Getting Involved in Your Community: Start with Diversity and Inclusion
Last month, we took a broad look at infrastructure from a policy and enabler perspective, acknowledging the inherent complexity associated with delivering sustainable infrastructure and encouraging us to take risks, expose challenges, empathetically listen, and celebrate incremental success as we find win-win scenarios. This month, we are pivoting from macro to micro, hoping to inform […]
To Negotiate Better, Seek to Understand More
To negotiate is a fact of life. We cannot avoid it. Whether we are negotiating compensation for a new job, the price of something we are trying to buy, a large corporate agreement, or even what to eat for dinner, we are constantly negotiating. Always Look for Negotiation Opportunities
How AEC Industry Professionals Can Approach Their Roles as Integrators
Last month we discussed the collective value of our voices: Speak Up, Take a Chance, Your Voice Matters! Today, as we see unrest in our streets, it is more apparent than ever that we actively seek platforms where holistic, inclusive discussions can be leveraged to solve our challenges. Discussions that start with a sense of belonging […]
Overcoming Resistance When Developing Your Personal Brand
In this article, I’d like to discuss how I stumbled onto the path of personal branding by identifying my area of expertise. By sharing this story, I hope you are able to take a few shortcuts to finding your own path to personal branding. First, why are personal branding and expertise important? Personal branding […]
The Ideal Learning and Development Strategy for You and Your Firm During and After COVID-19
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, most leaders agreed that employee recruitment and retention was the #1 issue facing engineering and architecture firms. At the same time, employee learning and development were our talent’s top priority. What will change moving forward? Our first concern at this moment must be safety and survival. Our next concern needs to […]
How to Support Women in Your Workplace
In the engineering industry, only 13% of professionals are women. Moreover, only 30% of women who earned a bachelor’s in engineering remain in the field for more than 20 years. Often, workplace culture, a lack of appreciation for their skills, and gender discrimination, in general, drive them away from the industry. This is a detriment to the […]
How to Seek out Mentorship in Construction and Engineering
Many of us think mentorship in construction and engineering requires expertise. In most cases, this is true, but remember that mentors exist for several different reasons.
Designing Your Engineering “To Be” List
Are you where you want to be? For most of us, there is a gap and a need to retarget your “to-be” list to help you move closer to where you want to be.
Do You Have the Resourcefulness to Earn a 30% Pay Raise This Year?
Do you know EXACTLY the percentage raise you want to earn? For many of our clients, earning a 30% pay raise is a stretch goal they aspire to achieve.
5 Tips to Revamp Your LinkedIn Profile and Attract Recruiters
If every aspect of our life is marked by the involvement of social media, how can a job search be any different? The platform that has suddenly taken center stage and beaten conventional job search portals is LinkedIn. So, in this article we are going to tell you the top five ways in which you […]
