Communication tip:
If your team is hesitating to say what everyone is privately thinking, you have a communication gap.
You may—or may not realize it.
👉Avoiding uncomfortable truths—with internal staff or prospects—doesn’t help your firm's credibility.
It erodes trust, performance, and your bottom line.
This isn’t about publicly calling someone out or embarrassing them.
It’s about creating a culture with psychological safety to calmly address real issues with professionalism and respect.
➡️Here’s a common example in A/E/C:
You have a charismatic project leader or superintendent who dominates conversations and shortlisted interviews.
They’re likable… outgoing… the “life of the party.”
But here’s what no one’s saying to their face:
📈Their long-winded stories and off-topic comments derail important discussions—especially with prospects.
What feels like small talk to them feels like wasted time to others. 😮
The challenge is that this individual doesn't know how to read the room and reel themselves i...
Risk mitigation and workplace silos go hand-in-hand.
What if you saw training differently?
Successful A/E/C firms that capture pursuits face and embrace workplace training data. 📈
They don't make excuses about budgets, limited time, or keeping training in-house:
Research from Lorman shows that internal programs may save your firm money in the short term, but the benefits are limited.
🎯Most employees crave fresh perspectives and innovative problem-solving strategies.
To scale and narrow talent gaps, proactive firms are willing to invest in external training.
A/E/C executives must be open-minded and know that scalability is intertwined with today's business development and communication skills.
How does your team measure up against competitors?
Savvy leaders recognize the return on investment i...
Many PMs, superintendents, estimators, and others have deep technical knowledge—but often lack experience in client-facing conversations.
📈That’s not a flaw; it’s a gap that training and education can address.
With today's new strategies, A/E/C teams can develop the confidence and communication skills needed to differentiate your firm—building trust, getting referrals, and strengthening client relationships.🥇
🎯Here are four foundational areas to help employees shift their mindset and be better prepared to capture pursuits.
Articulating complex data and information doesn't have to be an ongoing struggle in A/E/C.
From misunderstandings in e-mail threads and texts to confusing slide decks and messaging to stakeholders, there's room to improve communication.
Interpersonal communication is at the root of reworks, lost bids, budget overruns, and the labor shortage.
In the "Bridging the Gap" podcast episode, I talk with host Todd Weyandt about how A/E/C teams can become confident communicators, with new storytelling and networking skills.
Grab valuable techniques and strategies from our conversation. Here's the link. https://bit.ly/3T7L97B
🎯Communication and Presentation Tip:
Anyone in A/E/C with a PowerPoint slide that resembles the one below gets an automatic tariff of 345 percent. 😮
😮Avoid this at all costs!
Instead, follow these 5 tips to create reader-friendly engaging slides to WOW (not confuse) your audience.
1. Pull key data and sections from graphs, using words/nuggets to capture the highlights.
2. Choose the right visuals to complement small amounts of text.
3. Think one slide = one point.
4. Avoid text that is unaligned or too small.
5. Have an emotionally engaging design.
Reach out if you need support with business development, presentations, and public speaking to capture more pursuits.
Communication, seller-doer challenges, and confidence.
To achieve greater success in the A/E/C industry, a new poll says firms must overcome these three obstacles, beginning with communication.
➡️Nearly 40 percent of respondents said unasked questions hold teams back in sales meetings.
➡️More than 25 percent cite rushing through conversations as a significant challenge.
Are you working on the right problem?
In A/E/C, this could mean focusing on the most pressing client needs or more profitable projects.
Reach out if you want to transform your teams' communication so you can capture more pursuits, improve productivity, and build trust.
Staggering statistics around communication and lost bids are getting the attention of leaders in A/E/C.
Being proactive is key to sustainable business growth.
➡️Managers who take action show their commitment to adapting to change and the risk of giving new jobs to competitors.
🧨Proactive managers build stronger teams and win more bids.
It's that simple.
It's why our Top Tier Communicator online training gets firms returns on investments of 5,000 percent or more (Yes, you read it correctly!)
And it's why we have classes available for the next four months.
📈Here's the secret:
Old ways of doing business won't open new doors.
How many contracts are you losing a month?
And industry data supports the need for human-to-human communication and professional development.
A recent report from Newforma, an AECO software management firm, finds:
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