This week it sure felt like spring here in Dayton, Ohio, and at Grunder Landscaping Co. our season is off to a strong start. We’re working hard now to make sure we have the team members we need to have a successful 2019, as I know you are too. As we interview candidates for our production crews, we’re looking for.

One subject that came up over and over again at GROW! 2019, from both our presenters and our attendees, is transparency. At The Grow Group, we believe in being HOT—in leaders and their teams being Honest, Open, and Transparent with each other. When you’re HOT, all conversations are on the table and the organization.

At Grunder Landscaping Co., we rely on a whole team of subcontractors—from masons and electricians to plumbers and the folks at Bartlett Tree Experts—to deliver the results our clients seek. And for many of our clients, there is no meaningful distinction between a GLC team member and a subcontractor whom we’ve sent to.

We just wrapped up GROW! 2019 in Denver last Friday—it was a busy three days of education, entertainment, and inspiration with more than 350 landscape pros from all around the country. I learned so much from so many; as Malena Rogers of JR’s Landscape Services in Groveland, Illinois, put it: “Our minds are swirling.

The Grow Group team is busy making its way to Denver to ensure we’ve got every last duck in a row before GROW! 2019 kicks off Wednesday afternoon. For all those ambitious landscape pros who’ve signed up and are traveling from near and far, we’ve got a truly amazing program in store for you. But if you aren’t able to.

When deployed right, digital technology can dramatically improve your team’s ability to communicate with each other and your clients, to operate efficiently, and to find and keep talented people—especially younger folks. In this video, I share what I learned this week about using tech to grow Grunder Landscaping:.

Recently, I was conducting an onsite consultation for a landscaping company whose owner had an ambitious vision for his business. He thought they were doing okay but he knew he could accomplish so much more if only his team were more engaged and invested in the company’s success. Sound familiar? I hear this a lot. And.

If you were to take a look at my calendar this time of year, you’d see that on nearly every day that I’m not on the road coaching and consulting for The GrowGroup, I have lunch plans with someone in town. This is not because I love to eat out, or because I can’t be bothered to pack my own lunch—though both are true on.

Without a doubt, one of the most common questions we get at The Grow Group from the landscape pros we work with is What numbers should I be looking at? This discussion invariably leads to the need for a financial and efficiency dashboard, a central location with meaningful data points from which you can run your whole.

As we all know, finding and keeping talented professionals and hard workers is one of the greatest challenges our industry faces. And next month in Denver, we’ll be tackling this issue from every angle and touching on it in every session at GROW! 2019, from locating and attracting good candidates, to building the kind.