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AE Best Practices Guide for Running Status Meetings
Learn the secrets to running project status meetings that work! Status meetings are a critical tool throughout the project's lifecycle, but far too often these critically important meetings are inefficient and ineffective. In this fun, 30-minute webinar, we’ll give you 5 great techniques you can use to increase the productivity of your status meetings.
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Axium Client Case Study: How Ajera Helped Improve a Firm’s Project Management Processes & ROI
Excuses, excuses … we’ve heard them all: “It takes away from billable time,” “There’s a bottleneck in the PM review,” or “This is too much effort and admin work.” As a leader in your firm, this is your chance to learn how to use standardized processes and technology to move your team from excuses to performance.
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The New Financial Project Manager Whitepaper
Every firm needs to have a plan in place to manage and oversee the work produced by sub-consultants, including how to manage activities, monitor progress, set expectations and answer questions. In 30 minutes, we’ll give you tips on how to segment consulting cost and revenue from labor, manage insurance contracts and how to allocate consultant budget by phase for billing purposes.
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March 22
Improve Project Status Meetings
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April 12
Eliminate Common Excuses
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May 10
Best Manage Sub-Consultants
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Recruiting the Best and Brightest Employees for Your A/E Firm
Led By Dave Burstein, PSMJ Resources
Thursday, May 23, 2013
10:00am - 11:00am PT / 11:00am - 12:00pm MT / 12:00pm - 1:00pm CT / 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
Ask the principals in any A/E/C firm what are their greatest assets and they will always say, “Our people are our greatest asset.” Unfortunately, they don’t always walk the talk. Building a high performance organization often takes a back seat to maintaining high chargeability. But, as the economic recovery strengthens and the Baby Boomers retire, those firms that really focus on building a high performance organization will greatly outperform those who are obsessed with short-term chargeability.
This webinar deals with one critically important aspect of developing a high performance organization – recruiting the best and brightest. In the past two years, the A/E industry in the U.S. has added 30,000 jobs. And the pace is accelerating. Add to that the need to replace retiring Baby Boomers. And the dearth of people with the education needed to perform in the A/E industry. The result is a coming labor shortage of epic proportions. Recruiting mediocre people has always been easy. But mediocre people produce a mediocre company. Recruiting the best and brightest will help you build a top-performing firm.
This webinar presents the results of a recent PSMJ survey of the recruiting practices of 129 A/E firms. Here are some of the results you’ll learn more about when you attend this webinar:
- Newspaper want ads, the traditional approach to recruiting, are falling out of favor.
- Social media has become a more popular recruiting tool. Its effectiveness isn’t so good but we’ll tell you about one firm that has discovered how to really benefit from social media recruiting.
- Using the firm’s own website has become the single most popular method of recruiting. However, most firms find that it isn’t very effective. We’ll tell you why and what you can do to make your website a more effective recruiting method.
- Recruiting new grads on campus has become much more effective in recent years. We’ll tell you how your firm can benefit from this trend.
- The single most effective recruiting method is employee referral bonuses. We’ll tell you how the most successful firms do it, including how much they pay and how they pay it.
This webinar is just the ticket for you if you are really serious about building a high performance organization. The presentation will be chock-full of real-world A/E firm stories and case studies that will show you how to recruit the best and brightest employees to your firm.
Dave Burstein, P.E. is a principal consultant with PSMJ Resources, Inc., the world's leading authority, publisher, and advisor on the effective management of A/E/C firms. In that role, he helps scores of firms across the United States and Canada to devise and carry out their strategic and business plans. Dave focuses much effort on developing a high performance organization with top-notch people from the CEO all the way down to the lowliest clerical position.
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