It is important to have a crew that works efficiently together because each crew member understands his or her role and contribution, according to www.forconstructionpros.com.
Following are tips to help promote crew teamwork on the job site:
- Promote pre-job communication about the project and confirmation about the tasks each person will handle.
- Assign something of importance for the crew to each crew member; for example, one worker checks all the equipment and tools, one worker takes a safety check inventory of the job site, etc.
- Set your safety compliance as a daily goal and empower workers to help each other ensure they have the proper personal protective equipment.
- Let crew members share their ideas and—depending on safety and quality issues—even try their ideas.
- Set a production goal for each day but let crew members discuss how they will achieve the goal.
- Take pictures of your crew during production and share with them as part of the afternoon “huddle” before you leave the job site.
- Do “team sweeps” where you spread crew members out and walk through the job site to spot forgotten hand tools, a quality issue that needs reworked, etc.
- When the crew has produced well, treat them to a soft drink or snack to munch on while driving back to company headquarters.
