TradesLandscapersHiring and team
Landscaper Business HiringYou cannot get off the tools until someone else can run the site, and hiring has burnt you before.
Hiring and leading a landscaping crew. What the Gardening and Landscaping Services Award actually costs you, how apprentices and casuals are paid, and how to build a crew that can set out, run and finish a job without you standing on it.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Landscaping Business?
You do not know what a crew member really costs
The hourly rate is the start of it. Then there is super, workers compensation, leave, the tool allowance, the vehicle allowance and the hours they are on site but not producing. You priced the job off the wage and the on-costs took the margin.
The last one you hired lasted a season
They came on in spring, could not read a level, needed watching all day and left when it got cold. You went back to doing it yourself and told yourself hiring does not work, when what did not work was having no process for it.
Nobody on the crew can run a site but you
You have good workers who will do anything you point them at, and not one who can set out a job, order materials, talk to the client and make a call on a wall detail. So you are still on every site, every day, forever.
Without a crew that can run a site, your landscaping business has a hard ceiling: it is exactly as big as the hours you can personally stand on the ground.
Hiring and team
Here Is What We Do About It.
Hiring, team and leadership training in the Learning Hub covers what a crew actually costs, how to hire on purpose and how to grow a leading hand who can run a site. Greg works through the big hiring calls with you directly. And the hires have changed: agents can now do the quoting, invoicing and chasing your way, so the people you add are the ones facing your customers and leading your crew.
Free tool, no sign-up
Apprentice cost calculator
Wages and on-costs are the easy part. This adds the weeks they are at trade school, the on-site hours that never reach an invoice, and the supervision time that pulls a qualified tradesperson off their own work, then gives you what one billable apprentice hour actually costs. It runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Work out the real costHow it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Hire before you are desperate
Every bad hire in this industry happens in the same week: the week you were already too busy. The training covers hiring on a plan instead of on a panic.
Give them a system to follow
People do not fail because they are lazy. They fail because nobody wrote down what good looks like. That is why systems and hiring are the same problem.
Lead them, then get off the tools
Greg works the bit that is genuinely hard: running a team when you were trained as a tradesperson, and letting go of work you can do faster yourself.
Why you get me
I built the coaching company everyone else runs. Then I took it apart.
Most coaching companies work the same way. You enquire, you get a salesperson. You sign up, you get a coach who has never run a trade business.
I know, because I built one. I grew the Academy to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches. It ran without me.
And I hated it. The bigger it got, the further I was from the owners I started it for.
What gets me up in the morning is getting under the hood of a trade business and helping the owner hit their goals in the least time possible.
So I restructured the whole thing.
When you enquire, you speak to me. If you are accepted into the Academy, you work with me. Directly.
And with agentic AI, the results come sooner than most owners can imagine.
Places are limited. I only take on owners who are committed and ready to do the work.
Who you will be talking to
I built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with more than 1,950+ five-star reviews.
A general manager runs it day to day. I live in Byron Bay.
I have trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.
What AI actually changes
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.
You stay with your customers and your team. Agents run the office your way.
The old way
Grow, then hire people to do the computer work.
Every new customer brought more quoting, invoicing, chasing, scheduling and reporting.
So you hired people to do it. Office staff, bookkeepers, admin.
None of it is billable, and every hire costs wages, sick leave and another person to manage.
Profit and time only grew as fast as you could add people.
The new way
Keep the human work. Give everything else to agents.
Your people do what only people can do: looking after customers and leading the team.
Everything else goes to agents that do it your way, instantly, any time it is needed.
No sick leave. No capacity problems. They scale as far as the business does.
So the only people you add are the ones facing your customers and your team.
A human-centred business that runs on systems you build in minutes. Nobody still running the old way can compete with it.
What changes
What Landscaping Business Hiring Actually Changes.
Three things landscaping business owners walk away able to do.
Cost a crew member fully, including award allowances, super and workers compensation.
Hire to a written process instead of taking whoever answers the ad in spring.
Train a leading hand who can set out and run a site without you.
Questions
Landscaper Business Hiring, Answered.
What award covers landscaping employees in Australia?
How much do I pay an apprentice landscaper, and what about an adult apprentice?
Should I use subcontractors or put a crew on wages?
Landscapers
The Other Ways We Help Landscapers.
Landscaper Business Training
Structured training that turns what landscapers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingLandscaper Business Coaching
Greg Allan in your corner, holding landscapers to the plan. By application.
SystemsLandscaper Business Systems
The documented process that lets the work happen properly when landscapers are not standing there.
The free appLandscaper Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for landscapers with an active ABN.
Marketing and leadsLandscaper Business Marketing
How landscapers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitLandscaper Business Pricing
The number landscapers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Have a Chat With Greg About Your Business.
An hour with Greg, one on one, about anything in your trade business. By application: if his diary is full, you join his waitlist and he invites you. He only takes owners who are committed.