I talked with one of our coaching clients earlier this week. He came to us about two months ago looking for help to get out of the doldrums that had infected his company and so many other contractors recently.
He was determined to turn his company around, so he implemented most if not all of the [...]
Continue reading: Construction Business Coaching Results in a Win
I was reading Builder Online Magazine this morning and came across an article talking about the crunch many builders and remodelers are going through right now. In part, it said:
Veterans look at the rookies and shake their heads. “They’ve never been through a downturn,” they say, wise from years of ups and downs. “They’ll never [...]
Continue reading: Builders and remodelers – surviving a downturn
Quick spot check about employees. Are they doing the job you hired them to do?
Are jobs getting done on time or ahead of schedule?
Do they show up for work on time?
Do they keep the morning and afternoon breaks to 10 minutes max?
Do they spend time talking to the customers that should be spent working?
How much [...]
Continue reading: Employee Issues – Importance of an Employee Manual
I was reading Builder Online Business Update recently and came across this post.
Sales of Existing Homes Dip in 41 StatesSales of existing homes fell in 41 states during the April-June quarter while home prices were down in one-third of the metropolitan areas surveyed, a real estate trade group reported last week. The new figures from [...]
We have discussed Change Work Orders for several years now, but new stuff keeps cropping up. Let’s take a look at some of the new things that have come our way.
First – We continue to hear from contractors that insist on sending out invoices and bills for their work, and that includes CWO’s. Sooner [...]
In August I served as expert witness on a new home project. It was another situation of a homeowner deciding to wait until the job was almost complete, then start playing the “we are not going to pay you because blah, blah, blah.” This project was done in 2002 to 2004.
The contractor, after trying several [...]
