Your first morning, the crew stops and waits for you. That pause is what the promotion changed.
Before you pick up a tool tomorrow, take a look around the site and ask yourself who's waiting on you.
Thursday, 6:50. The dumpster truck is early and the driver wants to know where to drop the new one. One of your carpenters is asking whether to start the second-floor walls or finish the stairs. And the apprentice is setting up to lay out stair stringers for the first time. Where do your first ten minutes go?
Lay out the first stringer with the apprentice yourself. It's his first time, and you know stairs best.
Point the driver to the drop spot, tell the carpenter walls first, then spend five minutes with the apprentice before he cuts.
Pull everyone into a quick huddle to plan the day, then deal with the truck.
Ask who's waiting on you. The driver and the carpenter are both stuck until you make a call, and each call takes thirty seconds. Once they're moving, the apprentice gets your time before the saw starts. Laying out the stringers yourself spends your own eight hours while the other two wait. A huddle first makes all eight wait while the truck idles.