1/6 Intensive Ecological Design Workshop: Position your Practice to 7.0 PDH LA Meet Emerging Demand 1/6 9:00 AM Built to Last: Dry Laid Walls & Outcrops 6.0 PDH LA 1/6 Diving Into Irrigation Landscape Installation- Intensive Hands-On 6.0 PDH LA 9:00 AM Workshop Using Ornamental Grasses in Designs that Thrive Landscape or Hardscape Design: Easy to Use 3D Tools to Wow & Upsell Customers Installation Techniques for Small & Large Segmental Retaining Walls Pesticide Safety, Calibration Basics and Proper Application 5D s: The Keys to Successful Design Build Sales 4.0 PDH LA OSHA Standards Review: Top Concerns for Landscape, Horticultural and Tree Service Companies Cost-based Estimating for Projects & Maintenance How to be Competitive and Make a Profit: What a Concept! Landscape Lighting: Marketing & Installation Guidelines What's Killing the Lawns? Expanding the Plant Palette and Vision of Landscape Designers and Architects How Plant Pest Laws Affect the Nursery & Landscape Industries The Future of the Green Industry Pond, Fountain or Pond-Free: What's the water feature your customer really wants? The State of Science & Practice: Using Urban Trees for Stormwater Control Climbing the Walls: Discover the Value of Vines Pruning: Overgrown SPDH LA ubs & Keeping Trees Small Manage, Motivate & Prepare your Build/Install Team to Generate Winning Projects Tree Climbing Equipment, Systems & Industry Standards
Tree Law & Liability Part 1: Basic and Advanced Concepts Costing and Financial Management: Identify Issues and Optimize Profit New & Underused Perennials 12:30 PM Basic Chainsaw Maintenance & Operations 1:30 PM Mariani Method: Satisfied clients and associates 1:30 PM Porous Paving Materials - Storm Water Management, Erosion Control & Safety 1:30 PM Tree Law Part 2: Contract Forms for Arborists, Landscape and Tree Professionals 1:30 PM Low, Mid & High Tunnels: Options to Expand Production & Product Mix 1:30 PM Tree Trends: Growing Market-Oriented Trees and Maximizing Sales 1:30 PM Ornamental & Native Grasses for Today s Garden 1:30 PM Managing Personalities and Processes not the People 1:30 PM How I Built a Strong Career and a Profitable Nursery 1:30 PM Managing Insects & Mites in Nurseries: Modes of Action & Application Techniques 2:45 PM Setting Goals to Achieve your Business Plan 2:45 PM Manganese Deficiency: Diagnose and treatments for lawns and spdh LA ubs 2:45 PM Basic Tree Felling 2:45 PM Improving your Cash Flow CESnon 2:45 PM Retail should be More than Pretty: How One-stop Shopping can Increase the average Sale and help Customers Succeed 2:45 PM Managing Pests that Follow Plants from the Greenhouse into the Landscape 2:45 PM Does your Insurance cover the Work you do? Are you Certain? 4:00 PM Simple, Successful Garden Design 4:00 PM Tricks and tools of an artist in landscape design
4:00 PM Shrubganza 4:00 PM Integrated Pest Management in the Design Garden 4:00 PM A Beginner's Guide to Social Media & Brand Recognition You Say More than You Think: How-to Make Every Moment with Clients more Profitable! Snow & Ice: Equipment Selection and Maintenance for Best Performance Non-Stop Garden Create a Destination Company: How to Find, Attract & Retain great Employees Hazard/Technical Cutting Techniques with a Chainsaw Fundamentals of Leadership & Coaching Tree Injection Best Practices 1.0 PDH Soil Science and Tree Biology - Their Critical Relationship to Healthy Trees You Can t Lie to Me: Communication Strategies that Increase Confidence, Customer Satisfaction & the Bottom Line! Laws & Liabilities: Key Concepts Independent Contractors & Business Entities Must Understand Retail business is show business! Tending the Landscape: Diagnosing and Handling Problems Can your Maintenance Shop Survive and OSHA Inspection? Is Chemical a Dirty Word? IPM for Sensitive Environments Edible Ornamentals: The Marriage between Use and Beauty We all Want the Same Thing Better Construction, Collaboration & Communication Exits are Inevitable: Prepare & Complete a Successful Exit or Succession Understanding & Managing your Energy Costs Herbicides and Turfgrass How to Develop Effective Weed Control Programs & Answer Client FAQ's 12:30 PM Basic Tree Rigging
1:00 PM Introduction to Construction of Permeable Pavements 1:30 PM Irrigation Service Technicians: Training Intensive & Test Preparation - Part 2 2:30 PM Neonicotinoid Update: Public Perception, Law Review & Best Practice Tips 2:30 PM Water Feature Remedies: Cloudy H2O, Pump Issues and Leaks 2:30 PM Rain Gardens: Stormwater Control & Environmental Benefits Homeowner Want 2:30 PM Designing Containers that WOW!! 2:30 PM Trees, Nurseries and Specifications: Shifting Practices & Paradigms 2:30 PM What are the Factors that Drive the Value of your Business? 2:30 PM Emergency Preparedness & High Angle Rescue Techniques: Part 1 4:00 PM Sustainable Turf Mgmt. - Using the 4R Principles of Nutrient Management 4:00 PM Nursery Plants Behaving Badly: New Add-on to Invasive Plant Lists 4:00 PM An Advanced Guide to Social Media & Brand Recognition 4:00 PM When good chemical go bad: Imprelis and other herbicide disasters 4:00 PM Project Tracking & Predictive Maintenance 4:00 PM Unique events that will turn your business inside out! 4:00 PM Complementary Design: Embracing Nature Inside and Out Ohio ALB Eradication Project & Early Detection of Exotic Tree Pests Estimating Labor & Materials for Segmental Concrete Pavements Design Faster - Sell More Green Walls & Roofs: Infusing Nature into the Urban Environment TRUST Selling: Sales Training for Your Whole Team! 2.5 PDH LA CESnon What Women want from their Landscaper!
Insecticide Use in Nursery, Greenhouse and Landscape Settings Deer Resistant Landscapes: Plant Selection and Seasonal Deterrents Capture High Margin Sales with Abundant Container Garden Displays Roadmap for Success: A Case Study in Business Transformation CESnon A Beginner's Guide to Social Media & Brand Recognition The Art of Stone Construction: Walls, Outcrops, Paving and Ponds Tree Risk Assessment Snow & Ice: Liquids - Save Money and Grow your Profits Did you just Plant Weeds in a Rain Garden? Job Market Visibility & Preparedness: LinkedIn, Resumes, 10:00 AM Interviews and Offers 10:45 AM How to Sell & Market Concrete Pavers 1.5 PDH 10:45 AM State & National Legislative Update Panel Hardscape Trends: Concrete Overlay, Segmental Pavement and 10:45 AM Heat 10:45 AM Elements of Consistent, Enviable Customer Service CESnon 10:45 AM Tree Planting: What Matters and Why? Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens - Designing & Maintaining Public and 10:45 AM Historic Landscapes 12:30 PM Rope Splicing 2:00 PM Taking Root, Confronting Historic Tree Losses by Planting 2 Million by 2020 2:00 PM An Advanced Guide to Social Media & Brand Recognition 2:00 PM Invasive, Naturalized, and Non-Native Do you See Any Difference?