Need Help Setting The Right Labor Price? Start By Understanding Your Labor Costs
Setting the right labor rates for your landscaping business can be daunting. Doing it correctly means weighing a number of factors, researching labor trends in the industry, and finding the right tools and resources to support the rate-setting process. Not only that, you must be willing to engage with this process over and over again as your business and industry trends change over time.
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Should Landscape Business Owners Pay Top Dollar for Employees?
Industries across the country are being hit hard by the pandemic fallout and landscape businesses are included. Many owners are desperate for help – almost any help – to relieve the stress and risk that comes with too ...
Great landscape employees are found by using these 5 steps to avoid bad hires
Finding the right talent to fill critical roles in a landscape company is tough enough in normal times, but when you throw in a pandemic environment into the mix, it can be downright impossible. As a result, owners are ...
4 Strategic Steps to Recruiting and Retaining a Quality Landscape Team
As a nation, we are currently experiencing a strangely dynamic employment environment filled with both opportunity and anxiety for employers and employees alike. It is an atmosphere of extremes – there are lots of jobs ...
Finding and Retaining Talent in the Landscape Industry
There’s an old saying, “You can’t find good help these days,” that for many in the green landscape industry seems to be especially true. The triple whammy of a low unemployment rate, rising wages, and a generally ...
Putting Your Knowledge on Paper: Why Are Landscape SOPs so Valuable?
All companies – landscaping businesses included – can run into problems when they don’t have a clear plan of action and a set of standards for any given task. If workers don’t know what to do and have no way of ...
How the 2019 Landscape Season Taught Me to Be a Better Boss
There is an interesting organizational dynamic that most companies, including landscaping businesses, experience: leadership perception. There is often a fundamental disconnect between how we, as bosses, think we lead ...
How to Avoid These 5 Ginormous Landscape Leadership Mistakes
As an owner, fessing up to missteps in business building and management is hard. When you know something isn’t going well in your operational systems or with your personnel, it’s easy to stand back and put your head in ...
How To Get The Best Out Of Your Landscape Employees
That familiar lament of landscape business owners and managers – “you just can’t get good help these days” – is more myth than reality. The truth is, there’s plenty of good help out there and workers who really do want ...
Five Tools for Cultivating a Compassionate Culture in Your Business
As a landscape business owner with over 30 years in the business, I know that our employees are more important than any truck, piece of equipment, or account. Without them, we cannot hope to reach our business growth ...
How do landscape employees choose the company to work for?
As a landscape business owner and consultant, the biggest challenge I hear about from other landscape company owners is how hard it is to find good help. Many landscape business owners are simply shooting in the dark to ...
3 Critical Tools You Should Be Using When Hiring Subcontractors
The use of subcontractors is a time-honored means for landscape designers and contractors to control overhead and keep operations lean and mean. But subcontractors can be a double-edged sword that can work for you or ...
5 Reasons why you need to invest in ALL your employees
Every business seems to have one or two employees who stand out. They’re the ones who show up early and stay late. They’re focused on doing the best job possible and are always looking for ways to improve. These are the ...
How To Find The Perfect People For Your Landscape Organization
There is no question that the landscape industry is a people business. As an owner, you have to build relationships with clients and hire the right employees who can interface with them to maintain and grow those ...
What Type of Landscape Team Should You Build?
How to hire good employees is one of the top three major issues I hear about over and over again from other landscape business owners. Hiring in the landscape industry tends to be a knee-jerk reaction to an immediate ...