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AMI's courses are designed to meet the demand of the ever-changing automotive industry. Below are courses designed specifically for students in the collision repair industry. Click the name of the course for more information, including class description, instructor and credits obtained. To return to this page, click your browser's BACK button.

Course Name Credits
A Day at the Zoo 12
Achieving Complete Customer Satisfaction 6
Achieving Service Excellence 14
Activity Management - Time for a Change 8
Advantage Hiring and Interviewing 12
Advantage Shop Management (Production Efficiency Training) 24
Advantage Shop Marketing 12
Aggressive Business-Building Marketing Strategies 6
All Stressed Up and NO Place to Go 6
Applied Automotive Accounting 6 ...
Applying the Five Love Languages to Your Personal and Professional Development 8
Are You Committing Fraud Without Knowing It? 4 ...
Are You Ready for Total Quality? 6
Art of Bringing Customers Back 6
As Professional As You Can Be! 6
Assessing and Monitoring Financial Health and Performance 6
Attitude is Infectious 6
Audatex Estimating Existing User Course 20
Audatex Estimating New User Course 38
Avert Costly Miscommunication & Misunderstanding with WORDpower 8
Avoiding the Yellow Page Pitfalls 3
Balancing Work and the Family 6
Become the Manager Everyone Wants to Work For 6
Benchmarking Collision Center Performance 6
Beyond Survival 6
Beyond the Books...OEM Service Information Web Sites 6
Big Business Possibilities for the Independent Repair Shop Owner 6
Body Shop Estimator Development 16
Body Shop Financial Control 32
Body Shop Financial Management Made Simple 6
Body Shop Facility Layout and Design 16
Body Shop Marketing and Business Development 16 ...
Body Shop Office Management 16
Body Shop Organization Controls 32
Body Shop Production Efficiency 32
Building a Partnership with Your People 6
Building a Successful Service Center for the Next Century 12
Building an Award-Winning Business...Improving Our Image Through Ethics 16 ...
Building and Managing an Effective Apprenticeship Program 8
Building the Ultimate Customer Service Team 16
Business Negotiations 6 ...
Business-to-Business Marketing 16
Business Valuation Basics for the Business Owner 6
Calming and Retaining Angry Customers 6
CARQUEST Action Selling for Service Consultants 24
CARSTAR Office Administration 16
CARSTAR Production Management 101 26
CARSTAR Production Management 201 20
CCC Pathways Advanced User Training Class 14
CCC Pathways Collision Estimating 12
Coaching the Challenging Employee 3 ...
Changing Paradigms/Attitudes are Contagious 24
Communicating With Customers From the Inside Out 6
Communicating with Impact 6
Compensation Plans: What's Right for Your Employees? 6
Competition for Customer Loyalty 4
Complete Marketing 101 thru 401 6
Connecting and Communicating - the Keys to Stress Reduction 6
Coping and Stress: Handling Conflict and Anger in the Automotive Workplace 6 ...
Creating Winners: How to Turn Your Crew into a High Performance Team 6 ...
Critical Thinking Skills for the Automotive Technician 8
Customer Service: After the Sale 7
Customer Service Representative 16
Determining the Value of Your Business 12
Developing an Employee Manual...The Shop Owner's Handbook 6 ...
Developing Successors and Attracting and Holding Key Employees 12
Digi-Lean Collision Repair System 8
Dispute Resolution Processes 6
Do the Right Thing 8
Do You Have What it Takes? 6
Don't Get Stalled in the Legal System 6
Don't Quit! 6
DRP Contracts: Understanding the Language and Managing the Risks 3
Effective Communication in the Shop Environment 6
Effective Communication in the Workplace 6
Effective Compensation Plan Development 12
Elephant Chains 6
Employee Communications...The Winning Ways 3 ...
Employee Development and Retention 24
Employees...A Key to Your Business Success 3 ...
Enhancing Profits Through Retention-Based Marketing 6
Establishing Interdepartmental Standards 6
Estimate Plus - Building a Better Estimate 14
Estimating Best Practices 16
Estimating Consistency 8
Estimating for Profit Workshop 13
Estimating Solutions for Profit 12
Exceptional Customer Service, Part I 8
Exceptional Customer Service, Part II 8
Exit Strategies: How to Exit Your Shop with Grace and Style 3
Find and Hire the Superstars...in 30 Days! 6
Financial Analysis 8
Financial Management for the Auto Repair Business 30
Financial Shop Management 12
Financial Strategies for the 21st Century 20
First Position in the Mind 8
From the Front Counter to the Bottom Line - The Art of Service Sales 16 ...
