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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 mechanical 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
21st Century Service: Succeeding in the Next Century 8
A Complete Profitability Overhaul and Implementation of Proven Shop Strategies 64
A Day at the Zoo 12
ACDelco CRM Seminar 8
ACDelco Customer Handling Seminar 8
ACDelco Customer Trust and Quality Control Seminar 8
ACDelco Growth Management Seminar 8
ACDelco Leadership Skills Seminar 8
ACDelco Operations Management Seminar 8
ACDelco Profit Management Seminar 8
ACDelco Sales Skills Seminar 8
ACDelco Self-Management Seminar 8
Administration and Customer Service 4
Advanced Pricing Strategies 6
Advanced Selling Skills for the Service Advisor 80
Advanced Workflow Management Systems 6
Aggressive Techniques for Acquiring Preventive Maintenance Business 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
Approaching Operational Excellence 8
Are You Ready for Total Quality? 6
Art of Bringing Customers Back 6
As an Owner Start Earning the Income You Want! 6
As Professional As You Can Be! 6
Assessing and Monitoring Financial Health and Performance 6
At the Speed of Thought: Automotive Service Solutions in a Web-Enabled World 16
Attitude is Infectous 6
Attracting, Satisfying, and Keeping Customers 8
AUTO EDGE Sales & Service Training 6
Avert Costly Miscommunication & Misunderstanding with WORDpower 8
Avoiding the Yellow Page Pitfalls 3
Back Door Secrets to Repair Shop Success 3
Balancing Work and the Family 6
Be a Great Leader...Leading Your Shop to Greatness 12 ...
Become the Manager Everyone Wants to Work For 6
Benefit & Wage Planning for the 21st Century 24
Beyond Survival 6
Beyond the Books...OEM Service Information Web Sites 6
Big Business Possibilities for the Independent Repair Shop Owner 6
Bob Cooper's Killer Marketing Program 6
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
Building Your Standard Operating Procedures Made Simple! 24
Business Negotiations 6 ...
Business Valuation Basics for the Business Owner 6
Calming and Retaining Angry Demanding Customers 6
CARQUEST Action Selling for Service Consultants 24
Cash Profits Boot Camp 15
Cash: Am I Ending Up with Enough of the Pie? 8
Changing Paradigms/Attitudes are Contagious 24
Coaching the Challenging Employee 3 ...
Common Wage and Hour Problems for Automotive Tire and Repair Facilities 6
Communicating With Customers From the Inside Out 6
Communicating with Impact 6
Compensating Technicians...AND You! 12
Compensation and Incentives That Work 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 ...
Cost of Doing Business 4
Cost-Value Ratios and Perceived Value 3
Create a Great Workplace Using Key Numbers and Communication 6
Customer Relations 4
Critical Thinking Skills for the Automotive Technician 8
Customer Relations 4
Dale Carnegie Course 64
Determining the Value of Your Business 12
Delivering Unbelievable Customer Service 12
Developing a Bedside Manner 4
Developing an Employee Manual...The Shop Owner's Handbook 6 ...
Developing Long-Term Customer Relationships 16
Developing Successors and Attracting and Holding Key Employees 12
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 Grow Broke! 3 ...
Don't Quit! 6
Effective Communication in the Shop Environment 6
Effective Communication in the Workplace 6
Effective Compensation Plan Development 12
Effective Marketing for Your Automotive Service Business 12
Effective Selling Without Sacrificing Customer Service 6
Efficient Shop Management 6 ...
Elephant Chains 6
Employee Communications...The Winning Ways 3 ...
Employee Development and Retention 24
Employee Management 12 ...
Employees...A Key to Your Business Success 3 ...
Enhancing Profits Through Retention-Based Marketing 6
Evaluating Profit and Loss 8
Exceptional Customer Service, Part I 8
Exceptional Customer Service, Part II 8
Exit Strategies: How to Exit Your Shop with Grace and Style 3
Experience the Power of Leadership 12
Financial Benchmarking for Improved Operations 12 ...
