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Procedures Can Drive Your Shop Forward
Episode 11429th May 2023 • Chris Cotton Weekly Blitz • Chris Cotton
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Coach Chris Cotton from Autofix Auto Shop Coaching provides tips and advice on how to write effective procedures for auto repair shops. He emphasizes the significance of having clear and concise processes and procedures in place for auto repair shop owners to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and improve customer satisfaction. Coach Chris suggests that procedures should be written in a way that communicates what readers need to know, not just what they want to know. He also provides a step-by-step guide on how to create them and highlights the importance of writing at an appropriate reading level, avoiding jargon and slang, and explaining assumptions.

Creating Processes and Procedures [00:00:59] Coach Chris Cotton discusses the importance of creating processes and procedures for auto repair shop owners, and offers to teach a class on the topic.

Importance of Clear and Concise Processes and Procedures [00:01:55] Coach Chris Cotton explains how clear and concise processes and procedures can increase efficiency, reduce errors, and improve customer satisfaction in auto repair shops.

Effective Procedure Writing Skills [00:04:42] Coach Chris Cotton provides tips and advice on how to write effective procedures for auto repair shops, including the importance of being accurate, brief, and readable.

Step by Step [00:08:26] Tips on how to gather information and write procedures for auto repair shops.

Assessing Design Elements [00:12:08] The importance of using flow charts, scripts, question and answer formats, and matrix tables to accompany written procedures.

Final Draft Approval [00:14:50] The process of reviewing and approving the final draft of a procedure by stakeholders and department managers.


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