Our Services
we’ve helped professionals excel throughout the industry
Every contractor's business is different, but the places where profit leaks are often the same. Our services are designed to plug those leaks, covering the four pillars of a profitable contracting business: financial understanding, pipeline management, project delivery, and leadership. Each service is delivered in focused, practical sessions that fit around a busy contractor's schedule.
Accounts for non-financial people
Engaging in the "race to the bottom" and not engaging in winning projects at the highest price the market will bear is wasteful. Use all the tools at your disposal to keep on top of market movements
and make a profit on every project. Your business accounts and project accounts all need to be in order to secure projects at the highest price. To go on a scale your business you require robust management accounts running separately to your financial accounts which are used for tax returns. The program takes you through this in just two 2 hour sessions.
Pipeline management
Relying on word of mouth for bids by the owner and not analysing the gross profit on projects is not
sustainable. Evaluate your current marketing methods and start gaining new leads which will lead to
profitable projects before they reach the market. In just one 2 hour strategy session you will learn
techniques to find off market leads.
Project delivery
Keeping records of what has changed from the tender and driving "right first time" will stop profits
leaking away. Improving communication between the site teams and the office will see a dramatic
change in profits. In this single 2 hour session you will get an overview of all the systems required from Contract Signing to hand over.
Leadership & Management
Without clear direction staff and trades become demotivated. Instigate a simple organisation chart
with clear job descriptions to see staff and trades motivated to please and you have confidence they
are doing as asked. In one 2 hour session, you design an organisation chart and set up job
descriptions. Then following this there are optional 1 hour sessions covering your time management,
delegation and having difficult conversations with people.
we’ve helped professionals excel throughout the industry
Our clients are contractors just like you, tradespeople who built their businesses from the ground up and came to us when they were ready to stop leaking profit and start scaling with confidence. Read what they have to say about our mentoring programme.
"Before Peter started the program with us, our bidding did not have much logic. He introduced a discipline which now enables us to win profitable jobs, when we need them."
"Peter has opened up a whole new way of finding work which has enabled us to penetrate markets we wanted to get into to grow the business."
"The importance of how the figures informed the management came through so strongly after just one session with Peter that we recruited a finance person."
"Wow, light bulb moment. How had we missed what you said about tender feedback."
"Submitting a public sector bid exposed us to completing the quality section for the first time. Peter identified resources to cover the new elements of this type of contact and we scored highly on quality with his guidance."
"Thank you so much for our session. I thoroughly enjoyed it and now have a clear direction with a great value proposition."
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