About

Where we learn what guides us.

Mission Statement

We are building a people business with those who share our drive for excellence and appreciate the many rewards that come with working in a transparent and inclusive way:  Exciting challenges, Camaraderie and Friendships, Sense of Purpose,Feelings of Accomplishment, Profits and a Path to Partnership.

OUR PURPOSE

We help people grow

Ultimately, we want our Team to stay with us for Life. Our Employee Journey directs succession from on-boarding through a path to partnership with engagement, training, culture and Living the Core Values.  This is your place to grow. 

Our 2030 VISION

Our 2030 target includes people and business growth of 3 new businesses, 3 new managing partners and 5 additional shareholders.We envision our picture of success in 2030 like this:

Visualize it – It’s March 2030, we are the landscaping company that everyone wants to work for. In a super tight labour market, our culture, brand and marketing is attracting the career minded people who help us thrive. Now 60 strong, we set the standards in the Okanagan for providing landscape construction and maintenance with the smallest carbon footprint. Our Design, Nursery, and Irrigation businesses, each run by managing partners, are supplying services and products to CRL and selling to other businesses too. All the HR and Admin services for each of these organizations is handled by the Creative Admin Hub. Driving onto our yard feels like home. The bright office welcomes our clients and staff with touches of the old farm to remind us of our roots. There is an organized chaos in the yard with the vehicles, equipment and materials along with the hustle and bustle of enthusiastic people getting ready for the start of the season. Our culture is vibrant and demonstrated clearly by everyone’s positivity and how much they care about our team, clients and our organization. We really are one big happy family!

Core Values

Our Core Values guide us through every action and decision, and they define our culture and who we truly are as people:

NOMINATE A CO-WORKER

Deliver incomparable experiences – Our bottom line is derived from satisfied customers.

This means we will:

  • Go the extra mile for clients 
  • Always do what we say we are going to do
  • Never sweep shit under the carpet
  • Leave everything better than we found it
  • Always work like the client is watching…in everything we do

Collaborate to build something greater than any one of us could create alone.

This means we will:

  • Offer help to encourage each other’s success
  • Take responsibility, be accountable, and share in the success
  • Encourage team collaboration to solve problems
  • Lead by example and be the role model
  • Set targets and motivate the team to achieve them

Share creative innovative ideas, create fun and celebrate individuality. (different isn’t always better but better is always different)

This means we will:

  • Fearlessly let our quirks show
  • Be open minded
  • Colour outside the lines to solve issues
  • Engineer fun into every day
  • Create an energetic, inviting workplace that embraces individuality

Build strong relationships with our team, clients and community

This means we will:

  • Participate in company events
  • Be compassionate, supportive and respectful of others
  • Go out of our way to improve someone’s day
  • Be a CRL promoter
  • Show genuine interest in others

Interact with transparency, respect, honesty and integrity

This means we will:

  • Continuously keep clients and coworkers informed 
  • Ask questions, be curious
  • Be an active listener
  • Reciprocate communication
  • Give and receive feedback with respect

Pursue individual excellence for personal and professional growth

This means we will:

  • Drive ourselves to be better than yesterday
  • Live outside our comfort zone, try new things
  • Continuously pursue growth and learning
  • Create a vision, set goals and achieve them
  • Never give up. Value our mistakes for the lessons in them

How To Use This Website

This is a news, information, training and standard operation procedures (SOP’s) hub that, with your help continues to grow and expand on how we operate and perform tasks at Creative Roots Landscaping. Please make comments and suggestions for improvements to existing processes and let’s all work together to create new ones.