One of the most important connections a customer can have with you and your Garden Center is a sense of trust and dependability. And the most successful brands are those with well-established and well-known consistency in their products and services.
Dan Gingiss, our keynote speaker at The Fall Event 2025, told us...
When we were developing programming for The Fall Event 2025 and we connected with Dan Gingiss to present his Experience Maker message, I asked John Kennedy if Team Building could be dovetailed into the momentum of this message we wanted to create. He quickly said, "Absolutely... It's an easy bridge to build!"
What John created for us was this TeamWise program. Here's an overview of his message:
If you were with us at The Fall Event 2025, you may have seen me introduce all three Young Retailer of the Year Finalists for 2025. This was the very first year all three finalists were from Group Centers, and all three were with us at The Fall Event 2025. We traditionally offer all three finalists full registration to the upcoming Fall Event. The 2025 finalists shown here are:
Who is the RISING RETAIL STAR at your Center? Nominating them for this award could be an amazing experience for them and could also have a significant impact on your Center's future.
In the book, “The Four Disciplines of Execution,” the authors introduce the concept of a “WIG”—a Wildly Important Goal.
It is achieved by focusing on “Lead Measures” which, when combined, help you to reach your overall outcome (referred to as a “Lag Measure”). These three principles can be shared in a real -life example some of us go through at some point in our lives---getting into better shape.
Look at the faces above.
Just imagine, this could be your top management team some years from now.
Where does the idea... that really changes things begin? We could say it begins with a spark. A single thought. It might be called "the lightbulb moment". A quick search at Merriam-Webster defines spark as...
Spark - as a noun
Last month, I saw the news that Harris Rosen, founder of the Rosen Hotels & Resorts in the Orlando, Florida, area, passed away. That brought back thoughts and many memories of The Fall Event in 2015 and is the basis for this message. Harris was kind enough (and we were fortunate enough) to have him give The Group a personal welcome at the start of The Fall Event 2015. More about that a little later. But first, let me share what I have learned about Harris Rosen.
The Fall Event 2015 was in Orlando and our host hotel was the Rosen Plaza (one of three Rosen Hotels located in this area of International Drive), just across the street from the Orange County Convention Center, where The Landscape Show is held each year. The Landscape Show, produced by the Florida Nursery, Growers & Landscape Association (FNGLA), is a sister event to TPIE and serves the more general industry segments, more non-tropical, you might say. On the final day of The Fall Event 2015, participants were able to experience The Landscape Show.
It is easy to make light of or dismiss a single idea, no matter how small it may seem at the time. What we most likely don't see at the time is the potential impact of that idea.
It could appear just to be a SPARK of an Idea. And, if we are not paying attention, we may miss opportunities.
