Quotes from the FMI 2 day seminar on Improving Construction Productivity:

• You won't train your way to better productivity, you have to implement it.
• Productivity is not really a field issue - it happens above the field level.
• If  you're focusing on productivity alone, you're not looking at the right place - look upstream to the process.
• Until someone at the top of the organization becomes passionate about productivity, real change won't happen.

Planning:

• Pre job planning
• Weekly planning with 1-2 week look aheads including all needed resources
• Daily planning and goal setting - the job start huddle to outline what will be done today
• Budget setup and cost tracking
• "if it makes sense to the guys in the field, then you'll get good measurements."