Lattes, Puppies, and Unlimited Vacation & “Can I Borrow Your Watch?”

In Lattes, Puppies, and Unlimited Vacation: Attracting, Retaining, and Empowering Millennial Design Firm Professionals, Tim Griffin updates his 2009 ground-breaking Winning with Millennials, providing new and better insights into the generation that continually search for new opportunities and regard less than one year on the job as “sticking it out.” You’ll learn how to:

1. Leverage the tremendous drive and energy of the generation coming out of today’s colleges and universities
2. Transform your firm into one that will both attract these young professional and provide an environment where they can thrive and stay
3. Prepare your Millennials for firm leadership and ownership

Lattes, Puppies, and Unlimited Vacation: Attracting, Retaining, and Empowering Millennial Design Firm Professionals features testimonials from this next generation of design professionals on how your firm can best lead them for future success. With a great store of experience, Griffin captures and explains what it takes to work beside these young professionals and explores how to:

1. Deliver a training and mentoring culture—try instruction that is on-the-spot, brown-bag training, and relevant experiences
2. Maximize your delegation strategy—let go of work, trust your staff, and focus on the big picture
3. Learn from successful firms about new hires and technology, planning for ownership transition, and more

“Can I Borrow Your Watch?” A Beginner’s Guide to Succeeding in a Professional Consulting Organization offers new engineers a head start in the business of professional consulting.

Covering a range of topics including writing reports, project management, client relationships, proposals, and financial management, Cahill tailored this essential guide to the unique needs of engineering firms, and the skills and experiences young consultants need to be successful in a large organization.