What are systems you can use to eliminate tire kickers, close more sales, eliminate chaos, and boost profits?  Here are 5 questions from podcast listeners that will help you.

Questions I answer in this construction podcast episode:

1. How do we do job cost tracking so we can check it with our original estimate and know if we are estimating correctly and making a profit?
2. I want to polish our whole business up.  Where should I start?
3. We need a process for how to pass projects from sales to project management.
4. What are pricing strategies and ways to close more sales?  Many times I lose jobs because I am either priced too high or because someone else was referred...and I was found on the web.
5. How do I eliminate tire kickers?

Resources and tools mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Companycam - Get your free trial + 50% off your first two months at https://companycam.com/cle

Systematize Your Construction Business - Free Video Series - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com 

The ADVANCE: Bottom Line Growth Hacks & Secrets for Builders and Contractors - Live Event - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/advance

How did Joel make the jump from electrician to business owner?How did an "epic failure" set him up for success? How can commitment be infectious?

What you'll get out of this construction podcast episode:

• What does Joel mean, "the only way out is through?"
• How your commitment level can be infectious.
• One question that's better than, "what can I do?"
• The difference between crockpot and microwave thinking.
• Why you can never really be fully prepared to own a construction business.
• The surprising parallels between marriage and business.
• Why Joel's advice to his 20 year old self would be, "You're the problem."

Resources and tools mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Companycam - Get your free trial + 50% off your first two months at https://companycam.com/cle

Systematize Your Construction Business - Free Video Series - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com 

The ADVANCE: Bottom Line Growth Hacks & Secrets for Builders and Contractors - Live Event - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/advance

 

How you can contact Joel Krugjohann:

www.urbanknox.net

joel(at)urbanknox.net

 

The Vietnam war, and one commanding officer in particular, had a great influence on Greg Howell, one of the founding fathers of Lean Construction.

 

What you'll get out of this construction podcast episode:

• How the Lean Construction movement got started.
• Greg's experience as a Navy SeaBee, and how that influenced Lean.
• The impact of one commanding officer's leadership style, and how it changed Greg's approach to leadership.
• The books he recommends that you read
• A few paradigm shifts that construction leaders need to make.
• The difference between an order and a promise.
• One unexpected benefit of Lean principles that he can't quite explain yet.
• Why he only gave a few orders as a commanding officer in Vietnam...and one of them involved a monkey.

Resources and tools mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Companycam - Get your free trial + 50% off your first two months at www.companycam.com/cle

Systematize Your Construction Business - Free Video Series - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com 

The ADVANCE: Bottom Line Growth Hacks & Secrets for Builders and Contractors - Live Event - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/advance

What's going to happen if your business shuts down for a week?  How much would that cost you?  Would it be an extinction level event?  How can you plan for, or better yet prevent, that from happening?

What you'll get from this construction podcast episode:

• Are you a "single point of failure" in your business?  If so, what can you do about it?
• Some of the biggest potential interruptions in your construction business.
• How to start developing your business continuity plan.
• A few potential risks to the continuity of your business you may not have considered.
• How can another company's ability to manage risk affect YOUR business?  You might be surprised.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

FieldChat - www.fieldchat.com/edge

Systematize Your Construction Business - Free Training Videos - constructionbusinessaccelerator.com 

Secrets of Successful Contractors - Free Video Series - constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/secrets

Schedule Your Free Call with Todd Dawalt - www.constructionleadingedge.com/call

Information Bulemia and Resultophilia are two common thinking traps that cause a lot of entrepreneurs to screw themselves over.

 

What you'll get out of this construction podcast episode:

• What are the symptoms of "Resultophilia" and how to get cured from it.
• How Information Bulemia causes overwhelm and anxiety.
• How you could be screwing yourself over repeatedly at one particular part of a project.
• Common thinking traps that business owners can avoid...and make projects and life a lot smoother.

