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Classroom Learning Modules for Personal and Team Development

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40 Modules With 160 Different Webinars/Podcast to Support Specific Areas of your Personal and Business Growth

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Modules

Building a Sustaining Culture: Group 1

Culture Makes Great Customers, Keeps Great People, and Attracts Superstars [THA 255]

Creating a Culture of Productivity – Scott Brown [RR 671]

THA 142: Business Coaches Lab – Building an Enduring Business Culture – Part 2

THA 132: Business Coaches Lab: Building an Enduring Business Culture

Building a Sustaining Culture: Group 2

Ethics 101 [THA 272]

Know Your Strengths [THA 268]

Start Monday Positive and Celebrate Friday [RR 711]

Preventing Employee Apathy [THA 258]

Succession: Group 1

The Leap From Employment to Ownership [THA 263]

Succession Planning Blueprint – Bryan Stasch [RR 677]

I Want $1 Million For My Business [THA 240]

Succession Strategies – A Real World Example [THA 233]

Succession: Group 2

Succession Planning: With an Internal Candidate [THA 190]

Succession With a Family Member [THA 188]

THA 026: Succession Planning – The Next Generation Entrepreneurs

Financial: Statements, Profit, Cost - Group 1

Do You Have Financial Peace of Mind? – Bill Haas [RR 690]

THA 150: Three Financial Challenges – Coaches Perspective

THA 149: Top Financial Challenges to Overcome – Shop Owner Perspective

RR 300: 300th Retrospective: Interview with Host Carm Capriotto

Financial: Statements, Profit, Cost - Group 2

Profit Does Not Equal Cash in the Bank – Hunt Demarest [RR 817]

How Much Does It Cost You To Open Your Doors? [RR 722]

Wealth Building: Become a Financial Adult [RR 575]

THA 078: Low Hanging Financial Fruit That Will Increase Your Profits

Financial: Statements, Profit, Cost - Group 3

Fundamentals - Group 1

RR 459: Standards And Values Foster a United Purpose for Your Team

RR 477: Danny Sanchez – It is Not Rocket Science to Run a Successful Shop

THA 149: Top Financial Challenges to Overcome – Shop Owner Perspective

Advice For New Shop Owners [THA 311]

Fundamentals - Group 2

THA 090: Business Coaches Lab: Five Dysfunctions of a CEO

RR 388: Re-Inventing You! A Personal Story Of Prolific Change.

RR 421: Mike Michalowicz: Making Profitability a Habit – Inside his book ‘Profit First’

RR 445: Cash Management with Chris Cotton

EOS - Entrepreneurial Operating System - Group 1

EOS Part 1: How EOS helps Owners Get More Out of Their Business – Barry Barrett [RR 616]

EOS Part 2: Vision with Barry Barrett [RR624]

EOS Part 3: People with Barry Barrett [RR 631]

EOS Part 4 Data with Barry Barrett [RR 639]

EOS - Entrepreneurial Operating System - Group 2

EOS Part 5 – Issues – with Barry Barrett [RR 645]

EOS Part 6 – Process with Barry Barrett [RR 657]

EOS Part 7 – Traction with Barry Barrett [RR 666]

Implementing EOS with Barry Barrett: Four Shop Owners Share Their Success [RR 686]

The Power of EOS: 2 Day Leadership Meeting [RR 719]

Apprentice

How To Build Relationships with Students and Schools [RR 760]

Prepare for the Future [THA 277]

1 Shop, 3 Apprentices [RR 723]

Apprentice Journey – High School to Graduate [RR 675]

Have You Started Your Apprentice Program? [THA 216]

How to Implement Your Own Apprentice Program [RR 605]

Apprentice Stories [THA 193]

Apprentice Program – Grow Your Own Technician [THA 185]

THA 087: Automotive Career’s Starts in High School and in the Home!

Authors Wisdom: Group 1

Be The Hero When Your Customer Is At Their Most Vulnerable – John DiJulius [RR 807]

“Uncopyable Sales Secrets: How to Create an Unfair Advantage and Outsell Your Competition” by Kay Miller [RR 772]

Make Customer Service your Single Biggest Competitive Advantage [RR 559]

RR 380: UNCOPYABLE. How To Create an Unfair Advantage Over Your Competition.

