July 2024

What Does a Good Day Look Like for Your Lawn and Landscape Business?

Have you ever sat down and thought about what a good day looks like for your company?

You know what the bad days look like. Employees don’t show up for work. A truck or mower refuses to start. An infuriated client calls. Materials are late for a job you’re already behind on. The list can go on and on of all the ways your workday can go wrong.

Knowing what a good day looks like in your operations does two things – it helps pinpoint areas for improvement and highlights just how many days actually are going well. As humans, we have to deal with negativity bias, where we notice the bad more readily and tend to dwell on these events as well.

Defining Your Good Day

It sounds incredibly simple to define a good day. You just don’t want anything to go wrong. For that to happen operationally, you have to be a well-oiled machine.

Think through how often projects are being completed on schedule. Are employees working efficiently? How often is equipment downtime impacting your team’s ability to work? Working efficiently helps ensure your days are good because you’re able to execute to budget.
Also, consider how frequently accidents or near misses occur in your business. If your team isn’t being safe, then your good days are probably few and far between.

In your ideal workday, you’d also probably like your customers to be satisfied with the services provided and happy enough to leave a review. Consider the quality of work your team currently provides and if it warrants that kind of response from a client. If you think you’ve earned it, don’t be afraid to ask for positive feedback on your business’s social accounts.

Sometimes you might not have a good day as a whole, but there are still good things that happened throughout it you should celebrate. This could be as simple as learning something new. It’s often said the day you stop learning is when you begin decaying.

Other wins could include bringing on new talent, hearing and giving words of appreciation, and simply making an impact by helping an employee progress in their career.

Flumishield^® SC Herbicide

Flumishield SC is a non-selective, pre- and post-emergent herbicide that provides long-lasting residual control of grass and broadleaf weeds.

Features & Benefits:

• Broad spectrum pre-emergent and post-emergent weed control
• Long residual pre-emergent control in beds and bare ground areas
• Mix with glyphosate or glufosinate for quick knockdown with residual control in and around established landscape plants
• Labeled for many sites
• Provides pre- and post- control of Poa annua and winter annual broadleaf weeds on dormant bermudagrass

Item #921292 – 8 fl. oz; 12/case

Item #921293 – 64 fl. oz; 4/case

For pricing and delivery options contact your salesperson.

3-D Foam Aerosol Herbicide Broadleaf Weed Control Dandelion Clover Chickweed Dollarweed Rainfast in 30 Minutes

• EFFECTIVE: Powered by a 3-way combination of active ingredients: 2,4-D,mecoprop-p, and dicamba for dependable broadleaf weed control. Rainproof in 30 minutes.
• USE SITES: For use as a spot treatment on ornamental turf, golf courses, cemeteries, parks, sports fields, turfgrass, lawns, fence rows, hedge rows, ditches, right-of-ways, around buildings, driveways, sidewalks, cartpaths, pavers, patios, retaining walls, and other similar areas where broadleaf weeds may grow.

Item #921304 – 15oz

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“Great teams care more. They care more about their effort, their work, and their team members”

—Jon Gordon