Email is a wonderful communication tool that has drastically changed the business world over the last 15 years. The key though is to know when it is effective to use email verses when you should pick up the phone or use face-to-face communication to improve getting your message across to your listener. Face to face communication still remains the best and most powerful way of getting our message across. When you are in a phone…
Do All You Have Agreed to Do
Last year we finalized Jenco’s principles. The very first principle is: Do all you have agreed to do. This is so incredibly powerful. It seems so simple, but in my experience I’ve found that sometimes people just get busy and don’t end up holding up their end of the bargain. We’ve all been there before – we told Mike, who called earlier in the day, we’d get back to him with an answer by the…
Reduce Your Downtime
Most electrical failures occur because of increased resistance, which creates excess heat. This added resistance in an electrical circuit can be caused by loose wire terminations, faulty components, aging systems, overloaded branches or just poor workmanship. Through the use of a thermal camera, we are able to pinpoint problem areas and create an action plan for correcting the issue before the breakdown occurs – saving you time, money and lost opportunities. A huge advantage of…
No, thank you.
In reality, all people can do is manage their commitments. Regardless of what people think and do, time does go on. Do you agree? If you accept the first claim, then you can notice observe and assess that we make endless tradeoffs for one value or concern over all the others in the given moment. For example, many of us at the office are competing in a Biggest Loser competition. In order to be competitive…
10 Ways to Stay Safe
Jenco has gone to great lengths to keep the jobsites safe. No matter the project or task at hand, safety remains our top priority every second of every day, which is confirmed by the fact we have one the lowest EMOD rates among our peers. So how do we do it? Every site and situation calls for different safety measures, but here are our top 10 practices we follow in prefab and out on the…
Could you be saving $20K?
A study released in 2012 brought to light that professionals lose 31 hours per month on unproductive meetings. Think about that. Four work days per month are wasted! Another study found that 73% of professionals admit to working on something unrelated to the meeting during the meeting. Why bother even going? So what are these unproductive meetings costing? Well, time obviously. But what about the money that is drifting away? Check out this calculator to…