Chris Collins argues that posting production numbers daily is the single most powerful driver of shop productivity. Most foremen skip this, missing chances to run daily huddles, spot problems early, and prove value to management. Waiting until month-end to review hours makes problem-solving reactive instead of proactive.
And this is the thing that most shop foremans miss. And we were in a shop just the other day, and it. We all talk about production, but nobody does. The thing that drives production more than anything else is they're not posting the daily numbers. Like, there's no leaderboard. There's. There's no huddle about, here's what we did yesterday, gentlemen or team, you know, and then today, here's what we need to do. Nobody's looking at the hours until the end of the pay period or the end of the month. Yeah. In some cases. And then we're like, what happened? Insane. Yeah. Yeah. It's just. It's back to what you said is It's. It's reactive. It's not proactive. So if I was a team leader and we were looking at our hours every day, we were trying to constantly improve and create better systems, it would not be that long before it would be very evident to whoever my boss was that I'm a better asset running all of the techs than a team leader.
