ACEC NM offers an “Aspiring Principals Program” for upwardly mobile young professional engineers in order to help develop successful leaders who please your clients and make money for your firm.

The purpose is to promote the growth or development of those who might become principals in consulting engineering organizations, which implies they will achieve responsibilities for committing an organization to a contract where new revenues are realized. Principals may or may not be considered as financial partners in firms.

Program objectives:

(1) Provide meaningful educational experience for participants.
(2) Improve awareness of responsibilities of principals
(3) Stimulate interest of participants in becoming principals
(4) Develop a camaraderie between participants

The focus will be on assessing what the participants learned. This is not a training program where competence is measured. Tests will not be utilized. A certification of completion of the program will be awarded.

Format:

Meetings with topical presentations and participant follow-ups on the topic through discussions with principals in their own firms, who serve as temporary mentors for that topic.

Participants will generally attend in luncheon meetings where ACEC/NM sponsored speakers will provide programs. Some programs may be scheduled late in the afternoon where the participants can go out to dinner together for an informal, and non-evaluated, opportunity to get better acquainted with each other.

After the meetings the participants will spend some time talking about the subjects to the temporary mentors in their firms. Two sources of feedback will be utilized by the ACEC/NM Aspiring Principals Program Committee (APP Committee).

Topic mentors from the firms will report back to the APP Committee what they believe the participants learned for that session. Participants will provide feedback to the APP Committee after each session.

Proposed Topics:

• Introductory Session and Leadership Principles
• Management
• Building Teams
• Marketing and Business Development
• Financial Operations
• Personal Involvement
• War Stories by Retired Principals

For more details on the program, download the summary.

Alumni Aspiring Principals Program

Alumni Aspiring Principals Program (A-APP) the advanced leadership program for young professionals. The Alumni program has been developed exclusively for those participants that have previously completed the Aspiring Principals Program – Level I.

Session 1: Legislative Day in Santa Fe
Participants receive instruction on the legislative process, issues briefings and conduct meetings with their individual state legislators.

Session 2: Speaker/Workshop Presentations
This two-day presentation workshop is intended to expose participants to topics beyond those previously covered.

Topics Include (may be modified in future years):

• Managing Change Human Resources - Current Practices and the Future of HR
• Legal Issues
• Insurance
• Retention and Recruitment
• Legislative Update

For more information contact:

H. Diane Snyder
ACEC/New Mexico
PO Box 3773
Albuquerque, NM 87190-3773
PH: 505.888.6161
FAX: 505.830.1670
CELL: 505.280.1628
Email: acecnm@acecnm.org

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