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Author:
davemtheplumber (IL)
Does anyone know of any kind of training to my men become better foreman?Some are young(just becoming journymen) while others are middle aged? Suggestions please!
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Author:
royboy
Are you using inexperienced plumbers as foremen? If so I would hire a well experienced plumber and use HIM to train your less experienced guys. Pay him the extra money, and he will more than pay it back in time saved plus the bigger issue of enhancing your companies reputation. It takes a year or more to build a reputation but only a few days to destroy one.
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Author:
joe plumber (NE)
Amen to that royboy
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Author:
plumb-bobII (VA)
Dave, I take it your doing commercial work. Most companies of any size around here have a General Supervisors that go to the jobsites, spending time with the Foreman, attending job meetings, teching how to handle situations and inspectors,and training the foreman to be more efficient.
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Author:
Plumbum
Agree with all the posts.
To add:
A little Business Administration (accounting, marketing, human resources, information systems) training - beit university or regional college or hiring hall can help get us to where we want to be.
2 cents as always.
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Author:
hj
Usually foremen are promoted. They have to have technical skills so that they can schedule the work properly, and people skills so that the men under them will want to do that work. The amount of skills they need is DIRECTLY proportional to the number of men they are controlling, AND the size of the project they are working on. I was a formean/supervisor when I was an apprentice, but there are many journeymen who could not be foremen even after decades in the trade.
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Author:
Wheelchair
Foreman has supervisory skills that are not taught in plumbing schools. Not everyone has the training or skills to be a Foreman. You either have it or you don't. Many want the money, without the worries associated with being "A Foreman."
A Forman is often the intermediate between the Superindent and the trades.
Best Wishes
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Author:
hj
OR, as the guy told his buddy when asked why he got fired. "You know how the foreman walks around all day with a blueprint in his hand?" The buddy said, "Yes." "Well, people though I was the foreman and he got jealous."
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