Financial Fundamentals 6
Financial Management for the Auto Repair Business 30
Financial Strategies for the 21st Century 20
Find and Hire the Superstars...in 30 Days! 6
Finding Good Personnel 4
First Position in the Mind 8
Fly with the Eagles 72
Four Secrets to Teambuilding 4
From Intent to Implementation: Closing he Gap Between Vision and Reality 16
From the Front Counter to the Bottom Line - The Art of Service Sales 16 ...
Garage Management System Seminar 36 ...
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
Guerrilla Shop Management 80
Harnessing the Power of the Internet 6
Help Wanted: Technicians! 8
High Impact II 16 ...
Highly Effective Marketing Techniques 24
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 Deal with Telephone Price Shoppers and First-Time Customers 8
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 Get Your Share of the Highly Profitable Fleet Business 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 Provide Superior Customer Service in an Automotive Repair Facility 6 ...
How to Purchase Business Insurance 4
How to Reduce Taxes 3 ...
How to Save Money on Your Taxes 2
How to Sell Diagnostic Labor and Get Paid for It! 8
How to Sell Preventive Maintenance 8
How to Sell Value and Develop Long-Term Relationships 24
How to Sell What You Know Needs to be Sold 16
How to Work On Your Business...Not In It 6
Human Resources - Hiring and Firing and Everything In-Between 24
Identifying, Measuring and Researching Your Potential 12 ...
Identifying and Cultivating Your Leadership Style 6
If You Always Do What You Have Always Done...Then You Will Always Get What You Always Got 16
"I'll Be Back..." How to Get Customers Back Again and Again 3 ...
Image is Everything 2
Implementing the Automotive Service Management Course 6
Improving Your Bottom Line 2
Increase Sales 40% Through Better Efficiency 6
Increase Your Profits Tomorrow - Guaranteed! 6
Increasing Human Effectiveness 32
Increasing Profit by Increasing Proficiency 12
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
It's About Selling - Exceeding Service Expectations 24
Keeping the Walls Down - The Skill of Communication 6 ...
Key Numbers: Which Ones Should You Really Watch 8
Keys to Freedom - Escaping from the Tyranny of Business Ownership 6 ...
Know You Are Winning 6
Knowing Your Customer Base - "4 Key Indicators of a Healthy Business" 8
Leader or Animal Trainer 8
Leadership and Profitability 3 ...
Leadership - What it takes to be a Great Leader! 14
Leadership without Breaking a Sweat 6
Leading to the Next Level 12
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 Automotive Businesses 6
Lip Service - First Class Telephone Skills for Automotive Parts Counter People 6
Magic Box 16
Mail-Based Marketing - The First Steps 6
Making the Connection - Marketing to Women 8
Making Money 12
Management by Results 6
Management on Cruise Control 6 ...
Managing Change 6
Managing Growth, Not Chaos 6
Managing Multiple Priorities 6
Managing the Service Event 6
Managing the Work Flow 8
Managing Workplace Pressures 6
Managing Your Business into the 21st Century 8
Marketing 101 - Creating a Plan 8
Marketing! It's More Than Just Advertising 6
Marketing Auto Repair for the 2000s 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 Menu Pricing 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
Mathematic Realities of Numbers That Drive "NET" Income 12
Maximizing Selling Performance 8
Maximizing Your Labor Opportunity 8
Measure, Manage and Market 6
Measuring Your Way to Financial Success 6
Mind Your Business 24
Mitch's Ladder 8
Multi-Shop Operations: How to Buy and Run Multi-Shop Locations 12
Negotiating for Success 3 ...
No Excuse Management 3 ...
No Limits! 6
Nuts and Bolts of Dollars and Cents 8
"Oreo Pricing" How Much Should I Charge? What Should it Cost? 4
One Extra Degree 4
Outstanding Tools for Selling More Service 6
Out-Thinking the Competition 6
Overview of Estate Planning 6
"P" Myths...Discovering New Perspectives on Profitability 6 ...
People Power 8
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
Power Tools for Family Business 3 ...
