Train your employees before they move up the management ladder.
Last month we began our Pre-Job Training (P.J.T.) discussions with the critical importance of jobsite documentation. Our next rung on that management ladder is familiarization with the plans, specifications, contract documents, building codes, job schedules, cost codes, legal responsibilities, etc. Your craftsman needs to know and understand all of this before he or she is dumped into that foremanship role. Don't you wish someone had mentored you rather than relying on that dinosaur-age On-the-Job Training (O.J.T.)?
You have several feasible options for this P.J.T. You can use role reversal by putting your protégé in charge of an experienced foreman. You can utilize our 90-day mentoring program with Green & Gold or one of your willing employees. You can send your protégé to our one-day working foreman seminar or allow me to work one-on-one as my client Dick did with Ray. Simply moving them up that rung from craftsman to foreman without pre-training is definitely not an option.