At a time when work is plentiful and there are more job openings than people to fill them, it’s no surprise to anyone running a landscape company today that solving HR challenges is our industry’s biggest box to think out of.
For many companies, the disparity between demand and supply, and H-2B issues in particular, have been devastating.
Most of us easily acknowledge that hiring and training are critical components to running an effective business.
But despite our best intentions, the labor shortage has left some of us feeling vulnerable.
Having just completed the first round of peer group meetings for 2017 (seven groups and 40 companies representing nearly 80 leaders among them), one unifying takeaway from this sample has emerged: In each successful company, when faced with disruptive challenges such as these, there is a unifying consensus about mindset.
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