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Customer Reviews – a Powerful Insight into Your Operation
Managing customer reviews can help you attract customers to your garage, and improve operations.
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Category: Thought Leadership
CEO Brian Wolff Explains the Real Value of Parker Technology
Watch the video above, or read below, to hear from Brian Wolff, President & CEO, about our value. Check out our videos page for more.
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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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Energy is a Boomerang
One of the most profound moments in my professional career hit me like a brick wall when I was shopping by myself in Target. No one to lead, I wasn’t standing in the middle of a crazy flurry directing traffic or calming tension, as was common in my job. Rather, I was simply shopping and being intentional about smiling, which is all it took! That one trip finally helped me see what people had been trying to tell me for over 20 years – that energy IS a boomerang and the consistent energy you feel in others is a reflection of the energy they see in you. Period, the end, no ifs, ands or buts about it.
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Kindness Can Be Taught
I spend a lot of time thinking (and worrying) about ways to build and maintain a great culture at Parker Technology. As I sought my next “hook” to launch this LI article, I was fortunate enough to catch a vignette on NPR by Anya Kamenetz, Cory Turner and Chloee Weiner, entitled “Kindness Can Be Taught. Here’s How.” The story explored research about how to raise awesome children; however, as I listened and then later read the story online, I became positively “giddy!”
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Authentic Concern is Today’s Standard for Excellence in Customer Service
The other day I was on a train with my family, and as the next group of passengers embarked, I nudged my teenage son to move so that a kind woman, “much older” than him, could take a seat. The woman smiled and shared that she had just recently encouraged her daughter to do the same thing. With an exasperated expression, she shared that in that moment, her daughter failed to comply and said “Why? I’m never going to see them again.” Interesting. It took 24 hours before I could connect the dots. Then it hit me.
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