The Four Major ‘Shifts’ Changing Everything About Leadership and Firm Success
Image by pressfoto on Freepik Like most large-scale systemic events, March 2020 gave “official birth” to a new era of work and life — one with new rules, new ways of thinking, and lots of big change. Among the change we’ve all seen and experienced for several years now, there have been a number […]
Learning to Lead and Succeed with ‘SFA’: Success From Anywhere
COVID forced “work from home.” Then evolved the idea of “work from anywhere” – whether that be home, a local café, or other workspace. As we work through the sometimes half-hearted attempts to bring our employees back to the office, the organizational development and talent attraction and retention idea that I believe will stick is […]
What the Redefinition of Winning Means for Your Success
To be successful as leaders and leadership teams, we need to see both the “big picture” and what’s happening “on the ground” within our firms and the marketplace. Being a leader at any level is about constantly looking for problems to solve and opportunities to realize — but which ones are the right ones, which ones have […]
Future of Work in Engineering & Architecture 2021 Report – Ep 175
In the episode that is part of our Civil Engineering Entrepreneurs series, I talk to Peter Atherton, P.E., President and Founder of ActionsProve, LLC, and author of Reversing Burnout, about the recently released Future of Work in Engineering & Architecture 2021 Report. The 2021 report was conducted by Actions Prove, in partnership with the Engineering […]
Winning With Impact: How to Stand Out in the Workplace, Marketplace, and Recruiting Space
Whether newer to the workforce or with 20 or more years’ experience, so many of us are: Feeling the weight of burnout and disengagement, Yearning for more meaning and purpose, and Wanting to make a difference in solving issues facing our world and those we care about. Organizationally, many of us are also struggling to […]
Getting Ahead of the Next Curve as a Leader and Team
What We Need to Know About Human Disaster Response and Trauma There is no doubt that we as leaders and team have been going through a season of much higher fear, anxiety, and trauma with the COVID-19 crisis and the very visual revealing of racial injustice and inequities previously ignored. Our stressors are also multifaceted […]
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 […]
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.
