Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Travis Howett. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Travis, thanks for joining us today. Often outsiders look at a successful business and think it became a success overnight. Even media and especially movies love to gloss over nitty, gritty details that went into that middle phase of your business – after you started but before you got to where you are today. In our experience, overnight success is usually the result of years of hard work laying the foundation for success, but unfortunately, it’s exactly this part of the story that most of the media ignores. Can you talk to us about your scaling up story – what are some of the nitty, gritty details folks should know about?

Let me first start off by saying it took me 20 yrs to become an over night success. One of my concerns with the younger generation is they seem to be sold this false narrative that its easy to go from little to much over night, and that everyone is doing it. This simply isn’t the truth. I feel many of the youth today are jumping from one career to another for the sake of the “honey moon” period never truly grasping that it takes years of dedication, learning, and growing to become successful at just one career. Consistency is one of the main ingredients in success. I feel leadership is one of the most important values one can have in order to scale a business from small to medium to large. I have a saying in my organization and that is the building can only go as tall as the foundation is wide and deep. So I focus on first hiring solid employees, and then spend countless hours training them into a pillar for that very foundation. I have found out through the years I can hire someone with the skill sets (this can be challenging to find this individual), or I can train them. Often times I have found the latter is better in the long run. By adding value to the individual I have created loyalty. I then continue to pour into them by helping them achieve what they want in life. In order to successful build the company I must have the right people for the jobs that I can place weight on. We have a saying around here and that is we hire the best, we train the best, and we retain the best. which brings me to my last point. Once I have hired solid people and I have spent the countless hours investing in them and their families, I must retain them. In order to do this I focus on paying them well and creating growth opportunities within the organization. Stagnant water is foul water! This principles also applies to people. I can not afford to have people not growing and being rewarded by the company. So I must be the one that creates those opportunities. To summarize I do for others as I would have them do for me.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I’m an Electrical contractor that kind of fell into the industry as a young man who didn’t know what he wanted in life. I was given an opportunity to hire on as an electrical apprentice, and like most of my endeavors I want hard after it. Sergeant’s Electric provides residential electrical services to their Clients. The things that set us apart from most other electrical companies is the values I instill in the employees here at Sergeant’s Electric. I am a firm believer in the concept of where the head goes the body must follow. Meaning I set the tone here, the pace, and core beliefs. Some of the characteristics that we build here is , being on time, doing what’s right, hard work, treating other’s as you would like to be treated, cleaning up after ourselves, and many more. My grandfather was in the military and instilled a lot of that mindset into me as a young man, and it’s those same principles that I pour into team that we have here.

What do you think helped you build your reputation within your market?

By making our employees #1. By making our employees #1 I have just made our clients #1. I aim to have happy healthy employees. By creating a company that employees actually want to go to work, and our excited about their futures, I have served my clients the best way possible.

How do you keep your team’s morale high?

My advice for any manager would be too stop managing and start leading by serving. Aka servant leadership. First make sure you are humble and constantly renewing your mind with leadership principles to really develop yourself. To keep high morale always try and promote from within the organization, and take care of your greatest assets. The Employees

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