Business View Caribbean | Volume 8, Issue 12

51 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 8, ISSUE 12 company would go the format of being the general contractor and project manager, and then sub-contract the work out to a smaller company. Most of the full-time employees are long-term. Wallace acknowledges, “Talcove is esteemed in the industry for craftsmanship/workmanship at the highest level. While we’ve only been around seven years, many of us worked together at another company. We try to develop our staff in terms of really preparing them. Now we’re having workshops where we’re trying to get the employees to develop themselves, in terms of just not coming in for a 7:30 to 4:30 job but also looking at it as a way to improve their skills. So if they decide at any point they want to have their own business, they at least have the basic understanding of what it takes to run a small business. The intent is that if we develop them, and they know the standards and expectations that Talcove has, if they decide to move on TALCOVE