Coaching Insights from Michelle Currie

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Business Matters by Bob Currie – Valuing Your Business

As seen in NAEDA’s Farm Equipment Magazine, Bob has provided his valuable insight into valuing your current dealership as well as how to go about valuing potential acquisitions as part of your long term growth and diversity plan.  This is an important topic right now and something many dealers, both in farm equipment and other industries, need to be in the know about!  Please click the title below to download an extended article in PDF format.  Please feel free to call or email us if you have any questions.

Principles of Valuation, by Bob Currie

Update for Leadship Development III

Currie Mangement Consultants’ Leadership Development III Program begins November 22.  The first meeting is taking place in St. Louis.  If you have not yet sent in your registration, please do so immediately so we can send out the pre-work.  Your pre-work should take about 30-40 minutes to complete.

There are a few opening but you must act now in order to secure your hotel accomodations.  If you need assistance, feel free to call Michelle Currie or Robin Currie at 508-752-9229.

Business Matters by Bob Currie, October 2010

Here’s the latest article by Bob, as seen in NAEDA’s Equipment Dealer Magazine.  Click to download Business Matters, October 2010 Sales Supervision and Team Development in PDF format.

Currie Leadership Development Graduate Program

 

Currie Leadership Development Graduate Program

As a graduate of a Currie Leadership Development Program we are offering you the opportunity to renew friendships with past participants, meet new participants from other programs, refresh your knowledge of leadership skills and dealer/distributor operations and learn a new skill.  This two-day seminar will provide an excellent opportunity for additional professional as well as personal growth.

 

Save the Date!!

May 12-13, 2011 

Chicago, IL 

 

Here are some highlights about this program:

• Refresh
  • A Review of your MBTI.  Yes, there is more to learn about yourself and others that we can glean from the MBTI. Robin Currie will take everyone through how people view the different styles. 
  • A Review of Dealership/Distributorship Operations. A quick case study to review all the departmental benchmarks for a successful operation.
• Time to Renew Friendships and Network
• New Learning
  • Problem-Solving at the Executive Level.  Michelle Currie will provide a rational approach to problem analysis  using challenges and opportunities in front of you today.
  • Executive Decision-Making strategies.  Today’s executives have to make quick, effective decisions. Learn a rational approach to decision making that will improve your results.

 

Registration forms will be available soon.  Please mark your calendars now.  You won’t want to miss this important seminar.  Please feel free to call us t 508-752-9229 with any questions.  Watch for more information coming soon!

Financial Benchmarks to Drive Rental Profitability by George Keen

Rental is an interesting area to examine from a strategic point of view.  Let’s look at rental growth in the last 20 years.  In 1987, did you consciously make the decision to enter into the rental market?  Consciously make the decision to commit a certain amount of funds to rental?  Did you establish specific financial benchmarks for rental operations and continuously monitor progress against those goals to adapt, change, and improve?  Or, did you get into the rental business as a reaction to certain factors?

What we’ve seen as a consulting firm is that most heavy equipment dealers are in rental not due to established strategic focus, but as a reaction to certain situational drivers.

Want to read more?  Click to download the full article Financial Benchmarks to Drive Rental Profitabilityin PDF format.

Summer Seminar Series – Service Profitability and Running Rental

Currie Management Consultants, Inc. announces it’s two public seminars entitled Achieving Service Profitability in an Equipment Dealership and Running Rental Successfully in an Equipment Dealership.  The dates of these seminars are:

Service Profitability – August 2-3, 2010 (2010 August Service Seminar Brochure)

Running Rental Successfully (2010 August Rental Seminar Brochure). 

These meetings are taking place in Chicago at a location close to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.

Get the Most Profit From Your Dealership, by George Keen

Click Get the Most Profit From Your Dealership to read this artice in PDF format by George Keen, as featured in Power Retailer

Forklift Equipment Rental by George Keen

This is an interesting article written by George Keen in 2008.  Click Forklift Equipment Rental to download the Article in PDF format.

Renewing American Leadership by Jeff Immelt

There was an interesting speech made by Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE.  Click to read Renewing American Leadership.

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