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Thursday February 27

BASF Automotive Refinish Announces VisionPLUS University Program Offerings for 2003

BASF’s Automotive Refinish group has announced the 2003 schedule for its VisionPLUS University program, a comprehensive program of seminars, classes and Web-enabled business management tools, designed for collision repair managers.

VisionPLUS University's components are fully integrated in content and business approach. VisionPLUS University consists of:

  • Professional Business Management Seminars
  • Two-day Interactive Distributor Workshops
  • One-day Interactive Collision Center Workshops
  • VisionPLUS® OnLine Web-based business-analysis toolkit
  • A comprehensive technical training program

Five Professional Business Management Seminars are offered in 2003:

  • Motivating Employees with Productive Pay Plans
  • Maximizing Your Estimating Performance
  • Fast Track Production
  • Profiting from People Skills
  • Achieving Complete Customer Satisfaction

The half-day seminars are accredited with the American Management Institute (AMI), and are conducted by Bernie Blickenstaff, a well-known and highly successful expert in the collision repair business.

Three two-day Interactive Distributor Workshops are offered this year:

  • Introduction to VisionPLUS OnLine
  • Paint and Material Profitability
  • Paint Department Productivity

Finally, six one-day Interactive Collision Repair Center Workshops are scheduled for 2003:

  • Estimating for Profit
  • Introduction to VisionPLUS OnLine
  • Paint Department Productivity
  • Paint & Material Profitability
  • Advanced Production Management
  • Measuring and Improving Performance

The content of the Professional Business Management Seminars and of the distributor and collision center workshops is integrated with VisionPLUS OnLine, BASF’s proprietary Internet-based business analysis and benchmarking toolset. VisionPLUS OnLine is part of BASF’s “eBusiness Toolbox” that includes several Web-enabled color management systems and eCommerce Web sites.

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