Transwestern Commercial Services Reviews

Pros

Great Oppurtunity to make money.

Cons

No Salary, all basedon commission

Advice to Senior Management

Work with junior brokers more.

Pros

Colleagues are friendly, hard working and intelligent.

Cons

Too much overtime required to meet their expectations and stressful deadlines, too many checklists or tracking tasks instead of resolving real issues. Management lacks the awareness of what the real problems are or how to resolve them. The company is growing, but it seems to lack the necessary structure and organized efficiency that's needed for such rapid growth. The company's or management's goals or objectives do not allow for a work-life balance for the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

The company's and management's goals or objectives of growth and increasing revenue and profit should consider the company's hard working and intelligent employees and realize the reality of whether they are truly providing its employees with a good or even adequate working environment that allows for a work-life balance.

Pros

Decent health benefits. Reputation is strong among industry.

Cons

Isolation from majority of employees due to satellite offices. Not provided with the appropriate amount of staff to perform job properly. No higher education reimbursement. 401K matching is substandard compared to most firms.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure your staff have the appropriate resources to do a quality job, particularly the human capital resources.

Pros

-Highly Competent and Supportive Management

-Competitive Salary

-Constantly Challenged

-A team that has a sense of humor and is willing to help other co-workers as needed

Cons

- Some long hours may be required

- The group of properties you are responsible can change frequently due to the nature of the business

- Some of the personnel that you have to support (property managers, etc) are not always the "best of the best"

Advice to Senior Management

- Don't be afraid to hold Property Management personnel (and their superiors) responsible for their actions. Many tend to make the jobs of those who have to support them more difficult than necessary. Competence and Professionalism in these positions is key!

- Recognize the value that the admin, accounting, IT and other support groups bring to the company. Brokers are critical, but not gods.

Pros

Organized, friendly environment. Staff seems to be happy with their jobs.

Cons

Not all direct supervisors are very competent

Advice to Senior Management

Check up on the lower level supervisors and the supervisors at various properties.

Pros

All around great company. I completed an internship in the summer of 2008 and greatly benefited from the experience.

Cons

If you do not thrive in an entrepreneurial environment with great potential to succeed, this is not your company.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep your head up through this economic downturn. Things will really take off in the next 12-18 months.

Pros

The people are great. Very friendly and personable. The culture is one of really "ramping" people up if you find the right team. They have enough women in professional positions that serve as role models. It is also a very results based environment, which ensures flexibility.

Cons

There is no official training program. Make sure you get with someone who understands your value and how, if they help you succeed, you will help them succeed. Make sure the person who hires you is the person you will be working with and ask good questions in the interview to make sure you both have the same goals.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to refine the ways in which you motivate, teach, and recruit people. They are actually pretty good at this, but every company has room for improvement!

Pros

Support group always in place. We work as a TEAM not just employees making it day to day. You will be advanced and given opportunities if you take the initiative and want it bad enough. In certain positions, you can work from home if necessary and it is accepted, not frowned upon. Further education is supported.

Benefits & Work/Life Balance:
Great benefits. I am a mother of three and never have trouble getting time off for illness, etc. Wonderful annual company gatherings that make work not seem like such a boring place to meet people.

Cons

In my particular department, there is a lack of leadership skills by upper management. Team Members like to know they are appreciated and that they are performing well. While, it is nice to get annual increases, praise once a year is not good enough to keep an employee's spirits up the other 11 months of the year. I have not seen this problem in other departments as much.

Advice to Senior Management

Train your department heads to be more supportive of their department's employees. It is important for employees to feel valued. Senior Management needs to know that it is ok to come in and step on the toes of Department Managers when a situation warrants that to happen.