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Learning Pathway: A Great Way to Grow Your Business and Advance Your Painting Career

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You’ve probably heard the old saying, “When you stop learning, you stop growing.” That’s just as true for your painting business. If you want your business to thrive and expand, learning and development is important for every member of your team.
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Build Your Business Chops with Free PRO+ Training Webinars

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Running a successful painting company. It’s more than just how to hold a paint brush or how to cut in a wall. There’s estimating, sales, marketing, accounting, managing people, and so much more. Sharing ideas about how to excel at the business side of painting is the concept behind the new PRO+ Training Series on the Sherwin-Williams YouTube channel.
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Use Paint Pro Training Videos to Teach Key Painting Skills

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A Sherwin-Williams initiative designed to help grow the skill sets of new painters and address an overall painting industry labor shortage continues to be a major success, according to company officials and the contractors who benefit from it.
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What Should You Seek in a New Hire?

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“Hire character. Train skill.”

That directive was made popular by Peter Schutz, the former CEO of Porsche whose book, The Driving Force: Getting Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, was a bestseller.

Schutz applied this principle at several Fortune 500 firms along his career path, but would the same idea apply to hires that a painting contractor might make? This article will take a closer look at the question and cite some contractors and other personnel experts who can help shape your hiring practices. Continue reading What Should You Seek in a New Hire? →