Blue Collar Nation

Win the Morning, Win the Day | Home Service Business Systems & Leadership

• Eric and Larry • Season 8 • Episode 311

Struggling with late starts, missing tools, and chaotic mornings in your home service business?

In this episode of the Blue Collar Nation Podcast, Eric and Larry from Super Tech University break down the proven morning systems they used to get technicians out the door on time, prepared, and motivated—every single day.

This conversation is packed with real-world leadership and operational strategies for home service owners, managers, and contractors who want more structure, less stress, and higher profits.

🔹 Topics covered in this episode:
• Morning meetings that improve team accountability
• Van checklists that eliminate missed tools and wasted time
• Building systems for field technicians and service teams
• Creating strong company culture without long meetings
• Leadership habits that improve employee retention
• How structure leads to better customer experience and profit

If you run a home service company, manage technicians, or want to improve field operations, team performance, and daily workflow, this episode gives you practical systems you can apply immediately.

📈 Less chaos. Better mornings. Stronger teams. More profit.
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Welcome to the Blue Collar Nation podcast,

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the podcast dedicated to making the lives

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of home service professionals Better now join Eric

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and Larry to talk about all things home service.

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Well, hello everybody. Larry from Super Tech University.

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I just got introduced by my, my boss in some ways.

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Christy from Super Tech University.

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She's keeping us dialed.

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And I'm here with my Christy's in charge business partner.

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Much more eloquent than myself. Mr.

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Sprague, how are you today, Eric?

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I'm gonna play that recording over and over again.

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Over and over and over. I'm good, man. Good.

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I just got off coaching call

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and, uh, we had a good meeting this

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morning, so Yeah, good day.

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Good day. Well, we are on, we get to talk about one

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of my favorite things, getting guys out the door.

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Yeah, hang on. We gotta give us a premise.

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We got people that are watching us on Facebook,

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and we're gonna rerecord this

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or repurpose it to, uh,

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our podcast at the Blue Collar Nation podcast.

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And we have some great content for everybody

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and Eric's Stein to say what it is

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before we even get to anything, which is wonderful.

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And, um, we enjoy coming to the Facebook group

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and bringing thing, bringing content to people in our group.

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We've got over a thousand people here that are interested

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in growing their service businesses to be much more

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successful and profitable

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and efficient, so they're not

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spinning their wheels like we did for years.

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And many companies do learning things all the time.

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And of course we might talk about Super Tech University

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and promote a little bit as we're going along.

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But the goal here is to help everybody with their business.

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And, uh, without further ado, Eric, please

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tell everybody what you wanna say.

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So eloquently, I eloquently wanna say

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that we're gonna talk about winning the winning the morning

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so that we can win the day getting,

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getting the team out in the field, making us money without

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the very least amount of drama and problems ever.

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Because look, we all, we all know this, Larry, you

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and I used to lose our minds,

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just like probably everybody else does.

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Getting everybody out the door with the materials

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and tools that they need to have on their van

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and getting to the job on time

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and having everybody look good

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and all those other things is one

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of the biggest challenges in most home

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service businesses, to be honest.

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Because you have that sense

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of urgency to get everybody out there.

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And if somebody shows up late or somebody calls in,

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or if somebody's not ready

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or they're just not on their game, it slows

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just a little bit down in, in a different,

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different directions.

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And, and that's talking from whoever's in charge, the CSR,

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that's not giving everybody their information,

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or dispatcher, I should say.

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And then calls are coming in at the same time.

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It's can get very chaotic

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and, um, can be systems help dramatically.

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And then also culture helps culture,

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but modifying your systems as your culture goes.

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Because we had the best system in the whole world.

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We had a checklist for the vans. Do the checklist.

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Check, check, check, check, check, check, check.

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Here's the checklist, Larry. Thank you. All right.

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You call later. You're taking off on me. I got a system.

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I got a system for this podcast too.

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Check, check, check, check, check, check.

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All right, Eric, start with your system.

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What are we gonna talk about first?

