Linda Case, CRA, is founder of Remodelers Advantage Inc. in Laurel, Md., a company providing business solutions through a network of experts and peers. 301.490.5620; linda@remodelersadvantage.com; www.remodelersadvantage.com.
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Your company's growing and you're faced, again, with the prospect of sifting through resumes, interviewing, and hiring. Hiring shouldn't be a chore; it's an opportunity--a time to define the job as well as the attitude and values we want and to find the very best fit.
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By Linda Case. This month, I'd like to share some ways companies prevent themselves from getting stuck at the design stage. You will not only be imposing client discipline, you'll be imposing discipline on your company not to wallow in the design swamp as so many companies do.
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A few remodelers could operate in either style if they knew which best served the client's needs. This discussion unearthed another key nugget: In build/design, budget is king.
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You can take the following quiz in approximately 10 seconds. If you answer yes to the three questions, you may not need to read any further. If any of your answers are no, you should keep going.
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Supervisors and supervised often dread performance reviews. Make sure your feedback is not only about results but attitude -- that is, the employee's acceptance of core company values.
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Yet it's so easy to fritter away the client's trust and affection during the last 2% of the job, even though we may have been heroes for the first 98%. Here's a question to ask yourself: Would your company handle punch lists more expeditiously if your draw schedule gave you 10% of the money on...
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Shared values attract people and hold them together as a group. There are few magic bullets in the consulting business, but this is one of them: You need to take the positive atmosphere you've developed in your company and the solid values you insist your staff work by and turn them into a system...
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When you start out in business, you tend to measure employees strictly by results. The first is actual results in their job and the second is their attitude toward the job, or their buy-in to the company's culture. How would you rate your current staff on the results they achieve and the attitude...
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This is what business teachers mean when they talk about "Vitamin P," that is, the power of praise in a business environment, said to be five times more effective than criticism in training employees.Advantage Inc. in Fulton, Md., a company providing business solutions through a network of experts...