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Tom Booth started his Motor Trade career at Grace & Sutcliffe (Toyota Franchise) in Bradford as partsman, later to become service receptionist, service manager then on to credit controller and much later, after 3 years at Leeds Polytechnic and latterly University - became dealership accountant. 3 years in a group accounting role for G&S and Tom Booth found himself broadening his experience by selling cars for Derek Cook in South Yorkshire, eventually rising to top salesman for 1 month, sales controller, sales manager and on to General Manager in Brinsworth Renault at Rotherham.
Tom Booth's success with Renault brought him to the attention of TSB who took Tom to Cheshire to run the Renault dealership in Chester. This lead to Tom Booth taking a 12 year career in Cheshire, being transferred to Rover and concluding Tom Booths first North West stint running 4 Rover Businesses.
Evans Halshaw was Tom Booths first foray into true Regional Management at the ops Board level - running their North Midlands businesses based in Stoke-on-Trent. When Geoff Dale left the Company, Tom Booth left also and returned to the North West as Regional Director for Lookers but within 5 years, was attracted to the prospect of forming the pre-cursor to Ford Retail with the amalgamation of Polar Motor Company and Dagenham Motors. In this time, Tom Booth worked for Alun Jones and they re-formed the Ford representation plan for Ford with Tom Booth running the North whilst Alun took charge of the Central control from Colchester. This job moved Tom Booth to the North West and he needed a local role close to home, landing the job of Regional Director for Perrys. In only 2 years, Tom Booth transformed the business performance of Perrys Yorkshire operations with overall improvement in excess of 1,000%.
Tom Booth would probably have stayed at Perrys but for an approach from Royal Bank of Scotland to work with them in re-structuring their motor division - in particular the Dixon Motor Group. More recently, Tom Booth has identified a niche in the recruitment sector,focusing in particular on Automotive recruitment. The business "999tom.com Limited" serves to identify and recruit experienced motor industry staff, together with recruits new to the industry. Tom spends much of his time on executive search assignments, business recovery and Company Doctor roles. His latest clients in this area being Stirling Investments Limited, Interim Partners Limited and Endless Llp.All of the assignments which Tom Booth has undertaken in the last 15 years are dealt with in a little more detail on Tom Booth's recruitment and training website www.999tom.com
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About Tom Booth, Company Director
How Much can A Car Salesperson Expect To Earn
A Selection of our Current Motor Trade jobs
How to become a Car Salesman
How much can I expect to earn Want to know how much you can expect to earn working as a Car Salesperson? Check out our no nonsense guide to salary expectation in Automotive Retail Sales. Sample 999tom Sales Training Check out a limited version of our online sales training, With comprehensive Sales training broken down into manageable Modules. The full unrestricted version comes with Audio, Video, testing and assessment. How do I start in Car Sales Want a change of career? Always wanted to drive and sell expensive, top of the range cars? Check out our guide to becoming a Car Sales Person together with the benefits you can expect to receive, including an all expenses paid company car, pension, commission scheme, career progression etc, etc. Selection of our current Jobs Looking for a specific job? Check out or latest vacancies - we can't possibly keep pace with everything we are working on but this should give you a really good idea. And if none suit you - what about your friends and colleagues? Not sure where to start in the motor trade? Looking to ger into the Motor trade, but aren't sure what role is for you? check out our guide to the kind of jobs available to you, including qualification and experience requirements to help you find the job for you!
Disability and Sexual Discrimination KEY FACTS your business needs to know about discrimination legislation Age Employers can no longer discriminate against employees on grounds of age and there is more to that than meets the eye. Redundancy A model guide to Redundancy policy and practice Discipline A model Disciplinary procedure to aid management Bullying and Harassment A guide to identifying and policing bulling and harassment
Could you save someone's life if the opportunity arose? Could you save someones life if the opportunity arose? Moreover - could your staff? It might be worth posting a clipping of this to your notice boards - what harm can it do?
No Smoking Policy From 1 July 2007, the smoking ban took effect in virtually all workplaces and enclosed public places in England.
Quarterly Appraisal for Sales Manager Example of a quarterly appraisal for sales managers to be carried out by the General Manager
Monthly Appraisal for Sales Controller and Business Manager Quarterly appraisal for sales controllers and business managers to be carried out by the sales manager
Monthly Appraisal for Salespeople Monthly appraisal for salespeople to be carried out within 2 days of the month close by the controller or sales manager
Definition of a Sales Appointment Shared responsibility for the creation of footfall is at the heart of all upper quartile motor retailers. The hunt for appointments therefore needs some regulation around exactly what an appointment is - and it is not an appointment until and unless it is confirmed with a date and time.
