- Insight on how the architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting industry has changed in recent years and what you need to do to keep up.
- Dozens of specific recommendations on how to survive and thrive in the years ahead.
- Every point is backed up with specific examples taken from real firms.
- Watch it with your partners or your employees to get inspired.
- Presented by Mark Zweig, the leading expert in management of firms like yours.
- It’s like having your own personal session with the #1 consultant for the A/E/P and environmental consulting industry.
Let’s face it—the architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting business just isn’t what it used to be. The old assumptions don’t hold true and if you want your firm to survive and thrive in the coming years, you need to adapt your management style.
The New Rules for Managing an A/E/P or Environmental Consulting Firm is your concise, one-hour video guide to the brave new world of managing a firm. The new rules for management were developed from experiences working with hundreds of the top U.S. architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firms. These aren’t just recommendations, they’re rules to live by if you expect to succeed in the coming years.
This presenter of this video, Mark Zweig has served as principal and manager of two ENR 500 firms, as a consultant to hundreds more. Join Mark on a funny and educational crash course on the changing rules in 24 different areas of management.
Business planning...marketing...organization structure...business valuation...ownership transition...recruiting...presentations...office space...employee benefits...workplace policies...You name it—if the rules are changing, Mark will tell you about it. He’s informative, he’s thought-provoking, and he’s entertaining.
Order this video today to start implementing the new rules of management and positioning your firm for future success.
Here are some examples of the new rules you’ll learn about in this video:
· Old rule: Owners are the only ones that see firm financial information.
· New rule: It’s insulting not to give this information to your people. They’re smart and they are greatly impacted by it.
· Old rule: Design firms should be organized in a matrix of technical discipline departments and project managers.
· New rule: Use standing, multi-discipline teams headed up by their own PM, each focused on a client type.
· Old rule: It’s unethical to recruit people directly from our competitors
· New rule: You have to recruit from competitors or you’ll never get anyone who can walk in and do the job.
About the speaker
Mark Zweig is a leading expert in management for the A/E/P and environmental consulting industries. As Founder and Director of ZweigWhite, he consults to top management in A/E/P and Environmental Consulting firms throughout the U.S. and abroad in strategic planning, turnarounds, organization restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, operations, finance, ownership transition, and more. Prior to founding the firm in 1988, he served in two ENR top-500 A/E/P firms. He is a widely published writer on A/E/P and environmental firm management and the author of five books. An accomplished speaker, Mark Zweig has conducted hundreds of seminars as well as spoken in front of local, state, and national chapters of many A/E and environmental industry associations. Mark’s firm, the leading management consulting, publishing, and training firm serving the A/E/P and Environmental Consulting industry, has twice been named to the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately held firms in the U.S. |
