Departmental Management
Management / Core Values
- Reading and Analyzing Financial Statements.
- Working Conditions.
- Zero Tolerance Gossip Policy.
- Make Objective Criteria for Employee Reviews.
- Overcoming Passive Aggressive Behavior.
- Vested Team Goals.
- What motivates your employees?
- Session Planning.
- Excel – Pivot Tables, Macros and Conditional Statements.
Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service
- Reading Body Language. / Behavioral Science.
- Gain / Loss Report.
- What is a Buy-Cycle?
- Find the Pain.
- Website Creation
- E-commerce
Credit – The best Policy is the policy that works for me
- Review all credit write-offs and analyze if they were preventable or not.
- Track all write-offs by the original credit report when the customer applied.
- Track Customer losses by the date they became a customer.
- Use of auto-deduction / credit card autopay.
- Create a policy that focuses credit personnel on exception management, and significant liabilities, and not everything under the sun.
Insurance
- Safety Committees
- Finding and Eliminating “Near Misses.”
- Texting Example.
Accounting
I. Inventory Reconciliations & Control
2. Storage Tank Inventory
3. Just-in-time delivery vs. Stockroom
4. Propane Tank Accounting
5. IFTA Miles
6. Installation Profit Spreadsheets.
7. Reducing Audit Fees – Make Journal Entries Match Source Material.
8. Budgeting and Forecasting.
9. Changing Year-End for Internal Books for Maximum Retained Earnings.
10. Leading and Lagging Indicators.
Delivery
- Shaving the Peak.
- Analyzing K-Factors.
Service
- Overcoming Passive-Aggressiveness Behavior
- Use of Management Accounts on Financials
- Quality Control / Employee Reviews / Call Back Reports