Business View Magazine | May 2021

27 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2021 members who are booked up through this time next year. It’s extremely competitive but if you’re a good, high-quality builder, you get the jobs. So there’s lots of work out there.” BVM: What role does education play in the Guild? Wiltshire: “Education for our organization has always been a top priority but in the least five years, it’s taken on a life of its own. It gets really exciting when our education committee gets together. They’re looking forward to hitting the target of what the industry and our group is going to need 10 years from now. The group is laser focused on education of their current employees and that will speak well for them in the long term, when it comes time to find new employees. “From an education standpoint, lately we MASTER POOLS GUI LD (MPG) have done more virtual because we couldn’t get together. But typically we have meetings in March and October and there’s always an educational component with special speakers and workshops from educational organizations such as Watershape University and the Genesis Group. We’ve also partnered with some major manufacturers and they have opened up some of their managerial programs to our members and that’s been very well received.” Covert: “In the last year, we’ve also done virtual programs when laws or codes have changed nationally. If a vendor has a new product or a new innovation comes to market, we’ll make sure our members have an opportunity to be educated on that as well. Our goal is to keep them one step ahead of the competition and we want them to be able to say they have the best training in pool building. They also have approximately 100 consultants they can contact. Morehead Pools - Shreveport, LA - www.moreheadpools.com