In this episode we examine the true financial impact of staff turnover within the automotive workshop environment. Andrew

Uglow reveals why losing a productive technician is the most expensive event a business can face, often costing between

one and a half to two times their annual salary. The discussion explores the hidden costs that fail to appear on standard

reports and why the industry must move beyond the myth that technicians only leave for higher pay.

Andrew explains the critical importance of the net promoter score for technicians and why current industry trends represent a

nuclear fire on the front lawn for workshop owners. The episode emphasises the three pillars of retention, recognition,

reward, and resource, and reveals why people ultimately leave managers rather than businesses. By shifting the focus from

the visible tip of the iceberg to the underlying cultural issues, Andrew demonstrates how workshops can begin to solve their

own skills shortage through better engagement.

What You Will Learn:

• Why staff turnover is the most expensive event in your workshop

• How to calculate the true cost of losing a foreman or service manager

• What the plummeting industry net promoter score means for your business

• Why the excuse of more money is often a myth in departure interviews

• How to implement the three pillars of technician retention

• Why technician satisfaction is the real solution to the skills shortage

Key Takeaways:

• Staff turnover costs between 1.5 and 3.5 times a salary off the bottom line

• People leave managers, they do not leave businesses

• 70 percent of technicians in some surveys are detractors of the industry

• Measuring staff satisfaction should be as rigorous as measuring customer satisfaction

• Recognition, reward, and resource are the foundations of a stable team

Notable Quotes:

• "The most expensive event in a workshop is technicians leaving, and more expensive than that is foreman leaving."

• "We know the reality is that people leave managers, they don't leave businesses."

• "If the technicians were satisfied, I doubt we'd have the skills shortage that we do."

• "We've been stuck playing at the tip of the iceberg... and we've missed the really important things that are less visible."

Andrew has a variety of free downloads and tools you can grab.

Discover if your workshop is Retention Worthy here or visit his website, https://www.solutionsculture.com

(https://www.solutionsculture.com) where the focus is on bringing reliable profitability to automotive workshop owners and

workshop management through the Retention, Engagement and Development of their Technical Professionals.

This podcast was produced by 'Podcasts Done for You' https://commtogether.com.au (https://commtogether.com.au) .

The hidden cost of technician turnover.

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Join passionate automotive trainer and

coach Andrew Uglow as he unpacks the

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massive financial impact of losing your

best staff and why the skill shortage

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might be a satisfaction problem.

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In this episode, you'll learn why

staff turnover is the most expensive

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event in your workshop and how to

measure the true cost of losing

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a foreman or service manager.

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Discover the three pillars of

technician retention and why the

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industry's net promoter score is

a warning sign we cannot ignore.

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Along the way, you'll hear stories

about the reality of departure

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interviews and the myth that

technicians only care about money.

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I'm your co-host Anthony Pearl, and this

is the Frictionless Workshop podcast.

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Let's get cranking

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So tell me, Andrew, you've

spent a lot of time talking to a

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lot of workshops at all levels of people.

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Is there something that is the

most expensive thing that is not

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being measured and not showing

up in a report that should?

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Andrew Uglow: Yeah.

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So the most expensive event in a workshop

is Technicians leaving and, and more

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expensive than that is foreman leaving.

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And you could even argue

perhaps at that same level as

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a service manager that leaves.

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I know if you lose a-- Like

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We went and engaged with some HR

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space, and we went and did a bit

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And some of the measures were

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so we had to take best available.

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But for the most part, it's somewhere

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what their wage is off your bottom line

when you lose a good tech, like a tech

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that's productive, that's contributing.

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Uh, if you lose a foreman,

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It'll be somewhere between two and

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what the foreman's wage was, and,

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If you don't have a good 2IC or a

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manager leaves and you've got a great

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you've got a great foreman who can

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gonna really hit your bottom line.

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One of the things that doesn't

get measured is staff turn.

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That doesn't seem to be a line item

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and, and costs and projections of,

well, what happens if I lose my foreman?

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And now w-we are starting to see that

in places like Complete Dealer Solutions

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and Errol Fernandes do those sorts of

mapping, which shout out to you, Errol,

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if you're watching, if you're listening.

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Well done.

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Crazy important.

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But I talk to a foreman and I

go, "How many techs have you

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lost in the last 12 months?"

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"Oh, we've lost six."

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Just like, "Okay, how many of

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Like, some people you, you

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You want them in your competitor's

business screwing them

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over, not screwing you over.

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We can do without him."

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And it's like, "Well,

why did that happen?"

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And we come up with anecdotal evidence,

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in what they thought, vent their

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and you got one response on the anonymous

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profoundly useful things that you

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Well, gee whiz, you,

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of, "Oh, why are you leaving?"

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"More money."

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"Okay, I'm sure that was

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Did you ask that question?

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Do the whys and why and why and why and

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"Oh Because that's less

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That's what people are primed to say, and

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It's a bit like when you meet someone in

the street and you say, "Hi, how are you?"

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conversation or let's keep moving.

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episodes as well, the high percentage,

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you said as high as 60% of techs that

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I've just asked the question,

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W- were you satisfied or how satisfied

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received, and would you recommend us?

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This is the tell-all.

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This is the dipstick, right?

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customer retention can I offer.

