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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.

Pick one answer

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.

36:Tffb,

Your best friend is on the crew now, and everyone is watching what he gets.

Before you give your buddy anything, ask yourself whether you'd give the same to all eight.

Pick one answer

Friday afternoon, your buddy asks to knock off twenty minutes early for his daughter's game. The job can spare him today. What do you tell him?

Yes, out in the open. It's the answer anyone on the crew would get.

No. After the morning he rolled in late, he needs to see you won't bend for him.

Yes, but keep it quiet so nobody else starts asking.

Run the test. On a day the job can spare them, anyone on the crew would get twenty minutes for their own child's game, so he gets it too, out in the open. Turning him down to look tough is the same favoritism turned around, and the crew reads it the same way. A quiet yes has to stay quiet because it's a favor you couldn't give all eight.

37:T1f4f,

When a fifteen-year framer skips the easy stuff, it's a message. Answer it in private.

Tick off as you go

Keep it between the two of you. No calling him out at the huddle, and no going to the super.

Two coffees at his tailgate, before the start. He wanted this job, he'd have been good at it, and the crew needs his fifteen years.

Ask what would make this work for him. Then listen without arguing.

Give him something real to own. The stair layout on the next phase, and teaching the apprentice stringers.

Check his work every day, the same as everybody's. When something's wrong, he's the one who fixes it. If it keeps happening, it becomes a conversation for the office.

Pick one answer

Week three. His walls have been clean since the tailgate talk. At the huddle, the guy who wanted the job corrects your layout call in front of the crew, and he's right. What do you do?

"Good catch. Let's run it your way." Being right in public costs you nothing.

Thank him, then tell him privately to bring corrections to you away from the crew from now on.

Hold your call. Folding in front of the crew in week three says the job's still up for grabs.

At the tailgate you told him the crew needs his fifteen years. Taking the correction in front of everyone proves you meant it. Asking him to keep corrections private turns his experience back into a threat, and holding a wrong call to save face costs you the wall and the crew's respect.

38:Tfb1,

The pull to grab the saw is strongest when you're the best pair of hands on the site.

Whoever got it wrong does it again until it's right.

Pick one answer

Thursday, 2 p.m. One of your carpenters flashed the deck ledger wrong, and the inspector comes Monday morning. What do you do?

Fix it yourself after the crew leaves. It's quick, and he's got enough on his plate.

Walk it with him first thing Friday, find what went wrong together, and have him redo it that day.

Point it out at the Friday huddle so the whole crew learns from it.

The rule only bends for the clock, and Monday leaves all of Friday to get it right. Fixing it yourself after everyone leaves teaches him nothing and hands you a second job. Calling it out at the huddle turns one person's mistake into a show for the crew. Walk it with him and let him redo it.

39:Tdca,

The apprentice is standing at the stringers with the saw you just handed back, and he thinks you're punishing him. Tell him why you didn't fix them yourself. Say it out loud if you can.

Explain it in your words

Tell the apprentice why you handed the stringers back instead of fixing them yourself

A first-year apprentice who thinks you're punishing him

Type or record your explanation

Check my explanationOnly you see what you write here

Two or three sentences is plenty. Say it the way you'd say it at the saw.

3a:T1d6f,

Tomorrow gets planned today, before you leave the site.

Tick off as you go

3:40, twenty minutes before knock-off. Walk the site for ten minutes.

Go through tomorrow one person at a time: tools, material, answers.

Anything short gets a phone call tonight, while the yard is still open.

Every loose end goes in the notebook the moment you think of it.

At each spot, ask what could stop this person in the morning.

Pick one answer

3:40 on Thursday. You owe the office a timecard answer, one of your carpenters wants a word about Friday, and you're wiped. What happens to the walk?

Walk it now, even a thin version, while the yard's still open.

Run it in your head on the drive home. You know this job well enough by now.

Skip it today and run a longer huddle at 6:45 instead.

The version in your head on the drive home is the one tired foremen pick, and it misses what the walk is there to catch: the stack that's lower than you remember, the nail gun that died at two, tomorrow's question hiding in the prints. A longer huddle in the morning can't order material either, because the yard's closed by then. Walk it now, even a thin ten minutes, then deal with the timecard and the word about Friday.

3b:Ta0b,

Reading about the walk changes nothing on your site. Run it once, then check in here.

Do this for real

Run the 3:40 walk on your own site

Twenty minutes before the crew knocks off, walk the site for ten minutes. Go through tomorrow's first task for each person: tools, material, answers. Anything short gets a phone call before you leave. Write every loose end in your notebook. The next morning, time the huddle.

After you do it, you'll check in on

What did you catch that would have stopped someone the next morning?
How long did the next huddle take?
What will you check differently next time?

