Episode 26

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13th Apr 2022

Building and Managing Your Training Collection [E026]

Building and Managing Your Training Collection

With guest Carm Capriotto

  • Invest in yourself.
  • Don't think you can't learn from the same class, different instructor
  • There is value in continuous and even redundant training
  • Be sure to bring your training resume to a prospective job opportunity
  • Ask the potential new shop of their commitment to training.

Training Resume Ideas:

For Technician to include in his/her resume:

  • Tech Name
  • Class Title
  • Date of Class
  • Venue
  • Sponsor of training
  • Time invested
  • The Trainer(s)
  • My rating of the training
  • Note to self
  • Shop working for at the time
  • Cost of training
  • Who paid for training

Training Resume for Shop Owners:

  • Technician name
  • Class Title
  • Date of Training Event
  • Venue
  • Sponsor
  • Length of class
  • Traiiner name
  • Tech's Rating Level (1-5)
  • Cost of training
  • Who paid?

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About the Podcast

Automotive Field Theory
From Automotive Diagnostics to Metallica and Mental Health
Automotive Field Theory explores the forces that shape automotive repair, including the ones measured with a meter or oscilloscope and the ones that cannot be found on a wiring diagram.

Hosted by automotive diagnostic specialist, shop manager, and instructor Matt Fanslow, the podcast begins in the automotive aftermarket but rarely stays inside its traditional boundaries. Diagnostics, electricity, technology, leadership, psychology, economics, game theory, history, music, movies, family, and human behavior may appear unrelated. Look closely enough, however, and connections begin to emerge.

A vehicle may arrive with a technical fault, but the work surrounding it is rarely technical alone.

Information is incomplete.

People make decisions under pressure and uncertainty. Incentives shape behavior. Standards gradually drift. Good intentions produce unexpected results. The official process may say one thing while the system quietly rewards another.

Automotive Field Theory is an attempt to understand those interactions.

Drawing from real diagnostic work, shop management, industry conversations, personal experience, and an occasionally inconvenient level of curiosity, Matt examines not only how things work, but why they work that way, how they became what they are, and what apparently unrelated subjects might teach us about repairing vehicles, leading people, running businesses, and improving the automotive industry.

Some episodes begin with a failed component. Others begin with Metallica, quantum physics, professional wrestling, a historical disaster, a round of golf, or a question that refuses to leave Matt alone.

Eventually, they all enter the same field.