EGIA
Building “The Culture Playbook”: Grow People & Your Company

Thursday, March 19

Virtual Workshop

Agenda

This workshop qualifies for 4 CEU credits

1:00PM – 5:00PM EASTERN (10:00AM - 2:00PM PACIFIC)

Building “The Culture Playbook”: Grow People & Your Company

With five Baby Boomers retiring for every one Millennial or Gen-Z’er entering the trades, recruiting new team members to your organization can be a daunting task. Once you’ve successfully onboarded a new teammate, retaining them and growing them into mission-aligned, high-performing individuals is even more challenging. And the battle doesn’t stop there!

From crafting core values to establishing your vision and mission, from recruiting new employees to growing your people and next generation leaders, building your own culture playbook can help take your business to the next level. The Culture Playbook is a framework to build a strong, values-driven culture that aligns purpose with performance. It is a tool that is used at every step of a team members’ journey: the recruiting phase, onboarding, learning to lead yourself, developing skills to lead others, and eventually leading leaders within an organization.

Deep dive into Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing’s Culture Playbook and learn how to create a culture playbook for your own company. Gain insights into how to deploy the culture playbook within your organization – as you grow your people, your business will in turn grow and thrive!

Topics Covered:

  • What is your Brand Promise?
    • Craft core values that resonate with your team members
    • Establish vision and mission statements that align with your co-workers, customers, and the communities you serve
    • The Employee Value Proposition: What does it look like to work at your company and how do you improve your teammates’ lives?
    • What is your niche and the “why” behind it? – people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it
    • Develop a Company Prosperity Model that connects your company with all the stakeholders via the “Four C’s”
  • What is your People Plan?
    • The “Four T’s” of culture growth – you don’t build culture, you grow it
    • The Growth Pipeline
    • Recruiting “People of Peace”
    • Train with the Learning Triangle – Information, Imitation & Innovation
    • Deploy with the Development Square – how to effectively move a team member from losing confidence to mastery and beyond
    • The Development vs. Delivery Pendulum
    • Deploy tools that every teammate can use to lead themselves, lead others, and lead leaders
    • The Passion-Proficiency Model – strategies to elevate your employees from distraction, disinterest, and drudgery to desire
    • The Time-Management Matrix – how to ensure you and your team members are focusing on the most important things in your business
  • What is your Outreach Strategy?
    • View marketing and outreach through the lens of the Customer for Life Cycle
    • How do you improve your customers’ lives?
    • What are your philanthropic strategies and initiatives? – and how to align them with your vision and mission
    • Team building and growing relational capital within your organization
  • What are the key components of your Operating Plan?
    • Establish key mindsets within your organization
    • Develop your own Meeting Manifesto
    • Craft aligned nomenclature and vocabulary within your company – everyone needs to speak the same language
    • Detail operating roles and expectations from the c-suite down
    • Establish clear, transparent leadership functionality and company philosophies
    • Develop performance-based compensation structures that align team member goals with company goals

Attendees receive a post-course consultation session with the WholeHome™ Alliance creative content team to begin development of a unique Culture Playbook that can be deployed within their company.

Presenter

Speaker Barron
Brad Barron
CEO & Partner, Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing | Founder & Partner, WholeHome™ Alliance
Brad is a third-generation business owner at Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing in Northwest Washington State. Barron is a 50+ year multi-trade company doing approximately $50M of revenue annually with 200 employees across five counties (barronheating.com/). In addition to leading the Barron Team, Brad is also the founder and a partner of WholeHome Alliance, a network of industry-leading service providers dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and real business growth. Contractors from across the United States and Canada come together to share best practices, train their team members, and lean into creative content such as video production to ultimately grow their businesses (wholehomealliance.com/).

Brad is a graduate of the University of Washinton (Seattle) with a degree in engineering. Prior to joining the Barron Team, Brad worked as a consulting engineer, eventually earning his Professional Engineering license. After a half-decade of consulting, he spent another five years as a sales engineer then engineering manager of a four-state territory, including Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. During his tenure as an engineering sales manager, Brad's northwest team led the company in specification approvals and sales growth.

In 2017, Brad joined his father John at Barron Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. as the Business Development Manager. During his time in this role, he led Barron's expansion into Electrical, Solar, and Plumbing - after which the company was re-branded Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing. Recognizing the growing chasm of Baby Boomer retirements with few Millennials and Gen-Z-ers entering the trades, Brad spearheaded the development of the Barron Technician School (now WholeHome Academy). This in-house, 15-week intensive HVAC program has graduated three-dozen licensed and certified HVAC Technicians and has significantly helped Barron's growth through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through his career at Barron, Brad has worked as the Business Development Manager, Director of Operations, Chief Operating Officer, and now Chief Executive Officer & Partner. Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing's growth has been 100% organic - Barron has never acquired a trades company nor partnered with private equity. To this day, Barron remains debt free with a healthy cash reserve to continue on its multi-trade growth trajectory.

Brad is an adamant believer in his grandparent's (and Barron founder's) philosophy of "when you bless others, you in turn are blessed". He has a passion for sharing best practices and growing leaders - from sales and marketing to operations and finance. There is no need to re-create the wheel - Brad embraces a culture of equipping people with the tools and training to get the job done while advancing their careers and businesses. We don't need to do it alone!