The most skilled installer on a job site is not always the most effective foreman.That distinction was at the heart of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors—National Association (PHCC) Educational Foundation’s annual Creating Super Foremen workshop, held May 1-2 at Milwaukee Tool’s headquarters in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Twenty-four field leaders from across the country gathered for the intensive two-day program, which challenged them to rethink the very nature of their role on the job.Purdue University Professor Emeritus Kirk Alter provided instruction for the program and challenged attendees to stop solving problems with their tools. While the instinct to jump in and get work done