Fundamentals of Financial Management 32
Generation X: How to Manage and Motivate the 17-29 Year-Old Workforce 6 ...
Getting Results from Relationships 8
Going Through the Change ... at Work 6
Harnessing the Power of the Internet 6
Help Wanted: Technicians! 8
Hire Tough, Hire Simple, Hire Winners 3 ...
How Do Wage & Hour Issues Affect Me? 3 ...
How Good Managers Become Great Leaders 16
How Shop Owners Can Hire, Coach & Retain Their Employees 7
How to Build an Effective Team in an Automotive Repair Facility 6 ...
How to Communicate Effectively with your Team in an Automotive Repair Facility 6
How to Exceed Customer Expectations: Delivering "Knock Your Socks Off Service 24
How to Get 'em in the Door...and Coming Back for More 6
How to Grow Great Employees 6 ...
How to Measure Your Business Skills 18
How to Measure Your Business Skills Module Session 1 6
How to Measure Your Business Skills Module Session 2 6
How to Measure Your Business Skills Module Session 3 6
How to Purchase Business Insurance 4
How to Reduce Taxes 3 ...
How to Save Money on Your Taxes 2
How to Sell Value and Develop Long-Term Relationships 24
How to Turn Your Paper Flow into Positive Cash Flow 3
Human Resources - Hiring and Firing and Everything In-Between 24
Identifying and Cultivating Your Leadership Style 6
"I'll Be Back..." How to Get Customers Back Again and Again 3 ...
Image is Everything 2
Implementing a Rapid Repair System 12
Implementing a Sound Business Plan for the Small Shop 6
Implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) 8
Improving Workshop Efficiency 15
Improving Your Performance with KPIs 8
Increasing Human Effectiveness 32
Increasing Profit by Increasing Proficiency 12
Increasing Closing Ratios 8
Ins and Outs of Getting Cars In and Out - Mastering Your Work 8
Interpersonal Skills 6 ...
Introducing the SEP-IRA Retirement Plan for the Automotive Service Manager 4
Introduction of the Process: Training the Total Customer Representative 8
IRS vs. Auto Repair Businesses 16
Juggling Elephants 6
Keeping the Walls Down - The Skill of Communication 6 ...
Keys to Freedom - Escaping from the Tyranny of Business Ownership 6 ...
Know You Are Winning 6
Leadership and Profitability 3 ...
Leadership - What it takes to be a Great Leader! 14
Leadership without Breaking a Sweat 6
Learn to Negotiate and Win 12
Liability ... Are You at Risk for Intrusion 6
Life Blood of a Successful Family-Owned Business 12
Lip Service - First Class Telephone Skills for Collision Businesses 6
Management on Cruise Control 6 ...
Managing by Process NOT by Luck 16
Managing by the Numbers 8
Managing Growth, Not Chaos 6
Managing Multiple Priorities 6
Managing Workplace Pressures 6
Marketing Begins with You and ONLY You - Session 1 6
Marketing Begins with You and ONLY You - Session 2 6
Marketing for Business Development 12
Marketing - The Do's and Don'ts 3
Marketing to Women 101: Today's Female Consumers 6
Mastering How Customers Think 8
Mastering Maintenance Sales 8
Mastering Marketing 8
Mastering Pay Plans 8
Mastering Recruiting, Hiring and Retention 8
Mastering Service Sales 8
Mastering Shop Efficiency 8
Mastering Time Management 8
Mastering Warranties 8
Maximizing CSI 8
Maximizing Your Performance Alliance Tools: Marketing 8
Maximizing Your Performance Alliance Tools: Operations 8
MVP Administrative Management 14
MVP Advanced Collision Estimating Skills 28
MVP Business in the 21st Century 28
MVP Collision Center Marketing 28
MVP Collision Repair Sales and Customer Service 14
MVP Green Belt Training 14
MVP Leadership & Leading Change 28
MVP Managing Customer Loyalty 14
MVP Organizational Management 28
MVP Production & Cycle Time 28
Negotiating for Success 3 ...
