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Wrapping Up Another Season of Adopt a Family

By Sarah:

The best part of the holiday season is when you’re able to give your time and effort to a cause that helps others. One of the most fun, heartwarming and fulfilling causes that I have participated in the recent years is the Adopt-a-Family program. Being able to come together with my coworkers to help raise money and provide a Christmas for multiple families is one of the most rewarding feelings I have ever experienced. Ryan Ethan Kevin 2015-sm

The families that APR have adopted have always asked mostly for items that the children needed as far as clothes and day-to-day items with a few entertainment […]

2021-04-03T15:57:28-04:00January 10th, 2016|Categories: Team APR|

Positive Attitude…

I’ve been talking about our three core values; integrity, work ethic and now this one, positive attitude. I like to believe that we weed this type of thing out when we bring a team member on board here. In fact, I would think unless you’re hiring for a sleep study, you’re looking for someone to represent your company that has a positive attitude. I know this collection agency does…

If you know us, you know we are always really excited about what we do here. In short, we help people. We help businesses stay in business and we help consumers resolve their debt. We also help bridge the divide […]

2021-01-04T11:42:35-05:00November 20th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|

Work Ethic…

As a collection agency, we pride ourselves here on having one of the best teams in the industry. As I mentioned before, our core values drive us in everything we do. We constantly focus on them and we are reminded daily of these values; from top management all the way down. We talked about integrity last time and how important, especially in this business to be as honest as possible in everything you do.

But what about work ethic? Equally as important is how we conduct ourselves with honesty and integrity is how we conduct ourselves in the workplace. We never want to force anyone to do their job. […]

2021-04-03T15:54:00-04:00November 18th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|

Integrity…

Too often, words are thrown around in corporate America to describe their culture, environment and their philosophy of business. No offense to our PR guy but sometimes these words are just slapped together from communications or marketing people because they think that’s what people want to hear. Well one thing is right; they do want to hear them but they insist on you walking the walk and talking the talk.

We have among others, three core values at this collection agency; Integrity, work ethic and positive attitude. Our first is integrity.

It’s no secret that we are in a tough business. Many don’t have a favorable perception of our business […]

2020-11-30T18:16:50-05:00November 16th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|

Did You Miss The Pie Video? More Thoughts On Employee Week

By Ashley

This was my first employee week, and I have to say it was an amazing experience. We ate a lot of food and had a lot of laughs. My favorite part was the ‘mock elections’/company call where I got to put a whip cream pie in one of the manager’s faces.  It was the best way to end the week, in my humble opinion!

And check out the pie in the face video again. You can never see too much of that!

2020-11-01T12:33:04-05:00June 22nd, 2015|Categories: Team APR|

Employee Week Was Awesome!

 By Sarah:

Never have I ever felt more accepted and appreciated as an employee than I do at APR.  Employee Week is just one of the many ways in which APR gives back to its employees. Personally my favorite part of Employee Week is getting to spend time with my fellow coworkers, especially those who work in MA and NC, at the many after work events. My favorite after work event this year was when we went bowling after work. I felt like this event had not only had the highest attendance and participation but was also the most interactive.

I believe Employee Week is something unique that APR takes part in that other companies should try […]

2020-11-01T12:50:04-05:00June 19th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|Tags: , , , |

Feeling Appreciated- And a Pie Video!

By Matt Helz:

This last week we celebrated employee week at APR.  This is a special event for the employees that the owners have put together to show their appreciation of all the hard work and dedication.

There were many games, events and tons of food to be eaten every day.

This  year, a few events really stood out for me.  1st was the Tiger game-  I was able to take my oldest son who just graduated from High School.  I was a proud father, showing him off to people I work with every day.  What a good time!   2nd  the Owner Breakfast.  The Owners slave over griddles making omelets and pancake’s before the workday starts.  This happened […]

2020-11-01T12:56:08-05:00June 18th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|Tags: , , , , |

Collector’s Challenge Raises Over $2,300

If you’ve been following us for any length of time then you know we like to raise money. And yes we do collect money because that our business, but our team also loves to bring in money for several worthy causes and initiatives. From Cancer charities, jumping in a Lake in the middle of the winter for Special Olympics and funding Veterans causes, our team hits a home run every time.

This past April our team participated in the Annual Collector’s Challenge to raise money for the ACA Education Foundation. They raised over $2,300 by paying to dress in casual in the office, a March Madness Bracket event […]

40 Hours (A 20th Century Idea)

When Henry Ford set the 40hour work week precedent in the 1920’s the math made sense. The automotive plants needed to run 24 hours a day to keep up with demand and 12hour shifts were too long for anyone, given the manual labor (work that is physically demanding) he expected from his employees; Notwithstanding the fact that during the industrial revolution there didn’t exist the many distractions of modern day life, dividing the workday up into three equal, 8hour parts made good sense.

Any compensation plan based solely on the number of hours worked is wedded to this idea: Wedded to the idea that no individual can work faster or more efficiently than the worker in […]

2020-09-16T12:37:30-04:00May 5th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|Tags: , , , , |

Pledge of Leadership: Service Management

There was a time, early in my career, where I measured success strictly by the numbers. Number of overtime hours I worked per week; number of consumers I successfully contacted and collected from; the number of dollars I collected; and the number of times I assisted a fellow Collector collect.

Not too long after my career in Collections at American Profit Recovery began, my career in Collections management did too. As a young manager I knew the value of goal setting and leading by example, but I still assigned success to numeric performance outcomes alone. The number of quality Collectors I could recruit, interview, hire, train, and maintain in any given calendar year; the number of […]

2021-01-04T11:41:44-05:00March 9th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|Tags: , , , , , |
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