Month: January 2020

January 29, 2020

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“Everything reflects leadership…”

-Pastor Greg Powe

The late Pastor Greg Powe, the founder of Revealing Tr uth Ministries Tampa, once said… “Everything reflects leadership”.

When you hear about some of the great things organizations are accomplishing today; whether it’s generating sales with record-high margins, expanding to new territories, developing disruptive innovation or cultivating a culture that produces better people; at the heart of it all, you will find a great leader.

The University of Tampa Fellows Forum has created an annual platform to showcase the impact great leadership has on a company, the marketplace, and its community. This platform brings together a distinguished panel of National and Global CEOs to share their perspectives with the Tampa Bay community on current business trends.

This annual event, held since 1987, attracts more than 1,000 attendees to hear from business leaders such as;

PNC Bank’s James Rohr,

The HoneyBaked Ham Company’s Chuck Bengochea,

Publix Super Markets Inc.’s Ed Crenshaw,

Jabil Circuit Inc.’s Tim Main,

OSI Restaurant Partners’ Elizabeth Smith,

Airtran Airways’ Robert Fornaro,

GEICO’s Tony Nicely,

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Dennis Lockhart,

And now, this year, they have selected our big brother, Fred Perpall, Chief Executive Officer at The Beck Group. This young dynamic leader has not only taught us how to be better business leaders, but how to be better people as well.

This year’s fellows forum will definitely be one that people will remember for years to come!

January 10, 2020

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“Showing the world, that more can be built… together”

On January 10, 2020, we kicked off the year with a bang! On this day, we on-boarded two of our newest team members for the Envision Atlanta team; Christina Andrade and Stephen Woodard. These two awesome candidates came from an amazing resource located in the state of Georgia called Construction Education of Georgia (CEFGA).

CEFGA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, created in 1993 as the Construction Education Foundation of Georgia. They were founded by leading construction presidents and CEOs who recognized a need for quality construction skills training in Georgia. Skilled labor was then—and remains now—a primary need of the construction industry.

CEFGA has realized vital talent pipelines by cultivating a long-term workforce with youth through their K-12 Pipeline and CareerExpo, while simultaneously addressing immediate labor shortages with adult Construction Ready participants who are screened, trained, drug-free and ready to work.

This organization has been instrumental in connecting with the people who live within the Georgia community and providing them with the necessary skills and certifications to begin a thriving career in construction.

It’s because of CEFGA, we were able to not only introduce ourselves to a group of quality potential team members that live within the city, but, most importantly, expand our mission and purpose of impacting people to the Georgia area.

January 2, 2020

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2019, Our most challenging yet defining year ever!

In 2019 we experienced things that small businesses typically go through before experiencing real scalable growth;

The realization that what we’ve done to get to where we are today no longer works for where we’re about to go.

This was easy to identify as we began experiencing difficulties with end results on systems that, historically, produced “success”. When this happened once, we thought, okay; shame on me. But once we began seeing consistent patterns of misfortune and shortcomings, we began to seek counsel.

It was during our time spent with Lakendria Robinson, the Tampa Chamber of Commerce and all of their various resources, along with and our big brother, The Beck Group, that we began developing a whole new mindset which birthed completely new and different responses to the items we continued to face during our day to day operations. However, these new responses began producing different results. Results we have never seen before. In fact, we can even take it a step further and say results that began developing proprietary products and systems all built in house by our very own team members. It’s amazing what things can be accomplished through the willing hearts of the right people.

These items include; Embedding our Vision, Mission and Core Values within our operations making everything we do streamline, uniformed and most importantly; consistent. We have also developed and deployed automated workflows that were designed with the sole purpose of being efficient, trackable and extremely accurate; from our pre-con all the way to close out. In conjunction with these new work systems, we’ve developed real-time tracking tools which enable us to track all cost and materials as it pertains to all of our projects.

These sophisticated custom tools automatically scrape specific information triggered by specific keywords, programmed by us, throughout all of our various data sets. The automation allows us to track every unit in real-time as it’s being installed. This level of real-time insight allows us to understand exactly where we are in the project in terms of, contracted unit cost and labor versus actual unit cost and labor, while these items are being installed.

The mindset we had going into 2019 was the thing that produced everything you see today. However, what 2019 did to that mindset, is it produced a level of strength, stability, wisdom, and insight that can only be obtained by overcoming.

2020 will be our year of Greater Works!

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