EP358 - Stephan Wiedner - How To Build A Better Workplace

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Yeah, sure. So I started my career straight out of university and I worked for a construction management company and our specialization, we are a small little group, we really focused on time management. So I'm sure many of your listeners are hyper-focused on cost management and there's many other people within the industry that work on that. We focused on time management and in particular,, critical path management, critical path scheduling. And so anyway, fast forward a few years, I got a bunch of years of experience and they, because we were so small, they threw me on a bunch of, relatively high profile projects, most of which were like conference centers or sports stadiums, that we helped schedule. And at the, towards the end of that end of my career, I was the head scheduler on a $100 million hospital. And so I found myself working. With and being responsible for the project completing on time and coordinating with 50 or so subtrades. So every— with everything from rebar to windows, exterior closure, fireproofing, et cetera, all these different subtrades. And I was responsible for making sure that the project ended on time. And it was a great responsibility. I was frequently in meetings with the head engineers and the