Full Description

• Read step-by-step action plans to improve the performance of your firm’s branch offices
• Learn strategies to make your branch offices profitable as quickly as possible
• Get ideas on how to stop losing money on underperforming offices
• Make sure you have the most effective leadership possible for your branch offices
• Learn how to keep up the morale and productivity of your employees
• Find out how to launch a new office or decide whether to close an underperforming branch
• Learn how to facilitate healthy communication and collaboration between your headquarters and your branch offices

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.

Contents

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