We are all coaches in some way, and we need a coach in certain areas of our life at certain times to help us unpack ourselves and to become better at what we do. Dave Leuhr from Elite Body Shop Solutions had a goal to not only be a good motivational speaker, but he wanted […]
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Almost 18 months ago, Dave Luehr from Elite Body Shop Solutions made a declaration that to help as many people as he possibly could he needed to become the best communicator that he possibly could. Who is the best speaker on the planet? Dave asked his online business coach, Brendon Burchard, who he thought the
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Recently Gavin caught up with Dave Luehr from Elite Body Shop Solutions to have a chat about anything and everything. Dave had been asked to speak at the Carstar Conference which had over 700 attendees. He loved associating with the leaders and shop owners. One thing that really impressed Dave, was on the night of
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I know a lot of people struggle with social media marketing, so Ben Fewtrell from Smash Social has joined with us to share his knowledge and experience and help some of those that are thinking about using social media, or maybe they’re using social media, but haven’t quite got the results that they want to
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Recently Gavin held a quick 10 Minute Q & A with Colin Stevenson from HC Stevenson Consultancy who offers remote estimating services for collision repairers. Give me the two-minute Colin Stevenson work journey? All right. 1978; left school, went into an apprenticeship as a painter, stayed painting in the one shop for 13years, went repping
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Gavin has the book; he has the knowledge, and he is a Business Coach and Russ wanted to know if Gavin was available to do half-hour chats with people from a coaching perspective on a shop-by-shop basis or was it too difficult in this climate to reach people. With tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams,
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Russ agreed, Gavin was not the only one to learn the hard way. One of his favourite sayings is “I’ve learned by my mistakes, that’s why I know so much.” It has been a constant series of failures, but Russ says they are not wins and losses, they are wins and lessons now. Russ looks
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Recently Gavin was interviewed by Russ Hill, National Client Manager at Crashzone about his book Know Your Numbers! It’s The Heartbeat Of Your Business. Russ has been in the industry as long as Gavin and says there can be skepticism about experts telling repairers what to do, Russ wanted to clear that up. Gavin started
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How does sharing the numbers with your team benefit you and your business, what made you decide to share the numbers and what was the result. Joe Hinkens from Mainline Autobody in California learnt early on that there were two camps, some business owners who keep all the information close to their chest and then
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Absolutely not! That was the clear answer from Joe Hinkens from Mainline Auto Body. Decades on, Joe is still called upon by his colleagues who are curious or interested in what advice he can offer on clever pay plans with a mindset that it will fix their problems or fix their situation. His advice is,