If you're ready to make transformations at your architecture or engineering firm, but lack the time and resources to train a trainer, turn to the proven, fast, and cost-effective solution: PSMJ Resources' In-House Training Suite. Each of our industry-leading programs is now available for delivery at your offices or live online, on your timetable, and adjusted to address your most significant challenges.
Learn more about how PSMJ's award-winning AEC staff training and executive coaching programs can drive measurable improvements to your firm's financial performance.
AEC Project Management In-House Training
Our most populat turnkey training program features 12 hours of AEC project management mastery delivered by inspiring and experienced AEC project leaders, onsite at your firm or live online, plus digital tools and calculators for applying everything they learn. Your team learns the same profit-boosting, deadline-beating formulas, hacks, metrics and processes we've imparted to the over 40,000 PMs who have taken our legendary 2-day AEC Project Management Bootcamp, including how to:
And 47 additional use-them-now skills, best-in-class implementation- tools, calculators, checklists
and ongoing one-on-one support to transform your project managers' professional value and
ability to deliver superior results on every AEC project they manage.
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NEW: AEC Enterprise Project Performance System
PSMJ's newest enhanced training option, AEC Enterprise Project Performance System (EPPS), takes our PM training a step further by bringing a customized program to your team to address your firm's most significant staff skill shortfalls, the ones that can cost million in lost profits, dissatisfied clients, and damage to your reputation. EPPS includes intensive post-training assessments and implementation coaching to ensure enterprise-wide adoption of key principals and processes. One EPPS customer reported a $9 million increase in profits after implementing the program.
INCLUDED WITH PSMJ AEC PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING PACKAGES
Standard AEC Project Management In-house Training
AEC Enterprise Project Performance System
(EPPS)
Proven A/E/C project management tips and techniques delivered by the industry's most experienced and inspiring instructors
Spreadsheet templates, calculators, and other digital tools for immediately applying new skills to specific projects
Pre-Training PM Skills Test to Identify Deficiencies, Post-Training Exam to Measure Improvement, and Principals' Implementation Plan
AIA Credit and CEU/PDH hours
PSMJ's 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
Quarterly follow-up meetings and unlimited phone/email support to promote firm-wide progress toward established performance standards
Pre-training assessments and consultations with firm leaders to determine PM skill set deficiency
Content 100% customized to address your firm's most pressing needs
Menu of pre-training activities to build baseline skills
AEC Enterprise Project Performance System (EPPS) delivers a 3-step high-impact custom learning experience tailored to find and fix your firm’s often-hidden profit-killers. First, seasoned PSMJ experts with deep A/E/C industry knowledge identify staff skill deficits, incorporate your business objectives, KPIs, and unique challenges, then create and conduct a turnkey training program, either in-person or live online, that improves the performance, enthusiasm, and engagement of your entire team.
Pre-program analysis and benchmarking targets your areas of pressing need
An intensive interactive seminar at your office, or live online, teaches critical skills
Post-training follow-up
coaching cements your staff's gains in place
Maintaining strong backlog, sustaining profitability, and finding and keeping top talent are just some of the tasks that real-deal principals execute every day. This in-house program, with lessons and data drawn from our popular AEC Principals Bootcamp, teaches essential skills for inspiring teams and driving revenue growth.
In both flush markets and in lean periods, the highest performing firms are those staffed with great seller-doers. This program elevates both skill and confidence levels for your firm's Principals, Project Managers, and anyone with business development responsibility by clearly and completely explaining how to develop and implement winning proposal strategies.
With new investment in infrastructure comes renewed focus on cost, contractor, and schedule management. Give your agency supervisors and forepersons the skills they need to keep multiple stakeholders happy with project management protocols used by the most admired public works departments.
Learn how the most successful AEC firms manage cash flow, allocate resources, navigate market upheaval, set fees, pursue projects, monitor team productivity, and plan for the future. Over 1500 Principals and CFOs have attended the in-person or online version of this program, now available at your offices and fine-tuned to address your firm's specific financial challenges.
Great firm leaders have made the jump from managing tasks, goals, and targets to coaching people, driving change, and inspiring high performance all around them. This program coaches your current and next-gen leaders with industry-specific high impact strategies based on decades of analyzing what the best leaders have in common.
“Gannett Fleming started working with PSMJ on a comprehensive, customized PM training program. Prior to that, we had been doing most of our PM training in-house.