Customer Requirements Form - Appraisal/Qualification - the first concrete step The essential first requirement of any sales process
Sales managers Standard Operating Procedure Essential core practices to achieve consistent retail results
The Ultimate 5 Minute Briefing Knowledge is power - take our 5 minute briefing and maybe strike a chord with your own business
Business Recovery - High Level Pass See the wood for the trees - establish the vital few from the irrelevant many
Cash Flow Cash at Bank predictive spreadsheet - quarterly horizon
Business Recovery Plan - Investor Initial Presentation Heads up for the Bank or key business partners
Business Recovery Plan - detailed SMARTs and connects This is the working recovery master plan normally spun off the presentation Strategy document which precedes it. It is the control document and joined up thinking link to which each contributants SMART action plan forms a part
Morning Meetings A few pointers to breath life into current or lapsed morning meetings
Referrals as a profit tool Forgotten by nearly all Automotive retailers - including household names and upper quartile operations yet the backbone still of the personal finance and insurance markets
Tough Targets to hit ? Have you considered if you have the right people in the right place to get the job done next year? Two things to consider in people terms would be sufficiency/over-sufficiency and calibre.
Performance Management, balanced scorecard approach Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. And the nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression
Email - the cheapest route to market Are you finding that traditional press advertising is increasingly ineffective and yet the press continue to charge huge page rates for a dying art? Have you seen a huge increase in internet enquiries over the last 5 years? Do you agree that email and internet enquiries are often one and the same thing?
Hire Slow - Fire Fast 10 simple secrets of letting people go with dignity. – Courtesy of the Integrity Centre
Recent developments in recruitment methods used by Candidates Executive attitudes are changing- why are old dogs learning new tricks – on-line job applications increase in popularity. – with partial thanks to Online Recruitment magazine
Interviewing Tips for Employers – courtesy of Kelly Services The interview is the backstop to a good recruitment decision - it is not the beginning or the end; it is the beginning of the end. To that end - it is commercially crucial to establish a recruitment process which is timely, effective and results in lasting placements.
How to undertake salary reviews – courtesy Francesca Randle Cactus Research Pay is probably the most emotive discussion point between employers and employees but do you and your organisation have a well thought out appraoch to both annual reviews and ad hoc requests for more money?
EMPLOYEE ABSENTEEISM – manage the situation Around 2 million people are reporting they suffer from an illness which they believe was caused by or made worse by their current or past work. Around 35 million working days are lost every year (1.5 days per Worker – bet it’s even higher in your business) 28 million days lost due to work-related ill health and around 7 million due to workplace injury.
Mindmapping - ever heard of it? For those not familiar with Mind Mapping, it is a note making, note taking and thinking system that is designed to help people access their own thinking power in a way that is efficient, effective........and enjoyable. Mind Maps have been around for over 30 years and are used in every country in the world.
Perrys Motor Sales - a high octane formula of team dynamics for upper quartile results Polar Motor Group - a Fred Dibnah job around chimney mentality and a clear representation plan Royal Bank of Scotland - an exquisite re-engineering piece Lookers - traditional motor retailing techniques at their very best Stirling Investments Transformation of mothballed office and adjacent wood-turning shed into full facility distance selling operation for motor retailing Endless LLP Undertook senior interim assignments in Chief Executive and Operations Director roles Interim Partners Interim Partners – insolvent business solution Black Horse Manage the rundown of an exposed stocking situation and reduce risk
Executive Positions
their North Midlands businesses based in Stoke-on-Trent. When Geoff Dale left the Company, Tom Booth left also and returned to the North West as Regional Director for Lookers but within 5 years, was attracted to the prospect of forming the pre-cursor to Ford Retail with the amalgamation of Polar Motor Company and Dagenham Motors. In this time, Tom Booth worked for Alun Jones and they re-formed the Ford representation plan for Ford with Tom Booth running the North whilst Alun took charge of the Central control from Colchester. This job moved Tom Booth to the North West and he needed a local role close to home, landing the job of Regional Director for Perrys. In only 2 years, Tom Booth transformed the business performance of Perrys Yorkshire operations with overall improvement in excess of 1,000%.
