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Pit Crew Training Facility Receives National Recognition for Learning and Team Building Program Helping Organizations Achieve Operational Success

PIT Instruction & Training, LLC has received the Learning Innovation Award from Learning 2006 and The MASIE Center’s Learning CONSORTIUM for an experiential learning program relating success in high-level motor sports to successful performance in businesses and industries.

"Developing leadership and team work is a critical factor in the success of America’s largest corporations.  Giving corporate leaders an opportunity to have the reality experience of working on a motor sports pit crew with the essentials of speed, communication, skill and collaboration is a breakthrough approach.  PIT Instruction & Training, LLC are on the cutting edge of skill development in this changing world," said Elliott Masie, chair of the Learning CONSORTIUM.

The program, ‘Think Inside the Box’, combines a custom didactic presentation with a high energy hands-on pit crew team building experience.  The presentation and activity based experience correlate similarities in high level performance of modern over-the-wall pit crews and how businesses may recognize greater success by modeling organizational processes utilizing similar concepts.

The phrase "inside the box" refers to the pit box area in which motor sports pit crews change tires and fuel the race car in under 13 seconds.  The program also refers to "inside the box" as the call for businesses and organization to creatively refocus and control normal operational factors that influence business goal outcomes rather than more nebulous "outside the box" thinking aptly applied to strategic planning.

"PIT presents universal operational management and team building concepts in a creative and effective message using motor sports pit crew concepts of success," says Breon M. Klopp, Senior Director of Development for PIT.

Pit crews depend on preparation, communication and performance of individual duties for success under highly competitive and often dangerous circumstances.

"The message itself is entertaining given the current high interest in motor sports and that interest provides tremendous learning opportunity to a captured audience.  The recognition by executives, managers and technicians of how to immediately implement operational changes in their organization provides a high level of value to the program," continues Klopp.

Other organizations that received recognition at Learning 2006 are Wal-Mart University, Apple Computer, Emirates Airlines and the BBC.

Organizations including United Airlines, Intel, Coca Cola, Textron / E-Z-GO and Pallet One have utilized the ‘Think Inside the Box’ program, which has been highlighted on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, NBC Nightly News, and in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and ESPN Magazine.