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Efficiency Ratings: What is it? How do I calculate and use it?
FromThe GROW! Show
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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Welcome to The Grow Show podcast, brought to you by The Grow Group. Led by your host, Marty Grunder, The Grow Group is a premier coaching and education firm for landscape professionals, providing innovative events, peer groups, and real-world resources to help business owners and their teams succeed.
In each episode of The Grow Show, we’ll share ideas, tips, tactics, and insights that will help you grow your landscaping business. In today’s episode, Marty discusses all things efficiency - your budgeted hours vs. actual hours worked. You’ll hear how this is calculated, what it means to have a good or bad rating, and which industry-focused software helps you keep track.
Discussion Points:
Efficiency ratings - what they are, how they’re calculated
Looking at some actual numbers
Capturing the numbers - Aspire or Element software for the landscaping industry
Budgeted vs. actual hours at Grunder
A great efficiency rating speaks volumes about a well-run company
Subscribe so you don’t miss our next episode
The Grow Show podcast is sponsored by Stihl Tools and brought to you by The Grow Group - a leading coaching and education firm for landscape professionals. Your host is Marty Grunder, president and CEO of The Grow Group and Grunder Landscaping Co., one of the most successful design-build operations of its kind in the Midwest. The company has earned more than 50 local and national design awards and is a two-time winner of the Better Business Bureau’s Eclipse Integrity Award. Marty Grunder has been named ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by both Ernst & Young and the US Small Business Administration. He is the author of The 9 Super Simple Steps to Entrepreneurial Success, has coached tens of hundreds of landscaping professionals and companies, and is a sought-after speaker in the industry. Marty also writes a column for Landscape Management and The Buckeye magazines.
Resources:
The Grow Group
Grunder Landscaping
GROW! Conference Feb 2024
Marty Grunder LinkedIn
Stihl USA
In each episode of The Grow Show, we’ll share ideas, tips, tactics, and insights that will help you grow your landscaping business. In today’s episode, Marty discusses all things efficiency - your budgeted hours vs. actual hours worked. You’ll hear how this is calculated, what it means to have a good or bad rating, and which industry-focused software helps you keep track.
Discussion Points:
Efficiency ratings - what they are, how they’re calculated
Looking at some actual numbers
Capturing the numbers - Aspire or Element software for the landscaping industry
Budgeted vs. actual hours at Grunder
A great efficiency rating speaks volumes about a well-run company
Subscribe so you don’t miss our next episode
The Grow Show podcast is sponsored by Stihl Tools and brought to you by The Grow Group - a leading coaching and education firm for landscape professionals. Your host is Marty Grunder, president and CEO of The Grow Group and Grunder Landscaping Co., one of the most successful design-build operations of its kind in the Midwest. The company has earned more than 50 local and national design awards and is a two-time winner of the Better Business Bureau’s Eclipse Integrity Award. Marty Grunder has been named ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by both Ernst & Young and the US Small Business Administration. He is the author of The 9 Super Simple Steps to Entrepreneurial Success, has coached tens of hundreds of landscaping professionals and companies, and is a sought-after speaker in the industry. Marty also writes a column for Landscape Management and The Buckeye magazines.
Resources:
The Grow Group
Grunder Landscaping
GROW! Conference Feb 2024
Marty Grunder LinkedIn
Stihl USA
Released:
Apr 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (51)
Operations: Set Your Team Up for Efficient Work from the Start: Efficiency is the name of the landscaping game, and creating a smart site plan is step one. In this episode, Marty Grunder details how they plan their work for Grunder Landscaping crews so that they can arrive onsite and get to work quickly. Discussion Points: The old adage, “All planning is good” Planning - the great differentiator A story about a poor morning rollout in Dallas Finding and keeping talent - the number one problem The little things that help any landscaping job Team and Group Leaders partnering with production Planning the night before for morning rollouts Biggest wastes of time Streamlined loading process and plant labeling LandscapeHub and SiteOne GPS monitoring of your trucks Reward and incentivize the behavior you want Study others who do well- visit your peer companies Join us in Des Moines at the GROW Conference Feb 2024 The Grow Show podcast is sponsored by STIHL and brought to you by The Grow Grou by The GROW! Show