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Changing Your Mindset Is the Key to Change Management

February 11, 2021 By EMI

 

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 normal” of changed work processes and behaviors, but also by improving our mindset to improve our performance.

Take this quote from a study done by McKinsey Research:

… if companies can identify and address pervasive mind-sets at the outset, they are four times more likely to succeed in organizational-change efforts than are companies that overlook this stage.”

Key Principle: Mindsets can result in a 4X chance of success! Interested in learning more? Read on.

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Filed Under: Civil Engineering Tagged With: adapt to the new realities, change management, Changing Your Mindset, everyone can change, Fixed Mindset, Fixed vs. Growth Mindset., grow through application, growth mindset, improve our performance, improving our mindset, Jeff Perry, many different mindsets, undergo significant shifts, work processes and behaviors

Manage Your Projects to Meet Your Clients’ Expectations

October 14, 2020 By EMI

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 well they meet ours. In our professional life, nowhere else is this more applicable than in the client/consultant relationship.

The official measure of success frequently comes at the end of a project when each party evaluates how well their expectations have been met. The goal, of course, is for both parties to conclude that all of their expectations have been met. This is possible, but only with considerable attention being paid by both parties throughout the entire project. And it can only occur when each party has a clear understanding of what the other party expects. While the responsibility for managing this process is shared by both parties, most of the day-to-day effort usually falls to the consultant.

The first opportunity for the client’s expectations to be established occurs when the consultant submits their Statement of Qualification (SOQ) to the client during the selection process. The consultant wants the client to have a favorable impression of the consultant’s qualifications, but care must be taken to not overstate its qualifications, thereby creating an unattainable expectation of the consultant’s performance. In some cases when this happens, clients become disappointed when its expectations based on the SOQ have not been met. On future projects, they may require that the SOQ be attached and made a part of the contract for professional design services. Then, if the consultant’s performance is not consistent with its SOQ, the client may declare that the consultant is in default.

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Filed Under: Civil Engineering Tagged With: and budget, change management, Client’s Expectations, communications, construction process, consultant, expectations, John M. Lowe, Manage Your Projects, negotiating the business terms of the contract, schedule, scope, Statement of Qualification, Success

TECC 95: The Science of Successful Organizational Change For Engineers

January 12, 2016 By EMI

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TECC 95: The Science of Successful Organizational Change For Engineers
In today’s episode, Paul Gibbons, an expert in organizational change management, talks about how you can implement change leadership in the engineering organization you work for today or the engineering project you’re currently leading.

Here Are Some Key Points Discussed About the Science of Successful Organizational Change for Engineers:

Reasons and expertise do not by themselves add up to a successful change. Paul gives the example of their risk recommendations and cancer research.

Organizational Change [Read more…] about TECC 95: The Science of Successful Organizational Change For Engineers

Filed Under: Leadership/Management, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: change, change leadership, change management, Paul Gibbons

TCEP 021: Leading Change in Your Civil Engineering Career

December 23, 2015 By EMI

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In episode 021 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, Jon Weinstein, President of Line-of-Sight Consulting, talks about change management, what it is and why it is important to understand it in the context of an engineer involved in projects as well as management and leadership of people.

Here are some key points discussed in this episode: [Read more…] about TCEP 021: Leading Change in Your Civil Engineering Career

Filed Under: Project Management, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: change, change management, Jon Weinstein, organizational change, project management

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