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is like worthy of adoration and a

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Like that is just truly epic to have an

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because things in the automotive world

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of things right and get that

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and they get smashed for it.

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of me, it's called Voice of Technician

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promoter score question for technicians

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10, how likely are you to recommend

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Now here's, if you're not sitting

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sit down because I was shocked,

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In 2024, so two years ago in 2024, the,

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over to Australia, so I appreciate that.

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So when we say minus 60, 70%

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and only 10% were promoters.

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In the US, 70% of people who are working

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They would not recommend it to a friend.

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Now, I don't know about you, but for me,

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lawn of urgency, I don't know what is.

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You just go, "Oh, net promoter

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and the metrics are all wrong, and

they don't this and they don't that."

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do you know that it wasn't just a

bunch of really upset technicians

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who responded to the survey?"

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Something like three and a half

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We don't have flat rate.

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And sure, I, I, I take on board

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Um, our technicians are wildly better off

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we have by government legislation than

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And at the same time, let's, let's

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Pick a number, Anthony.

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Let's spin the wheel and pick a number.

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like it, they're very, very dis- they're

detractors, they're very dissatisfied,

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what would be a good number

f- that would correlate here?

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35% of people?

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Is that a good number?

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Andrew Uglow: back to the podcast

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Anthony Perl: Do you know what's

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that it can be one thing that is happening

in the industry overall, and another thing

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that's happening in the workshop business

environment, and you have to kind of work

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between those two as well, don't you?

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You could-- You can have

dissatisfaction with the industry

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and where it's going, but you can

have satisfaction with the part that

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you're playing within it as well.

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So I think there's how does a,

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measure that at a local level?

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I mean, is that a big red flag

that they actually need to do that?

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Is that the starting point for

this here in saying, "Well, we

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know this industry figure exists.

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What, what is it actually for us?"

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I, I'm, I'm gonna answer that

by offering two thoughts.

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The first thought is, if I'm satisfied

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and rewarded and resourced, which are

the three big chunks, like if you want

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to distill down what you should do f-

with your technicians, it's those three:

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recognition, reward, and resource.

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And perhaps we can unpack

those in another session.

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But if I feel that I have the

resources I need to succeed, I am

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recognized for my success, and I'm

rewarded for my success, how could

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I be dissatisfied with the industry?

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Or better, how could 70% of people

be dissatisfied with the industry?

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So one or more of those

things aren't happening.

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Now, I appreciate that for the US,

reward is a big challenge because of

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how they, how they do their stuff.

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But if a dealership, and I pick any

dealership, any brand that ran net

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promoter score, was to get a, a change

year over year double backwards like they

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did from '24 to '25, there would be a team

from the manufacturer in that dealership

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doing a deep dive, is what we call it,

and we would be working with the service

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manager, with the service advisors.

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There would be, the business development

manager would be dragging people

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out of the dealership and putting

them on training courses to make

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sure that they know the right things

to say, the right things to do.

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There would be technical training.

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There would be people that

don't work there anymore.

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There would be a massive effort

applied to resolving and turning

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that round because you have to.

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How can you stay in business

where 70% of the business don't

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like you, don't wanna be there?

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Now, I appreciate industry level, sure.

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But don't tell me there isn't a corollary

between industry level and business level,

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'cause there, there, there has to be.

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There cannot not be.

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And so y- I, I go, "Let's

play devil's advocate.

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Let's pretend that we got 0% here."

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We weren't as bad as the US, but

we got 0%, or we got 12% positive.

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I'm sorry, that's a good result somehow?

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We complain about, as an industry, we

complain about the skills shortage.

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M- maybe there's a relationship

here between satisfaction

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and, and skills shortage.

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Now I'm- hear what I'm saying

and what I'm not saying.

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I'm not saying pay them more.

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Like, sure, pay them more, but I'm

not saying you have to pay them more.

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No, no, no, no.

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We've

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been stuck playing at the tip of

the iceberg, and we've been doing

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all the stuff that's visible and

obvious, and we've missed the really

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important things that are less visible,

counterintuitive, and less obvious.

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And I go back to if the technicians

are dissatisfied or there's a reason

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for that, sure, a percentage of them

are gonna be sooky la la whingers who

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weren't hugged enough as children.

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Absolutely.

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But some of them are gonna have

genuinely authentic reasons for why

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they feel that way, and maybe it- if

we believe customers with net promoter

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score scores, then m- maybe we wanna

go and test our technicians and find

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out what's really happening for them.

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Because if they were satisfied, I doubt

we'd have the skills shortage that we do.

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Anthony Perl: Well, that's all

we have time for in this episode.

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But if you realize today that

there's a direct relationship between

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technician satisfaction and the

skills shortage, it's time to start

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measuring staff satisfaction with the

same rigor you use for your customers.

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And to help you put these ideas into

gear, we've put together a dedicated

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workbook that includes a breakdown

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activities to help you identify if your

workshop is truly retention worthy.

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You can download your copy right

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Make sure you check out the show notes

as well for contact information for

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Andrew and his team at Solutions Culture

to help you strengthen your leadership.

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In our next episode, Andrew will

explore the CAMPS ecosystem, the

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customers, advisors, managers,

parts, and sales teams that act

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as time vampires for your foreman.

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We'll explain why your foreman is

getting pushed off their mark by constant

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urgency, and how service managers can

help mitigate this systematic burnout.

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