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I'm running all over the list.

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Top of your framework. Alright,

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I have a real quick before you keep going.

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We've got Cooper here.

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Cooper, please join us at any, anytime you like.

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Cooper's part of the family. Thank you. That's great.

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Part of the, part of the super tech ecosystem. Yeah.

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All right. Well we, we figured out

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basically a four part framework

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to get everybody out the door and how we want it.

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Right? And I, I'm not gonna give 'em all at once,

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so we'll, we'll do it one by one.

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But the, the first thing that we learned was

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to have a meeting, to have some sort of meeting,

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some sort of connection.

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You fought me on that you did not want a meeting, right?

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You wanted to get guys out the door.

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But you know what, when they,

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when we did the production meeting

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before we started educating them in the

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meetings, they were into it.

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And they, I think that helped the day start

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on the right, on the best note.

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I mean, that was something very good in the beginning.

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Something so simple. Okay, you guys are going here,

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you guys are going here, you're gonna be

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doing this, you're gonna be doing that.

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Okay. Boom, boom, boom, get out the door.

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And everybody liked to know what everybody else was doing.

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And that was very interesting feedback for me.

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I thought, I was like, what?

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Why are they so worried about it?

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but like it, whatever made them happy, made me happy, right?

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Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know what?

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and they want, you know, we had a lot of repeat clients,

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so I think they kind of wanted to know so

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that they could say, give their 2 cents on that jo.

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Like the client or the job

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or something to make it easier for their friend too.

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Yeah. Right. So that was good.

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to text everybody their schedule every day early, early.

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and look at it on the schedule.

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And like you and I, to be honest, both

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of us just figured like, well, they have the information.

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They know what time they're need to be there.

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Like what do we need

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to talk about problem talk about, right?

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we didn't act very quickly,

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but we learned quickly that that didn't really work, right?

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We're not, we're not building a sense of community.

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We're not teaching them the, the skills

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and the tools they need to both do the work

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and create a five star service experience, right?

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That those need to be conversations that are had frequently

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and they lacked a sense of community.

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that we were managing were quite a bit younger than us.

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The generations following our, they wanted

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to be part of something.

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They wanted to be part of a community.

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And, and look, look, there's plenty of clients

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that we have in Super Tech that they do it online,

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they do it on Zoom because they don't meet,

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maybe they dispatch from home.

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Maybe they like, however you meet is not the thing,

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the thing is to meet.

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And the meeting has to be brief.

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Like this is not death by meeting.

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Let's go burn all of our profit in morning meetings.

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We're not saying that. What we're saying though is

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a small investment every day to make things run smoother.

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Larry, are you getting 2 cents on the meeting from your

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perspective before we move to the second framework?

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Oh, because it was a good way for everybody

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to start the day.

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Everybody knew the process of starting the day.

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It didn't start from chaos.

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Start from calmness some direction, a little bit

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of conversation, just like five or 10 minutes.

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Not like, yeah,

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just getting everybody on the same page and out the door.

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Well, it's that daily rhythm thing you

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and I talk about all the time.

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We got that from Brett Gill and uh, uh, elite entrepreneurs.

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You know, he, he, he was always talking about how

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team members like a rhythm they like every day to kind

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of start the same, right?

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So we recognized that.

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which drove me bonkers.

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But by starting the, you know, starting that meeting,

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you know, I don't remember what did we start at 7, 7 30?

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I don't know. Something like that, right?

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Depending on the year. Yes. Yeah.

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Seven o'clock we're in a meeting, right?

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So if you're not on time,

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because everybody knows the meeting starts at seven

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and I wasn't waiting till 7 0 1,

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like we're starting at seven.

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of shame to go grab a chair.

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because they don't want to do the walk of shame, right?

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So like having that daily rhythm of a meeting

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really helped us, right?

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It got the, it got it kind of got them warmed up.

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It was like the warmup before the game too, right?

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It kinda get 'em warmed up at the end of the day, right?

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So that's framework number one.

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Number two is having van checklists, right?

