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Tip #10 Driving Results Through Communication

Tip #10 Driving Results Through Communication

Summary

“So you’re the Dealer Principal contestant on the television show, Are you smarter than a 5th Grader. And host Jeff Foxworthy presents you with this final sixth grade question for one million dollars: Name the most important tool that dealerships can use in the 21st century to achieve a sustainable advantage in their marketplace. What would your answer be?…

“”So you’re the Dealer Principal contestant on the television show, Are you smarter than a 5th Grader. And host Jeff Foxworthy presents you with this final sixth grade question for one million dollars: Name the most important tool that dealerships can use in the 21st century to achieve a sustainable advantage in their marketplace. What would your answer be? If it isn’t COMMUNICATION, then you have to look into the television camera and say, “I may be a Dealer Principal, but I’m definitely not smarter than a 5th grader.”

 

This is a excerpt from the article “D” is for DISMAL by Pamela Devillon, Freelance journalist. To read the entire article click here.

 

PDPAuto TIPS:

In order to avoid a DISMAL culture with no meaningful levels of communication or engagement, so far we have shared:

 

TIP #1: Listen to empathize and understand

TIP #2: Don’t Let Conflicts Create Obstacles

TIP #3: Remember The Golden Rule Begins with a verb

TIP #4: Don’t Let Distractions Destroy Communication

TIP #5: Sheep Don’t Innovate

TIP #6: Find Me A Leader

TIP #7: J-O-B, Career, or Vocation?

TIP #8: Wait! You’re Here to Train Me?

TIP #9: Becoming the best version of yourself

 

Here is TIP #10

Embrace Change Daily

 

Socrates once said that “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” If dynamic change isn’t a key operating principle in your company, gloom and doom will strangle your economic forecasts.

 

Exorcise the concept of employees having a daily routine. That just means you’re doing the same-old, same-old, over and over and over again. No business can survive that type of mediocrity and stagnation in 21st century corporate America.

 

Here’s an article on why CHANGE should drive your workplace engine.

 

Tom McQueen is PDP’s automotive industry expert and has consulted with over 400 dealerships on performance improvement and employee engagement.

 

Click here to read an article on why CHANGE should drive your workplace engine.

 

 

Tip #10 completes our Driving Results Through Communication tips.

Thanks for reading – we hope that you gleaned some useful tips for improving your dealership communications.

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