KM Grunder

As many of you know, I’m a proud graduate of the University of Dayton, if not one of the best students they’ve ever had. (Full disclosure: I graduated with a 2.2, but I’m pretty sure I was the only young person there simultaneously running a $400K business out of my dorm room, so, you know, pick your priorities.) In.

This past week, my partner at The Grow Group, Vince Torchia, and I headed down to Charlotte, NC, to do a run-through with the team at LOVING, our tour host next month at GROW! 2020. As one of the fastest-growing landscaping companies in the country, LOVING is well-known in our industry for their drive. Less well-known.

Even good CEOs and strong teams can veer off course if they fail to communicate. In this week’s Great Idea, Grow Group vice president Vince Torchia gives a quick preview of the tactics he and Seth Pflum, Grunder Landscaping’s general manager, will share next month at GROW! 2020 in their session, Stop the Madness: How.

For many of us, this is our first full week back at work after all the fun and excess of the holidays. It can be hard to get back into the swing of things, but if you’re serious about getting ahead in 2020, now is the time to buckle down and gear up. One of the challenges I hear about the most from the landscape.

As we wrap up 2019 and set our sights on 2020, it’s a good time to examine how well your company did financially this past year and where you’re headed in the months ahead. Was your revenue up, or was it down? Were your profits up, or were they down? Where do you want your numbers to be at the close of 2020? And what.

When I was in business school, one of my professors shared a story that has really stuck with me. Prior to teaching, he had worked for a company that supplied components for airplane engines. On one project he was tasked with scheduling the production of a part their client needed by a strict deadline. Carefully he.

We held our last event of 2019 this past week in Cincinnati, where some 30 highly engaged sales pros joined us for our $uper Sales Bootcamp. We spent the day assessing individual strengths and weaknesses, unique value propositions and ideal clients, and the systems and processes successful green-industry companies.

We just wrapped up our fourth and final Grunder Landscaping Co. Fall Field Trip of 2019 last week in Dayton. Over the last few months, we’ve welcomed more than 60 landscape pros from all over the country to GLC, where they’ve toured the facility, rifled through the drawers, and learned directly from the GLC leadership.

Hopefully you’ve emerged from your food-induced coma, survived the endless onslaught of Black Friday marketing, and fully recovered from all the fun and festivities with family and friends over the Thanksgiving holiday. Now we have just four weeks until we turn the page on 2019! It’s a busy time of year for everyone..

Last weekend, our local chapter of the Humane Society in Dayton held its fundraising gala. This annual event is popular because it’s a great cause and because attendees can bring their dogs or cats along with them, and if there’s one truth you can always count on it’s that people love their pets. We do too at Grunder.