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Like Larry alluded to it earlier, the worst thing ever

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for me was like, you know,

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like in our carpet cleaning division,

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guy would drive 30 minutes away, call me up and say,

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or call the office and say, I don't have my carpet wand.

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The carpet wand is the one tool you need

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to clean carpet, right?

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It's all of a sudden now one tool checked off.

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So now you're sitting there, we're looking bad,

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no production's happening.

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Somebody at the office has to leave, go find your wand

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and then deliver it to you.

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Then they have to drive.

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So they just lost an hour of transit time.

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We lost an hour of production time.

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And look, I'd love to tell you

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that only happened once and that is not true.

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Right? Or they didn't bring the right materials

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or whatever, right?

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Tools, right? So we got very intentional about having a

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morning van checklist and an evening van checklist.

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We're only gonna talk about the morning one today.

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But like, look, and the morning one was bigger

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because guys would come in off the field.

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I was not gonna give them a 30 point checklist at 6:00 PM

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when they've been out dogging it for 10 hours, right?

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Like, I just, like, they could do the minimum and go home

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and rest and come in.

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But, so that meant the van checklist in the morning

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was pretty robust and they had to, you know,

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really get on that.

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Right? And, you know, Larry talked about it a little bit.

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This is gonna lead us into framework number three.

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So everybody would have a a, a van checklist, right?

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So they had to go do this checklist.

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You know, we had different things

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that we did in our company.

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The checklist would be different for different people.

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And you know, the, the office would, you know, add in

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what materials they needed or whatever.

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Like there's no gray area, right? That was a big deal.

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Then Larry, even though we had a checklist,

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what would inevitably happen?

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Check it. And they would just keep going down.

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Like I was talking about early in this thing, when I was

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so rudely, dis interrupted, stealing, stealing my thunder,

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they would check it and it wouldn't be there.

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They'd just go through and check it

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just, it was subconscious.

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They'd just do it. Yeah.

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And then we had to find somebody else, check it,

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Leslie and the office, check it.

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Okay, you, you're getting ahead of me again.

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There we go again. But they would check it

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and just not think about it.

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And it wasn't on there. They didn't really check it.

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Rights thing. They got in the habit of doing it every day.

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So they, or they're in a hurry.

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So they'd go check, check, check, check, check, check.

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And then they'd leave. And

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next thing you know, we're getting a call.

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Hey boss, I don't have this or I don't have that, right?

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So then leading to the third thing,

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so we'd have the meeting, everybody would prep their van

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and with the checklist, right?

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Then we had to have lineup, right?

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We learned that we had

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to have other people check the checklist who were not on

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that van, right?

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So Larry would do it, I would do it, managers would do it,

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office staff, admin, they would do it.

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We'd all come out. This was like,

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this was all done within 30 minutes.

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All of it, right? Vans getting ready, checklists,

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meetings, all of it.

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'cause we needed to get outdoor and make money.

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So now we're having somebody with a fresh set

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of eyes, check that checklist.

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And in addition to that, they're checking,

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is your grooming on point?

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Is your uniform neat and tidy?

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How does your van look before we go out there?

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Do you have gasoline? Right?

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We had a truck check too, right?

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We had, we had all these systems that we were building

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to try to make things run smoothly so

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that we could go give five star service experience

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or people would look the part, they were ready, right?

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And it sounds super like babysitting,

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I guess maybe, but it was

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like military, right?

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Like, I mean, we were just like, boom,

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boom, boom, boom, boom.

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Every single day. Look what a pilots do. I fly all the time.

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So does Larry for our job. What's the pilot doing?

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When you walk on a plane, they're doing a checklist

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for all the controls up there.

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Now that pilot probably knows by the back of his

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or her hand all those controls,

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but guess what FAA regulations is, they have

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to do the checklist with somebody else

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every single time, right?

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So like, there is no point

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where we're not checklist anymore.

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And it's also the accountability for the checklist.

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That's the biggest thing. Who's gonna hold them accountable

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for that checklist, right?

