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Category: Thought Leadership

Leading with Values: How We Empower Our Team

At Parker, we take pride in our work, and care deeply about our core values. In fact, they guide everything we do, from how we serve our customers, to our quality assurance program, to hiring and training. When we bring on a new employee to Parker, we’re really looking for someone who embodies our core […]

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5 Steps to Measuring Quality

What gets measured, gets managed. “You can talk about something all day long, but if you don’t put some data behind it and actually measure it, it will not show that it’s important.” Tammy Baker, Vice President of Client Experience Developing a quality program is an important part of ensuring your team accomplishes priorities and […]

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How Can We Help?

It’s not easy, but we are all trying to find a way to move forward. As much as we wish we could wave a magic wand and make it all go away, I’m afraid that a helping hand is the best we can offer.

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How Authentic Concern Drives “Good Business”

Delivering a great customer experience is hard. After all, parking guests’ expectations are set by such world-class brands as Disney, Hilton Hotels, or Chick-fil-A. However, an oft-overlooked key ingredient for a quality customer experience is Authentic Concern.

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Work-Life Balance: There is More to the Decision

Is the amount of time that you have for your personal life acceptable? If not, what are the root causes? I tend to put them into these four main categories: career growth, delegation, support network and infrastructure & tools.

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Feedback is the key ingredient in our prize winning recipe!

We use a constant flow of information to supply our feedback loops. We take information from our team to make our environment better, from our vendors to make our supply chain better and from our clients to make our offering better. Today I would like to dive into the client feedback loop and make sure you know how important it is and what we do with the information.

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It’s All About Highest and Best Use of Time and Talent…

I can empathize with garage managers, having been one myself. I began in parking, 20 years ago, as an Operations Manager and steadily worked my way up the ranks to VP of Operations, overseeing more than 50 facilities and several hundred employees. I’ve experienced virtually every type of parking there is. Thus, I understand how a manager gets stretched and pulled in all directions. It’s a demanding job.

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