b'BUSINESS PERFORMANCETHE GOOD OL DAYS OF ROOFING BY DOMINIC RUBINOHow a weekly meeting called the Huddlecan simplify and optimize your business operation T his business used to be so much easier. RememberThink of an Olympic weightlifter. He has to walk up to that back in the day, when your company was smaller, jobsheavy bar and get it over his head every day. Then what? Does seemed easier, and you knew everyone on your crews?he just stand there? How long can that go on for? Now,everythingismorecomplicated.JobsareWork as a roofing contractor is just like thatwhere your way more detailed, every roof has a different application, andbusiness is at today is the same thing. You figured out how to margins feel like theyre even tighter. get that businessthat heavy barup over your head and then So you buckle down and do what it takes. No matterstand there holding it up. But you physically cant get it any what, you still have to make payroll and pay suppliers. If thereshigher. And youre getting tired of holding it too. one thing youre good at, its outworking everyone else. YouSo whats next? Do you let it crash down? Or do you need might feel like youre the only one, but I hear that a lot. to build a rack to hold it up for you? Wow! Imagine building Thats because roofing contractors like you got to where youa rack! A simple system. Youd be able to step back. You could rest. And then youd be able to figure out how to get that bar are today thanks to a 100-per-cent, all-out work ethic. Youveeven higher!worked hard, sacrificed everything and now you get called onWeekly meetingto do the biggest, coolest jobs.The good news is that youre not the first one to tackle this I hear things like: When we started it used to just be myproblem. The simple system to solve it is called the Huddle. dad and a ladder, ormy dad and I figured wed give it aJust like in football, this is a meeting where the team comes shot. But at some point, owners like you started to realize thattogether to share quick information before the next play. In no matter how hard you work, its tougher to get ahead. Whatbusiness, we use the Huddle to do the same thing. Owners put you did to get here now feels like its holding you here. it in place to increase communication and accountability.30lROOFINGBC l FALL 2019'