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CONSULTING SERVICES

WORK SHOPS & webinars

Colorphyll Designs & Consulting can tailor its consulting services to meet your needs, whether it’s a bid review, individual phone conference, a web team meeting, or an on-site group seminar. We work with you to create programs and services that will make the best use of time while creating a measurable impact on performance.

  • COMPANY GOALS - An upfront session with leadership is key to identifying the areas that we can help the most. Workshops on core values, mission statements, budgets, team building and strategies for the future are customized for your business. Sample Workshop Topics: - Identify your Team, Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire, Creating Your Team, Best Budget Practices, Short & Long Range Goal Setting, Crucial Conversations

  • ESTIMATING - Being competitive and making a profit all starts with a good estimating procedure. From Excel to software programs like Aspire or BOSS, we can review your current systems and put you on the right path to success. Areas of expertise include margins, mark up, mobilization, material buy out, follow up, qualifying the bid selection process, pricing, tracking progress, and improving your “wins.”  We can assist with the “nuts and bolts” of estimating by reviewing your bids to ensure they are competitive while achieving optimal margin, and training your estimators to implement best practices. Sample Workshop Topics: Want a Mess? – Guess; Vendor Selection for Profit; Fun in the Follow Up; Making Time Matter; Organized Chaos.

  • ENHANCEMENT SALES & TRACKING - New tricks of the trade will be shared with your sales staff to improve their “win” ratio and increase sales in a higher margin part of your business. Use of visuals and renderings increase sales.

    Sample Workshop Topics:, Skills in Communication, Positive Thoughts, Spin it to Win it, Use of Renderings to Close the Deal; What’s best? Phone-text-email; Bid Results are Key to Success; Win Ratios Tell the Story.

  • CLIENT MANAGEMENT - So much of your valuable time and money goes into getting new clients. It’s time to add some fresh new ideas to managing and retaining your clients. These workshops will coach your sales team to create and put follow up tracking in place, and set monthly goals. We’ll demonstrate how organized focus is key to improving relationships.

    Sample Workshop Topics: Measurable Goals, Daily / Weekly / Monthly Contact, Points of Pain.

  • USE OF RENDERINGS TO WIN THE BID - A quick workshop can show your team how to use simple renderings to sell new construction or enhancement projects. We’ll demonstrate how to take the best photos, how to communicate your client’s vision, or how to help the client with design ideas. A rendering takes your ideas and/or your client’s wishes, and turns them into a detailed full color portrait, allowing the client to actually see what their finished landscape will look like. It’s a cost -effective and proven way to make your bids stand out from the rest and win the project. Sample Workshop Topics: How to Use Renderings to Increase your Sales.

  • INDIVIDUAL COACHING & STRENGTHENING SKILLS - One on one coaching for your key personnel to help them grow in the position that they excel in. Setting up a path for career, setting goals, providing score cards to track their success while working with ownership. Sample Workshop Topics: - Reachable Goals, Short, Medium and Long Range Goals, What to do to prepare for the Finish Line.

  • LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY - From the simplest Excel spreadsheet tool, to more sophisticated software solutions like BOSS, and Aspire, we are highly experienced in multiple software programs, and can show you how to make the best use of available technology to make your business run more smoothly. If you’d prefer to forego software, we can assist you in designing an Excel workbook or spreadsheet tool specific to your needs.

    Sample Workshop Topics: Inclusions - Exclusions; Scope of Work; Final Proposal.

  • TEAM BUILDING & CULTURE - Everyone wants a motivated, productive and loyal staff. You spend valuable hours and resources to hire and train. A “happy” workplace is key to retaining your employees. We have developed many daily activities to help your leadership, managers, field crews and office staff create an “upbeat” positive culture in your workplace. We can help find those on your staff who can champion daily behaviors and maintain these actions throughout your organization. Sample Workshop Topics: - Leadership, Building Your Team, Inspiring Individuals, Motivating With Fun, Just Do It, Have A Plan and Be Consistent.

  • TIME MANAGEMENT - Balancing work-life and family with emails, calendars, pressure, and the daily demands of a thriving business is perhaps one of the most important skills you and your employees can develop. We can teach and motivate your staff, individually or as a group to be more organized, reach daily goals, put daily practices in place that become a habit. Sample Workshop Topics: Balancing Priorities, Time Out is Crucial, Simple Daily Routines, Make a Plan.