Over the last 2 weeks, Yeager Office Suites have hosted football-themed Chili Cookoff events in Allen, McKinney, and Plano. Ten to twelve members at each location entered their crock pots full of their favorite chili recipes to compete for most unique, spiciest, sweetest and best overall. Besides bragging rights for the next year, the winners…
Kevin Santos, Senior Project Manager with Coram Management, hosted an interactive “lunch and learn” 2 weeks ago to the designers of Jones Commercial Interiors. The purpose was to share what happens in the field after the plans are completed and the project is in constructions. Lessons learned from real deal case studies were shared and…
One of the unique aspects for the Coram construction management team was being inserted as the CM well after the design intent was established. While overcoming this was a challenge, we developed the trust needed with the client to mitigate the “learning curve”. Establishing this trust was the result of teamwork with Andy Jones Commercial…
Several years ago, one of our property managers mentioned in a performance review that she responded better to positive, rather than critical feedback. About that same time, I met a doctor at one of our properties who had an interesting way to systematize positive feedback in his organization. I learned about it by walking by…
Today, I wanted to share some coaching of one of our engineering staff, who is hoping to get one of those “one-of-a-kind” / head-scratching property management problems solved for an owner. Excerpt below: I was thinking about this boiler issue on the way to work today and I would like to offer a little…
Our team was meeting with a tenant this week to address a few building service concerns and we landed on the topic of bathroom odor. It was bad enough that the tenant had to resort to bringing their own air fresheners into the building, which should not be the practice in a Class A building. …
We took a few hours off yesterday to help pack supplemental nourishment for the elderly at the North Texas Food Bank…