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Yeah. And, and then the last thing,

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and I think a lot of ways the most important

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is high fives, right?

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We, we wanna send them out in the world feeling good, right?

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I mean, Larry was really good at this.

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I mean, I think I was pretty good too.

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Like, we were walking around

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after that van list as they were heading out, like,

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and just giving people high fives,

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telling 'em, have a great day, right?

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Like, you're gonna kill it today.

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Because I don't want people dragging ass

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and like driving out of there going, I hate working here.

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This sucks. That is not gonna create five star service

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experiences for our clients, right?

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So the biggest part of the morning,

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because look, we all know this is a hard job.

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You're gonna be, we were in LA you might be stuck in traffic

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as soon as you leave the shop, right?

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You might have difficult clients,

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you might be tired from the four jobs you did yesterday.

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Somebody's gotta give everybody a little bit

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of appreciation on the way out the door, right?

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That it, it like, it might not seem like that's a big deal,

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but that's a big deal because I remember being,

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I was a technician for years before we started our business.

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Nobody ever gave me a high five.

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Nobody ever set out had a good day.

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It was just like, get out there and make me money. You know?

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Like, okay, thanks. Appreciate it.

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So Larry, that's really to me the most important four things

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of having a solid warning.

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You got anything to add? I mean, I'm sure you do.

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Well, the whole thing is when you have a solid morning,

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you're gonna have a solid later morning,

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you're gonna have a solid afternoon, one leads to the next.

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And when you have systems

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and people buy into systems, it goes much easier.

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And then the morning is important

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because people get up outta bed in the morning

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and either you're encouraged for your day or you're not.

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And if you enjoy your job and you know what you're going to,

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and you have some motivation, it's gonna change

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how you perform during that day.

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And you want your team to perform.

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So if you give more structure,

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and that's something, um, that is so important.

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Team wants structure. Yeah.

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And we've got different people on this call.

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We have Louis Martin has a team, Brenda has a team,

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Cooper has a team that are here with us.

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You guys can chime in anytime you want.

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The more structure you bring to your team,

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the more happy they are.

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And we had, uh, the carpet cleaning team was much more

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structured and much more comfortable compared

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to the restoration because the restoration

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was more reactionary.

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So yeah, we had to dial the system.

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I think it was a personality thing.

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Yeah, I was gonna say, I think it's a personality thing.

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Like our carpet cleaning division, the nature of that job

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required a person to be very process oriented

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and the guys moved a little slower.

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Like they really lived the like slow, smooth

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and smooth as fast, right?

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Like it, it's easier to just do it step by step.

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Our restoration team, which also was way bigger,

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there are a lot more people, right?

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A lot more moving parts.

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But things, I mean, things could be changing

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for us during the meeting.

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We could get, you know, we could, we could get

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so much more work in the span

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of 20 minutes while we're getting ready to go for the day.

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So I do have a lot of systems,

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but it was way more of a challenge to get every door

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in the right way on the ReSTOR

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because we also side, we tended to get a lot

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of commercial restoration work right about the time when we

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were starting our day too.

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So that could, yeah, that could blow

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up our morning a little bit.

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But you know, it all good, we changed things,

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but I guess the structure we gave the beginning

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of the day structure, which made people more comfortable.

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Yeah. And when you give your team structure, I,

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it was amazing to me.

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I wouldn't, didn't realize, I mean,

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I'm a high eye, I am bouncing around.

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I need less structure as anybody else,

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but most your team and need more tructure.

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Yeah. I need it. I'm not saying I'm looking

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for it, I need it the most.

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But the team is generally in the disc profile.

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They're slower paced and they're more detail

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or people oriented and they want structure,

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otherwise it throws 'em off

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and they're not wanting to come to work.

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'cause nobody wants to come to work with chaos.

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They want to come to work with knowing what's going on.

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And, um, you get people that's comfortable coming to work,

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you're gonna get more productivity,

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you're gonna get more profit,

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you're gonna have a happier team, more culture oriented.

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And they having systems in the morning just creates culture.

