Contractor Quick Tools

Recruiting is the biggest challenge facing the industry and everybody is talking about the ‘non-existent labor pool’ and ‘entitled workers,’ yadda, yadda, yadda. You’ve heard the complaints. There are always ‘A’ players looking for great opportunities.

The life of a busy entrepreneur is chaotic / tiring / nonstop [insert your adjective here]. And when you operate in that zone, often stuck in the weeds, without a bigger picture to anchor your direction and plans around, you leave yourself exposed.

Stop hiring people just because they have a heartbeat, a pair of steel toe boots, and you’re behind on work. Making quick hires today KILLS your ability to ever build a business that scales with an A-Player team.

Employment Agreements: Everybody needs them, but nobody wants to write them… are you feeling this? Without a clear employment agreement for every role in your company you’re constantly clarifying who does what, and undoubtedly dealing with a lot of finger pointing.‍

The #1 complaint from new staff is that they don’t receive proper training. I mean, you showed them what to do and left them with the right tools – what else do they need? It’s time to up your training game so that you can retain productive employees. In this tool you’ll get a structured system to train great staff and keep them around for the long term.

Imagine if you always knew your margins; every week, every month, every quarter! Time to quit holding your breath and waiting for your bookkeeper to tell you if you made money (#FinancialRoulette). You can’t manage what you don’t measure, so get your numbers ready…

What’s your vision for the company, where do you want to be in 5, 10, 15 years? If the answer is, you’re not alone! Running a business is intense, and full of curveballs; making big moves without a strategic plan leaves you open to emotional decision making – no bueno.

Being an owner is often a crazy balancing act between managing your role and pieces of everybody else’s role on your team. 70-hour work weeks, estimate all-nighters, and missed sales calls while you’re too busy on the jobsite. Bluntly put, it’s mayhem…and it’s not sustainable. When you’re busy doing 101 things, it’s easy to lose sight of what you should be doing: running the company.

The game is changing, and fast.

Contractors who invest in building their tech stack have a huge advantage over their competitors when so much of the industry is still doing things manually. However, there is a closing window of opportunity on this.Read More+Download Tool Here

It’s the Wild West out there when it comes to compensation plans: they’re too complex to understand, bonuses are too small for staff to care, incentives don’t align with the company goals, or there simply aren’t any perks at all. For these reasons, pay is an incredibly hot topic in contractor forums… How much are people paying their staff? What do the compensation plans look like?