Industry Speaks Review: aecKnowledge Course on Public Design Opportunities for Small Firms

Excerpt: "This course will provide you with meaningful insights on how to seek public design work and be successful with your efforts. The insights are offered directly from panelists who have had many years of experience in qualifying and selecting architects for public facilities."

Armando Gonzalez, FAIA, has reviewed Growing a Small Firm: Public Design Opportunities for Industry Speaks. Read the full review here.

Creating Active Cities Through Design - Course Reviewed on Industry Speaks

Are you interested in the importance of designing the built environment to foster a healthier community? This clearly presented and documented five-chapter course is a positive, initial study to help you commence further research and implement design with evidence-based strategies.
Read the full review by Armando Gonzalez, FAIA, here.

Ownership and Leadership Transitions: aecKnowledge course reviewed on Industry Speaks

Lisa Sachs, author of "What Is Your Construction Management IQ?" and managing principal at Cumming, published a course review on Industry Speaks. Excerpt:

For anyone contemplating a transition, or frankly for anyone who has not yet considered their exit strategy but should, this one-hour aecKnowledge course is well worth your time. The speaker covers the topic of Ownership and Leadership Transitions in a clear and concise fashion for AEC professionals.

The most important factor to consider is whether or not an owner who is contemplating succession planning should merge with another firm or transition from within...

Read the full review on Industry Speaks.

Stop Wasting Your Time (and Money!)

Have you ever felt like you were throwing good money down the drain on books and courses that you felt were really going to answer some fundamental questions; only to be disappointed that the abstract didn’t deliver?

Well, now you have a better way to determine what is worth your time and money.  Industry Speaks will begin providing course and book reviews to our subscribers. Our first course review, Leadership Effectiveness, is being offered by aecKnowelge® as a six part, web-based series for CEUs.   This review, which will be posted in September, will be authored by Valicia Dantzer, a 13+ year human resources professional whose focus is in the development and implementation human resources strategies in the areas of recruitment and retention, performance management, diversity, employee relations, policies and procedures, leadership development, training and organizational

development, and Human Resource Information System (HRIS) applications. Additionally, she is a member and holds certificated from the Society in Human ResourceManagement (SHRM) and Professionals in Human Resources (PIHRA).

In early fall, we will be reviewing PSMJ Publications, “Strategic Planning - Preparing Your Firm for Success” and the “Ultimate PM Manual.”  Are there publications or courses that you’d like our independent counsel to review? Let us know.  Our industry professionals are more than happy to take requests.

Karen Compton, Founder & President

Industry Speaks