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Build Show Podcast: Continuing Education for Builders and Their Teams
Overview
Watch this informative discussion of how to stay up-to-date on best practices and building science and how to keep your employees up to date as well.
On this episode of the Build Show Podcast, Matt and Will King of High Cotton Homes go deep into how to stay up-to-date on best practices and building science and how to keep your employees up to date as well.
Will shares how his quest for knowledge started in his firefighting career and how getting “outside the bubble” gave him broader opportunities to learn. They discuss continuing education and whether state requirements are enough, and how they, as business owners, can encourage their employees to be hungry to educate themselves.
Listen in as Matt and Will share their tools, go-to’s, and education best practices for themselves and their teams. And, stay tuned to The Build Show for more information on our upcoming original series, Building Science 101.
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