Lawn Care Service and Landscaping Books to Help Manage and Run a Successful Landscape Business

Entry Level Training - Landscapers - This book trains new hires & seasonal help and avoids you having to explain the basics over and over each season. It covers materials, commonly used tools, equipment, safety, vehicle use, hazardous substances, work practices, attire, customer relations, personal behavior, terms and definitions, and question/answer review.

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Price: $39.50

Crew Leader Training - Landscapers Overcome the difficulty of unsupervised jobs. Train your workers to accept responsibility and you'll probably increase business. This is a step-by-step approach designed for the employee with little or no supervisory experience. Covers task management, what owners need from crew leaders, how to win respect and get cooperation from peers, planning the work, getting it done! Overseeing the equipment, goal setting, Question/Answer review.

Training In Pruning And Planting - Covers everything workers need to know to properly install and prune shrubs and trees. Shows how, when, why to prune. Explains the tools, how to prevent damage, planting methods, staking and guying, mulching, transporting stock, thinning, forming, shaping, and pinching. Best times to prune flowering species. Question/Answer review.

Employees, Find Them, Keep Them
This book is going to make it a lot easier for you to locate and hire the people you need. Has employee "hunting" strategies, how and where to find prospects, what to offer ... wages, incentives, interviewing & selection, motivation, how to prevent the competition from hiring away your help. How to develop crew leaders & foreman, strategies to prevent employees from leaving to start their own businesses.

Keys To Motivating Employees - This book focuses on the unique challenges of motivating seasonal, temporary and key people. Discusses why some people work hard, others don't. Why a paycheck alone is a poor motivator. Tactics to use in your company to promote team players, get better production, and create interest in a job where none exists.

How To Be A Great Boss! - Ever wonder how employees like you as a "boss"? Highly respected, well liked? How they perceive you is key to your success in today's labor market. This report examines easily misunderstood concepts of attitudes, work ethics, and self esteem that can make or break your business. You can either "turn them on" or "turn them off" by what you do and say.

Subcontracting the Work - This book shows & tells everything you ever wanted to know about subcontracting your work to others and being a subcontractor to others. The ins and outs of partnering jobs, legal requirements, how to make money on others, limit your risks, protect customer contacts, forms & agreements, qualifying your partners, performance guarantees, insurance concerns, covenants not to compete, lien waivers, ... all about "owning the work" but not "doing the work" and how to profit from the growing trend in subcontracting.