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Yeah. And look, you know, a lot of companies will run call

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by call management, right?

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So they're not showing a technician the entire schedule.

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They have one job and then they will call in

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and get dispatched to another one.

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And look a lot of, like Larry mentioned on a disc profile,

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a lot of, a lot

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of technician types don't love that, right?

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It's good for the business.

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And I, and I think it's necessary for a lot of businesses

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to do call by call management and I am a fan of it.

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But that makes the morning meeting even more important

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because they, at least they're starting their day knowing

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what's next for the next two to four hours, right?

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And then the day might change.

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So any amount of structure that we can add, especially

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to certain types of personalities, the better.

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Right? And to, to piggyback on that,

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some people came in later to the, uh,

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call here to the meeting.

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When we're saying morning meeting,

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we're not saying sit down.

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It can take a long time.

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We're talking five to 10 minutes,

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have a quick conversation about what's going on for the day.

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Have some structure in that, that five, 10 minutes.

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If it's going really well, maybe extend it 15

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and get out the door.

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I was the guy in the back of the room

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turning on the music while Eric's in the middle

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of his lesson banging on my wrist.

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We gotta get these people out for two reasons.

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They had jobs they had to get to.

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We didn't want them being late.

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And, and you were bored

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and you were bored and you were bored.

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Three reasons. Well, maybe I was getting bored,

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but No, thank you for the recap.

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Oh, our pleasure, Brenda.

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But you know, um, it's expensive.

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You have 10, 15 guys there. I mean, it's worth it.

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If you're filling them up with goodness,

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it's gonna make a difference for your day.

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But you need to be aware. Yeah.

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This, this is where you and I depart.

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I I, I think most companies, whatever they spend will make

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that up 10 x

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with oh course good training and good attitudes.

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But you need to be intentional

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because someone coming in your hearing about this,

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it doesn't know us in our theories

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and logic is thinking, I'm not doing this.

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And we don't wanna, I don't wanna scare anybody

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away with this concept.

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It says there's no way I'm meeting. It's ridiculous.

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It's never wor how many people do every talk

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to at trade shows that are like, this is never gonna work.

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Why in the world? That's the silliest,

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they just dismiss it immediately.

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So that's why I say, you know, don't make it too long.

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If it's going longer, it's gonna be effective in the day,

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then keep talking and use your judgment.

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But don't, you know, burden yourself

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with these long half hour meetings every single day if

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that's, there's not something you're using it

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for intentionally for a specific result.

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I mean, joke Coursera,

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his program is a couple hours every single day for months.

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So it must be effective. Joe's a smart guy.

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His people around him are smart and his clients are so,

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and ours are only like 10 or 15 minutes.

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Ours are shorter, but the actual video in

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super tech's three to five.

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Yeah. I mean, they're very short.

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And then you have a couple minute conversation,

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do a checklist, get 'em out the door.

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Probably do all that in 15 minutes.

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Yeah, we've got a couple clients here.

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Cooper shows the lessons. Louis showed the lessons before.

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I'm still working on Brenda.

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Yeah, I was just gonna say it, it takes us five minutes

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to talk about the jobs and then five minutes for the video

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and, and we're out the door. So Yeah,

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There you go. That makes

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some money. Cooper, what,

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what do you think it brings to the team?

495
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Sorry, we know Cooper, he's, uh, he's a

496
00:22:01,735 --> 00:22:02,735
Friend. So it's, uh,

497
00:22:02,735 --> 00:22:03,975
it's definitely cool to see,

498
00:22:03,975 --> 00:22:05,615
like the team members will text

499
00:22:05,675 --> 00:22:07,935
and be like, Hey, I was thinking about this from the video

500
00:22:08,115 --> 00:22:10,835
and this is what I can improve on, or mm-hmm.

501
00:22:10,915 --> 00:22:12,675
Just stuff that they can take throughout the day and,

502
00:22:12,895 --> 00:22:15,795
and the week to improve themselves. So Yeah.

