Our team meetings have been very efficient and effective. Our meeting agenda is always clear and sent out beforehand. Lasting only about an hour, the education manager does a great job of keeping us on task and giving us the information we need to do our jobs and the praise for doing a great job. This course helped me valadate the effectiveness of our team meetings.

I know in this business, there are a wide variety of skill sets and competence levels. This sometimes translates unto team members working as individuals not team players. How do you get team members to gel quickly as a team?

I like to interject unique repair experiences and anecdotes from my years in the field into my lectures to form a more cohesive connection between what the students are learning and what they may expect in the field. They seem to pay more attention in lecture, retain a higher percentage of their study material and are excited to go out to the lab and put their new-found knowledge to work.

I've noticed that often students give up too easily when a tool or clip car is broken. I like showing them how to look for creative alternatives. This simple exercise can teach them to be more self-confident and effective in their jobs and possibly their personal lives. It also helps when EOC evaluation time comes - the “Tools and Training Aids” scores stay up as well as retention rates.