Brent Oberlink What contractor coaching actually is, and who it is not for Coaching is a word that got ruined. It covers everything from a guy on Instagram selling a course to a retired executive charging four figures an hour to tell you to delegate more. So it is fair to be... Sep 22, 2026
Brent Oberlink Leading a crew you used to work on Here is how it usually goes. Your best operator has been with you four years. The foreman quits. You promote the operator on a Friday and on Monday he is running the crew he was on the week before, in... Sep 22, 2026
Brent Oberlink Training a crew when you do not have a training department Nobody running a twelve man operation has a training department. What they have is a foreman who is already behind, a new guy who needs to be useful by Thursday, and a customer expecting the job done ... Sep 22, 2026
Brent Oberlink Why crews quit, and what actually keeps them When somebody quits, they tell you it was for more money. Sometimes that is true. More often it is the easiest thing to say on the way out the door, because the real answer would mean a conversation n... Sep 22, 2026
Brent Oberlink How to hire crew members who actually stay Every contractor we talk to has the same hiring story. They put out an ad, they get twenty applications, eighteen of them are unqualified, one ghosts the interview, and the last one shows up for six w... Sep 22, 2026
