Shared Responsibility: Why Workshop Success Depends on Everyone Playing Their Part
In this episode of The Friction-less Workshop, we tackle the age-old complaint that echoes through workshops everywhere: "There are no good people anymore." But is it actually true? Andrew Uglow reveals the uncomfortable reality - yes, it is true, and here's why.
The automotive industry faces a dual crisis: a people shortage (not enough workers) AND a skills shortage (workers lacking necessary abilities). This isn't just about technical skills - it's about foundational values, behaviors, and people skills that previous generations possessed but today's workers often lack.
Andrew explains why this problem is uniquely challenging in automotive: • The industry has experienced exponential technological change unlike any other trade • Cars transformed from mechanical systems with electrical circuits to networked vehicles with mechanical components • New technicians face "drinking from a fire hose" - massive information overload • Cultural clashes and different worldviews compound the skills gap
THE TWO CRITICAL FACTORS:
THE MISSING PIECE: FOREMAN TRAINING
Andrew identifies the critical gap: foremen are trained for technical ability but not people ability. They have face time with technicians, influence with technicians, and the ability to install values and culture - yet they've never been trained how to do this.
The result? Foremen default to "telling" repeatedly, which doesn't work. They lack frameworks, tactics, and good practices for installing information into people who don't have it. They're using a hammer for everything when different situations require different tools.
INTRODUCING THE PROFESSIONAL FOREMAN METHOD:
Andrew unveils his solution - a comprehensive foreman school launching end of October. This program teaches foremen: • How to lead people, not just manage them • How to install culture and values • How to have challenging conversations • How to influence millennials and modern workers • How to do micro-learning effectively • How to facilitate rather than push
The episode emphasizes that quality technicians are directly proportional to business profitability. You need good systems, efficient management, and great customer service - but without good techs, you're nowhere. And developing good techs requires foremen with people ability, not just technical ability.
Key insights include: • Why "bad company corrupts good habits" - underperformers harm team morale • How the 30-year cycle of complaints reveals systemic problems • Why repeating the same explanation doesn't help learning • The difference between pushing people and leading them • How shared responsibility transforms workshop culture
Perfect for workshop owners frustrated by staff quality, service managers dealing with underperformers,
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 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.
Co-host: Anthony Perl
This podcast was produced by 'Podcasts Done for You' https://podcastsdoneforyou.com.au.
Shared responsibility.
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:Why workshop success depends
on everyone playing their part.
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:Join passionate automotive trainer
and coach Andrew Uglow as he
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:examines the common technician
complaint, the breakdown of shared
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:responsibility in modern workshops.
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:In this episode, you'll learn why
workshop success requires both technical
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:excellence and emotional intelligence.
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:Discover how to create accountability
without blame and understand
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:why technicians and management.
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:Must share ownership of outcomes Along
the way, you'll hear stories about the
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:automotive industry's complexity and how
it demands a new approach to teamwork
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:and why the old us versus them mentality
is killing workshop profitability.
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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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:Andrew.
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:Here's my.
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:Favorite quote that you hear it in
all jobs, and maybe it's because
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:we're getting a little bit older, but
there's no good people anymore that
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:that specifically in an area that is
quite technical and with this scale of
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:development that happens with cars and
managing everything to do with them these
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:days, there's no good people anymore.
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:That's something that comes
up all the time, isn't it?
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:Andrew Uglow: It's funny
you should say that.
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:And at risk of, of getting on a soapbox
and, and perhaps this is why I do a
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:podcast to, to get on a soapbox, but
when you've been in doing something,
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:anything for a long time, you, you,
you start to notice patterns, right?
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:You start to notice things, things recur.
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:There's, there's cycles
to how things operate.
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:Just looking back when I first started in
the industry forever ago, it was really
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:hard to find good people and then it
became, it's really hard to find people.
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:And then, and that's what we
were hearing from management.
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from workshop owners.
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:That's what we're hearing from
industry, industry bodies.
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:Oh, there's, it's really hard
to find good people, or it's
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:Now I'm hearing this
from other technicians.
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:I like, the people that
I work with are peanuts.
