Three veteran superintendents offer tips on how to motivate employees to be better workers. Signs dot the walls of the maintenance facility at Valhalla GC like hulking billboards on a busy freeway. The signs were hung by Valhalla certified superintendent Mark Wilson, who didn't post them to pretty up the place. Wilson firmly believes the signs perform a fundamental and critical function. The signs use different themes in their approach, but their collective message is the same -- to motivate golf course maintenance employees to be better workers. For Wilson, motivating employees is as important as maintaining consistent green speeds. And just as there's a science to tending turf, Wilson believes there's a knowledge to tending employees that turns them into better workers. "Our background is in turfgrass management, but we deal with people everyday," Wilson says. "Not only do we have to grow turfgrass, we have to grow people."
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