The past few years has been very tough on staffing. But not everyone is doing poorly. There are green industry companies out there that are fully staffed. How do they do it? They take both a strategic and a tactical approach. The #1 Staffing Strategy: Become A...
You can prevent employee burnout, but only if you are aware of the causes. Given our current go-go economy, I see an early trend of burnout already happening. When teams get super busy, unresolved issues become major disruptors. With no solution in sight, workers, and...
Here is a quick idea I have developed to help you supercharge employee referrals. Many of you incentivize employees to refer their friends. I am all for that! I have clients paying as much as a “dollar per hour” raise for up to 12 months when a key position is filled...
How do your employees know they have done a good job? This is a question I started and ended a recent peer group retreat for landscape entrepreneurs (photos below). I wanted them to think about it before we began our meeting, and to think about it right before they...
Do you know how many people you should have in your overhead for ideal growth? Last week I was in Detroit leading one of my high-impact peer group meetings. In the peer group meeting, I was asked, “Do I have too many or too few people in overhead?" I know the answer...
As Jack Nicholson barked at Tom Cruise in the movie A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!!" Or can you? My Summer Growth Summit During my Summer Growth Summit in August, I asked for feedback from attendees. And I got it. (Gulp.) (BTW, this Summit was my largest...
If you are middle aged, this is the strongest economy you will ever experience in your working lifetime. And if you are younger, this great economy will subside at some point… Either way—do not let it slip by. Take advantage, not just by adding more clients, but by...
Last week, during one of my Leader’s Edge Peer Group meetings, a longtime member (Scott Frampton, Landscape Renovations, MN) raised the question of how others are dealing with wage inflation? He asked if others were seeing employees threatening to leave for more...
The world seems to be lowering expectations in all corners - and only you can raise them. Your company can become a bulwark against complacency, where higher expectations become the celebrated norm. My sister Rebekah is a minister and consultant to the church. She...
I was asked recently to give feedback to Landscape Management Magazine on how to ensure that culture is more than a buzzword. Even though I wrote the book on this topic, Become A Destination Company ®, I wanted to gather fresh anecdotes from my clients on how they...
