One-to-One Consulting for Landscape & Lawn Care Owners
Fred Haskett works directly with you and your team every month. He has run the kind of company you run, so the advice comes from the seat you sit in, not from a textbook.
- 2 callsby video with Fred, every month
- Unlimitedemail questions, answered promptly
- No meterphone call minutes are never tracked
- 43 yearsin lawn, landscape, and tree care
The boss needs someone to talk to
You can’t share every doubt with your managers, and your family has already heard enough about the business. So the hardest decisions tend to get made alone and under pressure.
As a One-to-One member, you have Fred Haskett in your corner: a management consultant with hands-on experience in this business, and someone you can confide in completely. Every conversation stays confidential.
Use him as a sounding board for ideas and plans. When a hard decision comes, and it will, you’ll have someone who already knows you, your company, and your situation.
Everything in a One-to-One membership
One monthly membership covers scheduled calls with Fred, open access between them, and his full library of working documents.
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Every month
2 video conferences
Formally scheduled calls with Fred, with just you or with a team from your company.
- Review of your monthly financial statements
- Your agenda, plus anything urgent
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Between calls
Unlimited email
Send questions whenever they come up during the month. Fred answers promptly, so a problem doesn’t sit and wait for the next scheduled call.
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Between calls
Phone calls, no meter
Call to talk something through. Minutes aren’t tracked, so you never have to weigh a question against the clock.
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Arranged in advance
Check-ins with your managers
Fred can keep in touch with your department managers each month, monitor their progress, and report back to you.
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If you need it
A sales manager and coach
The same calls can cover sales management and coaching for your team, without adding a full-time sales manager to payroll.
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Included
Fred’s working library
Job descriptions, forms, sample contracts, and training material collected and built over 43 years. Take what you need and adapt it.
A monthly read on the whole business
Each month Fred reviews the key indicators that show how things are progressing, so you both see a problem while it’s still small.
The scorecard is part of every membership. It turns the monthly call from a conversation about how things feel into a review of how things are.
- People
- Customers
- Safety
- Sales
- Gross margins
- Budgets
- P&L statements
- Special projects
Bring Fred in for a specific project
Book focused time on one area, system, or program. On site when the work is in the field or your facility, or virtual when your team is spread out.
On-site visits
- Operational efficiency audits
- Quality control training
- Strategic planning meetings
- Budget development meetings
- Training meetings
Virtual working sessions
- SWOT analysis
- Sales training
- Financial training
- PEST analysis
- Operational training
These are the common ones, not the full list. Tell Fred what you want to work on
Every engagement follows the same course
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Take the position
A 30-minute conversation
You talk, Fred asks questions, and together you take an honest fix on where the business actually is. No pitch and no obligation.
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Set the course
A plan with priorities
Not a binder. A short, sequenced plan built on your real numbers: what to fix first, what it should return, and who owns each piece.
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Hold the heading
Monthly accountability
The scorecard gets reviewed every month. Course corrections happen while they’re cheap, not at year-end when they’re expensive.
Fred Haskett
Principal Partner43 years inside this industry, as an owner and as a senior leader in national, regional, and franchise organizations. He has hired crews and priced routes himself, and he has turned struggling branches into profitable ones.
His background covers lawn care, tree care, landscape maintenance, and snow and ice services, so he works with lawn care and tree care companies, not only landscapers.
“Kelly and I love the lawn, landscape, and tree care businesses and the people in them. We have worked most of our lives to get successful at this, and now we spend our time helping folks like you do the same.”
Fred Haskett, Principal Partner
Want peers in the room too?
The Leaders’ Peer Groups put you alongside non-competing owners who meet on a regular schedule to work each other’s problems and hold each other to the plan.
Questions about one-to-one consulting
Can my leadership team join the calls?
Yes. Each of your 2 monthly video conferences can be one-to-one with you, or it can include a team from your company.
Is there a limit on phone calls or email?
No. Email questions during the month are unlimited and answered promptly, and phone call minutes are not tracked.
Will Fred review our financial statements?
He can. A review of your monthly financial statements can be part of a scheduled video conference, alongside scorecard indicators such as gross margins, budgets, and P&L statements.
Can Fred work with my managers directly?
Yes, when it’s arranged in advance. He can keep in touch with your department managers each month, monitor their progress, and report back to you.
Is everything confidential?
Completely. Every discussion with Fred is kept confidential, without exception.
Can Fred come to our operation?
Yes. On-site visits can be scheduled for specific projects such as operational efficiency audits, quality control training, or budget development. Virtual working sessions cover topics like SWOT analysis and sales training.
What does it cost?
Every engagement is scoped and quoted in plain terms before anything starts. The first conversation costs nothing, and you’ll leave it with something useful either way.
Talk it through with Fred first.
30 minutes about where your business is and where you want it to go. No pitch and no pressure, because this only works when the fit is right.
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