Auto Body Shop Team-Building: What is Chemistry?
“Chemistry” is such a nebulous and mysterious concept that everyone struggles to put a finger on it.
Creating a Diverse Workforce at Your Auto Body Shop
As the owner of two CARSTAR locations dealing with the challenge of finding employees, I started looking at our community and where I could attract new talent and train them to become great technicians.
Coffee Talk: The Unicorn Employee
Can you imagine having the kind of employee who would solve a coffee cup lid shortage problem on their own when corporate couldn’t or wouldn’t?
Retaining Collision Techs: Non-Qualified Benefits
Non-qualified benefits help your company protect itself against the loss of the people who make the most significant contributions.
Recruiting for Your Body Shop: Getting the Talent You Want
Businesses today need to be laser-focused on their recruiting practices and constantly refining them to get the kind of employees they want.
A Guide to Retaining Qualified Talent
With the changes in technology, processes, and even the work environment within the collision repair industry, it has been a world-wide struggle to acquire and retain qualified talent. Fortunately, for ABRA Auto Body Repair Centers, the network has access to key resources to help address this significant challenge. The ABRA family has continued its focus
Creating a Farm System of Future Employees
In baseball, a farm system is essential in creating a pipeline of successful players for the major leagues. The same goes for the collision repair industry.
VIDEO: Protecting Your Employees in Hot Weather
How to incorporate a heat illness prevention plan into your overall health and safety program.
Finding Techs: Cultivation, Training and Guidance
Finding and keeping the right people requires a comprehensive approach that starts with technical schools, includes on-the-job training, leverages a team culture and outlines a path to success.
Employee Care: Beating the Heat
As an employer under OSHA’s General Duty Clause, you are responsible to provide a workplace free of known safety hazards, like high temperatures in the work environment.
Eight Effective Elements of COVID-19 Programs
OSHA recently released additional guidance on mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace.
VIDEO: Recruiting Techs
Dustin Peugeot of the Matrix Trade Institute discusses shops’ recruitment methods and whether or not they’re working.
