DATE CHANGES-Sales Training Program

Sales Teams, Please be advised of the following date changes for the Sales Training Program: ​Mon., Sept. 21: 8:30-8:45 am Red Flag Roundup Kickoff | 8:45-9:30 am Practical Sales Clinic-Curtis Groft Mon., Oct. 12: Stand Out and Stand Tall-Business Ethics That Last Mon., Oct. 19: How to Understand and Sell The Lease-Mike Pappadakis Mon., Nov. 2: Delivering Gold Standard Customer ServiceRead More

Changes in YAG-Parts Department

Work Together to Rise Together! A few changes in the Parts Departments to be aware of. Kelly Lane, from Young Chevrolet, has been promoted to Parts Manager at Young Ford. Clyde Pierce, a staple in the Parts Department, has joined the Fleet/Commercial Team as a driver.  Chase Anderson and Nick Egidi, from Parts Support, have been promoted to Parts Sales at Young Chevrolet. It’sRead More

Tips on Teamwork

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." -Henry Ford Let’s Work Together to Rise Together! Share your favorite quotes and articles on teamwork in the comment section below. Here are two articles we found this week: "Signs Your Team Is Too Strong For Its Own Good" -J. Grenny, Harvard Business Review "We talkRead More

The Power of Video

Laura Madison, National Director of Sales for Alan Ram’s Proactive Training Solutions and founder of LauraDrives.com, joined Monday’s Sales Training Program remotely and covered social selling best practices. Laura focused on the importance of using video to create connections and covey excitement. Read more at, "Effective Video For A Dealership Is As Close As Your Smartphone-LauraRead More

Young Automotive Referral Program

We’ll pay $500.00 for successful referrals!  Referral Program and Referral Form: http://yag-u.com/yag-employee-referral-program/   Goal To encourage employees to refer friends, family, acquaintances, neighbors and other great people to join the Young Automotive Group and grow with us!  Criteria All employees with the exception of HR Staff are eligible to participate in the referral program.  The referralRead More

Gandhi

A Mother once brought her child to Gandhi and asked him to tell the young boy to stop eating sugar because it was not good for his diet or his developing teeth.     Gandhi replied, "I cannot tell him that. But you may bring him back in a month." The Mother was angry as Gandhi movedRead More

10,000 hours

I went to a Opera this past week. "Les Miserables" at the Ellen Eccles Opera Theatre in Logan and those actors and singers were astonishing, amazing and down right jaw dropping great. It made me think……. At the Juilliard School of Music they found that the "elite" musicians had practiced 10,000 hours, the "good" musiciansRead More

Sowing

“Sow a thought and you reap an action;     sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character;     sow a character and you reap a destiny.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson   You can make a difference in your life, in family, in community, in country and in our business. SowRead More

Crack Cocaine

“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”   This modern proverb–which also has a number of variant forms–is reminiscent of another popular saying: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The point of both is that doing something overRead More

Procrastination

Procrastination can become a debilitating habit and must be avoided. At the low end, your procrastination may seem like a simple inconvenience to those you affect. You”ll get it done–just not right now.b2ez The problem is that procrastination is a breach of a commitment to act–a breach of trust. At the high end, procrastination could have Read More