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You Have Served Us – Now Let Us Serve You

Literally, you have served us, now let us serve you. Today will be a day of seizing major opportunities and making connections to help Veterans for the greater good. As we all know today is Veteran’s Day and while most people are respectfully taking the day off in honor of those men and women who [...]

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Would You Listen to a Soccer Coach Who Only Played Baseball?

Of course you wouldn’t, and that’s why I spent most of my day yesterday prospecting. I was talking to customers the same way I will be teaching my Apprentices to do in the future. I did that because after reflecting on my years of experience in sales, I realized that leadership by example is the [...]

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Creating Your Apprenticeship Program – Part 2

With any successful program there are always rules. When it comes to creating an Apprenticeship Program there is one main rule that stands out, your program has to have a certain number of hours. For our labor categories we needed to develop 2,880 – 6,000 hours of raining. For every 2,000 hours of On the Job [...]

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It’s Not an Obstacle if You Find Your Way Around it

In the past few weeks we’ve talked about the BWTI movement and what we believe in.

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BWTI – Takes 3 to Tango

Have you heard the phrase it takes two to tango? Well, in our apprenticeship program it takes three to tango. I say that because the Apprenticeship Program we are building will work as a “well-oiled machine,” every part of the machine has its own unique function allowing the machine to work together as a whole. [...]

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Apprenticeship Program Launch in 3, 2, 1 Lift Off!

The first step in setting up an apprenticeship program is to fill out some very important forms. There were four documents that were easily completed

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Back to Work – Be Careful What You Ask 4?

As you may have read two days ago my manager (CEO) and I were brain storming on how to build a quality sales force with low turnover. Not just any sales force, I am talking about people who are trained so well they are able to train others and actually duplicate themselves. Or better yet, [...]

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