TIME-TESTING TASKS
HOW TAKING THE TIME TO DEVELOP YOUR CRAFT WILL HELP YOU SPEED AHEAD OF THE GAME Column by STEFANO LIESSI Phrases like “The ten things you need to know,” “This is taking the internet by storm,” “The four top things that will change your life,” etcetera, are all too common. They reflect on our culture […]
QUESTION EVERYTHING
WHEN IT COMES TO SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION, ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS IS PARAMOUNT Column by JAY PERRY Inside our coaching practice, we have much to share with our clients about the art of questioning. First, questions have a tone. We need to have an awareness of how tone can create engagement or oppositely, defensiveness or other […]
CAR CONNECTIONS
COLLISION REPAIR REACHED OUT TO STEFANO LIESSI, TRAINING AND CURRICULUM COORDINATOR COLOR COMPASS UNIVERSITY FOR INDUSTRY INSIGHT Collision Repair magazine: How have vehicle materials changed over the past ten years and how does this affect how they are repaired? Stefano Liessi: In the past ten years, we have seen a mix of materials and applications, […]
DRIVING THROUGH TIME
ANALYZING AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING 10 YEARS AGO VS. TODAY Story by SARAH PERKINS In the last decade, the landscape of vehicle materials in the automotive industry has remained on a fast track towards automotive advancements. This has continued to shape the foundations of collision repair in a race for service excellence. For professionals entrenched in the […]
STORM STRATEGIES
NAVIGATING THE HAIL REPAIR AND CLAIMS PROCESS Story by SARAH PERKINS Canadian weather continues to grow more extreme in the wake of global climate shifts. Summer storms are increasingly becoming the new normal. From the rise in flooding to hail events, both the environment and vehicles are left to weather the damage. According to the […]
THE STATE OF ALBERTA AUTO INSURANCE
HOW WILL IT IMPACT THE COLLISION MARKET Story by MICHAEL VAVAROUTSOS There will now be two more companies following in Zenith Insurance’s footsteps to end their auto insurance coverage in Alberta. Aviva Direct and Sonnet Insurance have separately announced each will withdraw its auto insurance services from Alberta, effective early January 2025 for Aviva and […]
REQUESTED TOPICS
WHAT INDUSTRY MEMBERS SEEK FROM EVENT TOPICS AND SPEAKERS While the summer brings many opportunities for some fun in the sun, for the collision repair industry, it also presents a chance to gather for some truly bright conferences, charity events and get-togethers. Collision Repair reached out via survey to find out what exactly the industry […]
ESTIMATION STATION
AKZONOBEL HOSTS TRAINING SESSION TARGETING SKILLS RELATIVE TO COLLISION REPAIR ESTIMATING Story by MICHAEL VAVAROUTSOS AkzoNobel hosted a class of 15 students for an Acoat Estimating, Consistency and Documenting Damage course in late July. The course, designed to review and refine estimator skills relative to collision repair estimating, was held at AkzoNobel’s Ontario headquarters and […]
UNDERSTANDING DYNAMIC FACTORS
KNOWING WHAT MARKET FACTORS IMPACT YOUR BUSINESS IS CRITICAL FOR REAL-TIME AND LONG-TERM SUCCESS The automotive aftermarket is a dynamic place that faces a breadth of challenges on a daily basis. Understanding those challenges and the factors shaping them could be critical to your business’s success, regardless of what aftermarket vertical you operate in. And […]
ADVANCEMENTS IN PAINT SPRAY TECHNOLOGY
Spray guns had been on the scene for a century —then 3M added their perspective The first use of what we would today call spray painting dates back more than 100 years when the Southern Pacific Railway first employed a “method of painting by spraying with air.” The tools that today’s auto body shops use […]
