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10 Video Conferencing Best Practices for a Productive Meeting

by June R. Jewell, CPA | Mar 31, 2020 | Best Practices, Business Development, Business Management, Client Relationships, Leadership, Strategy, Systems, Technology, View All Posts

In 2017 I implemented a policy in my business that we would conduct all meetings on video conference. Having a virtual business for over 30 years with very little in-person meetings, I found video conference to be a much more effective way to have a meeting or...

How to Create Financial Stability Now

by June R. Jewell, CPA | Mar 18, 2020 | Best Practices, Business Development, Business Management, Company Culture, Leadership, Profitability, Strategy, Systems, View All Posts

The world is in turmoil and the current state of the world will quickly cause financial losses. You may already be seeing signs of an early decline. In times of uncertainty, business often slows to a crawl. Business owners and their clients don’t make decisions in...

Spring Cleaning for Your Business

by June R. Jewell, CPA | Mar 10, 2020 | Business Management, Profitability, Strategy, Systems, View All Posts

Doesn’t it feel good to throw things away? I don’t know about you, but I hate clutter. It makes me feel stressed and disorganized. Every year I resolve to clean out my office, my garage, and all the drawers and closets in the house that get cluttered over the long...

Turning Processes to Profits

by June R. Jewell, CPA | Feb 4, 2020 | Accountability, Best Practices, Business Development, Business Management, Company Culture, Leadership, Profitability, Resources, Strategy, Systems, Training, View All Posts

As a design and construction professional you know that a building is only as strong as its foundation. Without a strong foundation, a building will move and settle over time and have lots of problems. The same principles apply to your business. Processes and...

5 Steps to Help Your Project Managers Succeed

by June R. Jewell, CPA | Nov 13, 2019 | Best Practices, Company Culture, Profitability, Project Management, Strategy, Systems, Training, View All Posts

Your project managers (PMs) face daily challenges to their success that they are unprepared for. Becoming a PM can feel like moving to a foreign country – everything feels strange and everyone is speaking a different language. PMs today have more demands on their...

{Guest Post} Five basic rules for better Go/No Go decisions in A/E/C industry

by Kathryn Ness, CPSM and Frank Lippert, FSMPS, CPSM | Nov 4, 2019 | Best Practices, Business Development, Business Management, Company Culture, Profitability, Project Management, Resources, Strategy, Systems, Training, View All Posts

We fixate on go/no go in this industry. As we should. Go/no go is the pivotal decision point in A/E/C consulting firms’ business where we consider ‘spending or not spending’ our precious overhead dollars to pursue work. It is an important marketing and...