Success in Auto Body and Collision Shop Management

Proven Processes that will lead your shop to success

By: Angelo DiTullio

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Success in Auto Body and Collision Shop Management is a practical guide for the people responsible for making collision repair businesses perform.

Running a successful collision repair operation requires far more than repairing vehicles. Every day, owners and managers must balance production, profitability, customer satisfaction, employee development, insurance relationships, parts, expenses, safety, quality, and an endless stream of unexpected problems.

Angelo DiTullio has spent a lifetime in the collision industry—growing up in his father's body shop and building a career managing and leading collision repair operations. In this updated Second Edition, he shares the lessons, processes, mistakes, and management principles learned from decades of real-world experience.

Rather than management theory, Success in Auto Body and Collision Shop Management focuses on what actually happens inside a collision center and what leaders can do about it.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Build stronger processes and eliminate operational bottlenecks
• Improve production and cycle time by getting the basics right
• Control expenses without sacrificing the operation
• Develop employees instead of trying to do everything yourself
• Improve estimating, parts management, quality control, and shop safety
• Strengthen customer service and remember who the real customer is
• Navigate insurance relationships while remaining the repair professional
• Recognize the small problems that quietly cost your shop time and money
• Create accountability and develop a stronger, more capable team
• Build an operation that consistently performs instead of constantly putting out fires

DiTullio's approach is straightforward: successful shops don't become successful because of one complicated program or management fad. They succeed because they consistently execute the fundamentals.

Whether you're a shop owner, general manager, production manager, estimator, service advisor, or an aspiring collision industry leader, this book provides practical lessons you can take back to your operation and put to work immediately.

The industry has changed. The fundamentals of running a great business haven't.

Second Edition

Updated and expanded with new material, additional leadership insight, and practical “Extra Mile” exercises designed to help readers turn each chapter's lessons into action.