This past month, I introduced an interoffice training session on how to be a moneymaking design-build engineer, facility engineer, and/or project manager. In preparing for the training session, I wanted to find an analogy for employees to relate to, one that would get each of them to better understand how they could improve their business performance, job after job after job.
I'm not a big fan of professional sports. Watching millionaires play games and then complain about their mundane problems is not something I have a lot of interest in doing, but sports is a great analogy for training people in the design-build-facility management (D-B-FM) business. After all, like sports, D-B-FM is a competition you need to go out and win on a regular basis.