After you get home from working your 40-hours what do you do? The average American flips the TV on and zones out for five hours. They then spend another three hours on a computer or on a smartphone. Something that my years refereeing hockey taught me is your job doesn’t end when the buzzer sounds. You can never stop learning and working to improve yourself. You must act like your competition is training 24x7x365 and…
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…
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…
For the last several months I noticed that Kelly has been leaving his door open all throughout the day – even when he is in meetings or at lunch. In my last two years of working at Jenco I’ve never known him to have his door open all day – he’d shut it during meetings or when he was super busy, but now it’s open 90% of the time. So I asked him, what gives?…
Can you say that you eliminate some form of waste every single day? As many of you already know, the Jenco team is on a LEAN journey and we recently took things one step further. Everyone in the office, our prefabrication team and a few of our Foremen read the book 2 Second Lean by Paul Akers. For five weeks we worked together to learn more about the different forms of waste, how to improve…
Lunch on Jenco has been a huge success! Kim and I are really enjoying visiting the sites, seeing what you guys are accomplishing, meeting those we haven’t met yet and catching up with those we’ve known for years. Based on feedback you guys all seem to be enjoying it as well! We plan to continue Lunch on Jenco, so keep an eye out for us. We visited 5 sites in July: Sunrise Elementary School, Drury…
Last Friday Adam Botel, Rafi Abdullah and Richard Webster were three of thirty electricians who graduated from the Arizona Builders Alliance Apprenticeship Program. If you see them around the jobsites be sure to congratulate them! From all of us at the office we’d like to say, “Congrats guys!” Currently, we have 20% of our field staff enrolled in various stages of the ABA Apprenticeship Program, and another 3 guys are expected to graduate next year.…
According to a Gallup poll, fifty-nine percent of America is worried that they will not have enough money saved to retire. Are you? The dynamics of retirement have drastically changed over the last few decades. With defined pension plans now being a thing of the past, 401(K) plans are now the norm. Are you contributing to your 401(K) plan? Are you contributing enough? Here’s a scary statistic: nearly one third of all workers have less than…
Here at Jenco we talk a lot about being a learning organization and about all the opportunities that come with learning. This month we shine the employee spotlight on a favorite Superintendent who has earned his way up the corporate ladder. Ben Dallmann has been contributing to the Jenco business for over 14 years and he is an excellent example of what willingness, drive, learning and delivering with excellence can do for you here. Ben…
Once again one of our finest apprentices Geoffary Mullins showcased his talents in the Arizona Building Alliance’s SkillsUSA Arizona Craft Championships! The fun took place amongst the top 9 scoring participants on a written entrance exam plus a room full of observers. The 7-hour long skills test encompasses a written test to identify your mastery level of the National Electric Code (NEC) plus conduit bending exercises and a hands-on installation of a number systems. The athletes must work using…
This month we are featuring Jennifer Thompson (Human Resources) for her work with the Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) organization. Sadly, on May 5, 2007 Jennifer lost her oldest child, Felicia, when she was involved in a car crash and killed by an underage drunk driver. In honor of her daughter, and in the spirit of keeping her memory alive, Jennifer decided to take action. She has spent countless hours speaking at events, educating others,…
This month we are happy to present another employee who has proven to be an asset to the Jenco team- Donavan Warner. Several times Donavan was praised for his willingness to volunteer for tasks and his obvious desire to help others by sharing his knowledge and lending a hand. Foreman, Ralph Sanchez, was very pleased in working with Donavan noting his drive, hard work ethic, and willingness to share his knowledge and experience. Donavan recently…