothes, hair, etc.
• Non-verbal communication
• Voice – pitch, tone and speed
• Language – content
• Written communications
• Time-keeping
• Approach
• Expectation management
• Overall reputation

17. Workshops & Events
• Personalised gap analysis
• Topic strand overviews
• Focus area goal setting
• Progress monitoring
• Our contact org service
• Specialist topic events
• Industry specific sessions
• Bespoke team workshops
Upcoming Events
• Manchester – w/c 24th July
• London – w/c 7th August
• Birmingham – w/c 21st August
• Glasgow – w/c 11th September
Contact us to register your
interest
Brian@careercontruct.co.uk

18. Coming in September 2017

19. Call
• Companies to pilot
• Early interest from individuals

20. Want to learn more?
• Visit: http://www.careerconstruct.co.uk
• Email: chrissi@careerconstruct.co.uk