Powerful Public Speaking 8
Practical Marketing 6
Preparing (Valuing) Your Business for Sale, Succession and Taxes 6
Price of Admission 8
Principles of Building a High Performance Auto Service Team 6
Principles of Mentorship 8
Productivity 3
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
Profit Structuring with Formulas 6
Profitability Management 4
Pros & Cons of Ethics - Managing & Marking Your Business As It Pertains to Ethics 6 ...
Prospering in the Auto Repair Business 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
Putting It All Together - The Business Plan 24
R & R - Technicians & Service Advisors 6
Realizing Your Leadership Potential 8
Recruiting and Hiring Quality Personnel 8
Relating, Not Translating: How to Market Effectively to U.S. Latinos 4
Relationship Marketing 14
Resource and Retain Technicians and Service Advisors 6
Retaining Employees in the 2000s 6
Rewards and Challenges of a Family-Owned Business 6
Ring, Ring...How Much? 3
Saving Your Shop - Or Starting One Plan for Success 6
Secrets of Success 6
Secrets to Selling Service 6
Selling Automotive Service "From the Stomach" 8
Selling Automotive Service - The "Informist" Way 16
Selling Diagnostic Labor Profitably 6
Selling from the Inside Out 6 ...
Selling Labor for Profit 6
Selling Maintenance Work & Increasing ARO 6
Selling Preventive Maintenance 12
Selling Service and Satisfaction 30
Selling Services 14
Selling Skills 6
Service Advising ... Beyond Order Taking 24
Service Advising - Understanding the Value of People 6 ...
Service Advisor 101 12
Service Advisor Skills 12 ...
Service Advisor Skills, ASE C-1 Test Preparation 6
Service Advisor Training 24
Service Bay Productivity and the Performance Audit 12
Service Center Management I 64
Service Center Management II 14
Service Manager Course 13
Service Marketing for the Independent Service Facility 6 ...
Service Sales Success 8 ...
Service Writer Course 6
Shop Efficiency and Establishing a Labor Rate 6
Shop Management 2000 and Beyond 6
Shop Management Service Supremacy 80
Shop Operations and Improving Performance 24
Show Me the Money 24
Sixteen Ways to Increase Sales 3 ...
Skill Sets for the Service Advisor 8 ...
Sky Rocket Your Sales 16
Speak for Yourself - Communicate with Confidence and Clarity 6
Specialization, Is It for You? 8
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 Marketing in the New Economy 6
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
Sudden Impact 24
Superior Service Advising 8
Survival Skills for the Service Advisor 6 ...
Suspension Diagnostic Workshop 3
Taking Control: Car Count and Cash Profits 16
Team Building for the 21st Century 3
Team Success Hinges on You 24
Team Technician (The Service Professional) 6
Teamwork, Motivation and the Gopher Dance 6
Technician Shortage...How to Fix the Problem 8
Technician Time Management 12
Technician Time Management For Employees 8
The Four Keys to Lasting Success and Profit 6
The Front End: A Critical Component for Success 6
The 12 Keys to Automotive Service Success 16
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
Ultimate Service Advisor 6
Unlocking Potential: Mitchell1 Manager / ShopKey Shop Management Users Workshop 30
Understanding Employee Motivation 6
Understanding Financial Statements 6
Understanding the Power of Working Together 6
Understanding the Value of People 6
Understanding Workplace Conflict 6
Up Your Image! 3 ...
Vision Quest Workshop 24
Wanted: Great People! 6
What is Your Business Worth? 6
What is Your Business Worth? 6
Where Did My Car Count Go? 6
Where Has All the "Gravy" Work Gone? 8
Who's Got Your Money? 3 ...
Whose Job is it Anyway - The Skill of Delegation 6 ...
Win-Win-Win of Intelligent Estimating 3
Winning in the Family Business 3 ...
Winning Strategies for Marketing Your Auto Repair Specialty Business 6
Winning Women Customers 6
Women's Clinics - Effective Communication and Delivery 6
Women Are Customers, Too 6
Work Smarter to Reduce Stress and Increase Profits 14
Workflow, Scheduling and Time Management 6 ...
Working with Dad 8
Working with People and Their Environment 6 ...
Your Employees Are What You Motivate Them to Be 8
Your People - Key to Increasing Profits 3
Zen and the Art of Maintenance Service 10

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