Salt Lake Tribune “Utahs Top Workplace”

Young Automotive Group has been nominated for Salt Lake Tribune's "Utah Top Workplace" award, and we need your help!  Every employee in the Wasatch Front should have received a workplace survey from survey@workplacedynamics.com on June 1st, and again on June 4th. Employees who haven't responded will receive another reminder email

Walk Around Pops

Hello Sales We are going to start a new round of POP training.  This time we are going to focus on the Vehicle Walk Around.  Please feel free to use a NEW VEHICLE or a USED VEHICLE. Please see attached assignments and grading.  Also please make sure sales managers get

Words That Work, And Words That Don’t Work

In his recent leadership training, Dave Anderson helped us to take a no-nonsense look at ourselves – both our strengths and our weaknesses.  Dave defined several Strong and Weak Cultural Words in his discussion.  Here is a great summary of that taken from one of his recent blog posts.  What

Welcome Stuart Gregory

The Young Automotive Group would like to welcome its newest member of the commercial fleet team Stuart Gregory.   Stuart brings years of automotive experience to the Young Automotive Group and will be a great asset to our group moving forward.  Please welcome him as he is in and out

10,000 hours expert or not?

I have read and repeated many times to get good at something it takes 4,000 hours of practice. To get real good it takes 6,000 to 8,000 hours and to become and expert it takes 10,000 hours of practice. Now, perhaps I have fell victim to written word without really

Gray hair

A curious child asked his mother: “Mommy, why are some of your hairs turning gray?” The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child; “It is because of you, dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one of my hairs gray!” The child replied innocently: “Now I

Consumption

People used to die from consumption. Does that mean they ate too much? These days, some of us do seem to be consuming a lot — food, space, information, and time trying to figure out how to get even more. The consumption I’m talking about, though, refers to a specific disease: tuberculosis,

Survey – Please Help

Each dealership in YAG has been registered for consideration in the Automotive News Best Dealerships to Work For program.  Placement on the list means national recognition as one of the best employers in the retail automobile industry. Every employee with an email address should have received a survey last week. 

Jayson Cherry

On Saturday May 2nd one of our fellow employees and friend Jayson Cherry received tragic news that his 11 year old daughter Brynn Cherry was riding in a car that was hit by a drunk driver.  Their car rolled and although Brynn was wearing a seatbelt she was ejected from