Remodelers Advantage Coaching and Consulting...
your instant connection to decades of business experience and remodeling expertise. Remodelers Advantage Coaching and Consulting services provide the one-on-one to help you set goals, make decisions and solve tough problems quickly — and right
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- Overview
- How We Work
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- Meet Our Experts
Remodelers Advantage Coaching and Consulting...
When you have a question or face a new business challenges, you don't have to "go it alone." Through Remodelers Advantage, you can connect with coaches and consultants with the expertise to help you make the right moves. No more guessing, no more experimenting: you build decades of real-world experience into your business, instantly.
Plus, the time you spend with our experts makes you more of an expert. That's because our coaches and consultants will not only help you solve your problem, they'll make you a part of the problem-solving process so that you can apply what you've learned to challenges that crop up down the road. Strengthening your skills as a business owner is a very different approach from consultants who try to make you dependent on their skills so they can sell you additional services.
Remodelers Advantage coaches and consultants view your company as your tool for personal success.
Because our coaches and consultants have worked with so many remodeling firms – most often including their own -- they know that your company is unique and that there is no single "right" way to achieve success. That's why they won't dictate what to do or give you one-size-fits-all answers. Instead, they come in, understand what it is you want to achieve and then make the starting point for creating the solution that's smartest for your business and for you.
One-on-one collaboration with remodeling business experts. Remodelers Advantage consultants work directly with you and your key people to solve specific problems and meet specific challenges that arise in your business. They can consult with you by phone or work with you onsite in your own office. Our coaches can play a broader role, working with you step-by-step to achieve overall business improvement as they:
- Assess where you are now: how you work, profitability, production efficiency, marketing materials and results, sales processes, customer service and feedback, etc.
- Identify your personal goals and translate them into business goals
- Set priorities and identify highest-impact actions
- Develop feedback loops
- Set up internal communication systems
- Follow up: accountability, bi-monthly or monthly phone consulting, etc.
You realize immediate benefits from working with the best people — and tools — in the remodeling business. Our coaches and consultants draw on years of real-world experience. In addition, they use proven analytic and information-gathering tools — many of which are available exclusively through Remodelers Advantage. Just a few of these tools include:
- The Strategic Remodeling Business Analysis System™
- Remodelers Advantage Company Focus Forms
- Personality and Behavior Profiles for optimizing communications and motivating — and achieving — higher performance
What to Expect
Each situation is different, but onsite consulting typically includes having the consultant spend a day or a day and a half with the owner and management team. This is usually followed by a thorough report from the consultant. On site consulting offers incredible value because the consultant can see, hear and feel exactly what's going on in your company. He or she will meet with your team members to hear their inside viewpoints on the company's strengths and weaknesses. From this in-depth program, you'll have a customized action plan to keep you and your team on track to reach greater success. Your investment for an on-site consultations will be between forty-nine hundred and five thousand dollars, depending on the individual consultant.
Telephone consulting and coaching is another great alternative. This provides ongoing help in staying focused and working on the most important issues. Hourly consulting fees range from two-hundred to three-hundred dollars per hour, depending on the individual consultant.
Call on Remodelers Advantage Coaching & Consulting whenever you face business challenges and difficult decisions. We can quickly match you with a coach or consultant who is ready to step in immediately to answer questions and work one-on-one with you to:
- Build the right organization to support your remodeling business
- Deal with difficult human resources challenges
- Implement the right pricing policies
- Delegate some of your duties and responsibilities
- Use performance metrics to improve overall efficiency and profitability of your remodeling business
- And more...
These seasoned experts will work one-on-one with you and your key people to help you move past obstacles, fine-tune business performance, and seize opportunities.
The Remodelers Advantage Coaching and Facilitating Team includes some of the most-recognized authorities in the remodeling industry. Many of them have owned successful remodeling businesses. All of them draw on years of experience. In addition, our coaches and consultants also participate in the acclaimed Remodelers Advantage Roundtables program as facilitators, so they are highly skilled not only at using their business improvement know-how, but at helping remodelers develop their own know-how.
Meet our Experts
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Remodelers Advantage Founder Linda Case and President Victoria Downing are both best-selling authors, award-winning remodeling consultants and sought-after speakers.
Linda Case, Founder
Linda Case is a nationally known authority in the remodeling industry. She is a recipient of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry’s Harold Hammerman Award, a popular speaker and author of seven remodeling industry best-sellers. In addition, Linda has been a featured columnist in Remodeling magazine almost since it's inception.
Linda Case founded Remodelers Advantage Inc. in 1982, and sold the firm to Victoria Downing in 2001. As our senior consultant, she works with dozens of remodelers and is a skilled facilitator at Roundtables meetings.
Linda Case loves working with remodelers and custom-fitting solutions to their unique challenges. Her particular areas of consulting expertise include shaping the company model to emphasize the company’s strengths, streamlining organizational structure and strategic planning for the future.
Case is the author of seven remodeling industry best-selling books and an award-winning speaker. She has been nationally recognized with numerous awards for her Remodeling magazine column on running a more effective remodeling business.
Coaching and Consulting clients rave about Linda Case’s skills and talents:
“I have worked with Linda Case for over 15 years. She is extremely knowledgeable about what is working in remodeling industry. Linda is easy to work with and is straightforward in her advice. Her influence has been instrumental in the success of our company and the quality of my life as a business owner.”
"My investment with Remodeler's Advantage is negligible compared to the success I have experienced in my company. Linda custom fit solutions to my company and the rest was history!!”
