Leadership and succession planning are top priorities in A/E/C today, but there's a common factor behind their success.

Employee acquisition and retention in our ongoing labor shortage pose unique challenges.

These challenges, at their core, all circle back to communication.

Your communication is the foundation for addressing labor and leadership struggles.

👉We're often quick to pass the buck to our post-COVID world.

👉Or to Gen Z and their phone addictions.

👉Or to TikTok influencers and trendy memes.

Look, no one is to "blame" for the industry's struggles with interpersonal communication.

To improve, we must acknowledge our shared responsibility and act on it.

Like a drone, business and personal growth require us to see the big picture.

This framework will get you started:

• Exploring: Thousands of years ago, curious cave dwellers went on daily quests to find food. The word "quest" is the root of questions.

Reflect on whether you are asking yourself the right questions to...

Burnout.

It's all too commonplace in A/E/C.

Leaders often struggle for long periods to uncover the root cause of burnout.

From my experience, it's deeper than unplanned meetings and confusing documentation.

⚠️The main issue is that firms become so absorbed in daily work that they miss opportunities to gain fresh perspectives.

The result? Lost revenue and high turnover. 

Leaning into new strategies can help firms improve productivity and morale.

➡️After all, you can't read the label from inside the jar.

You have a fear of speaking up at presentations or meetings? 

Maybe you’re afraid you stink at networking.

Or maybe you’ve been scaring yourself with imposter syndrome because you don’t have all the answers for clients. 

Read the words on the man’s shirt that I saw this morning. 

Facts Over Fear. 

🎯Fact: All humans are born with 2 innate fears. 

1- The fear of falling.
2- The fear of loud noises. 

Somewhere along life’s journey, you’ve convinced yourself you stink at public speaking, networking, and pursuits. 👀

Blah, blah, blah.

I was there years ago, and I’m not anymore. 😂

Today, I know it’s all learned behavior that you can unlearn to be more successful. 

That’s a fact. 

Is it time to stop scaring yourself and staying stuck? 

🙌Facts Over Fear. 

Reach out if you are ready to stop the negative self talk and step into your potential. 

You decide. 💯

Sending mixed messages to prospects and clients leads to confusion.

Does your body language match your words? 😮

Here's a 30-second video example of a classic disconnect.

I coach an engineer in our Amplify program who tells the group he's got exciting things underway.

Watch what happens. 

Busy digging into new tech to reduce misunderstandings and unorganized data?

Slow down, Skippy.

Improving internal team communication is not the first step to managing projects efficiently.

👉This is where your firm must begin.

In this 2-minute video, I share the breakthrough communication strategy that successful AEC clients use.

It's internal, but not what you think it is! 

"I've grown from it and want to keep going."

This is what a group coaching client, Phyllis, told me today. 

I've watched her go all in these past three months of Amplify, my online coaching program. 

It's where A/E/C pros uplevel their communication, confidence, and sales. 

Still, the way to grow and get your desired results is to be eager to learn. 

🧨Honoring commitments was also discussed in our coaching session. 

👀People showed up to Amplify in different ways. 

They participated on different levels.

So they dug into the content and enjoyed the wisdom and techniques they hadn't heard before.👏

They appreciated my no-nonsense approach to building human connections. 

Like so many in A/E/C, students wanted to:

• Become more clear and confident in business development meetings.
• Overcome limiting beliefs around public speaking and communication.
• Learn high-level brain science so that selling is conversational—without awkward, canned slide decks.
• Simplify complex data to engag
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