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
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?
From Hell to Heaven, the Life of a Landscape Business Owner…
When loading myself into the F-250 this morning, I had a short list of goals to achieve today. They went a little something like this: (1) Go to work happy, go home happy, look forward to returning to work happy tomorrow. (2) Hope for a smooth morning start-up of my twenty-two landscape crews. (3) Hoping […]
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?
Head Trash, How Much Information Is too Much Information?
After years of thinking I knew it all, (never know too much) today, I heard a new term from a potential client. During my discovery call he said to me and I quote…”Steven, I’ve spent in excess of $ 50,000.00 with on-going consulting, countless educational seminars, webinars and listening to endless industry nameless […]
