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How To NEVER Lose An EMPLOYEE or CUSTOMER (Ft. Joey Coleman)

📅 March 30, 2024 ⏱️ 1:35:32 🎤 Joey Coleman, Tommy Mello

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  • 0:00
    Meet Joey Coleman
  • 3:19
    Managing 800 employees and your rock stars
  • 6:35
    Ride-alongs: learn their life, not just their work
  • 9:53
    Practice 10x more than you play
  • 13:13
    First decide if they're your kind of person
  • 16:32
    The all-important first year of employment
  • 19:49
    Remember the dreams you told me: onboarding
  • 29:34
    The transition from offer to full-time employee
  • 32:47
    Surprise their family: the move nobody makes
  • 39:19
    Beyond 'hire slow, fire fast'
  • 42:35
    Give people authority and autonomy
  • 52:21
    Gifting done right (Ruhlin's Gifology)
  • 1:08:52
    The in-home advantage only home services has

Speakers

J
Joey Coleman
Chief Experience Composer, Design Symphony; Customer & Employee Experience Expert
T
Tommy Mello
Host; Founder & CEO, A1 Garage Door Service

Key Takeaways

The first 100 days — of a customer and of an employee — decide whether they stay; intentional onboarding is the highest-leverage thing most companies ignore.

Ride-alongs and learning about a person's life (spouse, kids, dreams) build the connective thread of culture that survives turnover.

You practice far more than you perform in sports and the military — business should train the same way instead of expecting people to just perform.

Onboard the whole person: reaching out to an employee's family or roommates when they sign on turns a job into a story they tell.

"Hire slow, fire fast" is too simplistic — hire intelligently and part ways quickly, but give great people real authority and autonomy in between.

Personalized gestures — a custom video, a thoughtful gift à la Ruhlin's Gifology — create remarkable moments money alone can't buy.

Home services has a unique edge — you're invited into people's homes — so every in-home interaction is a chance to be remarkable and earn loyalty.

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