PPG spring MVP conference offers 'Journey to Excellence'

PPG will host an MVP Business Solutions Conference in Palm Springs, Calif., March 27 to 29. Focusing on the theme "Journey to Excellence," the conference will present prominent speakers, seminars and interactive workshops designed to give participants opportunities to tap into new ideas and strategies to enhance their continuous business improvement efforts.

"Success for collision centers in this economy depends on keeping your organization heading in the right direction and accelerating performance from the bottom to the top," said Randy Dewing, senior manager, MVP Business Solutions. "This MVP conference is geared toward helping owners and managers realize exceptional positive results - real results that will improve performance and keep our customers on the leading edge of process and business improvement. Our speakers, experts in their fields, will show how an organization can keep moving ahead and stepping up its performance through a number of approaches and techniques."

Conference keynote speaker Greg Smith is recognized as a leading authority on change and talent management, leadership development and employee retention. In his presentations, he teaches audiences how to create high-performance organizations that manage change in the workplace, develop leaders and increase innovation. Based on proven concepts, conference participants will be able to develop a plan to immediately generate measurable, bottom-line performance improvement results and be able to adapt to changing trends in today's challenging work environment.

Other speakers include Michael McMillan, author of Pink Bat, a book showing how situations very often perceived to be problems are actually unrecognized solutions or new opportunities. Kevin King, a well-known authority on federal bureaucracy, will discuss its recent missteps in a don't-miss overview of bureaucracies gone wild, how it affects business and what can be done about it.

In addition, the conference will offer management training, a number of breakout seminar sessions and a variety of workshops, including "Hire the Best, Forget the Rest! How to Hire and Retain Top People Each and Every Time," a presentation by Smith in which he offers his insights about attracting, hiring and retaining skilled and talented people. Other topics include "The 7 Qualities of the Leader as Coach-Secrets to Leading in the Inspiration Age" with Tom Heck, addressing the changed nature of the current workforce and how that calls for a new leadership approach with individuals and teams in collision centers.

Led by the marketing experts of the MVP Business Solutions team, Norm Angrove and John Martin, the "360º Marketing Systems" seminar will highlight the practical tools collision center owners and managers can use in their business. The session will include the strategy and need for connecting with the four generations in the marketplace, social media engagement, elevating the customer experience and new insurer communication opportunities.

Attendance at the conference is open to owners and managers of collision centers using PPG Refinish products. Online registration will begin January 11.

For more information about PPG MVP Business Solutions and to register for the conference, please visit www.ppgmvp.com.