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Depending on your needs, consultations range from phone, fax, and e-mail communication to multiple day in-office visits to your company. In a consultation, our industry experts work with you to develop problem solving models and strategic plans to achieve the immediate as well as long-term goals of you and your company. Last year alone we worked with over 150 landscape companies through workshops and private consultations and presented 109 seminars to the construction industry with, over 60 of them in the Green Industry, on these very topics.

Nature of just a few of the projects we've worked on:

Estimating & bidding systems	Labor costing & burden
Equipment costing	General conditions
Overhead	Profit
Managing & tracking jobs	Business growth
Downsizing	Marketing
Internal systems analysis	Sales training
Foreman selection, hiring & retention	Employee selection, hiring & retention
Business valuation	Work flow analysis
Time management	Interpersonal skills
Spanish translation training	Managing change
Personality types	Communication

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Audiences we work with:

Owners/operators	Executives/managers
Trainers	Sales persons and managers
Administrators	Maintenance staff
Service personnel	Administrative staff
Clerical support	Technical staff
Technical staff	Field employees

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Delivery techniques used:

Seminars small group	Manuals / booklets self-paced learning
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator	Job / training aids
On-the-job training	Simulation
Role playing - case study	Group presentations

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