Because you are a small business – hire people who are achievement driven, who have your drive to get things done. Second expand how you see the company and make it a force in the local community. One or two small projects you can showcase is essential to grab the attention of the 20-30 population. Last – look for attitude, not skills. You can train skills, attitude is a long term project. Hire people that will appreciate what they learn. If you can’t keep them, and you won’t keep the good ones – they will become competitors, establish a reputation for growing great landscapers. One last thought – where are you on employee ownership? What if you had a reputation for giving great employees a piece of the action. Might the good ones stay?
GreenMark Consulting Group Growing Managers Series: Measuring Managers
This our final article in the series of Growing Managers. We started with the Discipline of Management, covered Promoting Smart, and the last edition was running a Manager Nursery. We identified the difference between management and leadership, what attributes to look for when promoting, and how to develop from within instead of hiring from the outside. Now the question is – how do I measure performance?
The GreenMark Consulting Group Snow & Ice Management Series
The GreenMark Consulting Group Presents Building and Managing a Better Snow & Ice Control Company A big “THANK YOU” to all the everyone that attended our two part webinar series. Want to see the slideshow presentation? Our Downloadable Files of Session I & Session II are now available Part 1 Part 2
OLA Snow and Ice Management Clinic
Steven Cohen of GreenMark Consulting Group, was honored to be a speaker at this year’s OLA Snow and Ice Management Clinic. We’d like to thank all the contractors that attended, asked questions, and made the experience so great for everyone! We look forward to participating in future OLA events! You can download the PDF […]
Good Systems+Great People+Delighted Customers = Great Business Results!
In the landscaping industry, we know that loyal customers are key to business success. Great landscape companies achieve this daily by finding ways to tune into customers’ voices each and everyday, and then take action on what they learn from each client interaction. Acting on feedback continuously ‘closes the loop’ between what the brand […]
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