Courses

Getting (Out) While the Getting’s Good: Valuation and Ownership Transition in Good Times

Getting (Out) While the Getting’s Good: Valuation and Ownership Transition in Good Times

When considering ownership transition, understanding the market in the context of your firm’s specific situation is crucial to helping you decide on the best path forward, whether that’s an internal…

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Avoiding the Glaze and the Yawns - Proposals and Presentations that Close the Deal

Avoiding the Glaze and the Yawns – Proposals and Presentations that Close the Deal

You hear it all the time. You need to make your proposal more interesting. Your presentation needs to stand out from the competition. A cookie-cutter pitch will only make the…

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Winning Clients in the New Year

Winning Clients in the New Year & Every Year: 5 Strategies That Make Your Firm the First & Only Choice

If you’ve always dreaded networking, remember this – the strengths that make you a successful engineer are your competitive advantage to building your client and referral network. Join Lynne Waymon…

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Work Together, Win Together

Work Together, Win Together: How Marketing and HR Can Collaborate to Win the War for Talent (and Clients too)

Marketing is largely tasked with attracting and engaging clients, HR with attracting and engaging employees. Two separate departments, two separate goals. There’s no crossover, right? Wrong. There’s a significant and…

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Activating your promoters

Stop Asking for Referrals!

Most A/E/C seller-doers know the easiest way to win a new client is being introduced by an existing client. Even so, we’re reluctant to actually go ASK for a referral.…

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Smart Buildings, Smart Cities and the Opportunities for Engineers

Smart Buildings, Smart Cities and the Opportunities for Engineers

With the merging of innovative technologies, social wants, and government needs, today’s market has reached a “”tipping point,”” generating opportunities for Smart City planning and solutions, and giving high value…

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State DOT Contracting Policies The Effect on Overhead

State DOT Contracting and Prequalification Policies – The Effect on Overhead

The AASHTO Uniform Audit & Accounting Guide has been published and the 23 CFR 172 has be revised to more clearly define the roles and responsibilities of State DOTs and…

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Spearin and the Standard of Care

Spearin and the Standard of Care: How Good Does a Design Have to Be?

Many construction projects result in allegations of insufficient design by the architect or engineer, or defective drawings and specifications, and the resulting finger-pointing and claims can be costly, stressful, and…

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Taking Your Board to the Next Level

Taking Your Board to the Next Level

Business leaders need every edge possible for success in this competitive industry environment. It’s no longer good enough to put in a good day’s work. Success demands that you think…

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Taking the pulse of the engineering industry

Taking the Pulse of the Engineering Industry – 2019 Mid-Year Discussion on Trends Shaping the Industry

At this stage in the economic cycle, market watchers keep looking for signs of impending doom. Yet, this prolonged economic recovery continues to defy expectations. The engineering market remains surprisingly…

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