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RCS Influencers
More Productive Teams Starts with Employee Conversations
RCS Influencer Martin Stout says employee conversations around reviewing tasks and agreeing on the amount of time needed creates happier, more engaged teams. Nonproductive time has always been a problem; however, as labor costs continue to climb and we all fight for the few good people that are willing to work ...
Building Brand Ambassadors Leads to More Productive Employees
RCS Influencer and partner Heidi Ellsworth shares tips on how to engage employees so they will embrace the company mission and brand. From an employee empowerment perspective, stealing time is really the realm of disengaged or unhappy employees. One of the areas that I speak about often from a marketing ...
Company Culture and Accountability Tie Directly into Productivity
RCS Influencer Mark Holencik believes most people want to be productive, and a company culture of holding employees accountable is a good first step to fix the issue of stolen time. Start by asking yourself “does my company have a culture where stealing time is acceptable?” I believe this is the ...
Metrics and Employment Agreements Address Productivity Issues
RCS Influencer Trent Cotney says contractors should consider using employment agreements to define performance expectations. Short of monitoring employees in the field, it can be difficult to know if they are working to the highest level of productivity. Contractors should consider employment agreements for their employees that spell out expectations and ...
Wasted Time is a Universal Problem, not an Isolated One
RCS Influencer Monica Cameron challenged her team to brainstorm the time and productivity issues facing the industry and she got some interesting feedback. As contractors, our primary business proposition is to provide roofing goods and services to our customers by estimating and managing the materials needed and labor associated with covering ...
Do you have a handle on how much time employees are paid but not productive (or all out stealing time)?
Stealing time – that is the topic we gave our RCS Roofing Influencer’s for June and the responses were honest and unexpected. Please read through the variety of opinions on the subject and see how they all come around to the same conclusion. Each day for the next ...
Safety Before Profit Drives Antis Roofing’s New Drug-free Policy
RCS Influencers Charles Antis, Karen Inman and Ernie Basulto share the steps they are taking to develop a drug policy that puts employees first. “To be right up front, Antis does not currently have a drug policy, we are developing it as we speak,” stated Karen Inman, Antis Roofing president in ...
Drug-free Policy Statements Should Spell Out Principles and Consequences
RCS Influencer Monica Cameron says that new employees receive copies of the formal written drug-free policy as part of their onboarding process. Whether substance abuse occurs at home or at work, employees who abuse drugs and alcohol can create significant issues for both employers and other employees, such as lower job ...
How has your drug-free policy changed with today's new state laws?
Thank you for reading through our inaugural RCS Roofing Influencer’s topic on "How has your Drug-free Policy changed with today's new state laws?" We came up with this idea on a drug-free policy topic after reading a very thought-provoking post on the old RoofersCoffeeShop.com forum. This was years before marijuana was ...
Drug-free Policies Start with Company Culture
RCS Influencer RudyGutierrez says if someone wants to test the bounds of our drug policy, we know they are not a good fit with our company. We have a tight culture at Shell Roofing Solutions. We believe in selecting the right people for the business. We do the typical assessment ...
