Greater Columbus Convention Center
Columbus Ohio
November 9 - 11, 2005

Pre-conference Workshops

for a sneak peak at the Advanced Workshops offered at TCI EXPO by the Tree Care Academy™

Pre-conference Workshops begin the day before the trade show on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Seminars run from Wednesday, Nov. 9 through Friday, Nov. 11.

Expanded educational programming and demonstrations help tree care and landscape companies learn about new developments in areas such as root zone treatments, tree pest diagnosis, business planning, pathologies of wood decay fungi, pesticide safety, working with tree growth regulators (TGRs), winning and keeping municipal contracts, tree risk assessment & mitigation, sales & marketing, and developments in the theories, principles and practices of Integrated Pest Management & Plant Health Care.

Intensive Business Planning Option: Pre-Conference Workshops

Part of this year's Pre-Conference Workshops program is a special, intensive track for business owners and managers called, "Strategic Business Planning Intensive." This full-day seminar will be facilitated by John Spence, a respected and knowledgeable advisor and executive educator who is the author of “Excellence by Design: Leadership.” Spence has delivered workshops, speeches and consulting to more than 280 organizations worldwide.

This workshop combines an executive overview with the chance for hands-on work with the critical aspects of effective strategic planning and business plan creation. This program will give each participant numerous tools, ideas and skills to apply when creating a detailed and realistic strategic business plan. TCIA strongly encourages managers at all levels and in all areas of expertise businesses to attend. Sending two or more associates to this workshop will ensure integration of these important concepts and strategies between all departments. Participants attending this dynamic workshop learn critical skills proven effective for defining strategic vision and turning it into operating reality.

TCI EXPO '05 Seminars
Trees may grow seasonally, but tree care companies and their employees’ careers should grow year-round. The intensive, professional and business growth seminars and panel discussions at TCI EXPO can help. They’re designed for real-world arborists and tree care service company owners and managers.

“The best way to have a good idea

is to have a lot of ideas.”
– Linus Pauling,
Two time Nobel Prize winner

The Tree Care Industry Association developed the TCI EXPO '05 seminar program to help participants manage businesses and maintain certifications in tree care and related green industry services.

While maintaining a traditionally strong focus on tree care, TCI EXPO '05 seminars and workshops also offer turf and ornamental pesticide applicators, consulting arborists, urban foresters, utility arborists, landscape professionals, students, educators and green industry business managers solid training and educational opportunities endorsed and accepted by dozens of the foremost certifying green industry organizations in America. The three-track EXPO program was designed to help make green industry companies more profitable, safer and better equipped to deal with regulatory compliance issues and to offer affordable hands-on training for tree care and related green industry workers.

The three professional tracks featured at TCI EXPO '05 are:

1. Technical: Tree Care/Arboriculture
2. Business: Business Management/Sales & Marketing
3. Pesticide: Integrated Pest Management/Pesticide

to see the workshop schedule.

• American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA)
  
• Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA)
  
• Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado (ALCC)
  
• Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD)
  
• California Association of Nurseries & Garden Centers (CANGC)
  
• California Interior Plantscape Association (CIPA)
  
• California Landscape Contractors Association (CLCA)
  
• Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA)
  
• Idaho Nursery & Landscape Association (INLA)
  
• Illinois Nurserymen’s Association (INA)
  
• Indiana Nursery & Landscape Association (INLA)
  
• International Society of Arboriculture (ISA)
  
• Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association (MNLA)
  
• Minnesota Nursery & Landscape Association (MNLA)
  
• Nevada Landscape Association (NLA)
  
• NY State Nursery & Landscape Association (NYSNLA)
  
• Ohio Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry
  
• Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association (ONLA)
  
• Oregon Landscape Contractors Association (OLCA)
  
• Pennsylvania Nursery & Landscape Association (PNLA)
  
• Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS)
  
• Utah Nursery & Landscape Association (UNLA)
  
• Washington Association of Landscape Professionals (WALP)