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Campfire Stories Claims Nightmares, Lessons Learned

Campfire Stories: Claims Nightmares, Lessons Learned

Unless you like learning the hard way, learning from the success and failures of others can help you steer your own firm around dangerous claims pitfalls. Join Robert Stanton for…

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Clearing Up Changes, Claims, and Disputes

Clearing Up Changes, Claims, and Disputes

Change issues can all too quickly evolve into claims and disputes. Riding an issue through these processes is challenging and stressful at the best of times, but when contractual procedures…

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Reliability, risk and resiliency

Communicating Reliability, Risk, and Resiliency to Non-Technical Decision Makers

The A/E industry has very specific definitions for reliability, risk, and resiliency … which your client (who has no technical background) doesn’t understand at all. Sound familiar? Join JD Solomon…

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The art of the conference

Conference Marketing: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

Away from the office with its demands and distractions … sharing meals, social activities, and information … Conferences offer the perfect conditions to connect with colleagues, clients, prospects, teaming partners,…

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Connecting Client/Prospect Feedback to Organizational Improvement

Connecting Client/Prospect Feedback to Organizational Improvement

‘If you don’t ask, you don’t get!’ This truism particularly applies to gathering client/prospect feedback. With so much valuable information to be gathered, it can be daunting to ask the…

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Coming up shorts

Coming Up Short: The Top 10 Reasons Why Companies Fall Short of Achieving Strategic Goals

Today, developing a strategic plan is a standard business practice, no matter your firm’s size. Yet many companies fail to reach the goals developed to make meaningful progress towards their…

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Compensation and Labor Accounting Back to the Basics

Compensation and Labor Accounting – Back to the Basics

Labor is the number one cost for most A/E firms … and often the least, most poorly documented. Whether labor is direct, allowable indirect, or unallowable indirect, the challenge of…

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Conversation and Collaboration Win Sales

Conversation and Collaboration Win Sales

Your firm’s growth depends on your ability to move prospects to clients conversation by conversation. It doesn’t matter how experienced, knowledgeable, or wonderful you are; if you can’t gain commitment…

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Demystifying the client selection process

Demystifying Client Selection Process Through Client Analysis Methods

“”They”” say that understanding is the key to success — and when it comes to securing your next project, “”they”” are right. Understanding social styles/personality-types and their effect on your…

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What you need to know about the fair pay and safe workplaces regulation

Blacklisting Is Back: What You Need to Know about the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Regulation

The U.S. Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council released the final rule to implement the Administration’s “”blacklisting”” policy that imposes new reporting requirements on violations and…

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