Despite our best efforts, we were realizing persistently large negative variances on our projects. So our primary goal was to reduce these. Another important goal was to increase our already high levels of client satisfaction. There were also some important secondary objectives, such as reducing DSO days, etc.
These goals formed the basis for a highly customized program. PSMJ also helped us to focus on systematically implementing the lessons learned in this training program and imbedding them into our day-to-day operational practices.
Art Hoffmann, P.E.
Executive Vice President
Chief Administrative Officer
Gannett Fleming
The single most significant cultural change for Gannett Fleming was the implementation of Project Principal review meetings. This activity led to the creation of an in-house Project Health and Resource Management application used to document project health based on PM assessments and the results of these review meetings.
As a result of these efforts, we have consistently reduced negative variance and increased positive variance to the point where our negative variance is now totally offset by our positive variance. Our project budget improvements have been large and contribute towards our investment in the training program. We have also measurably improved our client satisfaction evaluations.
We have found PSMJ to be very helpful, knowledgeable and totally professional during our long relationship and recommend them to anyone who desires to improve project budget performance and client satisfaction.”
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The Challenge
IA Interior Architects Senior Project Manager Tracey Nordahl wanted to pursue options for her staff to be trained in project management. Because of their specific needs, IA did not want to settle on a public training program, where the material wouldn’t address their challenges. What inspired to IA Interior Architects to engage PSMJ was that the firm’s 21 global offices did not have a consistent approach to project management processes and to project manager training. “We wanted to unify our staff in training and ensure consistency across all offices that did not currently exist,” says Nordahl. “PSMJ gave us a base in which to build upon and enhance our current processes.”
The Solution
Tracey enlisted the help of PSMJ consultant Chris Martersteck, because she knew PSMJ had project management offerings with instructors who have a personal knowledge of expertise in industry practices. Chris’s extensive experience in the AEC industry allows him to serve the needs of all training participants to maximize success for the entire staff. Chris founded Perkins+Will Integrated Services for integrated design-build and program management services at the 1,000-person award winning firm. He also managed the Chicago office of an ENR 200 firm and headed facility planning efforts for a Fortune 50 corporation and a national interior design firm. A member of the American Institute of Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional, he chaired the AIA Chicago Design-Build Knowledge Community. He now leads national seminars on project management and integrated project delivery.
Chris held 11 sessions at IA, training more than 250 employees, including Principals and Directors trained to provide the best support to Project Managers.
The Outcome
Based on the firm's In-House Project Management training, IA implemented a customized report so project managers are able to gauge the progress of a project and if there’s a need for corrective action, developed firm-wide project management guidelines from Chris’s ideas, and adopted a monthly project management call to share successful solutions among colleagues.
Faster Payment: IA synced bill cycles to reduce outstanding invoices.
“Our experience with this program has been exceptional, mainly due to the instructor, Chris Martersteck, we have used for all of our sessions,” says Nordhal. “He is very engaging and keeps the interest level high among all level of attendees throughout the session. The capability to work with Chris and customize the program to include IA’s standards and protocols is what initially enticed us to hire PSMJ. Chris’s passion, experience and enthusiasm for Project Management is always apparent, and his manner of teaching makes what some might consider “dry” material much more palatable and interesting. We have found that Chris’s level of experience as a Project Manager himself, along with the real-life scenarios he presents, are a very valuable teaching tool for our Project Managers, at any level.”
IA is proud to tell desirable candidates in the hiring process that it offers this training to employees.
The Challenge
Senior Project Manager Tracey Nordahl wanted to pursue options for her staff to be trained in project management. Because of their specific needs, IA did not want to settle on a public training program, where the material wouldn’t address their challenges. What inspired to IA Interior Architects to engage PSMJ was that the firm’s 21 global offices did not have a consistent approach to project management processes and to project manager training. “We wanted to unify our staff in training and ensure consistency across all offices that did not currently exist,” says Nordahl. “PSMJ gave us a base in which to build upon and enhance our current processes.”
The Solution
Tracey enlisted the help of PSMJ consultant Chris Martersteck, because she knew PSMJ had project management offerings with instructors who have a personal knowledge of expertise in industry practices.
