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Back to EpisodesEfficiency Ratings: What is it? How do I calculate and use it?
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
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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.
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