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How to Build a Positive Employee Experience: 5 Best Practices

As a homebuilding company, you want to ensure your employees are happy where they work. Satisfied employees are more likely to stay on for the long term, and they are usually highly productive and enthusiastic about their jobs. Here are a few tips you can apply to create a positive employee experience for your workers: 1. Discover What Motivates Your Team Employees are generally motivated by different things. Some may find that their motivations lie in solving challenges, while others might feel more satisfied when they receive feedback. Other times, your employees may simply feel motivated by a paycheck or a greater sense of responsibility.

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Why Effective Communication Between Builders and Their Clients Is Key to a Successful Build

As a new home builder, you undoubtedly want to ensure your customer’s satisfaction with their purchase. After all, purchasing a home is a substantial investment. In fact, a home is the most expensive thing people will own in their entire lives. While the quality of the home is a significant factor in a client’s happiness with their purchase, builders can’t afford to ignore the customer experience they provide. Customers are bound to remember when a lack of communication popped up or instances where questions went unanswered, and they’ll often share their adverse experiences through company reviews or via word of mouth. In today’s competitive homebuilding

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The Importance of a Strong Sales Team for New Home Builders

As a new home builder, it’s natural to want to share your craft with the world. You know you have the skills and team to build any client’s dream home from scratch, and you likely have all sorts of techniques that distinguish your home builds from other houses in the area. While technical qualifications are critical to bringing a new home to life, you won’t get to share your capabilities if your new home sales team can’t articulate why prospective customers should purchase from you. Like any staff member, your sales team is critical for conveying what’s possible to your clients. They’ll work hand in

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5 Attributes to Look for When Recruiting Administrative Employees

A great administrative employee can be a valuable asset to your business. On the other hand, an employee who is not the right fit for your organization will probably not last. Hiring the wrong person can force you to part ways with your new hire and restart your recruiting journey from scratch. The good news is that you increase your chances of finding a great administrative team member by familiarizing yourself with must-have administrative skills. When screening prospective administrative employees, you should focus on candidates who exhibit the following attributes: 1. Attentiveness Administrative employees often have direct contact with prospective customers and vendors. They are

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Telephone Interview Tips for Hiring Managers

Most employers follow a particular process before hiring a new employee. They start by posting an available opening on a job board, wait for résumés to roll in, and review them. Once they have a few applicants with the skills they’re looking for, they schedule interviews. Some employers choose to start with a short telephone interview. Telephone interviews can reveal additional details about the applicant before they move on to a formal, in-person discussion. For a telephone interview to be efficient, it’s essential to consider these critical tips. Know the Position You’re Hiring for Whether you’re a human resources professional or the hiring manager, you

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Top Red Flags to Look for on a Résumé

As a hiring manager, you want to ensure that you’re selecting qualified talent who will add value to your organization. Reviewing résumés is the beginning of the process. While a résumé won’t tell you about the applicant’s personality or cultural fit, it does provide their work history and other details. Here are a few résumé red flags to look for when assessing your talent pool. Careless Errors Poor language skills, bad formatting, and improper grammar should be red alerts for any hiring manager. While not everyone has excellent English skills, online proofreading tools, like Grammarly or the built-in solution available in Microsoft Word, can help

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Simple Hiring Practices to Increase Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Diversity and inclusion have become top priorities for many organizations over the past few years. Companies find that when they place a premium on a diverse work culture, they’re more likely to have happy employees who stick around for the long term. Consider these tips if you’re trying to promote diversity and inclusion in your organization. Change Up Your Job Postings Organizations that embrace diversity and inclusion don’t wake up one morning with a fully diverse workforce and an inclusive environment. Like most things, it takes time and dedication to create the atmosphere you’re looking for. Diversity and inclusion have their roots in the recruiting

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4 Ways to Support an Underperforming Employee

Employee underperformance can be frustrating. Your organization’s human resources department has invested time and financial resources into the recruiting process, and naturally, you don’t want to waste this investment and cut ties with the employee prematurely. Fortunately, you may not have to. There are many ways that you can support an underperforming employee, including the following: 1. Address Underperformance Immediately The most effective way to resolve underperformance concerns and prevent staffing woes is to be proactive. If you notice that an employee’s performance has dipped, address it immediately. When addressing concerns about performance, be sure to use well-established people management protocols. Be direct, but understanding.

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3 Tips for Managing Different Generations

Modern businesses face challenges that organizations of old couldn’t have fathomed. Companies of today must efficiently carry out core business operations, find a way to make themselves stand out in the crowded digital marketplace, and manage talent from several generations. The latter challenge can be particularly difficult, as each generation in the workforce has unique perspectives, concerns, and professional objectives. If your business has team members who span multiple generations (which it likely does), there’s good news. You can implement more effective people management techniques by leveraging these 3 proven tips: 1.  Do Your Homework If you hope to effectively manage various generations, step one

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How to Attract Millennials to the Home Building Industry

Millennials currently make up the largest percentage of the U.S. workforce.  With the building industry in need of 650,000 employees to meet demand in 2022, it is essential to attract this age group to the trade. The makeup of the current workforce in the industry is another reason it is important to appeal to workers between the ages of 25 and 40. The average age of building industry employees in 2022 is just over 42. But, millennials are expected to make up 75% of the workforce by 2025, and it will be integral to add them to building jobs. There are several things that Millennials

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