Chris’s extensive experience in the A/E/C industry allows him to serve the needs of all training participants to maximize success for the entire staff. Chris founded Perkins+Will Integrated Services for integrated design-build and program management services at the 1,000-person award winning firm. He also managed the Chicago A/E/C office of an ENR 200 firm and headed facility planning efforts for a Fortune 50 corporation and a national interior design firm. A member of the American Institute of Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional, he chaired the AIA Chicago Design-Build Knowledge Community. He now leads national seminars on project management and integrated project delivery.
Chris held 11 sessions at IA, training more than 250 employees, including Principals and Directors trained to provide the best support to Project Managers.
Chris is financially monitoring a number of concepts that IA implemented from his training.
The Outcome
Based on the firm's In-House Project Management training, IA implemented a customized report so project managers are able to gauge the progress of a project and if there’s a need for corrective action, developed firm-wide project management guidelines from Chris’s ideas, and adopted a monthly project management call to share successful solutions among colleagues.
Faster Payment: IA synced bill cycles to reduce outstanding invoices.
“Our experience with this program has been exceptional, mainly due to the instructor, Chris Martersteck, we have used for all of our sessions,” says Nordhal. “He is very engaging and keeps the interest level high among all level of attendees throughout the session. The capability to work with Chris and customize the program to include IA’s standards and protocols is what initially enticed us to hire PSMJ. Chris’s passion, experience and enthusiasm for Project Management is always apparent, and his manner of teaching makes what some might consider “dry” material much more palatable and interesting. We have found that Chris’s level of experience as a Project Manager himself, along with the real-life scenarios he presents, are a very valuable teaching tool for our Project Managers, at any level.”
IA is proud to tell desirable candidates in the hiring process that it offers this training to employees.
Mead & Hunt is a national architectural, engineering, planning, and construction services firm with more than 1,200 employees. For years, the firm’s executive leaders put project managers through a formal training program, but they started to see signs that it was time to take it to the next level, with a more structured and focused approach to deliver more consistent performance across all client markets and disciplines. The right solution would apply one set of project management tools, resources, and best practices for success and position Mead & Hunt to thrive now and grow in the years to come. So, the firm’s leadership team decided to get in front of the industry-wide challenge of PM growth and development by taking a closer look at their project management infrastructure and training program.
Training and development initiatives for architecture and engineering firms can be a game-changer when done right – for the firm’s operating and financial performance all the way through to client satisfaction and employee engagement. The challenge lies in determining where and how to make those investments.
“We quickly saw that we’d get the most significant and immediate return on our training investment in project management as opposed to other functional areas,” says Mead & Hunt COO & President Amy Squitieri, “and that meant partnering with PSMJ Resources to create a more wholistic program with specific goals and KPIs.”
The firm’s leadership team saw the direct correlation between project management and many other facets of firm success. “Our initial goal was to just develop one consistent ‘Mead & Hunt way’ when it comes to project management.” Right from the start, the team knew they had more project management training content needs than they could produce and implement using internal resources. So, they looked for a partner known for proven industry-specific project management training that could be aligned with both strategic goals and the firm’s culture.
“Through extensive discussions with PSMJ, we developed a scalable solution where every Project Manager could draw from the same toolbox of resources, tools, and best practices to apply to their projects,” added Mead & Hunt Talent Development Director Marilen Driscoll.
“We looked at three different project management training providers. We loved that PSMJ’s project management training program was very robust and customizable with deep content on critical topics. Others didn’t seem as immediately applicable to our business and PSMJ had a proven ROI with past clients,” says Driscoll. With a partnership with PSMJ locked in, the team quickly got to work sending both current and aspiring Project Managers through a collaboratively-designed tiered training curriculum. Over 18 months, 246 Project Managers went through the PSMJ program.
The feedback from participants in the program has been overwhelmingly positive. That is one critical step towards achieving a measurable impact and positive return on investment from the training program. Another is an enterprise-wide commitment to implementation, and that’s where Mead & Hunt has been positioned for success right from the start. “We’re working with the PSMJ team to establish the right key performance indicators to keep the momentum going,” stated Mead & Hunt Project Management Office Chair Troy Pankratz.
Long-term success also means identifying great Project Managers of the future and ensuring that the firm has a sustainable talent pipeline as both a recruitment and retention vehicle. To this end, Driscoll pointed out “We have a bit of a unique approach to talent development in that we don’t restrict these sorts of training opportunities just to current Project Managers. We also find it really valuable to invite aspiring Project Managers to start exposing them to the growth opportunities at Mead & Hunt.”