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:They, they, I, I can't use the exact
words because, you know, language
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a lot of opportunity to improve.
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at all, let alone are they employable.
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but, but this is the thing, like if it
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you're just really unlucky to have got a
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:bad dude or dude that in your workplace.
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again, and again from foreman, from
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:technicians, you know, we've got
insert person and they're useless.
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things that we've spoken about.
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:I'm not getting paid any
more to fix their problems.
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of all the, the things that I do.
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recurring loops and cycles within cycles.
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where have all the good people gone.
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people these days, you know,
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about me when I joined the trade.
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at, they have no discipline.
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go back and track, like honestly,
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tick you off as a service manager.
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attention, but for also got, they
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because they were stressed, because mental
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because global warming, because who knows?
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to fit within these rules.
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about their reputation.
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the way that we perceive the world.
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out for that at a management level.
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technician lenses, this guy's
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this, he doesn't do that.
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and we're getting paid the same.
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you know, what's that saying?
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I have suboptimal or underperformers in
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which we want to upskill them or, or get
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harm than not having a warm body there.
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do this, I go, I just need a warm body.
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can't cope with the amount of work.
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find or upskill them enough,
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suboptimal to being semi suboptimal.
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hearing this from technicians
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that raises some red flags for me.
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working with these people.
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had a 30 year apprentice come to me
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in my workshop are just horrendous.
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okay, that I don't know about you,
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of questions and red flags for me.
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is there in fact no good people anymore.
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not good people, you know, where have all
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days, all of those versions of that claim.
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it's true without question.
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terms of the number of people available.
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also don't have the skills.
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we have a skills that people don't have.
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of talent in the workshops?
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you layer over the non incremental,
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technology that's come through cars.
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know, what's changed for plumbers?
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know, air conditioning techs?
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but nothing like the automotive
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people that perhaps don't have the
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don't have, uh, comprehension.
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the world, perhaps they don't share the
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what's acceptable and what's not for us.
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that it's not just a people
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nother kettle of fish, right?
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nother level of skill.
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how do I lead through that?
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have the change in technology.
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tragic, automotive light bulb.
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this incremental change.
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mechanical systems to, with a few
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and charging systems and spark ignition
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vehicle, highly networked vehicle
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:Anthony Perl: we still got
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doors that still open and close.
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or force fields or something
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but there's a few mechanical things in the
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device with a few mechanical bit.
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over time for people who step into
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drinking from a fire hose, you know,
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nozzle and turning that hose on high.
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down in a really short space of time.
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individual is experiencing in trying
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and underperforming while they do it.
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the challenge here as well
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know, if you came in as a technician
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you learn things and experience things
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to someone who's just getting their
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trained on a completely new way of
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always going to be different.
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like they used to because.
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into this and we start to look at
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the surface level, and usually
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ups, I've constantly, you know, holding
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that, that are at play.
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that they're working in.
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environment they work in.
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if I'm applying financial management.
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never gonna get a good result.
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suitable for humans, suitable for people
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that often these people find
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help, doesn't help the business,
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is that people today aren't the same.
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dependent, as in technology dependent.
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a galaxy far, far away, when there
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to be resourceful to figure it out.
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AI's been known to hallucinate once
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information, I get a bad response back.
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don't have the same foundations.
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symptoms of things that aren't there.
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want this person to perform, I'm
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my car didn't come with leather seats.
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gonna have to put them in yourself.
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you're gonna have to install them.
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gonna have to do the work.
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one, we don't have in the industry,
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processes for doing the install.
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and that does some work.
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for doing the install for these values
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not, you know, that's like using
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in the business for how to do this.
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that develop this, that look at people and
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environment, you need these skills.
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skills and the people skills,
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really well, but we just don't
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we can either keep bagging
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it and complaining, oh, we
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so they don't have this, how
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oh, well they don't want to,
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and holds of responsibility here?
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that's management.
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manager, you are the foreman.
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look at how Foreman did, sure.
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they were the problem solvers.
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but they also led the culture.
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how to do that anymore.
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longer Andrew customers waiting?
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over managing people and it just sucks.
