Highlighted Training Courses - Business, Landscape Lighting, and Irrigation

 


New Skills for Expanded Career Options

Vanden Bussche Irrigation is proud to offer education and training created in collaboration with a handful of Canada’s top irrigation and landscaping providers. Our Online Training Portal contains dozens of courses, and we would like to highlight three areas of particular use to our customers and their employees. So, if you’re ready to brush up on the following areas or save time and energy during new hire training, check out courses on: 

  • Business: Crew leaders and landscape business owners can expand their knowledge with our essential business courses that cover the essentials of running a landscaping business efficiently, profitably, and sustainably.
  • Landscape Lighting. Landscape lighting provides illumination to extend outdoor living hours while also providing security lighting for darker areas of a property. Learning how to install these systems makes crew members more valuable to customers. 
  • Irrigation/Drip Irrigation. Give your crew a primer on how to install turf irrigation systems, such as those offered by Rain Bird and Hunter.

Your landscaping crew members, crew leaders, and business owners all benefit from deeper industry knowledge. Whether your team members want to fulfill CEUs for IA or WSIP or prepare for upcoming jobs, our comprehensive Online Training Portal has much to offer. 
 

Business Courses for New and Established Landscapers

Have you recently started a new landscaping business? Do you want to expand your services to include irrigation systems? Whether you’re looking to beef up your crew leader training or seeking knowledge for yourself, the Online Training Portal is a great place to start. Sharpen your hands-on and back-office skills with business courses such as:

  • ADS - Crew Leader: Managing the Project
  • Calculating Daily Rate for Crews
  • Calculating Labour Burden
  • Crew Leader: How to Lead & Motivate
  • Crew Leader: Organization, Time, and Cost
  • Crew Leader: Planning & Scheduling
  • Customer Focused Sales
  • Direct Costs
  • Equipment Costs
  • Equipment Exercises
  • G&A Overhead Costs
  • HindSite Software
  • Local Search: Why? How? & What to Expect
  • Preparing the Annual Budget
  • QuickBooks Intro. for Beginners: Parts 1-3
  • The Basics of Excel
  • The Extended Marketing Mix

     

Landscape Lighting Courses for Brighter Career Paths

Beginner contractors, as well as industry experts, would do well to add lighting installation to their tool kits. Vanden Bussche Irrigation offers a complete mini-course list to get you off to a great start. 

Landscape lighting courses include:

  • Introduction to landscape lighting
  • How to design landscape lighting
  • How to sell landscape lighting
  • Landscape lighting: presenting and selling
  • Landscape lighting; installation
  • Selling LED lighting with confidence
  • Landscape lighting: design part 1 (Creating the design)
  • Designing part 2: specifying fixtures and drawing a plan
  • Landscape lighting opportunity and overview
  • Bidding and estimating

* We’re constantly adding and upgrading the course catalogue to meet the needs of our customers. Please check back frequently to see what’s new in our Online Training Portal.
 

Boost a New Career in Irrigation Systems

Offering irrigation system installation and maintenance for landscapers considering a career or business expansion makes sense. The Online Training Portal offers beginner and advanced courses that are between 10 and 45 minutes. Your team members can take advantage of rainy days or slow periods to expand your landscaping company’s knowledge base.

Drip irrigation courses run from 30 to 45 minutes and include the following:

  • Drip Irrigation Principles, Practices, & Products
  • In-Line Drip Irrigation: Planning & Installing
  • Point-Source Drip Irrigation

You and your crew members can also take advantage of general irrigation courses that run for 15 minutes in most cases. Other irrigation courses include:

  • Adding a New Zone to an Existing Irrigation System with the Add-A-Zone
  • Chemigation
  • How to Install an Add-A-Zone
  • Irrigation
  • Irrigation Troubleshooting Introduction
  • Irrigation: Design a Residential Irrigation System
  • Irrigation: Install a Residential Irrigation System
  • Irrigation: Present and Sell a Residential Irrigation System
  • Irrigation: Troubleshoot a Residential Irrigation System
  • Proper Solvent Cementing Techniques for PVC Pipe
  • Regency Wire - Making Waterproof Splices for Irrigation Systems
  • Rid O'Rust Products and Applications: Introduction
  • Solving Broken Wire Problems or Adding New Irrigation Zones with Add-A-Zone
  • Working Around a Broken Wire or a Bad Splice

* We’re constantly adding and upgrading the course catalogue to meet the needs of our customers. Please check back frequently to see what’s new in our online training portal.

At Vanden Bussche Irrigation, we constantly expand the resources available to our customers and their clients. With locations across Ontario and an Online Training Portal, we are positioned to meet the needs of new and experienced landscaping and irrigation contractors. 

Contact us today for more information on business, landscape lighting, and irrigation courses, available online for your convenience and ease of learning.

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