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Creating a Culture of Safety

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

April 11, 2018

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.

Marketing Minute: Where's the Innovation?

O.P. Almaraz Tim Bauer

March 27, 2018

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Marketing Minute is BACK with a powerful video from O.P. on digging into the potential of your current and future team members to find their maximum potential, and in turn help your company reach its maximum potential, all through innovation.

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.

Restoring Success: To Do or To Skip Contents Restoration

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

October 9, 2017

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If you do contents restoration, choose to educate yourself and your team and do it well.

Restoring Success: Hurricane Harvey – Our Industry’s Time to Shine

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

August 31, 2017

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As we see and experience the widespread devastation in Texas, we also see an outpouring of support and help. In the face of the tragedies, we also get to see the best in others.

TPAs vs. Independence: The Restoration Industry’s Own Version of the Cola Wars

Turning the Page: A New Era of Trust and Collaboration in Restoration

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