Outstanding business managers are steeped in self-awareness – and know how to leverage their key strengths and tendencies to deliver results for their business. As a fleet manager, you play a pivotal role in customer service, distribution and ultimately, the success of your enterprise. While there are many management styles, research shows to excel at managing a fleet you must bring these insights to your actions and interactions.
Ask yourself: Are you taking advantage of new ideas and technologies to transform your fleet? Is your company’s fleet management strategy impacting your ability to serve customers? Are you leveraging the right partners to build and deliver value to your company?
While you may think you have the answers to these questions, you should know your own management biases could be affecting your fleet operation more than you might think. Now, there is a way fleet managers can gain this self-awareness through meaningful insights that help deliver a deeper impact to the company’s fleet strategy and bottom line.
After observing the characteristics of several online research and sourcing patterns, and engaging with more than 700 private fleet managers on the frontlines every day, Ryder’s industry-leading research has identified seven unique fleet manager profiles. By understanding their fleet management style more intimately, fleet managers can better navigate key transportation decisions that affect their core business.
As dynamics facing your business evolve, the way you think about how you manage your fleet is impacted as well. Through this research, Ryder will continue to gain meaningful insights that impact fleet management decisions, and allow us to help companies identify and deliver a deeper impact to their fleet strategy.
By knowing your management style, you can further empower your business and fuel your success.
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