503
00:22:16,265 --> 00:22:17,755
Yeah. And really, you know,

504
00:22:19,235 --> 00:22:21,855
nobody wants an hour long lesson on anything.

505
00:22:22,405 --> 00:22:23,855
Like, I certainly doubt, right?

506
00:22:24,835 --> 00:22:26,735
The, the things that

507
00:22:29,065 --> 00:22:31,645
matter are giving them a little bit

508
00:22:31,645 --> 00:22:33,525
of information in the key areas

509
00:22:33,785 --> 00:22:36,365
of our business every single day, right?

510
00:22:36,705 --> 00:22:40,485
Job, site, behavior, sales, uh, you know,

511
00:22:40,955 --> 00:22:44,325
reading clients, communicating, like just the little things

512
00:22:44,465 --> 00:22:47,965
and, and, and just a three, like you, I get texts

513
00:22:47,965 --> 00:22:49,765
and calls all the time from technicians,

514
00:22:49,835 --> 00:22:51,245
from managers, from owners.

515
00:22:51,655 --> 00:22:55,525
Larry does too. It's the, it's an uncanny, they'll be like,

516
00:22:56,265 --> 00:22:58,765
oh, you know, you had a lesson today.

517
00:22:58,765 --> 00:23:00,125
They think I know what lesson they're on.

518
00:23:00,405 --> 00:23:03,805
I mean, oh, your lesson today was exactly what we needed

519
00:23:04,045 --> 00:23:05,405
to hear because the day

520
00:23:05,405 --> 00:23:08,445
before, we were having massive problems with that, right?

521
00:23:08,945 --> 00:23:11,525
And it's like, well, we're all having massive problems

522
00:23:11,555 --> 00:23:13,365
with certain things all the time, right?

523
00:23:13,385 --> 00:23:14,965
And it's like, you hear the lesson and,

524
00:23:14,985 --> 00:23:16,925
and we're just like, that's what we needed to hear today.

525
00:23:17,025 --> 00:23:18,725
And, you know, um,

526
00:23:18,965 --> 00:23:21,485
I think it's also a confidence boost to a lot of the team.

527
00:23:21,545 --> 00:23:23,045
And then lastly, Larry,

528
00:23:23,045 --> 00:23:24,285
before we, we take off,

529
00:23:26,635 --> 00:23:29,765
everybody complains about keeping in place, right?

530
00:23:29,765 --> 00:23:32,045
Everybody's like, they, uh, they quit all the time.

531
00:23:32,075 --> 00:23:33,525
They leave me, da, da da.

532
00:23:34,195 --> 00:23:38,045
Anybody that's done any studying of Generation Z,

533
00:23:38,045 --> 00:23:41,645
which is the ages 28 to 13, and,

534
00:23:41,645 --> 00:23:45,835
and millennials two, which is up to age, roughly 40, all

535
00:23:45,835 --> 00:23:49,555
of the data shows that one of the most important things,

536
00:23:49,705 --> 00:23:50,915
they, they have three things

537
00:23:50,915 --> 00:23:55,065
that they really care about at work that's having purpose,

538
00:23:55,455 --> 00:23:56,985
meaning to the job, right?

539
00:23:57,045 --> 00:23:58,625
So that's, in these meetings, that's

540
00:23:58,625 --> 00:24:00,545
where I'm gonna be talking about why we do what we do.

541
00:24:01,495 --> 00:24:04,465
They want investment in, in themselves.

542
00:24:04,575 --> 00:24:06,425
They want somebody to invest in them.

543
00:24:06,935 --> 00:24:09,665
Most companies what you get,

544
00:24:09,725 --> 00:24:12,265
you get a technical training once a year or something.

545
00:24:12,265 --> 00:24:14,585
That's not enough, right? They wanna be invested in.

546
00:24:14,845 --> 00:24:17,345
And lastly, they wanna have a sense of community.

547
00:24:17,865 --> 00:24:19,345
I mean, anybody's watching the news.

