The month of April is dedicated to the importance and impact of consistency. From driving the customer experience to the art and science of plant health, ensure that your team sets standards to drive consistency in every aspect of the month.
On the side of every law enforcement vehicle in America is the simple phrase---to protect and to serve.
Greetings to all Clients of the Garden Center Group.
There are three types of change that we come up against in our lives: "change by crisis", "change by drift" and "change by design". In the approach to succession planning, our industry has witnessed many unfortunate and tragic stories of “Change by Crisis”. I have known four green industry owners that have suddenly passed away (I’m sure we all know a tragic handful or more as well), and we all continue to pray for their families.In the case of sudden death, the company is forced to “react” to the need for immediate transition and often times finds itself ill-prepared for the task. Who is going to run the business? What is the financial health of the business? Will it remain in the family (are the kids interested in taking over)? Which employees might step up or step in? And finally, can we survive such a loss of this great magnitude?
As we near the end of the magic “100 days of Spring” in our garden center industry, the three short months of “driving dough”, or as the Stones kinda sang “I see a red ledger and I want to paint it black”, it’s a good time to sharpen your strategic tools and deliver every revenue-generating opportunity you possibly can.
When 60-70% of your revenue is generated in such an abbreviated amount of time, every activity, every step, every touch, every strategy matters.
In this post-recession era, where "wants-based" spending has been rapidly returning to our economy, now more than ever garden centers should be investing in my word of the year for 2016--alignment.
Three years ago the word(s) of the year were trade up! Two years ago, the word of the year was separate! Last year it was consistency and this year it's alignment.
We want to extend a big Group Welcome to John Kennedy, our newest addition to our Service Providers. John is an international strategist, author and speaker driving cultural shift and change within businesses and associations in our green industry. He has worked with some our Clients already - Dambly's Garden Center, Ray Wiegand's Garden Center, and Rockledge Gardens, as well as scores of others throughout the world. Welcome John! Here's John's first "share" here in GROUPtalk...
Our green industry is ripe with family-based businesses. Insights and ideas that have been passed down through the vines linking one generation to the next become the new innovations of our industry for the future.
