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Are You Grateful 365 Days a Year? – If Not, Why? [RR 696]


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Bill Nalu is President of Interstate Auto Care in Madison Heights, Michigan and has been in business for 30 years. He collaborates with industry professionals, in building today’s “high-tech/old-fashioned” customer service system. Bill has been a big contributor to the podcast and he currently serves on several industries and educational advisory councils including AutoValue/Bumper to Bumper, Dorman Industries, and Cardone. Listen to Bill’s previous episodes HERE.

Key Talking Points

  • What are you grateful for? The world isn’t ending. Stop comparing yourself to the content coming at you. 
  • When you make a decision to move forward, don’t turn around and second guess yourself
  • Leadership comes through gratitude
  • Hire compliments to yourself
  • Suffering comes from judgment 
  • “Air smells the best and freshest after a hard rain”
  • Awareness- isn’t that you’re having a thought, but that you are aware you are having a thought. That is your consciousness. 
  • Learn from other people’s second chances before you have to be the one to learn from your second chance. You must have balance. 
  • Compassion- there’s more going on in people’s lives than you know about
  • If you want respect, respect someone into respecting themselves
  • Consumerism- willing to pay extra 
  • Do you hire for work ethic attitude? Do you love what you do for a living
  • Suffering comes from judgment- wean yourself off of the judgment that you have centered around you, judgment that comes toward you, and judgment that you place on yourself  
  • The grass isn't always greener 
  • Book “Who not How” LINK
  • "Every Life Has a Story" Chick Fil A LINK 

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      I recently spoke with a friend of mine who owns a large general repair shop in the Midwest. His father founded the business in 1975. He was telling me that although he’s busy, he’s also very frustrated. When I probed him more about his frustrations, he said that it’s hard to find qualified technicians. My friend employs four technicians and is looking to hire two more. I then asked him, “How long does a technician last working for you.” He looked puzzled and replied, “I never really thought about that, but I can tell that except for one tech, most technicians don’t last working for me longer than a few years.”
      Judging from personal experience as a shop owner and from what I know about the auto repair industry, I can tell you that other than a few exceptions, the turnover rate for technicians in our industry is too high. This makes me think, do we have a technician shortage or a retention problem? Have we done the best we can over the decades to provide great pay plans, benefits packages, great work environments, and the right culture to ensure that the techs we have stay with us?
      Finding and hiring qualified automotive technicians is not a new phenomenon. This problem has been around for as long as I can remember. While we do need to attract people to our industry and provide the necessary training and mentorship, we also need to focus on retention. Having a revolving door and needing to hire techs every few years or so costs your company money. Big money! And that revolving door may be a sign of an even bigger issue: poor leadership, and poor employee management skills.
      Here’s one more thing to consider, for the most part, technicians don’t leave one job to start a new career, they leave one shop as a technician to become a technician at another shop. The reasons why they leave can be debated, but there is one fact that we cannot deny, people don’t quit the company they work for, they usually leave because of the boss or manager they work for.
      Put yourselves in the shoes of your employees. Do you have a workplace that communicates, “We appreciate you and want you to stay!”
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