Episode 121: Working for a Purpose, with Jeff McManus

SHOW NOTES

Jeff McManus has a degree in Landscape and Ornamental Horticulture from Auburn University He is an International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist and has been Director of Landscape Services with the University of Mississippi since 2000. He and his team won the National Professional Grounds Maintenance Society Best Maintained Campus twice, and Ole Miss was named most beautiful campus by Newsweek in 2011 and the Princeton Review in 2013. His new book, Growing Weeders into Leaders -Leadership Lessons from the Ground Level, focuses on cultivating excellence among staff. He is also the author of Pruning Like a Pro.

Listen and Learn:

• Why leaders need to set the direction
• The importance of learning from your mistakes
• How to build trust with your employees
• Why you need to over-communicate
• How to bridge the "generation gap"

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TO FIND JEFF'S BOOK, GROWING WEEDERS INTO LEADERS -LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE GROUND LEVEL, CLICK HERE.