Yvonne Root
Give Your Team the Power to Make Decisions – Part 2
This post, the second part of a two-part series (find the first part here) emphasizes a deeper understanding of the decision-making...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 26
- 4 min
Give Your Team the Power to Make Decisions
No matter how well thought out and implemented your systems are, you’ll have problems if you don’t give your team the power to make...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 19
- 4 min
How to Delegate Well – 7 Tips for Better Delegation
Before delving into the tips for better delegation, let’s clarify one thing: delegating to others takes time and practice – it is an...
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Yvonne Root
- May 24
- 2 min
5 Strategies Discerning Construction Subcontractors Use to Prosper – Part 4
Grasp Your Tech Leveraging modern technological solutions keeps your construction business from being left behind. In this fourth part of...
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Yvonne Root
- Apr 26
- 4 min
Train Them Up
An ancient proverb says, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” I was reading through...
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Yvonne Root
- Feb 8
- 2 min
Construction Contractors with Class!
Construction Contractors with Class! Construction contractors with class are a cut above. By that, I mean those contractors who include...
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Yvonne Root
- Jan 11
- 3 min
Employee Loyalty Does Exist!
Employee Loyalty Remember the M&M commercial where Santa and an M&M each declare that the other exists? They’re both astonished at the...
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Yvonne Root
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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