VISTA Consulting, a Georgia-based debt collection consulting firm, has released The Complete Collection Manager, a comprehensive reference, tutorial, and sourcebook specifically for collection agency owners and managers. The book, packaged with a CD-ROM containing spreadsheets, a letter series, state law charts, and other tools, is intended as a wide-ranging “advanced course” in running a collection agency or department.
The book deals with such diverse topics as the use of metrics to improve collectors and business processes, recruiting and hiring talent, the art of negotiation, coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline, leadership in a receivables environment, training staff for success, and inspiring collectors through VISTA’s proprietary “Rewards, Recognition, Release, and Respect” motivational system. It also covers employment law, the FDCPA, FCRA, HIPAA, and collection laws in the fifty U.S. states and Washington, D.C. in painstaking detail.
Christopher Coelho, the author and president of VISTA Consulting stated, “This is a book that should have existed twenty years ago. Coming up through the ranks at collection agencies and rising to high management, I was continually plagued by problems that seemed to have no solution. Turnover, drama, competition, higher standards and decreasing fees. I often wished there was a course I could take or a guidebook I could open to better equip myself. The Complete Collection Manager is both. It’s meant to give agency owners and managers the processes, tools, and insights without having to make all the mistakes. I’ve intended it to be nothing less than the industry standard text.”
VISTA Consulting offers vision-based and results-oriented consulting services to the receivables and collection industry. For further information, or to request an interview with Mr. Coelho, call (678) 745-0056.