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Developing successful and effective team environments

Eliminate the Bottlenecks from Team’s Performance: Developing Successful and Effective Team Environments

Your firm is made up of many teams. Project teams, marketing teams, management teams … the list goes on. And your firm’s success depends on how well the members of…

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Generational differences in the work place

Generational Differences In The Workplace

“These kids today just don’t know how good they have it. In my day we had to ….” You’ve heard it before, and chances are, you’ll say it yourself one…

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Call now to get new clients

Call Now to Get New Clients! How to Overcome Inertia and Get a Prospect on the Phone, Build Trust, and Then Get a First Meeting

Business development is and forever will remain a deeply personal business. Yet many consultants opt for impersonal electronic communication over the “old fashioned” phone call—often because it is less anxiety-inducing…

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Campfire Stories Claims Nightmares, Lessons Learned

Campfire Stories: Claims Nightmares, Lessons Learned

Unless you like learning the hard way, learning from the success and failures of others can help you steer your own firm around dangerous claims pitfalls. Join Robert Stanton for…

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Clearing Up Changes, Claims, and Disputes

Clearing Up Changes, Claims, and Disputes

Change issues can all too quickly evolve into claims and disputes. Riding an issue through these processes is challenging and stressful at the best of times, but when contractual procedures…

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Reliability, risk and resiliency

Communicating Reliability, Risk, and Resiliency to Non-Technical Decision Makers

The A/E industry has very specific definitions for reliability, risk, and resiliency … which your client (who has no technical background) doesn’t understand at all. Sound familiar? Join JD Solomon…

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The art of the conference

Conference Marketing: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

Away from the office with its demands and distractions … sharing meals, social activities, and information … Conferences offer the perfect conditions to connect with colleagues, clients, prospects, teaming partners,…

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Connecting Client/Prospect Feedback to Organizational Improvement

Connecting Client/Prospect Feedback to Organizational Improvement

‘If you don’t ask, you don’t get!’ This truism particularly applies to gathering client/prospect feedback. With so much valuable information to be gathered, it can be daunting to ask the…

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Coming up shorts

Coming Up Short: The Top 10 Reasons Why Companies Fall Short of Achieving Strategic Goals

Today, developing a strategic plan is a standard business practice, no matter your firm’s size. Yet many companies fail to reach the goals developed to make meaningful progress towards their…

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Compensation and Labor Accounting Back to the Basics

Compensation and Labor Accounting – Back to the Basics

Labor is the number one cost for most A/E firms … and often the least, most poorly documented. Whether labor is direct, allowable indirect, or unallowable indirect, the challenge of…

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