Session Dates
Wednesday September 25, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Thursday September 26, 9:00 am – 10:00 am

Presented by Commercial Vehicle Safety & Enforcement (CVSE)

Keep you and your crew safe on the roads and avoid any serious business liability issues. This session will be offered on both mornings of the show and will cover:
• Pre-Trip Requirements including checking brake away device on trailer
• National Safety Code Program Overview
• Load Securement Requirements
• Document Requirements
• Drivers Licence Requirements

This free session is complimentary with your trade show badge; however, registration is required if you would like to attend.

Learn the art of holding your team members accountable at work, in a positive, effective way.

In this 90-minute, interactive workshop designed for both managers and their staff, learn why successful delegating of projects and tasks is so difficult for both the person taking on the task, and for the one 'assigning it.'

There's an art to holding each other accountable at work, in a positive, effective way. Learn this art in this session, and leave armed with an exclusive 7-step process to create a clear outline of who is doing what, how and when.

Discussions include lessons on how to:
• Train with Patience
• Communicate with Clarity
• Practice Trusting Each Other
• Recognize When It’s Working
• Banish Blame When It’s Not

It's not the size of a garden that makes it great, it's how the space within is organized. Whether one is gardening on the ground or on a balcony, learn how a careful and creative selection of plants and ornaments can maximize visual impact throughout the seasons.

The key to running an efficient and profitable G&G department is planning. Prepare for the season ahead by taking part in this session. ahead. This session will take you through the first year of running the department and how to succeed in doing so.

Subjects to be covered:
• Preparation for the year ahead
• Pre-ordering flowers
• Planning planting recipe cards
• Staffing requirements
• Ordering products
• Marketing
• When to launch
• Problems you may expect and how to manage them
• Tracking the numbers

Ready to increase your sales by illuminating your beautiful landscape designs? Let the experts at ProSource show you how adding landscape lighting to every project will enhance your business by increasing revenue and increasing customer satisfaction. Landscape lighting enables people to enjoy their outdoor spaces after the sun goes down and adds an element of beauty, safety, and security. Our lighting expert will walk you through the fundamentals of landscape lighting design, fixture selection and basic installation techniques. We will also walk you through sales strategies that will enable you to demonstrate the value of landscape lighting to your customers.

This session will enable you continue helping new plant parents as they grow their leafy brood! Learn how to capitalize on existing customer loyalty by developing comprehensive value-added menus of workshops and services, and watch your houseplant department sales soar.

The growing medium is the base of any great landscape, but engineered or manufactured top-soil has become the norm in the landscaping industry. In this session, learn why not all soil is created equal.

What is the end goal of the outdoor spaces that we create? Are we gardening solely to create beautiful settings for us as humans? What is it that makes these spaces beautiful? Join Paul Zammit as he explores and challenges definition of what is beautiful and what the environmental cost of this beauty may be, through the choices that we make for our gardens.

Discover the latest trends in container gardening and how to incorporate them into your department for your customers. Learn what customers are looking for in G&G container design for each season, with a focus on creating winter G&Gs. Take away from this session the latest trends in container gardening and how to incorporate them into your department for your customers.

Native plants are perceived as requiring fewer inputs, especially in terms of pesticides, fertilizers, and water. Introduced woody species are increasingly perceived as undesirable, primarily because they are lumped together with their invasive counterparts. How does provenance really affect the ability of plants to provide food and habitat to our beneficial wildlife? This presentation will present a more informed and successful approach to plant selection than simply looking at place of origin.