Elevate Construction

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Jason continues reading Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, covering being a Chief Reminding Officer, staying well trained and mentored, prioritizing family, balancing the wheel of life, managing stress, and choosing empowered over wounded leadership.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why senior superintendents must remind people, not just train them once
• How training investments pay back many times over in career growth
• Why proximity to a mentor matters more than luck or favoritism
• How the wheel of life reveals which areas are quietly dragging you down
• Why wounded leadership looks tough but is actually built on fear

Which wedge of your wheel of life needs attention most right now?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Jason continues reading Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, opening the Characteristics of Generals section, covering being relatable, having good character, becoming a mentor, communicating relentlessly, leading as a team captain, being vulnerable, and being well advertised.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why unrelatable leaders become targets instead of team members
• How holding to a commitment under pressure builds real character
• Why senior superintendents must shift from doing to mentoring
• How team captains differ from bosses in the seven captain traits
• Why hiding your true self limits your influence as a leader

Which of these seven characteristics is holding your leadership back the most?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

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Jason continues reading Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, covering the full success formula, clarity, mindset, personal organization, and morning routine, walking through vision and defining goals, growth versus fixed mindset, the to-do list and Eisenhower matrix, and a detailed box breathing morning routine.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How to build a clarity document with mission, purpose, and defining goals
• Why growth versus fixed mindset shapes every outcome you get
• How the Eisenhower matrix separates what to do from what to delete
• Why leader standard work protects your highest value 20 percent
• How box breathing rewires your mindset toward gratitude and giving

Which piece of the success formula, clarity, mindset, organization, or routine, is missing for you right now?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

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Jason continues reading Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, moving into Part Two, The Leader, and covering the six success habits: gaining clarity, developing energy, creating necessity, increasing productivity, developing influence, and having courage.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why clarity means designing the leader you need to become
• How energy management directly fuels team motivation
• Why creating necessity and urgency drives a project forward
• How increasing your own productivity multiplies the whole team's output
• Why courage is required to hold the line under pressure

Which of these six habits is weakest in your own leadership right now?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

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Jason wraps up the team building section of Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, covering team coverage, knowing what to cover, team health surveys, and remarkable communication, closing with seven practical tips on how leaders can communicate for real understanding rather than just telling.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why a covered schedule protects both the project and family time
• How rising knowledge percentages across the team enable true coverage
• Why team health surveys reveal problems before they become crises
• How different communication styles, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, must all be used
• Why open offices build trust that closed doors quietly destroy

Is your team truly covered, or just hoping no one takes a day off?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Jason continues reading Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, covering the Big Three of team development, the multiplier leader, a strenuous performance goal, and the five behaviors, then walks through the four phases of team growth and seven concrete steps to build team capacity.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why diminishing leaders quietly limit their team's potential
• How a strenuous performance goal pulls a team toward higher performance
• The four phases every team moves through, forming to performing
• Why the This Is Me questionnaire builds real trust between teammates
• How widening your circle turns problems into shared team wins

Are you multiplying your team's potential, or quietly diminishing it?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Jason continues reading Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, moving into Team Balance and Health and the five key things every leader must do. He walks through Patrick Lencioni's five behaviors of a real team, trust, healthy conflict, goal setting, accountability, and performing, sharing personal stories of getting healthy conflict wrong before learning to do it right.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why building the team must come before any task ever gets done
• The five behaviors every real team needs, starting with trust
• Why transparency, not hierarchy, is what creates real trust
• How healthy conflict differs from controlling behavior
• Why accountability only works once standards are set together

Which of the five behaviors is your team actually missing right now?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Jason continues reading Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, covering The Captain chapter, which frames the project as a ship and the senior superintendent as its captain. He walks through the seven key concepts, building the team, training people, keeping the ship stocked, maintaining systems, knowing where you're going, short interval planning, and staying productively paranoid, closing with the Titanic as a warning about what happens when a captain stops captaining.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why the project is a direct reflection of its builder's mindset
• The seven key responsibilities of a senior superintendent as captain
• Why procurement and logistics can never be delegated away
• How short interval planning turns a mission into daily execution
• Why productive paranoia is what keeps a project from sinking

Are you steering the ship, or hoping someone else keeps it afloat?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Jason begins reading his new book, Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, live on the podcast, starting with the acknowledgments, dedication, and preface. He shares why this book centers on people and team health first, tells the story of a company that abandoned people development once results came in, and lays out the four foundational lean construction concepts along with the core principles of giving, desire, morality, and leading versus doing.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why people must come before process in any lean culture
• The four foundational concepts of lean construction
• Why your desires shape your project more than circumstances do
• How morality and ethics determine whether any system actually works
• The five hard things real leaders do instead of staying busy

Are you leading with the five hard things, or still hiding behind busy work?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

To mark episode 600, Jason welcomes his wife Kate and licensed mental health counselor Barbara Hettinger for the launch of a new season focused on psychological safety, mental health, and relationships in construction. Barbara opens with the incredible true story of relocating the ancient Abu Simbel temples to higher ground before a dam could flood them, using it as a powerful metaphor for how we can rebuild our own identity and emotional health without losing who we are. The conversation moves through self-compassion, self-gratitude, and the vulnerable, ongoing work of reparenting yourself, with Kate and Jason both opening up about their own struggles with feeling "not enough."

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The story of relocating the Abu Simbel temples and what it teaches about rebuilding your identity without losing yourself

• Why self-compassion and self-gratitude are practical tools, not just abstract feelings

• How writing down negative thoughts and replacing them with the truth can reshape your mindset over time

• Why relationships (and our relationship with ourselves) will always cycle through rupture and repair, and why that's normal

• How leaders can model emotional growth for their teams, families, and the people watching them

What would you tell the version of yourself that felt hurt, sad, or not good enough, and are you ready to start being that kind to yourself today?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free, and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw