Education and Training Committee
Issue	Details from surveys or attendee input
Training	Technical Training availability and scheduling
	The need to improve administrative staffing both in quantity and quality.
	Consistency in body shop practices
	ICAR. What's happening to industry training? Online, in class?
	The industry needs to recognize the need and mandate requirements for ongoing training
	The industry needs to support efforts to increase the number of qualified techs ($ & other
	Mentoring and Training new, young technicians properly
	Properly mentoring and training new technicians in the field.
	Technical Education
	Lack of experienced /quality technicians
	Safety Training
	Record Keeping
	Insurance adjusters are usually unqualified to perform their job.
	Recruitment and training of technicians
	I-CAR to clearly state the industry accepted repair standards including damage assessment
	in shop education
	UNEDUCATED INSURANCE/INDEPENDENT ADJUSTERS
	I-CAR sun setting points that journey men auto body techs have earned.
	new generation of cars,  VS new training & education
	ON LINE \ WEBX TRAINING
	Qualified appraisers from insurance companies
	Technical Training
	Finding & training people to staff this facility
	Educating repairers on the latest REQUIRED repair replace procedures
	Importance of initial appraisal to repair process
	Investigate how to reduce or eliminate supplements
	Repair equipment and training/cost to comply with repair standards
Technician Shortage/Lack of qualified employees	REPLACEMENT EMPLOYEE ie: I hired one from UAW/JOB CORE  UTHA area "top ten" Bottom ten KC
	QUALITY  OF EMPLOYEES
	recruiting more women into the production side of the business
	Employee retention
	How to attract young people to our industry
	Quality Tech Shortage
	insures driving down needed repair operations and stealing techs for shops
	lack of qualified employees
	Technician Shortage
	Recruiting ethical, hard-working, capable young people to our industry
	INSURANCE INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT IN REGARDS TO THE LACK OF GOOD HELP
	COLLISION TECHNICIANS   ( ALL POSITIONS)
	losing good tec's due to declining flat rate. lack of benefits and  age
	lack of vision by our industry to attract new younger workforce , image , future income
	The lack of qualified technicians available to replace the ones that are retiring.
	shortage of skilled employees (techs and estimators) (adjusters and parts people too)
	Inadequate technician availability
	labor shortage
	hard to find qualified employees
	LACK OF SKILLED TECHNICIANS
	difficult to find professional help,
	Lack of interest by young people to this industry, poor wages, working conditions&training
	Technician Shortages
	Employee Attracting and Retaining. Career Tracks
	SHORTAGE OF TECHS
	The need for younger technicians
	New people entering the collision repair business
	low pay for highly qualified repair people with alot of money invested in personal tools