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Landscape Crew Manager - Advanced PREREQUISITE: Landscape Crew Manager certification. To receive the Advanced certification, candidates must attend all ALCM sessions on Tuesday (ALC1) and Wednesday (ALC2) this year. To maintain Advanced Landscape Crew Manager certification, accrue 20 hours of training every two years. A form for verification for credit hours is supplied in the MAHSC registration packet or can be downloaded from www.mahsc.org. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2008 ALC1 Advanced Landscape Crew Manager – Part I 8:00 - 9:15 am
Making the Boat Float:
A New Direction for Crew Managers Engage in a learning process that will help you, your employees and your organization be more successful (rudders not provided). VCH = 1 | VSLD = 1 | LCM = 1 | ISA: AMBm = 1
9:15 - 10:15 am
Ground Graffiti? Dig
With CARE This session provides a review of the Virginia State Commission’s message to all stakeholders: call Miss Utility at 811 before you dig; allow required time for marking; respect the marks; and excavate carefully. Discover motivational components and learn the requirements of the Virginia Underground Damage Prevention Act and the State Corporation’s Rules for Enforcement of the Act. This session also discusses marking requirements, best practices used by utility operators and contract locating companies, and best practices on how to safely hand dig around underground utility lines. (repeated Tuesday 2:15 pm)
VCH = 1 | VSLD = 1 | LCM = 1 | ISA: AMBm = 1 10:15 - 10:45 am Break 10:45 - 11:45 am
What’s the Plan? From
the Paper to the Real Thing
Learn the basics of reading and interpreting a variety of construction plans dealing with the various elements many landscape contractors encounter in the course of landscape construction. VCH = 1 | VSLD = 1 | LCM = 1 | ISA: AMBm = 1
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch (on your own) 1:00 - 2:00 pm Getting A Project Completed: Organizing Resources from Ground Breaking to Grand Opening Mark Weathington, JC Raulston Arboretum Time management is one of the most critical challenges facing a Crew Manager. Learn tips to keep people and jobs moving in the right direction, how to allocate your resources, and when to call in the cavalry. Follow the process for the multi-million World of Wonders garden at Norfolk Botanical Garden as a real life example that can be adapted for any size project. VCH = 1 | VSLD = 1 | LCM = 1 | ISA: AMBm = 1 2:15 - 3:15 pm
Estimating Landscape
Maintenance Jobs Obtain an accurate assessment of the relative amounts of labor, material and equipment necessary to perform a specific scope of maintenance services. VCH = 1 | VSLD = 1 | LCM = 1 | ISA: AMBm = 1
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Protecting the Safety
and Welfare of Your Employees: Occupational Medicine This presentation addresses workplace injury management, OSHA recordable events, drug testing and ways to prevent injuries and absences from work. (repeated Tuesday 2:15 pm) VCH = 1 | VSLD = 1 | LCM = 1 | ISA: AMBm = 1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008 ALC2 Advanced Landscape Crew Manager – Part II 8:00 - 11:45 am ALCM WORKSHOP / DESIGN CHARETTE
Thinking Outside the
“Cage”: Putting Order To Your Zoo Do you have encounters with lions everyday? Do you work with giraffes that are always sticking their necks in the wrong places? Do you often feel like a kangaroo jumping from one job to the next? It is time to roll up you sleeves, round up the animals and clean up your zoo. The focus of this session is on team work, problem solving and process evaluation. No shovels needed. VCH = 3.75 | VSLD = 3.75 | LCM = 3.75 | ISA: AMBm = 3.75
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch (on your own) 12:00 - 12:45 pm (optional) Tours of Founders Inn grounds by James River Grounds Management.
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Presentation of Designs
for Judging Who gets voted off the island or re-assigned to clean cages? See what these groups came up with in our design challenge. The Landscape Crew Managers and others judge the use of personnel, ability to ID talents, creative answers to problems and overall horticultural chutzpah! VCH = 1 | VSLD = 1 | LCM = 1 | ISA: AMBm = 1
2:15 - 3:00 pm CAPSTONE: Gardening In
a Changing Climate Gardeners are attuned to the climate – the gardens we create are planned around rainfall, minimum temperatures and frost dates. So how should gardeners respond to climate change? Mr. Forrest discusses the impacts of climate change on gardens, how gardeners are adapting to this change and how to mitigate future change by adjusting gardening techniques. VCH = .75 | VSLD = .75 | LCM = .75 | ISA: AMBp = .75
3:00 - 3:45 pm
CAPSTONE: Exotic
Landscape Plants: Using the Good, Adapting the Bad Can’t we all just GET ALONG? Despite warnings from native plant enthusiasts and boycotts by eco-minded bullies, we can find ways to use or sell exotic species – even the ones that tend to be a little troublesome. New “middle of the road” programs find ways to promote these plants and their new non-aggressive cultivars – and great alternative species and all sorts of tie in products – without making you feel like an environmental traitor. VCH = .75 | VSLD = .75 | LCM = .75 | ISA: AMBs = .75
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