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Motivate and Manage: Brain-Friendly Techniques to Enhance Performance

As the engineering consulting business becomes more complex and pressures for project delivery increase, staff can feel unsettled and unmotivated. Fortunately, the research is in and motivation is not just…

Simple Incentive Compensation That Works!

How do we connect the daily decisions of our employees to the short and long term health of the business? One key is implementing an incentive compensation program that works.…

Present with Confidence to Engage Your Audience and Earn their Trust

When it comes to presenting, engineers have a bad reputation. Too often, they deliver a “data dump” of technical information, leaving prospects and clients bored or altogether unsure of what…

Understanding Firm Value: Looking Beyond the Numbers

In an ever changing economic and political environment, business owners must understand the risk factors influencing the value of their business. What internal and external risk factors should business owners…

Planning for a Smooth Exit: The Importance of Building Firm Value

Every business owner reaches a point where they must consider how to successfully exit their business and divest their ownership interest, but where is the best place to start? Join…

The High Cost of Bad Management

“People join companies and leave managers. Yet while most firms agree that money spent on leadership training would save on performance issues later, they’re still unwilling to commit the cash…

Professional Liability – From the Date You Report a Claim to the Impact on your Premium

Every A/E firm needs some kind of professional liability insurance to protect themselves from claims. But what is your firm’s role in the claim process, and what happens when you…

The Millennial Makeover: Why the Angst About Generational Differences Is Overblown

By 2020, Millennials (ages 22 to 40) will comprise half the U.S. workforce. Is your firm ready? Most of the discussion about generations in the workplace centers on supposed inherent…

Oh What a Feeling – From Bland to Brand

The Lifecycle of Going Global

As firms develop their long-term growth strategies, more and more often they include expansion into a foreign market. “”Going global”” has significant benefits, but it can also bring unique risks…