A systems approach to winning more work and increasing profits. What is the winner's curse? Whoever makes the biggest estimating mistake wins the job. First, the bad news: Successful companies rarely "buy work" through discounting. Profitability is not the reward for hard work, good intentions, or being a "good guy". Now, the good news: Profitability […]
What makes the best companies the best? Luck? Right time? Right place? Or is there more to it? The key to sustainable profit and results is a management team you can depend on freeing you to spend more time on strategic initiatives and business improvement. Imagine a company not constrained by your personal capacity. But […]
The key to sustainable profit and results is a management team you can depend on, freeing you to spend more time on strategic initiatives and business improvement. Highly-effective leaders have figured out how to get the very best out of their people and it starts with 20 minutes a day. You know the potential for […]
You know what needs to be changed in your company. So why is there such a huge gap between knowing what should be done and actually getting it in place and working?
Employees are often the single largest fixed expense to your business, critical to your success while also one of the most complex and challenging aspects to manage in any business. RBC is pleased to present an engaging and insightful discussion on the drivers of turnover, what “employee engagement” really is and most importantly, what you […]
You know what needs to be changed in your company. So why is there such a huge gap between knowing what should be done and actually getting it in place and working? When the dust of a change initiative settles, the only true measure of success is the improved performance generated by the new systems […]
While it takes at least 8 years of education and supervised practice to become a P.Eng., very little of that is dedicated toward developing an engineer's managerial capabilities. Why does it often feel like it is just "easier to do it myself" than assign it to someone else? What is the secret to working smarter […]
Unsure whether your investment in marketing is contributing to the bottom line? Marketing has strategic and tactical elements, but often in the construction and property management fields, the tasks of marketing get relegated to the tactics - tradeshows, websites, and brochure creation. Results become difficult to measure and companies are left wondering whether the line […]
