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What does it cost when your best lead can't be there?

New hires learn by watching your best people. That's how the trades work. The cost shows up when your lead is on another job, running another crew, or out for the day. Answer a few questions with your own numbers to see what that costs your company.

The starting numbers are just examples. Change them to match your company.

How many crews do you run on a typical day?

crews

How many of those crews have one of your best leads on site?

crews

In a typical week, how many times does a crew stop to call your lead or figure out how something is done?

times a week

Count across all your crews.

About how many crew hours are lost each time?

crew hours

Three people waiting 20 minutes is about 1 crew hour.

What's an hour of a crew member's time worth?

$per hour

How many times a week does your lead leave his job to show or fix something at another site?

trips a week

How many hours does each trip take, including drive time?

hours

What's an hour of your lead's time worth?

$per hour

Count his pay plus what his own crew doesn't get done while he's away.

How many callbacks or redo's a year come from a crew that didn't do it your way?

per year

What does a typical callback cost you?

$each

The trip, labor, materials, and the time your office spends on it.

Your lead can't be everywhere. His way can.

Field Lessons doesn't replace learning from your best people. It covers the days and the crews he can't reach.

The way he does it is captured once, so every crew member can learn it on their phone, in English or Spanish, before the job and when he's at another site. How much of the number above that helps with depends on your company, which is what a 20-minute walkthrough is for.