This is also the time for Wallcovering 101, although Murphy's new painter is more likely to be mixing paste as opposed to hanging paper. A contractor who wants a systematic in-house course of study for new hires doesn't have to reinvent the Wheels of Learning. Each lesson in the instructor's manual includes lecture suggestions, ideas for student activities and demonstrations, a list of reference material, and quizzes. Contractors also can avail themselves of training videos that the PDCA Manpower and Training Committee has begun producing. The best lessons and tapes in the world will be of little profit if the person teaching your rookies is inadequate.
Many contractors pair up a new man with a supervisor, foreman, or veteran journeyman.
And they might get frustrated by someone else's inadequacies. Right here is where the best training intentions go awry. Like anything else, you'll only get out of it what you put into it. Contractors whose knees buckle at the price of the above-mentioned book learning might consider how much they spend waiting for rookies to pick up the trade by osmosis. A union guy might take a bright, hard-working apprentice and give him too many flunkie jobs.