There are a lot of variables that go into running a successful business, but in all my years of coaching and consulting with the owners of landscaping companies I have never seen a single one get ahead without placing a premium on training their crews. And yet many of us still think of training as an expense rather.

Throughout my career as a business owner, I have always been fortunate to have a number of mentors and peers to ask for advice when I need it. I can talk with them when I have a particular problem to solve, or glean ideas from them over lunch for how I can improve my landscaping company. Their input has been and.

Lawn & Landscape August 2018 By Marty Grunder At our annual GROW! Conference in Tampa this year, we were fortunate enough to have Clay Mathile, former owner of Iams, join us for our keynote session. A resident of my hometown of Dayton, Ohio, Clay purchased the now well-known pet food company for $1.2 million in 1982.

We just wrapped up an amazing couple of days in Portland, Oregon, taking a deep dive into how to run a winning landscaping company and going behind the scenes of Pacific Landscape Management as part of the 2018 NALP Field Trip. In this video, I share one of the many takeaways from the event, live from Nike world.

Whether you’re a business owner bitten by the entrepreneurial bug or a team member looking to move your career forward, staying focused can be a real challenge. It’s great to get excited about all the possibilities you have, but don’t lose sight of what matters most. As my friend Joe Calloway, an accomplished business.

This week I had the pleasure of having one of our ACE peer groups in town for their quarterly meeting. They toured Grunder Landscaping and met with the GLC leadership team, before heading to the beautiful campus at Aileron for an afternoon session focused on conquering the biggest challenges they’re facing now as.

A few weeks back, we discussed the importance of monitoring numbers in your business. Financials truly are the ultimate scorecard, and focusing on them will put you and your team on the path to success. This week, let’s drill down on profitability and tactics you can use to drive yours. Academics and CFOs have.

Most of us have found ourselves in this situation at one time or another: You have a full slate of jobs lined up and not enough people on your crews to do them. In a state of panic, you look past the serious doubts you have that an applicant is a good fit for your company and hire them anyway. It rarely ends well when.

Every other Friday at Grunder Landscaping, I shoot a quick video to share with my team. It’s an easy but effective way for me to check in with my staff, to recognize and celebrate their promotions, anniversaries, and contributions, and to keep them connected to the bigger picture for our company and the vital role.

Lawn & Landscape July 2018 By Marty Grunder I am always, always looking for ways to get better at running my landscaping business. Sure, I’m proud of the company my team and I have built. But, as one of my mentors, John Maxwell, likes to say, “Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.” That’s.