You’ve spent good money attracting, hiring and training great employees. But what happens when your skilled workers retire or move on to other pursuits? Does all your investment go down the drain?
Maybe not. You can capture the skills and knowledge critical to your bottom line by having your top performers pass along their expertise to other members of your staff.
It’s done through mentoring.
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By John Paul Roggenkamp
In this article, we’ll look at how four different drycleaning professionals approach the rewarding challenge of using mentorship to turn promising individuals into talented and self-assured leaders. It’s usually helpful to start out by defining the topic at hand, so here goes: mentoring is the act of showing people what you do each day while also explaining to them a bit of the reasoning behind each decision (verbally, nonverbally, both, or neither) until they viscerally understand your provenly-successful modus operandi and can purposefully model their actions upon it. Continue reading “How Mentorship Helps Four DLI Members Succeed”
Knowledge also brings comfort, knowing you’re doing it right, you can have peace and calmness and then comes convenience.
I hope you had a chance to go to the Clean Show 2019. It was big and had everything to see, to touch, a chance to listen to someone explain the latest and greatest ideas. The best was talking to someone who is in the same business you are in and learn different ways to improve.
By Bruce Grossman
This issue I’ll be talking about how to locate faulty check valves in your boiler’s condensate return system. The purpose of a check valve is to limit the flow of water to one direction which is usually indicated by an arrow stamped into the body of the valve which indicates the direction of water flow. These types of valves are used between the boiler return pump and the boiler pressure vessel with the direction of flow towards the boiler. When the boiler’s water level drops lower than the pump activation sensor the pump motor turns on and the pump pulls water from the return tank and pushes it through the check valves into the pressure vessel of the boiler.
By Don Desrosiers, Tailwind Systems
A decade or two ago, high-level cost groups were more popular than they are now. The highest profile ones were made up of the top tier drycleaners nationwide, even worldwide. They would meet annually at exotic locales such as Sydney and Maui. I knew many of the members. I couldn’t help wondering why groups like this lost their momentum some years ago. Was it a signal indicating the end of the industry? Was it a way to show apathy on the part of the world’s biggest players? Or were these big players becoming more reclusive? Something was changing.
DLI’s Encyclopedia of Drycleaning contains almost everything The Institute has learned since its founding in the year 1883. Every currently in-print bulleting is digitized, uploaded, and made searchable. On top of that, the Encyclopedia of Drycleaning increases and expands constantly with the development and release of updated procedures, refined materials, and new machines. Hands down, DLI’s Encyclopedia of Drycleaning is the best resource available to business owners and managers who want to stay abreast of the latest industry trends, topics, and treatments. It is simple to use and makes a great reference tool to have on the go.
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Updated deadline to register: August 18
Why should I get certified?
DLI endorses the concept of voluntary, periodic certification by examination for all professional cleaners. Certification focuses specifically on the individual and is an indication of current competency in a specialized field of practice.
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