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

Why I promoted a new employee after only six months 🎒➡️💼

29 Mar 2023 · 0 min

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Short YouTube interview (Mike Andes with employee Dylan Garcia) about Dylan's rapid promotion to general manager at Augusta Lawn Care Services' Bellingham location. Dylan describes minimal prior experience (mainly doing his own lawn) and early responsibilities (training people, doing estimates). Mike emphasizes the company's promotion criteria—willingness to learn and leadership potential—and notes Dylan became GM at a $1.5M location despite being 19.

Questions this video answers

General manager

Bellingham location

19 years old

$1.5 million location

March 29, 2023

My name is Dylan Garcia. I work at Augusta.
Lawn Care Services.
For the Bellingham location and I'm going to be the new general manager. The only experience I had was just doing my own lawn.
String trimming stuff.
After about a.
Couple months, I started training people.
Doing estimates, taking on some leadership roles.
A lot of people thought I was crazy having the general manager at this $1.5 million location, being a 19 year old. However, when we promote someone, we're not so much looking at how long they've been at the company as much as are they willing to learn. They're constantly trying to make themselves better and they care for the team, hope.
To learn a lot of good leadership traits. I want to learn how to lead the team well and get them to perform well. And not only.
That, but for them to improve themselves.