Yvonne Root
Build Holiday Traditions in Your Construction Business
It’s not too late! Creating a holiday tradition your employees enjoy, your clients appreciate, or your community (or another community)...
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Yvonne Root
- Oct 5
- 3 min
Capable Construction Contractors Collaborate
Soup or Salad One evening, our extended family gathered at a local restaurant. The ordering process began with my uncle. After he had...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 27
- 3 min
Wise Words About Delegating
The Power of Delegation After reading the last three posts on this blog, Delegation in the Construction Office, Avoiding...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 20
- 5 min
Alternative Construction Office Delegation
This page is the final installment of a three-part series concerning delegating well in a construction contractor’s office. The first...
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Yvonne Root
- Jun 29
- 5 min
It Takes Guts and Then Some
In almost every entrepreneurial enterprise the owner must maintain a certain amount of guts. In the construction industry, we see folks...
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Yvonne Root
- Jun 22
- 4 min
Fun Facts
A compendium of construction-related Fun Facts. If you happen to be among those who follow us on one of our social media channels,...
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Yvonne Root
- Jun 15
- 3 min
Leadership in Energy Management
Any clock watcher can manage time. But true leaders learn to drive a much more critical ingredient in the management realm. Energy...
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Yvonne Root
- Dec 22, 2021
- 2 min
That’s a Wrap!
Christmas is Just Around the Corner As a child, I measured the year from Christmas to Christmas. And some of those years seemed Much....
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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
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Smart Construction Contractors Specialize
Warning – This May Hurt! When you suggest that you specialize in commercial, industrial, and residential, what you in effect are saying...
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Yvonne Root
- Oct 20, 2021
- 2 min
The Story of Client Convenience
There has been a focus on using SEO to improve your online presence within our last three posts. If you haven’t already checked them out...
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Yvonne Root
- Aug 4, 2021
- 4 min
Avoid the 5 Construction Donkeys
One of our clients recently mentioned that she had a couple of subs who turned out to be Slacker Donkeys. Truth is, she used a stronger...
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Yvonne Root
- Apr 21, 2021
- 3 min
OK, Now Jump!
Take a Leap You probably don’t strap a sizeable elastic cord around your ankle several times a week and jump off the edge. But if you’re...
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Yvonne Root
- Mar 10, 2021
- 3 min
Word of Mouth Strategy
Which One Is It? When I first heard the words Word of Mouth Strategy, I thought the concept seemed rather oxymoronic. My thinking went...
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Yvonne Root
- Mar 3, 2021
- 4 min
Networking the Old-Fashioned Way
Networking the Old-Fashioned Way Even if it is New-Fashioned The concepts and practices of networking are both ancient and fresh. On the...
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Yvonne Root
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
Kissing the Right Frog
So far in this series we’ve: · noticed who the hero was when the Big Bad Wolf came around · learned when to call for your Fairy Godmother...
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Yvonne Root
- Feb 3, 2021
- 2 min
Prince Charming Needs A Valet
At the beginning of this series, we looked at Taking on the Big Bad Wolf and how Construction Contractors fit into that scene – heroes,...
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Yvonne Root
- Dec 30, 2020
- 2 min
Worth Quoting
It has been a year. A year for the books. A year to remember. A year that (in years to come) will stand out. It would be nice to think...
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Yvonne Root
- Dec 2, 2020
- 3 min
That Sure as %*&# is Not Safe!
Have you, like me, grown weary of the Stay Safe message? Well, hold on to your seatbelts because this adventurous message isn’t about...
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