Home Dollars + Cents Efficiency Equipment Events People Sales Employee Bonuses: 6 Steps to Creating an Effective Bonus System Owners get paid when the business succeeds, therefore, they work harder. Employees get paid hourly – they might very well be motivated to work slower. Here’s an employee bonus system to help you bridge this gap. You know that if your people operated day in and day out like invested owners, instead of regular employees, your profits would likely be more than double what they are today.  Your job is to sell enough work.  MORE >>

For now, enjoy this article on the risks involved with employee social media use. You run a construction company and your employees use social media. How do my employees use social media? Employees can send designs, submit specifications, discuss on-site incidents, divulge bids, and enter into contracts – all through use of social media. You also understand the risks of permitting employees to have too much authority, or at least what is perceived as authority. Can I control how my employees use social media? There are some things to think about. MORE >>

Oct 15 Your Employee Manual — Time to Review and Update! Tweet We are rapidly approaching the time of year when you should review and update your employee manual. To begin, think back over everything that’s happened this year concerning your employees. Next, review your existing employee manual to make sure what is written is what you are doing. You want an updated employee manual complete so that when you start conducting your annual employee reviews, you can have them sign a new employee manual for next year. Great site. Or Fixing? MORE >>

Home Dollars + Cents Efficiency Equipment Events People Sales How Not to Manage your Employees There’s no denying the value of leaders. However, there’s a way to effectively “lead” employees and then there’s a way to push your employees out the door… Being the leader, foreman or supervisor is a challenging job. It takes certain qualities for a leader to effectively lead his or her employees and, therefore, the business to success. They serve as an effective way to not only lose your valued employees, but to set your business up for failure. MORE >>

Dec 8 Money Saving Tip #24 – Employee Issues Tweet If you have two or more employees who have trouble getting along, it is costing you money and probably lost time. Your business is more important that a squabble or personality problem between employees. Posted by Michael Stone Money Saving Tips 1 Comment on Money Saving Tip #24 – Employee Issues Mike Huntsinger says: December 14, 2010 at 5:28 pm Sometimes it’s a employee and owner issue. Using Gross Margin to Price Jobs? Do You Know Your Employees? Whats your opinion on this? MORE >>