In this episode of Ask Brock, National Driller contributor Brock Yordy advises a family drilling business on how to stay competitive and versatile with new equipment.

National Driller has partnered with frequent contributor and global drill trainer Brock Yordy to develop a new video series.

In this episode of our new video series, Brock Yordy discusses the challenges of hiring good, hard-working hands that can stay with a company for the long term.

Success as a small business owner which, let's be honest, most contractors are, often relies on facing and overcoming our limiting beliefs.

In the first edition of our new video series, contributor Brock Yordy addresses adding new technology and methods to an already strong family drilling business.

Every profession, especially a niche field like drilling, has tricks or jargon that everyone assumes everyone else knows. But, if you missed it during training, specialty knowledge veers quickly into "too embarrassed to ask" territory.

You travel long distances for jobs and stay days, or even weeks, away from home to finish a project. Are you making time to take care of yourself?

Henry Ford once said, "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." When you fall short, do you reflect on the failure and learn from it?

We live in a society that tends to embrace and even thrive on the polarization of issues, methods and standards that are not as black and white as one would be led to believe.

If you have a skilled employee who seems like a good candidate to strike out on his or her own, try encouragement — especially if you don’t see a clear path up for that person.