We Will NOT Save You, But We Will Help You Save Yourself

Saving People the Right Way: Helping Teams Save Themselves

In this blog, I am going to talk about saving people. Stay with us.

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Sorry, I am a little behind but I will get caught up here for just a bit and stay with you. I love doing these blogs with you. I love, love, love it. 

I have news on the LeanTakt project that we have been keeping up to date with. Everything is intact and I will tell you what, it is easier than Excel for me now. It is so good. I absolutely love it. When you export you can see the whole schedule. It has a look ahead export, a weekly work plan export, all the things we need. We are switching to it completely as a company. I love where everything is headed.

Listener Feedback

I want to share some listener feedback.

Hi Jason, I wanted to reach out and express how much I appreciate all the training materials you provide through your videos, books, and website. I found them incredibly valuable and have used them to help develop my foremen and superintendents, supporting their growth and the success of our team.

Now that I am officially a field training facilitator, I am eager to incorporate more of what you teach into a professional setting. I frequently recommend your blogs and share your work with others, ensuring they know about Jason Schroeder and Elevate Construction. I also believe your content could add significant value to our field leadership, and I would love to present it to upper management for consideration. However, I want to be respectful of your intellectual property and avoid any issues down the line. What can I do to ensure I am giving you proper credit and not unintentionally misusing any of your material in my training? Thanks again for all the amazing content you create. The answer I gave him was simple. Use it. Keep our logo there and give us proper credit so that people know where to get the source information, and we are good to go. Use it. I love that.

Shoutout to the Wolf

Now let me get into today’s content. I want to give a shout out to Ana Luisa Perez Mayorkin, who we call the Wolf La Lova in Spanish. She has done some really amazing things. She took the time to actually learn every tool and the principle behind it, step by step. She would learn the tool, put it in her tool belt, and then repeat the process. Over time, she became one of the best. She knows takt planning, Last Planner, Scrum, the Jocko Willink Extreme Ownership framework, and the IPCS. She is now a director at Elevate. Her role is to make sure we are on brand, that we are sharing, and that we are delivering. If a client project starts to show warning signs, we host wolf meetings. She steps in to help, but here is the key. She will not save them. She helps them save themselves. The worst thing you can do is swoop in and solve problems for a team. That creates dependency and destroys ownership. Instead, we open a red card, track it, and the team agrees on next steps. They execute their own recovery plan. She facilitates, but they do the work. We have to avoid the savior mentality. Real leadership is about empowerment. The team must recover in a way that leaves them stronger, more confident, and more capable next time. That is how culture shifts and how growth happens.

Remember this: we will not save you, but we will help you save yourself.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog. On we go. Please join us next time as we continue elevating the entire construction experience for workers, leaders, and companies coast to coast. If you are enjoying the show, share it with your colleagues, and help us spread the word by rating, subscribing, and leaving a review on your favorite blog platform.

Key Takeaway:

Leaders should never fall into the trap of saving their teams. The real win is helping people take ownership, recover on their own, and grow stronger for the next challenge.