Edition #1: July 2025
Celebrating 51 Years and the Power of Evolution!
🎉This week, I’m celebrating a pretty big milestone: my 51st birthday. 🎉
And let me tell you, hitting 51 has me reflect on quite the journey, especially these recent years as the Founder & CEO of TR Edwards Consultancy.
The entrepreneurial path? It's rarely the glamorous, effortless stroll you often see portrayed. It's a journey packed with profound personal growth, building serious resilience, and, yes, sometimes confronting mental health challenges like anxiety, depression, and ADHD head-on. My own experiences have been a huge part of my self-discovery, particularly after my move to Charleston. Building new relationships and embracing change here has taught me to find joy and fulfillment in unexpected places, even when the transition itself feels tough.
Beyond my personal evolution, we've been busy evolving at TR Edwards Consultancy too! We're thrilled to announce the expansion of our services, bringing new, tailored solutions to clients in both the project management and construction management sectors. Your continued support means the world to us as we grow and adapt together.
The Biggest Time Sink for Project Managers (and How AI Solves It!)
One problem keeps bubbling up in our client workshops: project managers spend WAY too many hours on administrative tasks instead of on their actual business.
Think about it:
A survey of over 500 managers found 36% spend 3-4 hours per day on admin tasks like emails, expenses, invoices, and data entry. (Human Resources Online)
The Harvard Business Review estimates up to 54% of project managers' time is spent on administrative work.
Northeastern University suggests 80-90% of a manager's time is communication-related, which often means significant admin (reports, scheduling, emails).
That's a lot of valuable time gone! Time that could be spent with clients, in the field, or focusing on strategic growth.
AI & Automation: Your Secret Weapon for Smarter Business
At TR Edwards, we're all about empowering project and construction professionals with cutting-edge AI and automation solutions that eliminate your time sinks. Our goal is simple: streamline your operations, elevate customer service, and ignite strategic growth.
Here’s a snapshot of how we can help you amplify your business:
Business Operations Accelerator Module: Get ready-to-use automation for content distribution, customer service, and operational efficiency with this quick implementation package.
AI & Automation Expert Subscriptions: Need ongoing support? Our monthly service plans offer continuous AI workflow development, seamless integration, expert support, and tailored strategy for your growing needs.
AI & Automation Access Subscriptions: Flexible monthly plans providing managed access to leading AI platforms, workflow templates, and dedicated support for businesses of all sizes.
These aren't just services; they're designed to slash manual work, accelerate customer response times, supercharge your business growth, and provide a flexible, expert-guided path to AI adoption for project leadership and small businesses.
We've been knee-deep in the trenches with clients, diving into their processes and pinpointing exactly where AI can make a difference. We’re working on everything from off-the-shelf AI solutions to custom automation built just for them!
Beyond Admin: Tackling Project Risks with AI
Another struggle we hear about in our workshops? Unexpected project risks. What if you could spot potential risks before they take your projects off track, saving you time, resources, and a whole lot of heartache? That’s where AI will augment you and your projects!
AI automations can transform risk management:
Automated Contingency Plans: When risks emerge, AI can instantly recommend alternative approaches to the project, ensuring minimal disruption to your project timeline.
Early Warning Systems: AI continuously monitors project data for signs of trouble (i.e. missed deadlines or resource shortages), and systems alert you to potential risks before they escalate into bigger issues that impact scope, schedule or budget.
Scenario Analysis: Using predictive models, AI can simulate various project scenarios to assess risk impact, providing a risk matrix that helps the team proactively prepare for possible challenges. Teams are also able to design potential mitigations for risks identified by AI predictive models.
By integrating AI into risk management, teams can make a shift from reactive to proactive strategies, addressing potential issues head-on, increasing the likelihood of project success.
Ready to reclaim your time?
Imagine implementing simple automations that free up your precious hours and unique talents, allowing you to focus on operating your business. Whether it's off-the-shelf automation, robotic process automation, or custom solutions tailored to your specific administrative pain points, AI can dramatically boost your productivity and efficiency.
How would you spend that extra time? If you’ve already automated parts of your business, we’d love to hear what you’ve streamlined and how you're reinvesting that newfound time back into your business!
Your Actionable Tip:
Don't aim to replace yourself with AI; aim to amplify yourself with AI.
Start small. Focus on using AI tools to automate the repetitive, administrative, and data-heavy tasks that eat up your day (think report generation, initial risk brainstorming, or meeting summaries). This frees you up to dedicate your unique expertise to your teams, clients and human aspects of your role and business, strategic thinking, complex problem-solving, relationship building, and team building.
Curious how AI can truly transform your projects? Let's chat! Book a free 15-minute discovery call to explore the possibilities and make one of my birthdays wishes come true.
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Tanqueray
-Your AI Ally
