The question
resonating through many businesses in the construction industry
is, ‘How can we overcome the skills shortage?’ To tackle this
issue, your business has a variety of staff management options
available to it; and Benchmark can certainly be a feasible way
for you to realise some of these.
How does your organisation get the most benefit from the
knowledge of your people? And how do you keep that knowledge if
they leave you and move to another firm? Benchmark’s libraries
capture the intelligence of your employees, and allow this to be
shared throughout your organisation. You can use less
experienced staff to create very good estimates in less time,
which also frees up the extremely valuable time of your more
experienced staff. And if your senior employees move on, you
have captured their valuable knowledge for the future.
I am also pleased to announce the next upgrade of Benchmark –
which will shortly be released – can further enhance your
ability to tackle the skills shortage. When people ask me how
this new version is different, and why the library system will
now be far more useful, I tell them that the
new Variable feature, and the new Calculator with
automated Production Rate and Crew Size functions,
will allow you to capture more of your employee’s knowledge
faster. With these new features you will develop smarter,
simpler and more flexible libraries which can be called on for
each estimate. Making project specific changes will also become
incredibly fast and easy with this new functionality.
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When you read the
above you might have the question in your mind, “That sounds
great but how can we implement it for our company?” The answer
is that Benchmark can train your people so that they can put
these things into practice for your organisation.
Benchmark’s New User, Advanced User, and Routine Writing Courses
will greatly improve the capabilities of your employees so that
they can create better estimates in less time.
If you think you need to know more about these things then you
might want to contact one of our people. Jamie is here at all
times to talk to our clients about how to use the Libraries more
effectively, Simon is happy to talk about how to assist you with
training and Nigel is available to discuss the needs and
requirements of all potential and existing clients.
I wish you all the very best at overcoming the
challenges that we all now face during the skills shortage, and
I hope that you are able to find value in the suggestions
outlined above.
Yours, in the
interest of better estimating,
Rob MacDonald
Director. |
