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The Construction Industry’s most complete reference!

Troubleshooting Your Contracting Business to Cause Success

By Charles Vander Kooi
$40
Over 600 Pages

The Estimating System, People Management, Goal Setting, Growing and Staffing Your Business. These are just a few of the topics discussed in great detail in this 600+ page manual written by the construction industry's leading motivational speaker and consultant.

Sections include:

• Charting the Right Course and Navigating with People. Provides insight on setting goals and visions for your company.

• The Trouble with People and Their Performance and What to Do About It! Bonus systems, different personalities that cost you money, and scheduling are just three of the eleven chapters discussing People
Management issues.

• Taking Care of Business! Are you Running It or Is It Running You? Are you Lean and Mean or Fat and Sassy? This section devotes over 100 pages to topics that include administrative systems, company worth, and the entire management process.

• Growing and Staffing Your Business. Everything you need to know about the risks and payoffs of growing your company.

• Troubleshooting the Estimating and Bidding Process. Charles provides his complete system of estimating from the importance of a strategy, to overhead allocation, to a sample bid.

• Food for Thought. Common problems, frustrations and solutions shared by hundreds of contractors worldwide.

 

An important guide to help you put together or improve your employee packet
The Employees Packet Sample

by Charles Vander Kooi
$13

This book contains info on:

• General company information
• Forms to be filled out by new employees
• Employee safety handbook
• Company rules and regulations
• Job descriptions

 

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AUDIO TAPES

 

People Management in Construction

2 tapes, Charles Vander Kooi - $40
Recorded live in Atlanta, this seminar has been ranked in the top five at the World of Concrete for 11 years running.

 

Estimating Strategy

1 tape, C. Vander Kooi - $25
This audiotape was recorded live at a convention for Canadian Contractors. It will give you insight and ideas about things you MUST consider in your estimating.

 

Seven Things You Need To Know to Build Good Relationships with Your Employees

1 tape, Charles Vander Kooi - $25
This is our latest seminar on tape. In it you will learn about Baby Boomers, and why they like T.Q.M. It also explains how to communicate better with your company, why understanding opposites are so important, and how to use different personalities to better your company.

 

How to Find, Train, Motivate, and Retain Employees
3 tapes, Monroe Porter - $59
Addressing proven recruiting methods, leadership skills, productivity enhancement, and motivational techniques, this program is designed for anyone who manages people. PROOF speakers have taught this program for over 45,000 people at numerous seminars and national conventions, and has proven to be a number one convention program.

 

How to Get the Job at Your Price

3 tapes, Monroe Porter - $59
This seminar teaches you to sell the value of your company rather than defend the cost of your work. The program emphasizes professional sales and marketing strategies that you can put to immediate use to avoid the price shopping rat race. Ideal for anyone who sells or presents your company to customers.

 

Making the Numbers Work

3 tapes, M. Porter - $59
This cassette program offers detailed solutions to the number one problem encountered by failure to charge enough and know the numbers. More than just an accounting program, it covers how lack of income and the stressful nature of an unsuccessful business affects family, personal, and professional life. The subject matter makes this program a must for owners, spouses, and partners of contracting firms.

 

Business Listening

1 tape, Monroe Porter - $29
This program offers proven techniques utilized by successful professionals such as therapists, policemen, doctors, sales and managers. Owners, administrators, sales people, foreman, service techs or any other employee who interacts with people will benefit by attending this workshop.

 

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VIDEO TAPES

 

People Management

2 videos - C. Vander Kooi - $59
Recorded live at a company meeting it is the same material covered in the audiotapes.

 

An Overview of an Estimating System

4 videos - Charles Vander Kooi - $99
Recorded live at one of Charles Vander Kooi’s estimating seminars.

 

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