Management Skills in the AEC Industry

As technical professionals we spend years in school, then years studying for licensing exams. And we spend our entire careers pouring over code books and technical manuals. By the time we reach management positions, we’re technical experts and excellent project managers…but we never learned how to manage people. As it turns out, soft skills are just as important as technical skills. This session will offer a forum to discuss various management skills and techniques that will help us all improve our management skills. During this presentation, we’ll share and discuss experiences, successes, and failures as managers. We’ll share resources and have an open discussion, so we can all learn from each other. Everyone must find their own management style, and undoubtedly along the way you’ll discover that the bottom line is this: We are all just people . . . wouldn’t it be easier if we were numbers!