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Ep 152: Starting a New Job

June 2, 2024 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Ep 152: Starting a New Job

All around the country, new architecture school graduates are rolling up their sleeves to start their professional journey with their first “this time it counts” job. Some will be excited for this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Design Studio, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Observations, Office, Podcast, Quotes Tagged With: a day in the life, advice, architects office, architectural studio, career, Podcast

Ep 151: Starting a Business

May 19, 2024 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Ep 151: Starting a Business

We are finally conceding to a request that’s been made a thousand times – do an episode on starting an architectural business – a topic that I have resisted for essentially 6 years, and I think I’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architects, Career, Design Studio, Episodes, Office Tagged With: Architects, architects office, architectural studio, career, Podcast

Ep 148: Meetings are a Waste of Time

April 7, 2024 by Bob Borson 4 Comments

Ep 148: Meetings are a Waste of Time

You check the time and realize that you have 4 minutes before your next meeting. Maybe it’s an internal meeting, maybe clients are coming in. Is it in person or online? Depending on how you answer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Episodes, Observations, Office, Podcast

Ep 135: Employee Takeover

October 1, 2023 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Ep 135: Employee Takeover

It was podcast Episode 130: Employee Evaluations, and Andrew and I were discussing the process and criteria used to assess and measure an individual employee’s performance when we made the point that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Career, Design Studio, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Interviews, Office, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, architectural studio, career, conversations, design studio, Do you want to be an Architect, great to work with architects, Podcast

Ep 134: Management 101

September 17, 2023 by Bob Borson 4 Comments

Ep 134: Management 101

It happens to most people eventually, some get there quickly, while others take a bit longer. Transitioning into a management role is a natural evolution of skill development but that doesn’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Blog, Career, Episodes, Office, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, architectural studio, career, Podcast

Ep 130: Employee Evaluations

July 23, 2023 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Ep 130: Employee Evaluations

Performance Appraisal, Performance Review – call them what you will but we all know what they are, most likely we have received them, chances are that you might even have given one before. What sort … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Episodes, Observations, Office, Podcast Tagged With: architects office, career, Podcast

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