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Workforce Development

  • Role Models in tree care
    May 9, 2025

    It’s Not Easy to Be a Role Model

    By David M. Anderson, CTSP

      A mentor of mine would always say to me, “You are what you put up with. You are not your safest job, you are your least safe job. You’re not your best employee, you are your worst. You [...]

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  • Eager Beaver Tree Service
    May 5, 2025

    Eager Beaver Tree Service Practices the Right Stuff with Accreditation

    By Patricia Chaudoin

      Sometimes doing the right thing is just, well, the right thing to do. And for Mark Stephens, owner of Eager Beaver Tree Service in Floyds Knobs, Indiana – and a Certified Treecare Safety Professional (CTSP), a Board Certified [...]

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  • Student Outreach
    March 12, 2025

    Student Outreach

    By David M. Anderson, CTSP

    Looking back to my high school years, I realize that although I had passion, I was not the strongest student and lacked direction upon graduation. I was lucky enough to see a job ad for a small company as [...]

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  • Turning Wood Waste
    March 3, 2025

    Turning Wood Waste Into a Community Resource

    By Tim Bartelt

    Human nature tells us to give of ourselves and to give back to our community. Your company vehicles probably drive by a dozen places every day where people could benefit from your giving. And chances are, your kids or [...]

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  • engaging your tree care employees
    March 2, 2025

    Retention Through Engagement

    By Noel Boyer

    This article originally appeared in the October 2020 issue of TCI Magazine. It has been slightly updated. Noel Boyer doing the demonstration run in the work-climb event at the ISA North American Tree Climbing Championship in Salt Lake [...]

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