Invest in Your Future: Building Your Dream Team For Your Dream Home
As we’ve mentioned previously a successful project is a meticulously planned project. By investing upfront in a group of industry experts who work collaboratively you’re taking the first step on the path to project success.
These specialists make up your project team and collectively they have the power to dictate the success of your project.
This is a seriously powerful piece of information. How many horror stories have you heard over the years? Builder and client relations ending badly, people being disappointed that their home isn’t what they expected it to be.
Total budget blow outs, costly mistakes, hours of time wasted. Most of these situations could have easily been avoided if the planning was on point.
Your team is generally made up of your designers, builder, project manager - whether this be yourself or a professional - and a range of third party consultants such as engineers and town planners.
Just like a sporting team there’s a coach a captain and team members.
The project manager generally wears the coaches hat - they know the end game and have the skills to strategically bring the pieces together.
Your designer takes the captain role with the builder, their trades and consultants making up the rest of the team.
The team are all briefed in the beginning on the desired outcome (to win of course) and it’s the coaches’ job to scream at them from the sidelines to make sure they’re doing their job! The captain is out on the field making sure that each of the players know their position and that they are always communicating to one another.
Like any good team, the more they play (work) together the better equipped they are to take out the trophy (project success).
So how do you find your winning team?
Generally you would start with the coach (project manager), the captain (designer) or one of the key team players (the builder). Asking friends or family who have undertaken a similar project is always a good starting point. Reviewing renovating facebook pages can also be helpful. You just want to be sure that any referral you’re reading is a legitimate one.
Once you’ve got the names of a few people then it’s a matter of asking the right questions.
What is your process when it comes to the planning stage?
Do you have a network of professionals that you work alongside?
Does the builder get involved in the planning?
Do you take a collaborative approach?
Remember you’re looking to build a team here. Your job is to find the best coach, captain or team player you can and to let them bring the others to you.
In summary it’s really quite simple when you think of it this way. Find one person that you trust wholeheartedly and to let them guide the play.
