The Grow Group

Is Your Company Culture Attracting Workers?

Is Your Company Culture Attracting Landscaping Workers? Our GROW! 2023 tour hosts, Summit Landscape & Design, have made a name for themselves within the industry for their fun and unique company culture. We have had a great opportunity to get to know them over the years as ACE Peer Group members and "unique" is an.

How Do You Handle Bad Days?

What Should Landscape Pros Do When They Have a Bad Day? During our Ask Marty Anything event this past summer, ACE Peer Group Member George Kennedy from Terra-scape Enterprises asked us: What was the worst day of your professional career in the last 40 years? What did you do to overcome it? What did you do to prevent.

Find Some Relief from Growing Pains

How Do You Treat Growing Pains at a Landscaping Company? At Grunder Landscaping Co., we've nearly doubled our revenue in the past two years and in some ways have doubled our stressors too. We know we are not alone in this. Many of our ACE Peer Group companies are going through this same thing, and it's a natural part.

How Do You Test New Ideas

How Do You Know Your Business Idea Will Work? At Grunder Landscaping, we've put intentionality and careful planning behind some big expansions we're continuing in 2022. I know we're still firing away at our 2022 goals, but as you look ahead to 2023 I wanted to outline what we're doing to scale up while exploring new.

What Should a CEO Do in a Day?

The Role of a Landscaping Company's CEO Over the summer, we hosted a free, live event and gave our followers a chance to submit any questions they had for our team and I answered as many as I could in the hour we had together. There were many questions we didn't have a chance to get to, but they were still good.

What Does a Manager Do in a Day?

The Role of a Grunder Landscaping Co Group Leader At Grunder Landscaping Co., our production team is set up with team members who report to team leaders who in turn report to group leaders. We have three group leaders who oversee the work that all crews do, and their jobs are critically important to the success of the.

Don't Overcomplicate Efficiency

How Landscaping Companies Can Build Up Cash At Grunder Landscaping Co., I have been known to overcomplicate things. In my quest to be perfect, I have sometimes asked for too many things to be tracked or for too many processes to be created to satisfy my quest for knowledge and data.

Cash is Still King

How Landscaping Companies Can Build Up Cash Over the last month, we have had many of our Summer ACE Peer Group meetings. It's always a great time to reconnect, prioritize, and get a game plan for success for the rest of the year.

How Grunder Landscaping Keeps Trucks Clean

How Grunder Landscaping Co. Keeps Their Trucks Clean Our jobs as landscape professionals are messy: we spend days outside in the elements, digging through dirt and mulch. It's part of why we like this work so much. There's something so satisfying in seeing the end result of what we can make and build. It also means it.

Do Your Crews Have the Right Equipment With Them?

Do Your Landscaping Crews Have the Right Equipment With Them? Some of the most common questions we get asked at The Grow Group are about organization and trucks and equipment. This week, we're talking both.