Architects Essentials of Professional Development

Easy access to crucial business information for design professionals Find the concise, practical business information you need right now in the Architect’s Essentials of Professional Practice Series. These authoritative guides quickly make you an instant expert on the best business practices crucial for success in today’s design and construction professions. Each portable, affordable, user–friendly volume gives you: Authoritative advice from leading national figures Flip–and–find access to critical business information Bulleted lists and callout boxes for quick reference Clear, insightful explanations of complex business topics Architect’s Essentials of Professional Development provides concise, how–to guidelines for establishing a proprietary professional development program for design firms and individual professionals dedicated to leadership in the marketplace. A national expert offers advice for planning, designing, and assessing a continuing skill–building program, including three practice–friendly approaches: training, lessons learned, and mentoring. Customizing programs to meet the needs of your firm is easy with a broad range of best practices from large and small firms and with useful pedagogical materials, such as worksheets, questionnaires, and assessment forms. Architect’s Essentials of Professional Development is a versatile and powerful resource for design firms of all specialties.

Forward. Acknowledgments. 1. Competitive Edge. 2. Strategy. 3. Assessment. 4. Program Planing and Design. 5. Curriculum. 6. Coaching and Lessons Learned. 7. Mentoring. 8. Implementation. 9. Evaluation. 10. Learning from Learning. Appendix: Suggested Learning Objectives for Architect′s Essentials of Professional Development. Bibliography. Index.

JEAN R. VALENCE is President of Blackridge, Ltd., a firm that provides management and marketing counsel to owners of design and construction firms. She is also Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Boston Architectural Center, a faculty member of the CES Firm Leadership Summits of the American Institute of Architects, and the 2001 recipient of the national Marketing Achievement Award presented by the Society for Marketing Professional Services. She is an expert in corporate strategy development, marketing, client satisfaction assessment, and human resources matters.