Authors Wisdom: Group 2

Leadership Principles from Coach Rod Olson [RR 855]

A Crisis is Rarely a Motivator for Change: Why Wait? – Chip Eichelberger [RR 825]

RR 468: Mitch Schneider – Misfire: What to Do When Things Aren’t Running on All Cylinders

RR 421: Mike Michalowicz: Making Profitability a Habit – Inside his book ‘Profit First’

Selling Your Business: Group 1

THA 128: Valuing and Positioning Your Business For Sale

THA 052: Lessons I Learned When I Sold My Shop

Selling Your Business: Group 2

Selling Your Business – The First Steps [THA 183]

THA 141: Selling Your Business – Valuation Strategies

Leadership: Group 1

A Collective Think Tank – Marconi – Murphy – Morrill [RR 759]

The Many Roles Of The Shop Owner – Dr. Dave Weiman [RR 749]

There Can Be Change Without Progress, But No Progress without Change – Chris Cloutier [RR 731]

Know Your Strengths [THA 268]

Leadership: Group 2

Power Panel: Internal Communication [CC 107]

Ethics 101 [THA 272]

Are You Comfortable With Your Problems? Business Coaches Lab [RR 729]

Workplace Motivation [THA 260]

Leadership: Group 3

Leadership Series Part 1 with Mike Davidson – Everything Rises and Falls [RR 640]

Leadership Series Part 2 with Mike Davidson – What They See [RR 646]

Leadership Series Part 3 with Mike Davidson – Growth Environment [RR 654]

Leadership Series Part 4 with Mike Davidson – Growth Environment (Continued) [RR 664]

Leadership Series Part 5 with Mike Davidson – Rewards of Growing as a Leader [RR 673]

Multi Shop Strategy: Group 1

Growing? Is Another Shop In Your Future? – Greg Bunch [RR 742]

Requirement for Growing a Branch Store [THA 205]

Multi Shop Operations – Acquisition – Selling [THA 171]

THA 136: Branch Growth Strategy

Multi Shop Strategy: Group 2

Growing Sales For A New Location [THA 251]

Brainstorming on Shop Ownership – A Business Not a Hobby [RR 607]

Multi Shop Operations – Acquisition – Selling [THA 171]

THA 075: Am I ready For My Second Branch?

Multi Shop Strategy: Group 3

Your Personal Conference Webinar

Compensation: Group 1

6 Components to a Great Compensation Plan – Bob Cooper [RR 730]

Important Employee Benefits [THA 267]

Incentive Plans [THA 191]

THA 120: How Can We Provide Our Technicians a $100K Yearly Pay Package?

Compensation: Group 2

Strategies to Communicate Pay: The Good, Bad and Ugly [THA 309]

Flat Rate VS Salary Debate [THA 289]

Rethink Your Compensation Plans – Darrin Barney [RR 691]

Flat Rate vs Hourly-Bonus Hybrid Pay Plans [THA 157]

Labor Rate: Group 1

Build Your Labor Rate From The Ground Up [THA 276]

Labor Rates: A Function of the Business Not the Market [THA 187]

RR 491: Warren Parr – Diagnostic & Intensive Labor Rates – Why and How I Did It

THA 037: Multiple Labor Rates & Matrix Parts Margins in your SMS

Labor Rate: Group 2

Profit Strategies with Natalie Paris [RR 679]

RR 471: Vin Waterhouse on Intensive Labor Rates & Financial Benchmarks

FTR 012: Cecil Bullard on Undervalued Labor Rates

RR 363: David Justice – You Must Manage Your Labor Profit Before Anything Else

Labor Rate: Group 3

Flat Rate VS Salary Debate [THA 289]

Paying Attention to Inflation [THA 269]

Coaches Lab: Turn Around a Struggling Shop [THA 265]

Charging What We are Worth [THA 212]

Dr. Dave Weiman Series

Creating a Sticky Organization – Dr. Dave Weiman [RR 783]

The Many Roles Of The Shop Owner – Dr. Dave Weiman [RR 749]

Handling A Toxic Employee with Dr. Dave Weiman [RR 713]

Stress Busters to Deal with the Emotional Roller Coaster – Dr. Dave Weiman [RR 579]

Your Personal Conference Webinar

Multi-Shop Operations: Group 1

Work Happy, Drive Happy [RR 768]

4 Locations and Growing – Craig Popp [RR 757]

Are You Dreaming Big Enough? [RR 721]

Growing Pains When Scaling Your Business [RR 683]

