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Restoring Success: What's Your Story?

July 12, 2018

Your story has a direct influence on your leadership and values and ultimately the culture, purpose and values of your organization.

Restoring Success: Accounting for Contractors

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

May 31, 2018

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As a restorer, accounting may not be your favorite thing or perhaps you may have a passion for number crunching; either way, it is a necessity and extends beyond having a balance in the checking account.

Restoring Success: The Curious Restorer

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

May 3, 2018

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Information seek, be curious, and enjoy the resources available to us as an industry. Never get stuck; somewhere there is guidance, support, or a friend.

Creating a Culture of Safety

4 ways to weave safety into your restoration company’s DNA.

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

April 11, 2018

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As an organization, we have both moral and legal duties that relate to PPE. As presented in a previous Restoring Success column, the foundation of any safety initiative in your company is culture and attitude towards safety.

Restoring Success: A New Tech Under Your Wing

Field training a newbie.

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

April 4, 2018

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After searching high and low for a new technician, you find a new tech; now what? The next step is to get them up and running and engage them in his/her new career.

Restoring Success: 4 Ways to Weave Safety into Your Company's DNA

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

March 1, 2018

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As a company, PPE must be proactively managed; as an individual you must also take personal responsibility for your own PPE.

Restoring Success: Assignment of Responsibility

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

February 1, 2018

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Consider it difficult and demoralizing to hold someone accountable for something they have no responsibility for or understanding of their responsibility.

Restoring Success: Opportunity in the Power of the New Year

4 ways to rally your team in 2018.

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

January 3, 2018

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What is your organization's theme for 2018?

Restoring Success: Four F's of Restoration: Fear, Fun, Failure, & Family (& Doing Good)

A 17-year restoration journey.

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

December 7, 2017

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Things rarely go as plan; but as restorers, we continue to press forward.

Restoring Success: Inventory Management & Controlling What's Out of Control

Lisa Lavender M.T.R., M.F.S.R., M.W.R.

November 2, 2017

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Implementing inventory management can feel overwhelming up front; but reap many long-term rewards.

Why Fatigue May Be the Most Overlooked Safety Hazard in Restoration

Diagnosing Multi-Level Construction-Defect Water Losses

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Growth vs. Grit: Why Scaling Smart Always Beats Scaling Fast in Restoration

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