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Led by Marty Grunder, The Grow Group is a premier consulting firm for green-industry professionals, providing innovative programming, peer-group and one-on-one coaching, and real-world resources to help business owners and their teams succeed. In addition to The Grow Group, Marty leads the team at Grunder Landscaping.

Are Your Systems Helping or Hurting Your Company?

It is without a doubt the busiest time of the year for most landscape professionals across the country, and during this busy time it's easy to become so focused on getting the work done that we move too quickly, make mistakes, and waste our precious time. Before we start another week, take a moment to slow down. For.

Help Your Team See What's Possible

It was great having a small group of success-minded landscape pros together for our Grunder Landscaping Co. Field Trip last week in Dayton, Ohio. We opened up our own home base to them to teach from, and we also learned some new tips and tricks ourselves. We love this event because it's small enough for us to really.

How Grunder Landscaping Gets New Team Members in the Door

It's starting to feel like spring in Dayton, Ohio and at Grunder Landscaping Co. our season is off to a strong start. We've known since December that one of our biggest priorities would be finding the team members we need to have a successful 2021, and have been working hard to recruit since the year began. As we.

How to Win the Day

Many of us are quickly approaching our busiest time of the year. Now is the time to buckle down and gear up. The old adage from Peter Drucker is "until you can manage time, you can manage nothing else." And as many of you heard me say at GROW! 2021 in New Orleans, being organized and prepared for success is a choice.

What We Learned in New Orleans

The Grow Group team is back home after a whirlwind week in New Orleans, where we (safely) welcomed hundreds of success-minded landscape pros from around the country to GROW! 2021. The camaraderie in the room was unbelievable and we were all thrilled to be able to come together in person as an industry again for this.

GROW! With Us This Week, No Matter Where You Are

Our Grow Group team is busy getting every last duck in a row in New Orleans before GROW! 2021 kicks off on Wednesday afternoon. For all those ambitious landscape pros who've signed up to join us, we've got a truly amazing event in store for you. Don't despair, if you aren't with us in person this week you can still.

What Makes Mullin So Successful

We're a week and a half away from GROW! 2021, which begins on February 24, and I am so looking forward to seeing this fantastic community of landscape pros in-person once again. What I am most looking forward to is sharing our tour of Mullin with attendees. Chase Mullin and his team are so talented, but also so.

Create Memorable Trainings for Your Team

I will say it until I'm blue in the face: training is an investment, not an expense. When your team stops learning, they stop growing and so does your company. If we want to grow our business, which we do at Grunder Landscaping Co., we must grow our people. Our goals for this year and the next few are ambitious, and.

Show Your Team Where You're Headed

Team Grunder is excited about the new year and the potential it holds for the company and the individuals who work there. The company is growing, with a larger backlog entering 2021 than we’ve ever had before, and our team understands that opportunities for their individual growth come along with that. This week in.