This episode explores a powerful but often overlooked truth in construction: your performance is only as strong as the partners and suppliers who support you. Jason shares insights from Toyota and examples from modern construction teams to show how great companies don't just demand excellence from their vendors, they help create it. By training, supporting, and collaborating with partners, leaders build a unified system where everyone wins together. If you want a healthier, more reliable, and more predictable project environment, this episode will reshape how you view your supply chain relationships.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why the most effective companies invest time developing their partners and suppliers, not just monitoring them.
• How Toyota's approach to vendor collaboration creates high reliability, consistent quality, and predictable delivery.
• Why construction leaders should train, support, and educate trade partners just as intentionally as their internal teams.
• How open-door collaboration builds unity and eliminates the "us versus them" mentality on projects.
• What it looks like when owners and GCs truly work shoulder to shoulder with trade partners to elevate performance.

If your success depends on your partners, what would change if you treated their growth and stability as a direct extension of your own?

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This episode dives into one of the most powerful but underused habits in the Last Planner System: properly marking up visual maps. Jason explains why simply pointing to where work will happen is not enough and how drawing access paths, staging areas, and crew space gives teams the full picture needed to identify conflicts early. Through real field examples, he shows how detailed visual planning uncovers logistical constraints long before they hit the jobsite and why mega projects succeed only when maps reflect reality, not assumptions. If you want to elevate your planning conversations and truly solve problems ahead of time, this episode will show you how.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why visual maps must show not only the work location but also access, staging, and crew space to reveal real constraints.
• How marking maps correctly strengthens the afternoon foreman huddle and improves roadblock removal.
• Why logistics becomes the next major constraint once flow and planning improve on large projects.
• How detailed spatial overlays help teams catch sequencing, access, and space conflicts before they happen.
• How stronger visual planning supports safer, smoother, and more predictable construction operations.

If your maps reflected the full truth of how work actually operates in the field, what new conflicts and opportunities would suddenly become visible?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

This episode explores the powerful lesson behind what Jason calls the In-N-Out Burger Callout, a simple but transformative tactic for managing flow, capacity, and variation on construction projects. Using insights from one of the most efficient fast-food operations in the world, Jason explains how calling out needs early prevents bottlenecks, protects rhythm, and keeps teams moving without disruption. Through real field examples, he shows how great foremen and supers anticipate variation long before it hits the crew, ensuring stable production even in complex areas. If you want to elevate your planning instincts and operate like a top-tier builder, this episode will change the way you see work.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How the In-N-Out Burger Callout illustrates the importance of anticipating variation and preparing capacity ahead of time.
• Why calling for materials, labor, or support early protects the flow of production and prevents delays.
• How standard work and predictable rhythm make it easier to identify where extra help will be needed.
• Why proactive communication separates average project teams from world-class ones.
• How foremen, field engineers, and supers can use this technique to become more reliable and effective leaders.

If you could see variation coming five steps earlier, how much smoother and more predictable could your project and your leadership become?

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw