Great Idea: Three Tips to Manage the Busy Season

It's the GROW-ing season, folks!

Great Idea: Key to Success in Strategic Planning

Happy last day of 2023!

Great Idea: Is Your Team Ready for Snow Season?

On Halloween, the first flurries of the season fell on trick-or-treaters in Dayton, and reminded us all that winter is coming and our first snow event is just around the corner.

Great Idea: Keep Your Engines Running

How a Monday Morning Safety Check Can Make Your Landscaping Team More Efficient Our team minimizes downtime and maximizes efficiency by staying on top of the maintenance needs for our trucks and equipment. We do not have a full-time mechanic on staff, but we do have a Fleet Manager who manages simple maintenance and.

Great Idea: Get on Properties to Sell More Enhancements

Selling enhancement work drives up your revenue per property, which can be a great thing for your company's profitability. But how do you find more enhancement work? What do you look for?

Do Your Systems Help Your Team?

What Leadership Teams Can Do To Make Systems that Work for Their Landscaping Team You've probably heard me poke fun at myself for the amount of systems we've had at Grunder Landscaping Co. At one time, we had a written process for replacing the paper towels in the bathroom. We were writing out exactly how we wanted.

How Do You Overcome a Language Barrier When Training?

How Landscaping Companies Can Overcome a Language Barrier When Training Their Team Did you know that PowerPoint has a translation feature built into it?

What is a Leader?

We often get asked by attendees at our Grunder Landscaping Co. how we get our team members to keep our trucks clean

Continued Education, Continued Improvement

At The Grow Group and at Grunder Landscaping Co., we believe the secret to success lies within constantly trying to improve and get better at what we do. Finding efficiencies within our landscaping businesses, following trends in design and maintenance, investing in training for our teams, and capitalizing on the.

Better Understand Your Profitability

When we start talking about financial benchmarks, you’ll often hear me say “it depends.” Different companies allocate costs in different ways and different business mixes have different benchmarks for success which means you can't always compare apples to apples. While we do this for some of the metrics we look at and.