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everything and sure, there's
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a hammer and a run up.
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things that need finesse,
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:Anthony Perl: Hey, everyone just
interrupting for a moment to remind you
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:that the Frictionless Workshop Podcast
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:Now, back to the show.
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:How you sell it in is everything, right,
and the funny thing is, is they know
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before, come in and you go, okay,
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different to the urgency of saying, look,
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done in the next week.
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a serious accident.
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okay, let's do the breaks now.
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you have to deal with.
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and do more things along the way.
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you know that you're just banging
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they're not really that interested
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to what the response is from them.
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if you imagine two axes, right?
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times knowledge, right?
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time produces technical ability.
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and where we expect our people to be, we
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that's professionalism,
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have really, we have management
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it's kind of one or the other.
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or high technical ability.
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of, well, who's responsible for this?
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of the business, management of
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the buck stops with them.
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:And, well, what have they
put in place to do this?
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a thousand different things to
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doing all the stuff that they do.
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:What system have we got in
place to look after this?
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and there's some leadership that, that
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know, 80 20, 20% of businesses do this.
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that's missing in all this.
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all this is the foreman who has the
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foreman who has the influence with the
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ability to do the install of the values
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and the way we roll the cultural things.
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as well, but we've never trained
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like I'm, I'm on my soapbox all over
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that, what's the word I'm looking for?
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our, our foreman on how to do this?
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technical ability yet?
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is to underutilize them.
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them to how to influence people,
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things, how to install values, how
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professionalism, how to do micro learning.
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I get feedback from Foreman, I've told
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okay, so you keep telling him, telling
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into someone who doesn't have it.
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good practice for that.
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hammer and start banging.
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could just keep explaining the
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clearer for someone who doesn't know.
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you're delivering that information and the
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available to them to be able to learn.
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go back to what's your goal here?
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decades and look at the state of
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to perhaps have a good hard look.
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is have a good hard look.
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people, no one else is going to.
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:We can't expect people to come
into our business with all the
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because that doesn't exist anymore.
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all that, and we can cycle through people
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year on staff turn if we want to, or maybe
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to work about developing the people side
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to learn how to manage people.
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how to install culture.
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to do micro learning.
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customers as part of your role as a, a
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be able lead millennials.
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how you do that, because.
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but I just see a self repeating cycle.
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been banging on about for 30 years plus
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jump in a time machine and go back 30
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conversation with them, they'd probably
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telling for so long that it almost
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rather than to address the problem.
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complaint than it is to, what is it?
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more than something must be done.
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this is not a small, trivial thing for me.
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financial performance for businesses
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saying about automotive.
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with everything stacked against you and
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how do we run better?
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things that it is, how do we do that well?
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down to the technicians.
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technicians are directly proportional
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what the technicians do.
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good techs, I'm nowhere.
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is it not to train the technicians?
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develop the technicians?
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goes back to the foreman.
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technical without question, but we
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there's nothing there is absolutely zero.
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can do a cert four and workplace
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management or workplace, whatever it
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but it doesn't cut the mustard.
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amounts of time, research, energy.
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is I've been testing this over years
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essentially what is a foreman school.
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the scale of people ability when
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school to learn the technical, well
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the the other side, the people side.
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called the Professional Foreman Method,
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this or listening to this,
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of the month and taking enrollments
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time that I know of that there is a
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and controllers how to manage people.
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how to manage technical ability.
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this is how to manage people how
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how to install the culture, how to
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how to get these millennials
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wouldn't it be better if I led them,
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:Wouldn't that be a far more
sensible way to approach this?
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:Instead of push, push, push, push,
bang, bang, bang, or the hammer.
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is not sure we get some results,
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:Anthony Perl: That almost
brings our technician series
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more critical insight to.
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:In our next episode, we are diving
into what happens when the diagnostic
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:We'll explore the complaint that
management doesn't understand
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:what it's really like and reveal
practical strategies for bridging the
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:Andrew shares specific tools for
translating technical challenges
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win-win solutions that actually work.
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:Plus, we'll look at workshops that have
successfully implemented these challenges
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