In-house Workshops

Green Plant Care Tips for Techs:

Our most popular workshop. Inspire and energize your staff so you’ll all be proud of the work you do. They’ll discover how to care for plants in an eco-friendly way that will also increase your profits. Available as a full-day or half-day session.  (The full-day session is worth 6 CEU’s towards CLP and CLT recertification., half-day is worth 3 CEU’s.) A great value—save money by holding this workshop in-house rather than sending everyone out of town to a conference.

Includes:

• Basic botany
• Watering methods, your choice of subirrigation systems.
• Reduce replacements with pruning and grooming techniques.
• Pest identification and control using our digital microscope.

To schedule call 281-687-6966 or email kathy@jfaconsultingbiz.com.

 

Plant Diagnostics Laboratory:

Don’t have time for a full day of training? This advanced program will present vital information in an easy-to-understand and exciting way. Your staff will learn how to diagnose and treat plant problems quickly and easily. Features our digital microscope so staff can see pests up close and personal. 3.5 hours of instruction time, worth 3 CEU’s towards CLP and CLT recertification.

Includes:

• Advanced pest identification and control using digital microscope.
• Advanced disease identification, prevention and control.
• Advanced nutrient and environmental problems, prevention and control.

To schedule call 281-687-6966 or email kathy@jfaconsultingbiz.com.

 

New!!!  Customer Service in a Down Economy:

This half-day workshop will teach you and your staff the skills you need to provide top-quality service to your customers during difficult economic times.  Your staff will be able to see their service and their accounts through the eyes of their clients and will learn how to respond to their financial and sometimes emotional needs.   

Includes:

• What customers really want from their interiorscape provider.
• Identifying the “red flags” that an account is in jeopardy and may cancel.
• Dealing with angry clients and handling complaints.
• Cost-cutting alternatives you can offer clients in financial distress.
• How to respond when your clients’ employees see their colleagues being laid  off and are angry that money is being spent on plants.
• How to handle switching to 14 day service as a cost-cutting option.
• Maintaining quality of service in tough times.

To schedule call 281-687-6966 or email kathy@jfaconsultingbiz.com.

 

NEW!!!   Reducing Replacements:

This half-day workshop will teach your staff what they need to know to reduce your plant replacements, increase your profits and keep their customers happy.  This interactive program helps your staff hone their plant care skills and establish your quality standards in a way that makes sense. 

Includes:

• Basic botany and how a plant works.
• Watering techniques for 7 day, 10 day and 14 day service programs.
• Using subirrigation, cap mats and wetting agents for improved plant health.
• Pruning, grooming and staging techniques to reduce replacements.
• Pest and disease identification and eco-friendly controls, emphasizing prevention.

To schedule call 281-687-6966 or email kathy@jfaconsultingbiz.com.

 

NEW!!!   Dracaenas Workshop:

This half-day workshop concentrates on Dracaenas and will teach your staff what they need to know to care for this genus and reduce your plant replacements.  This interactive program helps your staff understand this workhorse of the interiorscape, learn how to water and care for these plants and how to keep them looking great indefinitely.   

Includes:

• Basic botany and how Dracaenas differ from other plants, includes chopping up and unpotting your old plants!
• How plants are propagated and grown in the nursery.
• Watering techniques for soil-grown and Hawaiian-grown plants.
• Cutting plants back, both canes and bushes, to increase their longevity.
• Pest and disease identification and eco-friendly controls, emphasizing prevention.
• Identification of over 40 varieties and forms.

To schedule call 281-687-6966 or email kathy@jfaconsultingbiz.com.

 

Other activities that may be combined with one of our workshops include:

• 360 Feedback Session—find out what your staff really thinks!
• Team building exercises: Build-a-Plant exercise or Treasure Hunt
• “Authentically Green Interiors” —benefits of indoor plants—1 additional CEU.

 For other workshops please call 281-687-6966 or email kathy@jfaconsultingbiz.com.

“Want to also give a GIANT recommendation and kudos for Kathy Fediw. We had the terrific opportunity to have her do a seminar for our company yesterday. The session exceeded my expectations. Our crew was extremely complimentary and expressed their gratitude to us, for the opportunity to provide for them such a high quality training seminar.” — Sarasota, FL