General Manager Coaching
You're carrying eleven jobs. The one that gets dropped every week is developing the managers underneath you — which is the only one that would have made the other ten smaller.
If any of this sounds familiar.
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Your Monday meeting reports the number instead of changing anything. Everyone leaves knowing where they stand and not what to do differently.
- 02
Your managers bring you decisions you already delegated, because it's faster for them and you keep taking them.
- 03
You were promoted for running a department and nobody ever coached you on running the people who run departments.
What actually happens in the first month.
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Week one — I watch. Your save desk, your Monday meeting, a manager one-on-one if one exists. No changes.
- 02 / 04
Week two — we name the actual gap. Will, skill, clarity, confidence, system, or consequence. It's one of those six.
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Week three — one cadence goes in. Usually a fifteen-minute standing one-on-one with each manager. Nothing else changes yet.
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Week four — we look at it honestly and either keep it, change it, or kill it. Nothing installed is permanent.
What does coaching a dealership general manager actually involve?
Coaching a dealership general manager means working on how the GM develops the managers below them, not on the GM's own sales skill. The work is usually a weekly standing one-on-one, a restructured management meeting, and a clear division between decisions the GM should own and decisions the GM keeps absorbing from department heads.
The things you're actually wondering.
Bring me one thingthat's stuck.
Thirty minutes. No deck, no pitch, no follow-up sequence you have to unsubscribe from. If it's useful we'll keep going. If it isn't, you'll know inside thirty minutes and so will I.