 

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Fieldchat - www.fieldchat.com/edge

Systematize Your Construction Business - Free Training Video Series - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com 

Offload Your Bookkeeping Headaches - www.constructionleadingedge.com/headache

Secrets of Successful Contractors - Free Video Series - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/secrets

 

A deadly combat situation Todd Forsman experienced offered some powerful leadership lessons that apply to the construction industry.  

What you'll get out of this construction podcast episode:

• Leadership lessons Todd learned during his military experience.
• The story of a deadly situation Todd experienced in the Middle East, and the leadership lessons he learned from it.
• A communication problem he faced in combat, the solution he developed for it...and how that has influenced the work he's doing now.
• If you're a construction technophile, there's an opportunity you might want to get in on.

 

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Quickcarl.com

Fieldchat.com - Go to www.fieldchat.com/edge to get 15% off.

Systematize Your Construction Business - The Free Video Series - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com 

Schedule Your Free Strategy Session with Todd Dawalt - www.constructionleadingedge.com/call

What's going on behind the scenes of the skilled labor shortage…that nobody's talking about?  How is Kassidy Hazelton attacking the labor crisis in a brilliant way?   What you'll get out of this construction podcast episode:  

• How to own your weaknesses, and why you want to do this.
• How to develop confidence.
• What's going on behind the scenes of the skilled labor shortage that nobody's talking about?
• How should we be talking about the construction industry differently?
• What is Kassidy doing to attack and solve the construction labor crisis in a brilliant way?
• Kassidy's advice for women leaders in construction

  Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:   PebbleBam.com - A social job board for the construction industry. www.pebblebam.com   HireHardHats.com - Reliable, on-demand hiring to bring relief to the labor shortage. www.hirehardhats.com   FieldChat - Click here to get 15% off and streamline your jobsite text messaging - www.fieldchat.com/edge   Peer Groups - Click here to learn how to join a Peer Group of other like-minded construction business owners - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/group   The ADVANCE Live Events - Get all the details and grab your seat for the next live event - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/advance   Secrets of Successful Contractors - Get your free video series to learn what the big companies are doing that you might not know about -  www.constructionleadingedge.com/secrets

"Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety. For it is precisely when a force has fallen into harm's way that is capable of striking a blow for victory. Out of options and faced with death, troops execute at an extremely high level."  Sun Tzu   What you'll get out of this construction podcast episode:  

• What is the Death Ground Strategy, and how does it apply to business and leadership?
• What is "Desperate Ground" according to Sun Tzu, and why should you intentionally get yourself into tight spots?
• How can you use this principle to spend more time with your kids, your spouse....even start a business?
• Some specific ways you can implement this strategy to boost productivity on your projects.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast:

The ADVANCE live events - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/advance

Interested in one of Todd's coaching programs?  Schedule your free strategy call at www.constructionleadingedge.com/call

Systematize Your Construction Business - Click here to get the free training when it's available

Why do megaprojects fail, and how does that affect you...regardless of what size project you're doing? What you'll get from this construction podcast episode:

• One surprising reason megaprojects fail.
• What is the "quadruple bottom line?"
• A few red flags Gaf looks for when selecting a contractor.
• Why do Navy SEALs make good project managers?
• Gaf's advice to make your next presentation or sales pitch more successful.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast: The ADVANCE live events - https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/advance FieldChat - Get 15% off by going to www.fieldchat.com/edge  Gaf Gaffen's company website - www.gafcon.com

You might be holding yourself back...even sabotaging yourself and your finances.  Learn how in my interview with Jill Thomas.

What you'll get out of this construction podcast episode:

• How you could be sabotaging your financial health.
• Why is stress induced anxiety a "learned" response...and what you can do about it.
• Positive thinking is useless unless you do something specific.
• The importance of looking at why you're doing something.
• The "no problem" problem.
• What does self-sabotage look like?
• How does lack of confidence hurt a leader financially?
• What is "mental malware" and how to fix it.

 

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

The ADVANCE Vegas 2020 - Click here for the details or go to  https://constructionbusinessaccelerator.com/advance 

FieldChat - Clean up your jobsite communication.  Go to www.fieldchat.com/edge to save 15%.

Jill's website - https://soulconnecthypnotherapy.com/free