Yvonne Root
Invest in Continuous Improvement
While the idea of investing in your construction contracting business can run from purchasing new tools or equipment to spending on...
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Yvonne Root
- Sep 15
- 3 min
Four-Day Work Week Part 2
In the first part of this essay, the discussion centered around the 5-day workweek, why we use it, and the possibility of changing the...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 13
- 2 min
Avoiding Micromanagement
In our last article, Delegation in the Construction Office, the topic centered on delegating well. In this article, we dig deeper into...
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Yvonne Root
- Apr 14
- 2 min
Safety is More Than That!
Get the Lowdown! The latest Construction Junction podcast, hosted by Tonya Schulte of The Profit Constructors, is on fire! Well, being on...
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Yvonne Root
- Mar 2
- 2 min
The Financials GCs are Looking For
The Financial Documents GCs Want to See While it may seem that General Contractors who ask for your financial information are using a...
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Yvonne Root
- Feb 23
- 3 min
How Ya Gonna Hire?
Part of my job is always looking for valuable information for construction contracting business owners and managers. So, whenever I come...
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Yvonne Root
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Thinking of Influence – For Construction Contractors
Put simply, if you’re the owner or manager of a construction company, you are an influencer. Like it or not, for good or for bad, what...
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Yvonne Root
- Dec 29, 2021
- 3 min
And Then There Was a New Year!
Sometimes there are hard stops (like the end of the year,) and sometimes there are flows (like the middle of winter) that coincide or...
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Yvonne Root
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Scaling New Heights – Part 2
One of the underlying components of attending a professional development conference like Scaling New Heights® (SNH21) is the generation...
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Yvonne Root
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
Santa’s Elves – Employees or Independent Contractors?
Have you ever wondered about what goes on up at The North Pole? Some folks have questions concerning strategy and logistics. For others,...
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Yvonne Root
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
The Secret to Continual Optimization – Lessons from the Bus
The Secret The secret to continual optimization is picking up the most helpful tool in your business acumen toolbox and putting it to...
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Yvonne Root
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
Building Better Problem-Solving Skills
Savvy construction executives have developed (or are developing) top-notch problem-solving skills. Even if you were born with a highly...
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Yvonne Root
- Aug 18, 2021
- 7 min
Association Membership – Now What?
So you’ve joined a construction-related association – where do you go from here? In our post, Construction Associations for Profit and...
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Yvonne Root
- Jun 30, 2021
- 4 min
Recharge
Your construction business depends on the concept of recharging in many different ways. For example, some hand tools, most electronic...
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Yvonne Root
- Jun 16, 2021
- 3 min
Setting Your Accounting Staff Up – For Success
They go by several different titles. It could be they are the bookkeeper. Other titles we’ve heard are accountant, controller, accounting...
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Yvonne Root
- Jun 9, 2021
- 3 min
Leadership Means Growing – part 5
Most folks tend to think of growth as getting bigger. And that is a way people, things, and construction businesses grow. But there are...
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Yvonne Root
- Jun 2, 2021
- 4 min
Great Expectations in Leadership part 4
Excellent leaders enable others to act. They empower people to step up and become leaders themselves. “Before you are a leader, success...
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Yvonne Root
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
Convictions Required for Leadership part 3
Perhaps one of the best examples in recent history of a leader being able to inspire a shared vision is Martin Luther King Jr. His “I...
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Yvonne Root
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
Humility – the Path to Leadership part 2
It May Not be What You Think The concept of humility has gotten a bum rap over the last decades. People think showing humility will label...
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Yvonne Root
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
Inspire Your Team – Leadership part 1
Do What You Say You Will Do Before you can successfully complete the mission of doing what you say you will do, you must cross three...
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