SKILLED TRADES BUSINESSES
Fix The People Problems That are Killing Your Margins
Your people problems aren't just HR or Training issues - they're margin leaks. And every month they go unfixed, you’re losing profit.
Find out what it's costing you →
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THE REAL PROBLEM
You're Losing Money On Problems You Don't See Yet.
Most owners find out about a problem when it's already expensive. A worker quits. Mistakes need rework. Someone files a complaint or grievance. Workers lack the skill to do work well.
By then, the damage is done.
The worst part? It was fixable. It started months earlier as a small problem nobody dealt with.
Take a hard look at your business and see if any of this sounds familiar:
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Good People Keep Leaving
In a shrinking trades workforce, every person who leaves is one more seat you can’t fill easily.
Cost: Recruitment, ramp time, lost productivity, and fewer quality referrals.
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Jobs That Should Be Profitable Aren't
The job should have made money. Instead, hours blew out, work got redone, and timelines slipped... and nobody can give you a straight answer why.
Cost: Direct margin per job and reputation with customers and GCs.
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A Lawsuit You Never Saw Coming
A worker files a grievance. HR calls. A lawyer sends a letter. You’re blindsided, but the early signs were there.
Cost: Legal fees, settlements, investigations, and leadership time.
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Everything Ends Up On Your Desk
You’re still the one getting the 6 p.m. call. If it’s messy or risky, it lands on your desk because your team doesn't know how to handle it without you.
Cost: Your time, your focus, and the growth ceiling on the whole business.
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Training That Changed Nothing
You’ve sent people to training before. They sat in a room, nodded, signed the sheet… then went back to site and did exactly what they did before.
Cost: Wasted budget, same problems, and less belief that “training” ever works.
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Legal Risk You Don't Know You Have
You only find out your documentation is weak when someone makes a claim. By then, it’s too late to fix.
Cost: $25K–$570K+ per incident in fees, settlements, and lost time.
We Fix This Before It Gets Expensive
Boost works with construction, trades, and manufacturing companies to fix the people and systems problems that are unknowingly draining their business. We've helped owners uncover hundreds of thousands in losses they didn't know they had, handle terminations that would have cost them six figures, and build leadership teams that actually run the work without being babysat.
We're not consultants who hand you a report and disappear. We get in, find what's broken, fix it, and hand it back better than we found it.
Here's what that looks like in practice.
THE REAL PROBLEM
You're Losing Money On Problems You Don't See Yet.
Most owners find out about a problem when it's already expensive. A worker quits. Mistakes need rework. Someone files a complaint or grievance. Workers lack the skill to do work well.
By then, the damage is done.
The worst part? It was fixable. It started months earlier as a small problem nobody dealt with.
Take a hard look at your business and see if any of this sounds familiar:
Good People Keep Leaving
In a shrinking trades workforce, every person who leaves is one more seat you can’t fill easily.
Cost: Recruitment, ramp time, lost productivity, and fewer quality referrals.
Boost your Team, Anywhere, Anytime.
Equip your workforce with a learning ecosystem. Offer on-the-job digital learning that answers their questions in real time. Onboard, train and upskill your staff with your own custom content -- all in one central place.
Elements of your Learning Ecosystem
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People
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Content
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Strategy
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Learning Culture
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Technology
Fractional HR Services
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Foundations
Customized services such as Policies design, Compliance, Procedures, Job Descriptions, Role & Job Responsibility
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Recruitment
Helping you recruit the right people to the job in all roles from front line to senior staff. From job description to posting, interviewing and hiring. We help you the whole way.
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Sr. HR Advisory
What should your strategy be? How much should you pay people? How do you manage someone’s performance and how do you cover yourself when you need to let someone go. We provide on-call advice to navigate tough decisions.
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Full Service
Fully customized fractional team that handles all of your human resources needs. We help you create a modern and pleasant workplace where everyone is productive.
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Employee Playbooks
Document each person’s work for smoother onboarding, cross training and a backup plan in case someone leaves their job. We help create employee playbooks, standard operating procedures and handbooks
Boost Training & Courses
Strong communication makes or breaks a leader. This hands-on program gives leaders and managers in the trades the tools they need to have tough conversations, give clear feedback, and build trust with their crews, reps and office staff.
You’ve recently promoted someone or hired someone in a role and they’re expected to manage people. It’s not an automatic skill. It does require some training to be confident and effective. This is the course for new managers and supervisors in your office. Investing in them is the absolute best thing you can do.
The Boost Method
for Training
Boost Success Stories: See the Impact.
The Boost Process
Fueling Your Growth, Step by Step.
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During our initial consultation, we work to understand your industry landscape, business challenges, and goals to determine if we are a good fit. We will suggest either a needs assessment or learning blueprint
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We will interview you, leadership and staff as well as audit what you’ve got for human resource foundations and training. We will give you our recommendations.
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We will design a plan that will lay out the pathway for your customized digital training program enabling onboarding, training, technology and learning strategy for three core roles. This delivery is the plan for a complete learning ecosystem.
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Our team leads you through the Boost Method project cycle. We design custom training, provide fractional HR and many other services based on the recommendations. We are your lifeline for end-to-end support.
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Continue to uplevel your business as we help you transition to an in-house learning development or human resources team.
Futureproof Your Trades Business with Boost.
Unlock your business' full potential with Boost’s learning design and fractional HR services. Take the first step and book your free discovery call now. Together, we will build a stronger future for your organization—one step at a time.