548
00:24:19,345 --> 00:24:21,105
They're saying that, you know,

549
00:24:21,445 --> 00:24:24,265
people are the loneliest they've ever been in their lives.

550
00:24:24,695 --> 00:24:26,305
They don't have friends, they don't

551
00:24:26,305 --> 00:24:27,345
have this, they don't have that.

552
00:24:28,065 --> 00:24:29,665
I could have a five minute meeting, like,

553
00:24:29,665 --> 00:24:30,665
or 10 minutes a day.

554
00:24:30,665 --> 00:24:33,065
Like Cooper said, this is when they're bonding.

555
00:24:33,415 --> 00:24:34,825
This is when they feel like they're part

556
00:24:34,825 --> 00:24:36,305
of something bigger than themselves.

557
00:24:37,375 --> 00:24:38,475
What's the price of that?

558
00:24:38,555 --> 00:24:40,075
I mean, we all know that the cost of

559
00:24:40,635 --> 00:24:42,355
turnover is massively high.

560
00:24:43,015 --> 00:24:44,075
So what if I do this

561
00:24:44,095 --> 00:24:48,065
and I keep people six months longer, a year longer paid

562
00:24:48,065 --> 00:24:51,465
for every meeting times 10, right?

563
00:24:51,565 --> 00:24:53,745
So anyway, makes a big difference.

564
00:24:54,005 --> 00:24:55,545
And we're not just sitting here, hang on.

565
00:24:56,005 --> 00:24:58,465
You know, we're, we're pitching Super Tech University

566
00:24:58,465 --> 00:25:02,025
because we believe in it and we gotta keep the lights on.

567
00:25:02,915 --> 00:25:04,815
But if you can sit there

568
00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:06,935
and talk to your team for a couple minutes a day

569
00:25:06,935 --> 00:25:08,895
and hit a topic to one of your pain points

570
00:25:08,955 --> 00:25:12,045
or something you need to know, it goes a long way.

571
00:25:12,825 --> 00:25:15,485
And that's what we did in the beginning.

572
00:25:15,505 --> 00:25:17,565
And we got more formalized and more intentional.

573
00:25:17,565 --> 00:25:22,385
And Eric was much more, um, strong

574
00:25:22,385 --> 00:25:25,955
with his content and that's what made the difference.

575
00:25:25,955 --> 00:25:27,195
So that's what we're talking about.

576
00:25:27,345 --> 00:25:30,995
Connect with your team, find a time, once a day to connect

577
00:25:30,995 --> 00:25:35,085
with your team, and it will pay for itself 10

578
00:25:35,685 --> 00:25:37,805
x if not more over.

579
00:25:39,285 --> 00:25:43,295
And, uh, that's my 2 cents. So. All right.

580
00:25:43,395 --> 00:25:47,735
Any questions from anybody, Brenda or Louis or Cooper

581
00:25:47,995 --> 00:25:50,715
or anybody in the uh, Facebook world?

582
00:25:53,245 --> 00:25:55,255
Nope. I'm good. Katie Harris says hi though.

583
00:25:56,865 --> 00:25:58,315
Well, you tell Katie was, are you

584
00:25:58,315 --> 00:26:00,275
with Katie right now? No, not

585
00:26:00,275 --> 00:26:01,275
Right now. I just texted

586
00:26:01,275 --> 00:26:03,075
her and let her know that I was on

587
00:26:03,075 --> 00:26:04,075
Here. Uh,

588
00:26:04,075 --> 00:26:07,015
I was texting earlier. All right.

589
00:26:07,185 --> 00:26:08,375
Thank you everyone. Yep.

590
00:26:08,745 --> 00:26:11,815
Thank you for listening to the Blue Colon Nation podcast.

591
00:26:12,595 --> 00:26:15,055
For more information about Eric and Larry

592
00:26:15,195 --> 00:26:16,535
and Super Tech University,

593
00:26:16,875 --> 00:26:20,175
please visit us at super tech you com.

594
00:26:20,645 --> 00:26:24,455
That is Super Tech u the letter u.com.