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ASSOCIATE COUNCIL LUNCHEON Thursday, November 3 11:30 a.m. at GHBA
Topic: TBA
Cost: $10/person $15 at the door Sponsorships available! NO LUNCHEON IN DECEMBER
ASSOCIATE COUNCIL NEWS It's Time to Re-Engage
ASSOCIATE COUNCIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS President: Keith Rodgers, J Williams Staffing Texas LLC
Vice President: Tony Boilek, Sherwin-Williams Paint Co.
Secretary: Denny Patterson, Airtron Houston
Past President: Jim Wyatt, MasterBrand Cabinets
INFO/SPONSORSHIPS: Peggy Means 281.970.8970 x161
pmeans@ghba.org
2011 Associate Council President Keith Rodgers, CGA, CSP, CGP, J Williams Staffing Texas LLC
’m not sure about you, but I am ready for the cooler weather. This has been one hot summer! The holidays are upon us and our schedules just get that much more complicated. Sunbelt Builders Show is done and now its time to focus on the 9th Annual GHBA Product Expo. The GHBA BBQ is also here once again. Please make plans to attend this event as we try out a new location with more cooking teams.
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Montgomery County will host Mike Inselmann this month for his forecast of 2012. New builders, new developments and new toll roads should help us see an increase in new housing.
BABA has its “green” themed installation dinner and casino night scheduled for its 2012 officers. Please join incoming BABA President Ron Martin with Grandview Builders and the rest of the board of directors on November 19 down in Friendswood. This is a formal green tie event.
"People Stategy" Makes a Comeback
Over the last few years we have seen many changes in our industry. Not only the vendors, but also the builders have had to focus on reduction of force, cutting every variable expense, minimizing fixed cost and being less than democratic in the day to day decisions and behaviors. We are all having to multi-task, change our habits and change our thinking as we watch the
ANNUAL SPONSOR
From left, October Associate Council luncheon speaker Greg Hawes with Jamestown Estate Homes, drawing
winner Tonya Stafford with Hoffman Land Surveying, speaker Stephen Ray with Devon Street Homes, and winner Aaron Hulsey with JT Lanehart Electric.
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workforce around us shrink in our industry. In making these changes, companies have shifted from being a consciously competent model of how to manage employees and subcontractors to an unconscious incompetent model.
Just a few years ago most company leaders were focused on creating a motivational, highly developed workforce. They were aware that by having certain people practices in their business that promoted fairness, adequate communications, compensation equality for work achieved, and leadership behaviors that demonstrated people centric ideals, they would not only be able to retain and recruit the best employees, but their bottom line would be positively impacted by those decisions and behaviors.
That being said, I believe we all need to start paying attention once again to the people that will represent the backbone of our industry in the coming years. This is a wakeup call and I believe we can not afford to ignore this issue. Begin putting the people strategy back into your business. It’s time to re-engage the people leadership principals we so greatly discussed in our trade magazines and trade shows in the late 1990s and early 2000s. To ignore it could place your organization in peril.
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