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These systems enhance the effectiveness of personnel efforts, but their success ultimately hinges on active engagement from building operators.
April 1, 2024
Using automation to detect faults and diagnose building issues is evolving. However, it is not a substitute for facilities personnel engagement and a genuine desire to improve operations. Justin Bowker from TDIndustries explains how his company successfully uses automated facilities management processes.
As contractors juggle correct pricing, fair employee compensation, and personal salaries, it’s important to know and understand their business costs and how many tech hours they must sell to ensure the company is not losing money.
Winning an industry or community award is an opportunity to help build your company’s brand identity. Sharing that news with a PR campaign can enhance your credibility with potential customers and employees.
Contracting company owners must keep track of many numbers to ensure the business is profitable and sustainable. Understanding how intangible, unexpected costs affect the total number of tech hours you can offer will help in that endeavor.
Active listening — not only hearing but listening — is a skill that helps us understand the needs of our clients, coworkers, family and friends. In a business relationship, that translates to using empathy to be aware of and sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of others.
If you’ve never been viewed on camera before, getting media training to ensure you look and sound professional while sharing your expertise is a good idea. Make sure to jot down some notes about what you want to say, but don’t script it. Practicing on camera can illustrate areas where you need to improve.
When customers call with an emergency — especially after business hours — you need a system to determine if it truly is an urgent situation. If it is, how do you determine what technician to send? An option to control after-hours chaos is to give that privilege to service agreement program members.