“With this program now in place, we are well-positioned for continued growth in the future,” says COO & President Amy Squitieri. “We’ve found a long-term project management improvement partner with PSMJ and this just underscores our commitment to providing meaningful career growth opportunities for our team.”
“Too many firm leaders, owners, and investors miss the quick win and long-term growth opportunities in project management,” explains A/E/C Project Management expert Bill Hinsley. “This is the ‘product’ for architecture and engineering firms and where there is often too little investment in improvement as firms grow, projects get more complex, and teams become more multi-disciplinary.”
Even small investments in project management can yield results across the organization ranging from increased project profitability, fewer cost overruns, improved client satisfaction, stronger employee engagement and retention, and more.
Mead & Hunt is a national architectural, engineering, planning, and construction services firm with more than 1,200 employees. For years, the firm’s executive leaders put project managers through a formal training program, but they started to see signs that it was time to take it to the next level, with a more structured and focused approach to deliver more consistent performance across all client markets and disciplines. The right solution would apply one set of project management tools, resources, and best practices for success and position Mead & Hunt to thrive now and grow in the years to come. So, the firm’s leadership team decided to get in front of the industry-wide challenge of PM growth and development by taking a closer look at their project management infrastructure and training program.
Training and development initiatives for architecture and engineering firms can be a game-changer when done right – for the firm’s operating and financial performance all the way through to client satisfaction and employee engagement. The challenge lies in determining where and how to make those investments. “We quickly saw that we’d get the most significant and immediate return on our training investment in project management as opposed to other functional areas,” says Mead & Hunt COO & President Amy Squitieri, “and that meant partnering with PSMJ Resources to create a more wholistic program with specific goals and KPIs.”
The firm’s leadership team saw the direct correlation between project management and many other facets of firm success. “Our initial goal was to just develop one consistent ‘Mead & Hunt way’ when it comes to project management.” Right from the start, the team knew they had more project management training content needs than they could produce and implement using internal resources. So, they looked for a partner known for proven industry-specific project management training that could be aligned with both strategic goals and the firm’s culture.
“Through extensive discussions with PSMJ, we developed a scalable solution where every Project Manager could draw from the same toolbox of resources, tools, and best practices to apply to their projects,” added Mead & Hunt Talent Development Director Marilen Driscoll.
“We looked at three different project management training providers. We loved that PSMJ’s project management training program was very robust and customizable with deep content on critical topics. Others didn’t seem as immediately applicable to our business and PSMJ had a proven ROI with past clients,” says Driscoll.
With a partnership with PSMJ locked in, the team quickly got to work sending both current and aspiring Project Managers through a collaboratively-designed tiered training curriculum. Over 18 months in 2022 and 2023, 246 Project Managers went through the PSMJ program.
The feedback from participants in the program has been overwhelmingly positive. That is one critical step towards achieving a measurable impact and positive return on investment from the training program. Another is an enterprise-wide commitment to implementation, and that’s where Mead & Hunt has been positioned for success right from the start. “We’re working with the PSMJ team to establish the right key performance indicators to keep the momentum going,” stated Mead & Hunt Project Management Office Chair Troy Pankratz.
Long-term success also means identifying great Project Managers of the future and ensuring that the firm has a sustainable talent pipeline as both a recruitment and retention vehicle. To this end, Driscoll pointed out “We have a bit of a unique approach to talent development in that we don’t restrict these sorts of training opportunities just to current Project Managers. We also find it really valuable to invite aspiring Project Managers to start exposing them to the growth opportunities at Mead & Hunt.”
“With this program now in place, we are well-positioned for continued growth in the future,” says COO & President Amy Squitieri. “We’ve found a long-term project management improvement partner with PSMJ and this just underscores our commitment to providing meaningful career growth opportunities for our team.”
“Too many firm leaders, owners, and investors miss the quick win and long-term growth opportunities in project management,” explains A/E/C Project Management expert Bill Hinsley. “This is the ‘product’ for architecture and engineering firms and where there is often too little investment in improvement as firms grow, projects get more complex, and teams become more multi-disciplinary.”
Even small investments in project management can yield results across the organization ranging from increased project profitability, fewer cost overruns, improved client satisfaction, stronger employee engagement and retention, and more.