Negotiating with the Insurance Company 36
Negotiation Skills - Key to Improved Profitability 6
No Excuse Management 3
No Limits! 6
Outsell, Upsell and Close 8
Out-Thinking the Competition 6
Overview of Estate Planning 6
"P" Myths...Discovering New Perspectives on Profitability 6
Paint Material Management 8
Parts Management 4
People Power 8
Performance Management - Coaching for Success 16
Personal and Professional Self Management: How to Take Charge of Your Time and Your Life 24
Personnel Relations 12
Planning a Succession Without Conflict 6
Planning Additional Locations 8
Planning and Forecasting - The Way to Increased Profits 6
Positioning Yourself in the Collision Repair Industry 6
Positioning Yourself in the Collision Repair Industry (Jobber Version) 6
Power Tools for Family Business 3
Powerful Public Speaking 8
Practical Marketing 6
Pre-Repair Management - Key to Reduced Cycle Times 3
Preparing (Valuing) Your Business for Sale, Succession and Taxes 6
Principles of Building a High Performance Auto Service Team 6
Principles of Mentorship 8
Professional Business Development: Time Management Systems 2000 12
Profit and Productivity Using Procedures 6
Profit Chain - The Source of Real Profit 6
Profit Structuring for the Independent Automotive Repair Shop: Installing Winning Formulas 12
Pros & Cons of Ethics - Managing & Marking Your Business As It Pertains to Ethics 6
Psychology of Retaining & Recruiting Quality People 6
Psychology of Selling Service 12
Psychology of Selling Service: Achieving Maximum Goals 12
Psychology of Selling Service: Customer Interaction - From Complaint to Correction! 8
Psychology of Selling Service: Sales and the Customer Encounter 12
Pushing Your Production 8
Real World Estimating ... Pros and Cons 12
Realizing Your Leadership Potential 8
Reducing Cycle Time 12
Reducing Cycle Time...The New Way of Production Management 16
Responding to the Survey 3 ...
Retaining Employees in the 2000s 6
Rewards and Challenges of a Family-Owned Business 6
Road to Repeat Business 7
Road to Sales Success 12
Selling from the Inside Out 6 ...
Selling Service and Satisfaction 30
Selling: The Most Important Thing We do 6
Service Bay Productivity and the Performance Audit 12
Service Marketing and Leadership 12
Shop Efficiency and Establishing a Labor Rate 6
Shop Management 2000 and Beyond 6
Shop Management Service Supremacy 80
Sixteen Ways to Increase Sales 3 ...
SMART Cycle Time II 16
SMART Damage Analysis 16
SMART Estimating 16
SMART Human Resource Management: Building the Great Workplace 16
SMART Marketing 16
SMART Money 16
SMART Process Management 16
SMART Sales 16
SMART Truck Damage Analysis 16
So, You're Ready to Grow Your Business? 3
Speak for Yourself - Communicate with Confidence and Clarity 6
Speed Traps, Pot Holes and Idiots 6 ...
Step One: The Process of Selling 6
Step Two: Developing an Effective Sales Presentation 6
Step Three: Organized for Success 6
Step Four: Strengthening the Customer Connection 6
Strategic Business Planning Workshop: Getting Started with Your Business Plan 8
Strategic Planning for the Shop Owner 3 ...
Strengthening the Total Sales Process 30
Stress, Conflict and Anger in the Automotive Workforce 6 ...
Structuring Your Support Organization 12
Success, Self-Esteem and Profits 6 ...
Successful Interviewing: How to Hire Smart and Improve Your Bottom Line 6 ...
Succession Planning for Your Family Business 6
Superior Service Advising 8
Suspension Diagnostic Workshop 3
Team Building for the 21st Century 3 ...
Team Technician (The Service Professional) 6
Teamwork, Motivation and the Gopher Dance 6
Technician Shortage...How to Fix the Problem 8
Those Darn Estimating Systems! 8
Time Management for Success 6
Tools for Understanding Men and Women in the Automotive Workplace 8
TQM ... Tools of the Trade 6
Triple Your Sales in Just Nine Months 6
Turn Your Employees into Superstars 6
Turn Your Telephone into a Goldmine! 6
Understanding Employee Motivation 6
Understanding Financial Statements 6
Understanding the DuPont Performance Alliance 16
Understanding the Power of Working Together 6
Understanding the Value of People 6
Understanding Workplace Conflict 6
Up Your Image! 3 ...
VisionPLUS Advanced Production Management 16
VisionPLUS Estimating for Profit 16
VisionPLUS Fast Track Production 8
VisionPLUS Marketing and Insurer Relations 16
VisionPLUS Maximizing Your Estimating Performance 8
VisionPLUS Motivating Employees with Productive Pay Plans 8
VisionPLUS Organizational Structure 16
VisionPLUS Paint and Material Profitability 16
VisionPLUS Paint Department Productivity 16
VisionPLUS Profiting from People Skills 8
Wanted: Great People! 6
What is Your Business Worth? 6
What Your Customers Want You to Know - Creating Preference-Based Service 4 ...
Who's Got Your Money? 3 ...
Whose Job is it Anyway - The Skill of Delegation 6 ...
Winning Women Customers 6

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