You built a business before. Now you’re doing it again in a new market, and the ground keeps shifting under you. Maybe you ran a successful contracting operation somewhere else and moved provinces or countries. Maybe you came in through an immigration program...
Focus In Chaos: How High Performers Stay Focused In Chaos by a Workplace Coach in Edmonton There is a particular kind of exhaustion that business owners know all too well. Your phone starts ringing before you have finished your first coffee. An employee needs an...
You won the job, and then the job ate your margin. The estimate looked fine when it went out the door. Nobody checked it hard, because nobody had the time, and the estimator who built it was the same person who signed off on it. That is the gap. Most construction...
You are winning work. The crew is busy. The invoices are going out. So why does month-end feel like a fog, and why can you never say with confidence what a job actually made? That gap is a bookkeeping problem, and for trades businesses it is one of the most expensive...
You built the crew. Now the work has softened, or the structure has to change, and you are the one who has to tell someone their seat is gone. Nobody trains a trades owner for that conversation, and doing it wrong is expensive twice: once in a wrongful dismissal...