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- JANUARY 18, 2025
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
2025 Resolutions for Horticulture Success: Planning, People, and Communication and Exit Planning Mirror Winning the Big Game For horticulture business owners, succession and exit planning emerged as a critical theme in the first-ever “2024 State of Succession and Exit Planning in the Horticulture Industry” survey…
- JANUARY 14, 2025
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
Why You Can’t Cut Corners in Horticulture Compensation and Benefits There are many human resource solutions for improving and maintaining talent flow. Yet, unfortunately, the reality is that there is no one magic answer that will fit all companies or their employees. Additionally, there is one topic to the equation that is often uncomfortable or sensitive to discuss — compensation….
- OCTOBER 19, 2024
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
How to Build a Self-Sufficient Team for Your Greenhouse Business Building and maintaining a capable internal management team is crucial to the long-term success and value of a business. Consistent communication with key personnel — whether they are family, employees, or potential successors — aligns everyone with the company’s goals and future plans…
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
How Succession and Exit Planning Mirror Winning the Big Game Succession and exit planning for business owners are strikingly similar. Just as a quarterback can’t win without a strong team, an owner can’t craft a successful exit strategy solo. Many owners are so wrapped up in running their day-to-day operations that they…
- June 6, 2024
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
Building Your Business With the End in Mind Stephen Covey coined the phrase, “Begin with the end in mind.” The 85-year-old owner refused to do it and couldn’t accept that exiting your business is inevitable. The real question is whether it will be by choice and on your terms or by chance and…
- May 4, 2024
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
What is Your End Game When it Comes to Owning Your Business? The horticulture industry has been rocked by the closure of several major growers in the past year. A few could have been avoided with proper succession and exit planning. Several didn’t plan and for others…
- March 2, 2024
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
What Does AI Mean to the Future of Human Resources in Horticulture? The future is now for generative AI (artificial intelligence), which can create new content and ideas and perform many job functions and will continue evolving in every industry and job title. We are fortunate that a smart group of horticulture professionals is helping educate how to utilize AI in…
- June 17, 2023
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
Why Emotional Intelligence Is Critical to the Horticulture Industry – The green industry struggles with labor shortages, costs, high turnover, productivity, and employee engagement continue— there has to be a better way. BEST’s own Paige Franks provides her insight into the importance of EQ and how it could be an answer…
- September 1, 2022
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
HR Professionals and Growers Offer Expert Advice on Labor Solutions – Everyone is talking about labor. If you’re a greenhouse grower, you know why. BEST’s own Michael Maggiotto will be participating in an upcoming series on labor hosted by “Greenhouse Grower” magazine, covering the topic of onboarding new employees…
- May 15, 2022
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
- December 1, 2021
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
- October 26, 2021
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
How the Right Succession Plan Can Add Value to Your Business. One of the key topics to be discussed at the GROW Executive Summit, which takes place Dec. 7-8 in Charlotte, NC, is succession planning, particularly how making the right decisions can add value to your business. While you’ve worked hard to build wealth and assets, sustaining them over the long term requires strategic succession planning. Join Chris Cimaglio and Todd Downing at the Summit…
- September 15, 2021
Article in GREENHOUSE PRODUCT NEWS (GPN)
Management — Making the Transition Do you have a strategy for the emotional side of career transition and exit planning? According to an Exit Planning Institute (EPI) report, over 75% of business owners who sell their business profoundly regret it within a year after the sale. Many owners end up grieving the loss of their business for years…
- September 13, 2021
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
How Greenhouse Growers Can Plan for Delays in the Supply Chain— According to Todd Downing, Managing Partner at BEST Human Capital, just about all suppliers have urged their customers to order earlier than ever…
- July 4, 2021
Article in GREENHOUSE GROWER Magazine
This Month’s Cover Story: Challenges and Solutions to the Timeless Greenhouse Labor Problem— “While our green industry is amazing, we are well behind compensation/benefit metrics offered by other industries, and thus continue to lose great talent to industries that provide more attractive compensation packages,” says Todd Downing, Managing Partner at Best Human Capital & Advisory Group…
- January 22, 2021
Article in GREENHOUSE PRODUCT NEWS (GPN)
Management: Who Wants To Be President? The horticulture industry needs more leaders to lead us into the future. To develop these new leaders, it is imperative both companies and individuals work together to establish career goals and a path for development.