I'm in

3c:T1b07,

The day you spot a problem, the office hears it from you, before you leave the site.

Tick off as you go

Call before you leave, the same day you spot it.

What you found.

When it becomes a problem.

Two ways out.

Pick one answer

Tuesday, 3 p.m. The crane for Friday's truss lift is booked, but the gravel pad it has to stand on isn't scheduled until next week. What's your move?

Call the office before you leave: no pad, the lift is Friday, and it's either the pad moved up or the crane moved back.

Work it out with the excavator yourself first, so you're not calling the office about something you could have handled.

Call the office now, tell them the pad's going to be a problem on Friday, and let them work out the fix.

The most useful thing you can send up the line is time, so call today with three things ready: what you found, when it becomes a problem, and two ways out. Sorting it out with the excavator first burns days the office could have used, and they may be able to move the crane with one phone call. A call with no options hands them the problem and leaves out the fixes only you can see from the site.

3d:T1c5f,

Some calls are yours. Some go up the line, and the earlier the better. Play this one through.

Make the calls

The trusses won't clear the duct

Monday, week three, 2 p.m. You're checking this week's framing prints against the mechanical drawings at the plan table.

The roof trusses land on Thursday. As drawn, three of them sit right where the main supply duct has to run.

Start

3e:T1ebd,

Thirty days in, grade yourself on what the crew saw you do.

Tick off as you go

Did your best friend on the crew get anything you couldn't give all eight?

Have you said the hard thing to the guy who wanted the job, and do you check his work like everyone's?

The last time the apprentice cut something wrong, whose hands fixed it?

How many afternoons did you walk the site at 3:40?

Did the office hear about problems from you while there was still time to act?

Pick one answer

Day thirty. You run the check on yourself. Your buddy got nothing extra, the office hears about problems early, and you walked the site most afternoons. But one carpenter's work has been slipping for two weeks, and you haven't said a word. What do you write down for this week?

The talk with that carpenter, and the day you'll have it.

Walking the site every afternoon instead of most. It's the quickest one to fix, so start there.

Nothing new. Most of the check comes out right, so the month went well.

The one you've been putting off is usually the one that needs an awkward conversation, and the crew has watched that slipping work for two weeks. Tightening up the walk is worth doing, but starting with the easy fix is how the hard one waits for month two. And a month that felt fine can still lose you the crew's vote.

3f:Tf10,

Five lines the crew threw at you this month. Answer each one the way you'd say it on site, typed or out loud. Short beats clever.

Respond to each line

Answer the crew

Your first month running the crew. Say what you'd actually say.

5 lines · about 4 minCrew

The hard lines come at you one at a time. Answer the way you would in the room, and see straight away which answers would land.

Start drillOnly you see what you write here

40:T506d,

Eight questions across the whole month, most of them situations you haven't seen yet. Six right passes. You get one submission, so take your time.

Fill in the blanks

The arithmetic of the promotion

Eight people on eight-hour days put ________ hours a day through your calls.

Pick one answer

Week two. Your cousin starts on the crew as a laborer. On his third day he's twenty minutes late. What does he get?

A quiet word only. Coming down hard on family in week two looks like a show.

Exactly what anyone else on the crew would get for twenty minutes late.

A harder line than anyone would get, so nobody can say you go easy on family.

Pick one answer

The guy who wanted the job has turned in clean work for two weeks since your tailgate talk. What happens to the quiet checks on his walls?

Stop them. He's earned the trust, and checking now would insult him.

Double them. A quiet stretch is exactly when things slip.

Keep them the same as everyone else's. They were never about him.

True or false?

The redo rule bends when the conversation is going to be awkward.

Match the pairs

Match each moment to what you do

Pick one answer

The office moves the drywall delivery up two days without asking you, and the crew is annoyed. At the huddle, what do they get?

The new sequence and who's on what. Your complaint goes to the office yourself.

That you're annoyed too, so they know you're on their side.

That it's the office's call and there's nothing you can do about it.

Pick one answer

Which of these is yours to decide on site without calling anybody?

Moving two people from sheathing to blocking for the afternoon.

Letting the plumber bore a bigger hole through an engineered joist.

Telling the client you'll add the window she just asked for.

Pick one answer

Tuesday you realize the window order is two units short. The windows go in next Monday. When does the office hear it?

Friday, once you've checked with the supplier yourself whether they can rush it.

Today, with the two sizes and the rough-opening numbers.

Monday, when the truck arrives and you can confirm exactly what's missing.

Submit when you're ready. Pass or not, you'll see why each answer is right.

Finish this check and the academy issues your certificate of completion for The Crew Is Yours, with your name on it. Reading as a guest, nothing gets recorded; a free account collects the certificate.

Then go run Monday.

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