Workshops
Whether you're planning a staff meeting, trade show or conference, we're able to provide valuable information and a great experience for your attendees.
Current Workshops
Listed below are our current workshops. These workshops can be adjusted to fit your time allotment. We can also create customized workshops based on topics of your choice. Contact us for more information.
Build a Better Business
INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND PROFIT
This training workshop will help business owners learn what tools and best practices can be implemented immediately to help make their business better, more efficient and more profitable.
Give & Take
SMALL GROUP INTERACTIVE SEMINAR
GIVE & TAKE is an exciting small-group forum for the exchange of ideas, expertise and best practices. You will be able to ask questions about issues that you're facing as well as provide feedback to the others. You will walk away with ideas, information and specific steps to implement in your business.
Embrace Your Inner Geek
TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
Most landscapers are technicians, not techies. But technology has provided a vast array of tools to help business owners and their staff operate faster, easier and more efficiently. In this seminar, you'll be introduced to programs and apps that will help you become more effective and efficient, as well as tips for implementing technology your operation.
Let It Snow!
TACTICAL SNOW PLANNING
Drawing on his 25+ years of experience with snow operations, Grant talks about equipment purchasing and maintenance, health and safety training, standard operating procedures, recruiting and training, route management, site engineering and preparation, customer engagement and contract renewals, and budgeting and strategic planning.
Shut the Back Door
RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION
One of the greatest struggles for business owners is finding and keeping great staff. In this seminar, you'll be given practical tips and tools to help find the right person for the right role, and keep them.
How to Get Employees to Think Like Owners
OPEN BOOK MANAGEMENT
“A company performs best when its people see themselves as partners in the business rather than as hired hands"*. Open Book Management gives employees relevant information about the company so they can make better decisions as workers. In this seminar you'll learn the basics of OBM and how to start implementing it into your business.
*John Case, who coined the phrase “open book management”
Show Me the Money!
BILLING AND COLLECTIONS BEST PRACTICES
Prompt and accurate billing is essential in the snow industry. Explore how technology can assist your A/R team to generate and collect payments, and how implementing process management with a strong communication plan may help in timely payments. If all else fails, what should your collections process look like?
Stuck in Neutral
OVERCOMING PLATEAUS IN BUSINESS
Plateaus are to be expected, and can often be anticipated as they generally happen at certain milestones. Learn how to anticipate, navigate and overcome these plateaus to move your business to greater heights.
From Good to Great
DEVELOPING GREAT CREW LEADERS
Great crew leaders have the ability to help you grow your business and increase profitability.
Attendees will learn what it means to be a great crew leader, what differentiates a great crew leader from a good crew leader, and what it takes to develop great crew leaders in your company.
To Brine or Not to Brine
AN OVERVIEW OF LIQUID BRINE
An introduction to liquid brine for owners and operations managers looking to invest in brine in their winter operations.
Is Money Slipping Through Your Fingers?
BUSINESS FINANCIALS FOR OWNERS
A full-day workshop for the owner who wants to know or understand their business financials better, including benchmarking their business against industry averages. We discuss budgets, profit and loss, balance sheets, tax planning, and how to create profit outside of operations.
Building Lasting Wealth Within Your Company
FOR OWNERS
A workshop for owners who have a profitable operational company but are looking for other ways the business can create profit/wealth outside the operation of the business. We also discuss the many options for owners who are looking to exit their business.
Contractor's Guide to Financial Success
FINANCIAL BENCHMARKING
We'll answer the "why" and "how" of budgets, teach you to read and interpret a profit and loss statement and balance sheet, identify what numbers you should be watching, explain why tax planning is so important, and discuss industry averages/benchmarking.
Landscape Management Software
SOFTWARE OVERVIEW
A look at the different software options for managing your landscape business. Pros and cons of each option are presented, along with target markets.
Profit Works
EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE PROGRAMS
A overview of the book Proft Works by Alex Freytag and Tom Bouwer. We unravel the complexity of incentive plans to increase employee productivity, cultivate an engaged workforce, and maximize your company's potential.
Crucial Conversations
TOOLS FOR TALKING WHEN STAKES ARE HIGH
Do you postpone difficult conversations with staff or clients? Have you ever wondered why some people don't mind having hard conversations? This seminar will highlight the importance of having hard conversations as well as the damage that can be done when they are ignored. This seminar is full of practical advice and tools to help you succeed at crucial conversations.
What Gets Measured Gets Managed
UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTING KPIs
Do you wonder how you should be measuring your team's success? What metrics should you be holding them accountable to? We will discuss the importance of measuring everyone in your organization, provide specific measuring tools, discuss the benefits of including KPIs in your business and how measurement can become a tool for recruitment.
Slip & Fall Readiness
PROTECTING YOURSELF AGAINST A CLAIM
Slip and fall readiness and the ability to defend yourself in the event of a claim starts and stops at good documentation. In this session, we will review the documents you should be keeping and the information you should be recording. This session will set your mind at ease about slip and falls.
What's It Worth to You?
EVALUATING YOUR COMPANY'S WORTH
A discussion for owners about the value of their company, private equity purchases and how they work, how to determine your company's value to a potential purchaser, and how to make your business more attractive (and more profitable) for potential buyers.
Contact Grant Today
Contact Grant to discuss the details of your next event and how he can help make it valuable, informative and enjoyable for your attendees.
