Ep. 263 – Prenlyn Automotive Group, COO, Collin Hamel
Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold
Second in Command with Cameron Herold
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Collin builds high-performing organizations by focusing on developing people, processes, and planning. He learned to leverage his experience leading small teams within an elite Marine Corps unit as well as his time as an officer in the Army Special Operations to turn...
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| 0:00.0 | you know you've got probably decades worth of leadership experience but crammed into |
| 0:04.8 | four to 20 years that you did but you lack some of those hard skills so you have to try to find |
| 0:10.4 | the right position and the right job that is interested in finding their integrator or the person that can be thrown into a situation and make things happen and develop relationships and develop a team and build cohesion to achieve you know desired end |
| 0:26.0 | state so I think the biggest thing that Sotiff does though is kind of helps you focus on what that is. Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, |
| 0:40.0 | produced by the COO Alliance and brought to you by its founder Cameron Herald. |
| 0:45.0 | In the second in command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, |
| 0:50.0 | strategies and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief. |
| 0:54.4 | And now here's your host, Cameron Harold. |
| 0:57.6 | All right, so we have a really interesting podcast for you today that you're going to enjoy. |
| 1:06.0 | Colin Hamill is the chief operations officer of Permann Automotive, came out of the Special Operators Transition Force, which is a group that takes people from the military with high-level military experience and brings them into the operation side of businesses. |
| 1:21.0 | And they've got a really, really intriguing program that he's going to talk to us about. |
| 1:24.0 | He's also going to talk about their using of the systems of scaling up and EOS traction talks about his focus around driven results, |
| 1:32.0 | how they're operating 30 MidITA stores and operating in frankly a market |
| 1:36.2 | where it's tough to hire a lot of the key employees that you need to be out there working in the |
| 1:39.8 | automotive shops. |
| 1:40.8 | It also talks a little bit about some intriguing payment plan options as well where they figured out some of the |
| 1:45.8 | core friction in their model of getting new customers. So I think you're going to love |
| 1:49.1 | the episode. We'll see you on the inside. So Colin, welcome to the Second Command Podcast. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, thanks for driving me on. |
| 1:59.7 | Congrats on the million episode, Mark, that you guys have been rolling through through now you guys are doing a great job. |
| 2:05.0 | Thank you very much. Yeah that was just a big milestone that we just hit last week. I wasn't even aware we were coming up on it. |
| 2:11.0 | I knew we were over 750,000 but somehow in the last few months we really |
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