More than the pieces you found online.
Khary Penebaker
Builder, advocate, father. It all started with losing my mom before I could remember her. The scattered version of me out there has never added up to the real one. So here it is, the whole story, in my own words.
82K+ Followers
From the blog
Latest writing
How to promote your best foreman without losing them
Great foremen fail as managers because the new job rewards almost none of the instincts that earned them the promotion. What to do about it: train before the title changes, write the job down, and have the pay conversation most companies avoid.
Read more
Worksite demonstrations beat instructions people cannot apply
A written instruction describes a task. A demonstration shows the sequence, the conditions, the controls, and the mistakes to avoid, right where the work happens. Here's how I think about worksite demonstrations, peer training, and checking understanding on a construction crew.
Read more
The hazard you walk past becomes the standard
A crew learns more from what leadership walks past than from any safety meeting. Correcting a simple hazard the moment you see it protects the next person through and makes the real standard visible. Then the harder work starts: finding out why the hazard was there.
Read more