 Creating the environment for a profitable organization begins with those that lead and deliver your projects. At the core of what firms do, strategically and intelligently executing projects from proposal to solution fuels growth, creates opportunities, and sustains a strong commitment to your team and your clients. Project Managers are the caretakers of your professional service. Through training based on best practices, they can lead their team to superior outcomes.
A/E Project Management Optimization is a three-part webinar series that will help you understand the conditions in your firm that may be hindering the process, and will present strategies to facilitate excellence at all levels using practical, real-world examples and best practices used by the top firms in the industry. |
Creating the environment for a profitable organization begins with those that lead and deliver your projects. At the core of what firms do, strategically and intelligently executing projects from proposal to solution fuels growth, creates opportunities, and sustains a strong commitment to your team and your clients. Project Managers are the caretakers of your professional service. Through training based on best practices, they can lead their team to superior outcomes.
A/E Project Management Optimization is a three-part webinar series that will help you understand the conditions in your firm that may be hindering the process, and will present strategies to facilitate excellence at all levels using practical, real-world examples and best practices used by the top firms in the industry.
Areas where firms struggle the most are covered extensively in this webinar: The technical, financial, marketing, and managerial roles and responsibilities of a Project Manager; Assembling and leading a solid team—both internally and externally; Best practices in negotiation, communication, risk management, delegation, and managing client expectations. Program Agenda:
What is Project Management?
Critical role of projects in the firm • Project Manager – Role, not title
Project Manager Skills and Abilities
Leadership Skills • Management Skills • Communication Skills
Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities
Project Role • Technical Role • Business Role • Marketing Role • Team Structure in Project Management • The project focused firm • Effective team organization
Project Conception
Scope • Schedule • Budget • Contract • Price • Key Concept: Price versus Cost • Key Concept: Negotiation • Key Concept: Risk Management
Project Initiation
Team Formation •,Project Business Plan • Kick Off Meeting • Key Concept: Delegation • Key Concept: Accountability
Project Progression
Budget Monitoring • Schedule Monitoring • QA/QC • Team Communication • Billing/Collections • Marketing • Key Concept: Time Management • Key Concept: Communication • Key Concept: Managing Projects Remotely
Project Completion
Closeout • Review • Celebrating Success
Project Capitalization
Knowledge Transfer • Marketing • Bias and commitment for doing • Scheduling a personal follow up with the seminar leader
Implementation
Successful Project “Must Haves” • Fulfilling client, firm, and project goals • What do I do from here?
Who Should Attend
In an increasingly competitive environment, it is crucial everyone involved thinks more strategically about the way projects enter the firm, move through the expertise of the team, and are delivered successfully to the client. From principals and seasoned project managers to assistant PMs and technical staff—every participant will learn more about the role they play within a project, within the firm, and towards the vision. |
 Christine Brack, PMO
Principal, ZweigWhite
Christine Brack is a Principal based in ZweigWhite’s Chicago office and works with architecture, engineering, development, and environmental consulting firms in the U.S. and abroad to achieve their goals from vision through implementation. Her business planning engagements design strategic and tactical initiatives relative to long term growth, market sector planning, business development effectiveness, organizational alignment, and operational improvement. With projects at the core of their business, Christine also consults clients on project delivery and assists in implementing changes and best practices via firm-wide education and training.
Her AEC experience comes after spending eight years as a project manager with a general contractor on new construction and adaptive reuse projects in the higher education arena. Using her knowledge of this market and maintaining an expertise on trends and drivers, she advises clients interested in entering this segment. Also prior to ZweigWhite, Christine was a strategy and research consultant at both Frost & Sullivan and The Economist Intelligence Unit. Today her market research projects focus on opportunities within the water and wastewater space.
Within the industry, Christine is a Professional Affiliate of the AIA and serves on the Practice Management Knowledge Community for the Chicago Chapter, as well as, a member of SMPS—the Society for Marketing Professional Services. She is a frequent speaker at AIA and ACEC regional seminars and ZweigWhite’s Principal’s Academy, Hot Firm, and Best Firm to Work For conferences. She is also a contributing author to The Zweig Letter, Marketing Now, The Zweig HR Letter, and CENews.
Christine received her MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Saint Mary’s of Notre Dame, and Bachelor of Arts (BA) in German Language from Purdue University. She also holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute (PMI). |
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