Jun 13, 2022
This week’s key takeaway:
Being an early adopter and embracing training, with Garry Maher
Episode intro:
We’ve got a serious industry player on the show this week. Garry Maher has been in the smash-repair business for 55 years! Although the industry has changed significantly since he started, Garry is a great example of something that hasn’t changed at all: the need to learn and innovate to stay at the top of your game.
Even when Garry was the main man at L&M Smash Repairs, he found time to be an I-CAR instructor, and he was also a great advocate of business coaching for himself and his colleagues. We talk about this and how he knew the time was right to hand the business over to his son, Dan Maher (a former guest on this show).
In this week’s episode you will learn:
-How Garry got going with I-CAR
-How COVID persuaded Garry that it was time hand over the reins to his son
-How the industry has changed since Garry started
-Why more shops should nominate themselves for awards
-The importance of the destructive weld test
-How business coaching helped Garry
-Why it was easier for Garry to pass on business advice to his son via training rather than ‘being Dad’.
-The skills gap when body shops promote people into management from the floor
-Why training should never stop - you’ve got to keep up with the trends in the industry
-The increasing importance of the estimator
Show links:
** Garry on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garry-maher-5b280141/?originalSubdomain=au
** L&M Smash Repairs website: https://lmsmash.com.au/
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