Watching crews treat the daily huddle like a waste of time drives me nuts
I've been running sites for about eight years now, and I keep seeing the same mistake. Supervisors skip the morning huddle or rush through it in two minutes, thinking it's just box-ticking. On a project in Tempe last year, a foreman said, 'We all know what we're doing, let's just get to work.' Two days later, we had a crane swing conflict with a concrete pour because the left hand didn't know what the right was doing. That ten-minute talk isn't about reading a schedule everyone has. It's about spotting the pinch points for that specific day, like a shared utility trench or a special inspection. When you do it right, you catch the small stuff before it becomes a two-day delay. How do you get your teams to actually see the value in it instead of just going through the motions?