Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Transition from SOLO to a TEAM in lawn care 👨🏻‍✈️

24 May 2023 · 0 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube transcript (creator: Mike Andes) discussing challenges when a lawn-care business owner moves from solo work to managing employees. Key issues: coordinating work, maintaining productivity, and pay-for-performance (P4P) causing slower pace as employees aim to maximize hours earned. The speaker notes the owner has ~45–50 customers after six weeks, creating new operational pressures.

Here's the deal. Going to meet with a gm. He's got employees, which is a whole new dynamic for when you go from solo to having multiple employees. Now it becomes a scramble to get work. Got to get work. Got to get work. Got to get work. He's got about 45, 50 customers, which is fantastic in six weeks. The struggle is now it's a P4P issue. They're not quite as fast. They're not hitting P4P. Their thought is, well, I really got to get hours, so I'll just go slow.