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Today I did a presentation on Job Boards on the trade show floor at GIS. While there are many good paid versions, the free home-made versions can offer a lot of features that even the paid versions can't. Even if you still feel like the paid versions are best, I hope this presentation will help you look for features that matter to your operation and result in increased productivity instead of a needlessly complicated solution to a simple problem. Here's a link to my job board so that you can make a copy and try it out for yourself. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gidneAVXM2QZEvrC3JNAhCErdAqUC5eCbxel1ixq_Rk/edit?usp=sharing For a list of all my job board related posts click this link. http://www.turfhacker.com/search/label/job%20board And check out my presentation below.

The ability to securely share is perhaps one of the most powerful aspects of Google Sheets One of the most obvious ways to present your digital job board to your staff is to project it from your office computer to a TV screen in the lunch room. Some people have hardwired the TV to their desktop and others have beamed it over using devices like a Chromecast or Apple Tv. Share with anyone you want and restrict what they can and cannot do The real beauty of using Google Sheets is that you can share it with whomever you want. Not only can you share it, you can also set the permissions to restrict what others can do. You can allow individual users or anyone with a link like I have with my job board. You can set the permissions to can view", "can comment", and "can edit". You can also make individuals "owners" of the sheet so that they can in turn share it with others. view only job board for my staff With my digital job board I have shared it with my staf...

The Digital Job board has really been a popular topic with superintendents. I have helped dozens of supers sort their digital job boards out since writing my first post about them in December. For many the cost of setting them up (~$500) is still too much of a risk especially if you don't fully understand it or worry that it won't work for you. If you are interested in testing running a job board but don't want to commit you can always use my job board as described in my post  but instead of displaying the info on a tv in the lunch room, just use it as a guide to update your chalk or white board in the room. You can share the board with your assistants and they can also use it to update the old fashioned, yet reliable, job board you have always used. The Job Board viewed on my phone can be used to update the current physical job board If it turns out that this free system works for your needs you can then upgrade to the digital display to make it complete. The only commitm...

We all know that maintaining a golf course requires a lot of labor, and the cost of this labor makes up a big portion of our budgets. Last year I was coming off a very difficult year labor-wise and was facing further budget restrictions. In order to meet my budget restrictions it was obvious that I needed to do something to maximize my labor efficiency. I needed to do more with less. Following a detailed analysis  it became obvious that we had a lot of room for improvement. There is nothing better than having a lot of room for improvement when working to reduce a budget. I needed a plan. I started out by setting a few goals to guide me; Staff do majority of mowing before golfers teed off No overtime All essential jobs covered during regular hours by my staff, not me. Reduce the extra hours for me...I needed to balance my work/family life Reduce or maintain current labor budget. I was not scheduled for any regular maintenance practices, as I am the mechanic, irrigation tech, and eve...