Failure Analysis and the Professional Liability Claims Process
This is an article by John M. Lowe, Jr., P.E., speaker for our upcoming CEC session Failure Analysis and the Professional Claims Process, which you can find here. Every design project manager, construction contractor, and client optimistically want their projects to be designed and constructed flawlessly. Sometimes, that is the happy outcome. However, it seems […]
Changing Your Mindset Is the Key to Change Management
This is a blog by Jeff Perry, MBA Over the last year, virtually every company and firm has had to undergo significant shifts to adapt to the new realities created by the worldwide pandemic. As leaders, it’s critical that we move through these shifts by helping our teams not only adjust to the “new […]
Disrupting Infrastructure Solutions as a Trusted Community Member
As 2021 opens, my optimism bias is on full tilt. Empathizing with the global socio-economic trauma caused by COVID-19, I am certain that regenerative infrastructure investments can underpin recovery. Yet will they? Will investments in our social and civil infrastructure, benefiting from a period of unprecedented disruption, have inclusive sustainable societal implications? Scott Galloway’s Post […]
Four Ways To Move Your Career Ahead Through LinkedIn
This is a guest blog by Carl Friesen I have discovered a new way to generate interest and value to my engineering career thanks to sharing my knowledge through professional networks such as Linkedin, although it was not always like that… I’ve always been a behind-the-scenes kind of person, pleased to be part of an […]
Prioritizing Your Goals – the One Step Most Professionals Fail to Take
The topic for our December 2020 Civil Engineering Collective session will be goal setting as many professionals start thinking about their goals for 2021. In the session, we will walk through three steps that you can take for effective goal setting. However what I’d like to cover in this post is an important step that […]
Manage Your Projects to Meet Your Clients’ Expectations
This is an article by John M. Lowe, Jr., P.E., speaker for our upcoming Civil Engineering Collective session: Manage Your Projects to Meet Your Clients’ Expectations, which you can find here. Hardly anything has a greater influence on how we perceive being successful in life than how we meet the expectations of others and how […]
The Value of Positive Public Perception — In COVID and BEYOND!
This is an article by Sam Lytle, P.E. speaker for our upcoming CEC session: The Value of Positive Perception for Your Civil Project which you can find here It’s hard to fathom now, but only months ago, groups of unmasked people gathering together to learn about a public works project was not only a common […]
15 Minutes of Preparation Can Save Hours for Your Engineering Team
Our next live Civil Engineering Collective training session will focus on maximizing engagement and effectiveness through virtual interactions. Something that must be top of mind for all professionals today, especially those in the civil engineering world, who work on complex projects with many moving parts. Let’s be honest, we’re not getting away from remote work […]
What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way
We had our best quarter ever at the Engineering Management Institute in the first quarter of 2020. Our team was growing as was our client base. Then all of a sudden it seemed like the world stopped dead in its tracks. This virus that had been seen on the news, had made its way into […]
