Our Service Management Training seminar series begins in Dallas, Texas on March 11th.  This is the introductory level to the 3 part program.

Attendees will learn:

  • The Principles of Management
  • Introduction to Accounting and Finance for Service Personnel
  • The Operational and Process Foundation
  • Customer Service

To bring your Service Department up to a new level of profitability, be sure to register your staff for this course on “What It Looks Like When It’s Right.”  This training is beneficial for Service Leads, Instore Sales Leads, Supervisors, Managers, and Executives.

To learn more and register, please click on the following link:

https://learningwithoutscars.org/classes/service-management/what-it-looks-like/

The time is now.

Our Parts Management training series begins March 9th, 2015 in Dallas, Texas.  This is a 3 course series, beginning with “What it looks like when it’s right.”

This course is ideal for Parts Leads, Instore Sales Leads, Supervisors, Managers, Executives.

Attendees will learn:

  • The Principles of Management
  • Introduction to Finance and Accounting for Parts Personnel
  • The Operational and Process Foundation
  • Customer Service Excellence

Please be sure to register for this first part of the Parts Management Training Series.

https://learningwithoutscars.org/classes/parts-management/what-it-looks-like/

It is only our 8th Friday Filosophy for 2015, and already the year is off to a busy start!  Some words of wisdom for your weekend:

 

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

 

If you think you can or you think you can’t, either way you are right.

Henry Ford

 

Action is the foundation key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

 

The time is now.

I want to focus on the famous author Rudyard Kipling for this week’s Friday Filosophy. This is but a short selection of his works.

 

I always prefer to believe the best in everybody. It saves so much trouble.

 

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

 

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

 

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son. (This is my own personal favorite.)

 

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.

 

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

 

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

 

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

 

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.

 

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

 

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

 

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

 

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

 

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

 

 

The time is now.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace

 

You cannot depend on your eyes when you imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

 

The time is now.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

 

There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

 

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Dante Alighieri

 

Keep dreaming.

 

The time is now.

A list of sayings to enjoy from a very talented friend and colleague.

 

A Farmer’s Advice

 

  1. Always drink upstream from the herd.
  2. Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
  3. Always keep skunks, bankers and lawyers at a distance.
  4. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
  5. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
  6. Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled.
  7. Meanness don’t just happen overnight.
  8. Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
  9. Never corner something that you suspect could be meaner than you.
  10. It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.
  11. You cannot unsay a cruel word.
  12. Every path has a few puddles.
  13. When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
  14. The best sermons are lived, not preached.
  15. Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.
  16. Never judge folks by their relatives.
  17. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  18. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.
  19. Don’t interfere with something that isn’t bothering you.
  20. Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
  21. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
  22. Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
  23. The biggest troublemaker you will ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every morning.
  24. Good decisions come from experience, and a lot of experience comes from bad judgment.
  25. Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting’ it back in.
  26. If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.
  27. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

 

Booker T. Washington

 

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

 

George Santayana

 

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

 

Thaddeus Golas

 

The time is now.

It is only our 3rd Friday Filosophy of the year, and we are off to a strong start.

 

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard

 

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

 

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

Marcus Aurelius

 

The time is now.

It is time for our second Friday Filosophy of the New Year.

 

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

 

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

Sophocles

 

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.

Burmese Saying

 

The time is now.