It’s already Spring time, can you believe it? Perhaps no collective group is hoping for, planning on, and working towards a better year than construction business owners. Goals are getting set and courses being plotted and we’re moving forward whether we like it or not. It’s time to make hay while the sun is shining.
Popular business goals include updating technology, improving communication, treating employees well, and most importantly, changing things that don’t work. Sound familiar? These goals can be reached in a multitude of ways, but there’s one tool that can help you accomplish all of them. GPS time tracking software will not only help you check off your goals in record time, but it will guide your business in a new, better direction. I don’t know one person this past year who has said, “you know what works great, paper time cards!” Whether you are using paper or another antiquated system, if you are frustrated, use this time to recalibrate. busybusy has a 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee because they know it’s an easy-to-use app that will improve your business.
Goal #1- Update Technology
In a recent article by Mckinsey & Company, it’s reported that the bulk of short and long-term construction industry issues in the future will be solved with technology, and yet most construction businesses lag far behind other industries when it comes to implementing and embracing technology. The time is now to update the technology in your business. It could be the most important thing you do this year! It’s time to get rid of outdated paper-based time cards, inaccurate ‘guesstimate’ bidding, and poor equipment management. Upgrading your GPS time tracking software is the easiest way to update your technology.
Goal #2 – Improve Communication
According to the Holmes Report, companies with effective communication strategies have 47% higher returns, more engaged employees, and less employee turnover. Think about your business’s current communication strategy. Are you effectively communicating what needs to be communicated? George Bernard Shaw once said, “The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it’s taken place.” How can you ensure communication is actually happening within your business? A surprisingly effective tool is GPS time tracking software. The ability to create and share daily job reports in seconds composed of onsite photos, weather reports, and insights provided by involved employees will increase communication between management, crews, and clients tenfold. Not to mention the ease that comes from being able to quickly communicate schedules, injury reports, and submit work hours with a tap on your smartphone. Then add the abilitly to have employees and supervisors edit time cards, sign and submit all before payday happens to ensure that an employee won’t be getting a check that they didn’t expect. After all, communication and expectations are two peas in a pod. You fail at one, you failed at both.
Goal #3 – Treating Employees Better
What does GPS time tracking software have to do with treating your employees better? Well, a couple of things. The first is that good, hard-working employees who arrive on time and put in a full day’s work deserve to be acknowledged and if you have a GPS time tracking product you can see when employees come and go. Your top employees are generally the first to embrace a tool like this. Second, employees deserve to have access to technology that makes their job easier. GPS software does this by turning their smartphone into a powerful tool that will streamline the often-tedious tasks that are demanded of them. Paper timecards, manual calculation of overtime, inaccurate time code records, and outdated equipment management are just a few of the tedious, unnecessary things that cause employees grief and frustration on the jobsite. All these problems can be eliminated with the right GPS time tracking software. An upgrade of your employee’s technology means an upgrade in your employee’s productivity. Everybody wins.
Goal #4 – Changing Things that Don’t Work
If there is one goal that can completely transform and improve your business it’s the goal of changing things that don’t work. It sounds simple, but out of all the goals mentioned above, this one is the hardest, but most powerful. It takes introspection, honesty, knowledge, and finally action to make changes in your business. Socrates said, “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Let’s look at some of the old problems in a construction business and how new GPS time tracking technology is rebuilding them into something better.
Old Way New Way
| Paper Timecards | Hours are tracked, signed, submitted, and calculated by smartphones. Alerts are sent to employees reminding them to sign in, eliminating inaccuracies. | Payroll Calculations | Software can easily be set up to deal with overtime calculations and legalities, no more adding up hours with a calculator. | Equipment Tracking | See in real-time where your equipment is and which employee is operating which machine. Operating Hours and maintenance reminders are stored and sent out automatically | Inaccurate Bidding Loses Thousands | Crews can easily and quickly assign time codes when clocking out for the day. Data is compiled automatically giving you the best information moving forward on what labor costs should be in future jobs saving you thousands and making you more competitive. | Jobsite Accountability | Monitor job sites with a quick glance at your smartphone, giving you the ability to trust but verify things are happening as they should. |
On average, 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by the second week in February. So let’s get your second round of resolutions ready by kicking them off immediately. Don’t wait until next January when you have a busy construction season upon you. Do you know how many clients frantically call in June saying “I need something now, I can’t finish the summer with this chaos”? Or worse, they call in September and say “I need this now, I’m not going through another summer like that.” That’s depressing. Take a minute and check out busybusy. They have developed powerful GPS time tracking software specifically for the construction industry. See if their GPS time tracking software is the magic compass you need as you navigate your business forward in 2022 and beyond.
