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KC Restoration Culture Series: Community

Welcome to KC Restoration’s new culture series!  Each month we will be highlighting one of our company values. October is about our Community value.

Every company’s culture is unique, just like each finger print is different. But a company’s culture can make or break its success, hence why “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” – Peter Drucker. Webster defines culture as, “the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.” Here are the values that KC Restoration hopes to instill in its employees:

Excellence

Good enough never is. Learn and improve from every experience. A strive for excellence consistently improves our quality.

Gratitude

Choose to be grateful and express gratitude.

Integrity

Live and speak the truth. Obey laws and regulations. Be fair.

Selflessness

Put the needs of customers and teammates above yourself.

Community

KC Restoration seeks to build community internally and be an active and involved member of the KC community.

Accountability

We hold ourselves and our teammates accountable to uphold our values and fulfill their responsibilities.

Communication

Only through successful, frequent communication can we understand and be understood.

Culture is more than just printing shared values, it’s living them. Living a culture is done through traditions, routine, behavioral norms, and visual representation of the value in action. We demonstrate our value of Community with building relationships both inside company and in the community. Each year, we work as a team and team up with our customers on serving opportunities. We have collected donations for Children’s Mercy, KC Pet Projects, School Supplies, and much more. Giving back is at the heart of who we are! Building a community within the organization involves team building exercising, all staff meetings (prior to COVID), volunteering together, game night, picnics, and much more.

A Way to Give Back

While COVID has changed the way a lot of us do business, non-profit organizations have also been hit. Please consider giving back. If you are looking for a nonprofit to give back to, we suggest: Children’s Mercy, they are in need of supplies. Please visit their website to see how you can help https://www.childrensmercy.org/contentassets/43bf01ece9b8416ba90e953082c0939c/donations-needed-flier.pdf?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist . We will also have a box in our lobby if you would like to come drop of a donation.

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KC Restoration Partners with Creative Planning

 

KC Restoration believes great partnerships help build successful companies. Partnerships bridge the gap in knowledge and expertise; provide necessary products and services; add a different prospective to aid business decisions and create a support system which allows a company to focus on their area of expertise.

KC Restoration would not be successful without the loyal support of our local partnerships, especially those who share our mission to enrich Kansas City through our services, generosity, and beneficial employment. We would like to rave about one such partner who assists us in delivering to both employees and customers while always having our back, Creative Planning.

Not long after moving to Kansas, LeAnn and Bill were referred to Creative Planning. They began having them oversee the planning and management of their personal financial future, including creating a trust and providing insurance. The exceptional experience built so much faith that they trusted them to be good stewards of their business and employees. Creative Planning provides the health benefits that thrill our employees and handles all of KC Restoration’s business insurance needs with great knowledge, responsiveness and diligence. All KC Restoration employees are offered an employer sponsored IRA that Creative Planning manages, and the participants have access to financial advisors of the highest caliber, free of charge. We not only enjoy and respect everyone we have worked with, but we have immense trust in them to protect us and look out for our best interest and those of our employees. How fortunate we are to have such a treasure locally!

Creative Planning has multiple locations, serves clients in all 50 states and has been ranked the #1 Wealth Management Firm in America. From their beautiful headquarters building in Overland Park, they invest in Kansas City beyond increasing the wealth and reducing the risks of its residents. They support our community through generously contributing time and effort to a multitude of local charities too long to list, but including: Kansas City Community Gardens, Giving the Basics, Harvesters, Special Olympics of Kansas Blue Valley, Johnson County Library Foundation, KC Can!, and Community Blood Center. They also enrich lives and families through employment. The ratings of Best Companies to Work for by Ingram and Best Places to Work by the Kanas City Star, just validate the praises I have heard from Creative Planning team members when speaking of their company and its president, Peter Mallouk.

I highly encourage individuals and businesses, friends, family, customers, vendors and competitors to take advantage of the opportunity we have to benefit from the wisdom, skill and expertise of Creative Planning, and know that in doing so you will be supporting a company that supports Kansas City!

Check them out! We have no doubt you will be impressed! https://creativeplanning.com/

 

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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Supports the Pandemic Recovery Efforts with a New Plan

 

The USGBC has released a new strategy, “Healthy People in Healthy Places Equals a Healthy Economy,” to use LEED to support buildings and communities in a post-pandemic world. This new plan includes emergency guidance and upgrades to the LEED green building program.

The program initiates emergency guidance and upgrades to the LEED guidelines that reflect the new realities that buildings and the people inside them will face in the near future. “By helping everyone understand the role a LEED-certified building can have in creating healthy spaces, we can help rebuild public trust, stimulate the economy, and ultimately bring about a healthier standard of living for all,” said Mahesh Ramanujam, USGBC President and CEO.

The USGBC will be updating the current LEED strategies contained in LEED v4.1. These are protocols for indoor environmental quality, cleaning, occupant comfort, operations, better materials and risk management. New LEED guidelines including pilot credits to support social distancing, nontoxic surface cleaning, air quality, and infection monitoring will also be implemented.

Additional USGBC initiatives include forming Regional CEO Advisory Councils to advise and support the USGBC’s CEO on how the organization can prioritize sustainability in a post-pandemic world. It will also accelerate the implementation of its USGBC Equity program to better address the social, health, and economic disparities within communities.

USGBC also plans to publish a series of best practice guidance reports to help project teams assist their occupants as they reenter their spaces. For more information, contact KC Restoration today.

 

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KCR’s Popular Box Drop & Pick-Up for Children’s Mercy is Back and We Moved!

Did you know that this is the time of year when Children’s Mercy Hospital needs our help the most?  The amount of donations often declines in October and November as a result of most donors and organizations waiting until the holiday season to donate much needed supplies for children.
KC Restoration is once again helping our customers donate and give back by dropping off boxes to buildings, picking them up and delivering them directly to the hospital.  If you would like to participate in this easy and benevolent program, please contact Sara Buchholz at sara@kcrestoration.com. A KCR team member will bring a labeled box to your office and pick it up for delivery when it is full. All donations will be picked up by October 30th.
Help us help our children! For a current list of the hospital’s most needed items, click here!
WE MOVED!
KCR has moved to a new location due to our recent growth! We are now located in a larger office and shop space near 119th and I-35 to serve your needs better.
Our new address is:
1465 N. Winchester St.
Olathe, KS 66061.
Visitors are always welcome to come check out our new facility and we hope to see you soon!

Contact Us

KC Restoration, LLC
1465 N. Winchester St., Olathe, KS 66061
913-766-2200