Being a leader in a single-office A/E firm is tough enough, but it can be even more of a challenge to manage a company with multiple offices. Multi-office A/E firms face unique challenges such as developing close communication and sharing work across offices, maintaining a consistent corporate culture, allocating overhead, and more. A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan will help you solve the particular challenges you face as a manager in a multi-office firm. Whether you’re a manager in a branch office, a firm leader concerned about the performance of your satellite offices, or a firm owner thinking about opening a branch office, this book will help you improve the performance of your multi-office firm.
Summary of What's Inside:
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Read step-by-step action plans to improve the performance of your firm’s branch offices
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Learn strategies to make your branch offices profitable as quickly as possible
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Get ideas on how to stop losing money on underperforming offices
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Make sure you have the most effective leadership possible for your branch offices
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Learn how to keep up the morale and productivity of your employees
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Find out how to launch a new office or decide whether to close an underperforming branch
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Learn how to facilitate healthy communication and collaboration between your headquarters and your branch offices |
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Read step-by-step action plans to improve the performance of your firm’s branch offices
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Learn strategies to make your branch offices profitable as quickly as possible
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Get ideas on how to stop losing money on underperforming offices
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Make sure you have the most effective leadership possible for your branch offices
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Learn how to keep up the morale and productivity of your employees
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Find out how to launch a new office or decide whether to close an underperforming branch
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Learn how to facilitate healthy communication and collaboration between your headquarters and your branch offices
Being a leader in a single-office A/E firm is tough enough, but it can be even more of a challenge to manage a company with multiple offices. Multi-office A/E firms face unique challenges such as developing close communication and sharing work across offices, maintaining a consistent corporate culture, allocating overhead, and more.
ZweigWhite’s A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan will help you solve the particular challenges you face as a manager in a multi-office A/E or environmental consulting firm. Whether you’re a manager in a branch office, a firm leader concerned about the performance of your satellite offices, or a firm owner thinking about opening a branch office, this book will help you improve the performance of your multi-office firm.
ZweigWhite’s A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan covers all the business management issues faced by multi-office architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firms, such as branch office leadership, marketing, internal communications, overhead and project allocation, budgeting, and more. A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan also provides tips on launching a branch office and making it profitable as quickly as possible. If your A/E firm has a struggling branch office, you’ll also get advice for turning around its performance or deciding whether it’s time to close it. ZweigWhite’s A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan has all the best practices multi-office firm leaders need to improve the performance of their companies.
A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan is an action-oriented management guide designed to meet the needs of busy multi-office firm leaders and branch office managers. It is filled with checklists, worksheets, case studies, and self-assessments to help you improve the performance of your firm. Follow the steps in A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan, from the beginning assessment to the closing re-assessment, and you’ll make sure your multi-office firm is performing to its full capability.
Whether you already have several branch offices or you’re thinking about starting your first satellite office, order your copy of A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan today.
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Foreword
Chapter 1: What’s Your Current Branch Office Fitness?
Chapter 2: Launching a Branch Office
Chapter 3: Hiring the Right Branch Office Manager
Chapter 4: Empowering the Branch Office Manager
Chapter 5: Building the Branch Office Staff
Chapter 6: Creating a Consistent Corporate Culture
Chapter 7: Keeping Up Branch Office Morale
Chapter 8: Sharing Work Among Offices
Chapter 9: Maximizing Branch Office Financial Performance
Chapter 10: Allocating Overhead
Chapter 11: Marketing a Branch Office
Chapter 12: Investing in Information Technology
Chapter 13: Turning Around a Struggling Branch Office
Chapter 14: Closing a Branch Office
Chapter 15: Reassessing Your Branch Office Fitness
Appendix A: The Complete A/E Branch Office Fitness Plan
Appendix B: Additional Sources of Information |
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