Creating realistic growth goals is the foundation to your long term success. One of the biggest challenges we have as landscape professionals is truly understanding the growth process and then thereafter; planning the growth process. We often allow our competitive market to grow the business vs. the business owner implementing sound growth strategies. The growth […]
Growing Means Learning to Work On Your Business Not In It
I’ve learned something on the road to being a business owner and leadership executive. As we all know, in business, there are two roles in an organization for an owner, where an owner works on the business, develops the systems and processes, fosters relationships, creates sales, and builds the company as they see fit. Then […]
The 4 Basics to Growing Your Business
Each of these specific areas of focus is the most important to the business’s success, and they all must work together, but at any given time, one usually needs more attention than the others. This is especially true in a growing business since, as you well know, different parts of a business often grow at […]
What Makes People, People
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?
Our Economy and the Employment Picture
This solution is much more than a few How-To steps. This requires systematizing the business on a platform that automates the routine and allows people to use intelligence to do the job or run the business. What are essentials?
