The Contractor's Business Coach

SantaBarbara, CA 93101

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Interviewing for fit is a bit of a learned skill. It requires you to get the interviewee talking openly in a very relaxed manner. You need to ask very open ended questions. You need to share minimal information about the job and your company prior to getting to know the person.
How to Interview Potential Employees to See if They Fit the Job
Proper job costing, efficient review of scope and accounting for all project costs are three key elements to making sure your construction estimator does not blow a bid.
How to Keep From Blowing Construction Bids
Profit is the score to watch. If you are legitimately hitting 10% bottom line profit you are winning. If you are overly 10% you are approaching best in class.
Treat Your Business Like a Game
You must treat the high achiever differently than the rest of your staff. You need to create growth opportunities for them. You need to give them the assignments they want.
How to Manage High Achievers
Building a sellable business isn't a sprint, it's a marathon that takes patience, persistence and an unwavering focus on the final goal.
Building a Sellable Business Takes Patience and Persistence
It takes multiple people performing the everyday business tasks in order for your business to have work to put in and to get the work in.
It Takes a Team To Build a Business
Use a five-point scale to help measure employee performance with 1 meaning frequent failure, 3 as average and acceptable performance, and 5 meaning near perfect performance.
Why It's Important to Measure Employee Performance
Tablets don't contain spinning hard drives so they are considerably more durable than computers. You can buy them with cell network access so your foremen will always be able to transmit the field information back to the office.
Putting Tablets To Work In The Field
Success starts with a sound strategy. You need to be chasing work that you have a competitive advantage for over most of your competition.
4 Critical Success Factors
You have to make sure you are inspecting the right things because looking at the wrong things can pose a threat to your business.
Inspect What You Expect
8 Ways to Retain Your Best Customers
If you are going to grow your business, keep it profitable, and free yourself from it, your team is going to have to stay disciplined to the best practice systems.
Tips to Keep Employees Disciplined to Follow Systems
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