“I have found Linda very easy to work with would highly recommend her services to anyone who feels like they need to “tune up” their business. She is a great value and asset to the Remodeling Industry. She has so much to offer and I look forward to an ongoing relationship with her.”
“Yesterday our presentation was a success!! I had the confidence to go forward because Linda helped us see the whole picture. She is truly brilliant...!”
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Victoria Downing, CGP, President
Victoria Downing, President of Remodelers Advantage Inc., is a leading authority in the remodeling industry. She is a recipient of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry’s Harold Hammerman Award, writes the award-winning Human Resources column for Remodeling magazine, and has authored and co-authored several industry books, including The Remodeler’s Marketing PowerPak.
Victoria Downing joined Linda Case’s remodeling consulting company in 1990, using her background in developing North American marketing and sales programs for a building product manufacturer to help Linda transform the consulting business into Remodelers Advantage — a premier business improvement community for remodelers. Victoria subsequently bought the company from Linda Case in 2001 and has served as president since that time.
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Other outstanding coaches include:
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Judith Miller is a top level strategist who knows remodelers and the numbers – inside out and backwards.
She excels at working with owners, bookkeepers and controllers to see the truth in the numbers – from both a financial and job cost perspective! Her 25 years of experience provide a magnifying glass into the critical metrics of company performance from which real-time solutions for improvement can be built!
Clients enjoy working with Judith: her sense of fun encourages others to enjoy what they previously feared – balance sheet, job cost analysis, profit and loss review or budgets and strategy.
She can help you gain control in any economy!
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Paul Winans
Paul Winans, CR is a recovering carpenter who started a business because demand for his services grew, not because he really wanted to be a business owner. However, he became the business person and salesman that the company needed by constantly seeking help from business consultants and sales training experts. Paul ran that business with his wife, Nina, for 29 years before they sold it in 2007. Their systems-oriented approach, with manuals for every position which were used as part of a continuous training program, contributed greatly to the company’s success and their ability to be away from the day-to-day running of the business for cumulatively up to four months each year!
Paul is a good listener who has felt many of the typical pains of a remodeling company owner.
He is excellent at getting to the essence of what he’s heard and helping his clients look at their situations in new ways, providing suggestions based on his real life experiences. Paul’s background and long-time involvement in the remodeling industry nationwide give him the ability to provide tried and true suggestions and tips on how to handle a challenge.
Paul takes a highly interactive and very results-oriented approach when working with clients. He’ll ask a lot of questions, trying to find out what is going on, and use the resulting information as the basis for offering suggestions that the client can choose from. His clients are motivated and energized after each session!
If you are a remodeling company owner struggling with work/life balance, personal goal setting as the basis for meaningful business planning, how to change and grow so your company can, working with a spouse or partner, or being the leader that your business needs, Paul is here to help you!
Here is a partial list of Paul's credentials
- National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) President 2005-06
- NARI National President’s Award 2007
- Qualified Remodeler Magazine: Recognized as one of 15 innovators in the remodeling industry over the past 30 years in 2005
- Chrysalis Western Regional Remodeler of the Year 2002, 2007
- Chrysalis California Remodeler of the Year 2000, 2002, 2004
- NAHB National Remodeling Quality Gold Award 2001
- NARI Certified Remodeler Star 1995
- San Francisco Bay Area Chapter NARI Professionalism Award 1994, 1998
- Qualified Remodeler Magazine Top 500 Award 1992 - 2007
- Remodeling Magazine Big 50 Hall of Fame 1992
- Popular Educational Speaker at
- American Institute of Building Design
- Building Industry Show
- Custom Builder Symposium
- JLC Live
- Pacific Coast Builders Conference
- Remodeling Magazine Leadership Conference
- The Remodeling Show
- Remodel Today
- The Master Builders Association of Australia Remodellers Conference
- The Southern Building Show
- The Sunbelt Show
- 20/20 Technologies
- Window and Door Association
- Pella Corporation
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Jim Strite
Jim Strite has been involved in remodeling network groups for more than 20 years and started facilitating groups for Remodelers advantage in 2001. He is a strong believer in open-book management and used it for 35 years to grow his Boise, Idaho-based Strite Design + Build into a consistently profitable business. Jim has recently sold Strite Design+Build to his team.
He believes remodelers are doing their best given the current circumstances, and that mistakes are only learning opportunities and that everyone has tremendous potential to excel. He believes employees want to be understood, accepted, taught and want to learn— an approach that enabled him to develop employees who were able to run the business without his daily presence and to eventually purchase the company from him.
He believes learning is a life long journey. He worked for his undergraduate degree, Masters Degree, and secondary and junior college teaching credentials. He taught one year of high school and two years of college and continues today to take college classes and read extensively. His approach to consulting is not to advise or direct, but to ask questions and provide resources in order to guide others in discovering their own answers.
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Rosie Romero
Rosie Romero is the host of Arizona's No. 1 home improvement radio show and in the 14 years he owned Legacy Custom Builders, the remodeling firm received numerous awards.
- Remodeling Magazine's Big 50 Hall of Fame
- NARI’s Contractor of the Year — four times,
- International Furnishings and Design Association's Visionary Award of Excellence,
- NAHB National Remodeling Quality Gold Award (the highest recognition by the residential housing industry).
- Rosie Romero was also the first remodeler ever selected as a finalist in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Rosie is also a popular speaker at many industry events including The Remodeling Show.
Legacy Custom Builders has since been bought by its employees.
Today, Rosie Romero is a nationally recognized speaker for the remodeling industry and travels regularly to share his knowledge of the business.
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