Multi-Shop Operations: Group 2

Are You Ready to Open a Second Location? – Justin Barrett [RR 735]

Growing Sales For A New Location [THA 251]

Satellite Location with Tom Grady [RR 649]

THA 136: Branch Growth Strategy

Service Advisor: Group 1

Service Advisor Overload: Part 2 [THA 312]

Service Advisor Overload [THA 305]

Service Advisor Pay Plans [THA 301]

Recovering From a Wrong Service Advisor Hire [THA 256]

Service Advisor: Group 2

Service Advisor Must-Have Qualities [THA 234]

Service Advisor Advice from Steve Shaw [RR 586]

THA 053: Improve Communication Between the Service Advisor & Technician

Service Advisor Role Play

Service Advisor Role Play #6 [THA 245]

Service Advisor Role Play #5 [THA 213]

Service Advisor Role Play #4 [THA 159]

THA 130: Service Advisor Role Play #3

Customer Expectations/Experience - Part 1

Be The Hero When Your Customer Is At Their Most Vulnerable – John DiJulius [RR 807]

Are You Thinking With Your Customer’s Wallet In Mind? Jaron Kleber [RR 799]

What We Can Learn From Our Dentist [RR 789]

Make Customer Service your Single Biggest Competitive Advantage [RR 559]

Customer Expectations/Experience - Part 2

Preserving Your Reputation [THA 295]

Customer Amenities [THA 291]

Identify Your Ideal Customer [THA 285]

Are You Selling Customer Experience or Price? [THA 284]

Customer Perceptions

Public Perception of Automotive Careers – Bill Thompson [RR 801]

Customer Perceptions Part 3 – Bob Cooper and Chris Monroe [RR 781]

Customer Perceptions: Part 2 – Bob Cooper and Darrin Barney [RR 777]

Customer Perceptions Part 1 – Bob Cooper and Bill Greeno [RR 773]

General Manager - Chief Operating Officer

Second in Command: A CEO Perspective [THA 230]

Second in Command – A COO/GM Perspective [THA 236]

What Is The Best Thing You Can Do As An Owner? Leave! [RR 712]

How to Create a Leadership Culture [THA 322]

Hiring/Retention: Group 1

Writing Ads That Attract Rock Stars [THA 288]

Finding Technicians Part 1- Chris Lawson [RR 803]

Finding Technicians Part 2 – Chris Lawson [RR 816]

Retention: Keeping Top Employees [THA 327]

Hiring/Retention: Group 2

Hiring Practices with Bryan Kelley [RR 611]

Incentive Pay Ideas for Technicians [THA 282]

Unlock the Power of Indeed Resume to Find Technicians Faster [AW 152]

Hiring Process Explained [RR 865]

Hiring/Retention: Group 3

Hiring Superstars with Jerry Kezhaya and Dr. Laura Shwaluk [RR 594]

The Joy of Hiring [RR 716]

What Do Technicians Really Want? – Jimmy Alauria and Jason Stretch [RR 765]

Onboarding New Team Members [THA 297]

Growth Strategies - Group 1

Six Shops in Eleven Years: The Story Behind This Explosive Growth [RR 557]

Doubles Sales to $2 million in 18 Months [RR 812]

One Location $2.5M: How We Do It [THA 334]

Marketing Power Panel: Grow Your Revenue by $1 Million [THA 337]

Growth Strategies - Group 2

THA 136: Branch Growth Strategy

Growing Pains When Scaling Your Business [RR 683]

Growing Through Mergers and Acquisitions – Amanda Drake [AW 102]

Growing? Is Another Shop In Your Future? – Greg Bunch [RR 742]

Process Improvement - Group 1

Streamlining Processes with Brett Beachler [AW 104]

Process Driven: Stop Restarting Jobs [AW 108]

Processes: The Pulse of Your Business – Randy O’Connor [RR 763]

Fueling Your Business: Tips for Increasing Profitability and Developing Processes [RR 844]

Process Improvement - Group 2

RR 489: Louis Altazan – Total Quality Management Comes From Great Processes-Systems

Business Processes and Better Staffing with Brian Gillis [RR 547]

Day End Processes with Bill Nalu and Joe Hanson [CC 093]

EOS Part 6 – Process with Barry Barrett [RR 657]

Process Improvement - Group 3

We Are Paperless and Loving It! [THA 302]

Stop Stopping Progress [RR 827]