Best Practices
The GBA Best Practices series of monographs, available to members only, provides guidance on geoprofessional business-practice issues.
Note: GBA used to offer a series of Practice Alerts. Many of those have been updated and turned into GBA Best Practices. However, some Practice Alerts remain, and they are listed below.
GBA BEST PRACTICES AVOIDING ABSOLUTES
Absolutes are words that connote an extreme condit...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: AVOIDING ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION
As "Avoiding Allegations of Corruption" points out...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: BRIDGE THE GAP
The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA)’s...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: CONFRONTING WORKPLACE BULLYING
GBA's Business Practices Committee developed this ...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: DO’s and DON’Ts for FACTS WITNESSES
Geoprofessionals are often called to act as fact w...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: DOCUMENTATION-MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS
In Documentation-Management Fundamentals, GBA's Bu...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: E-COMMUNICATION
as its title suggests, covers e-mail, instant mess...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: E-MAIL DISCLAIMERS: A BETTER WAY
The long disclaimers that inhabit the bottom of so...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: ESTABLISHING A CELL-PHONE SAFETY POLICY FOR YOUR FIRM
All firms should want to establish cell-phone safe...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: EXPECTATIONS MANAGEMENT
A truly realistic budget or schedule range that ac...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: FRAUD AND EMBEZZLEMENT
Fraud and embezzlement are the subject of the newe...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: GBA GUIDE TO TEAMING AGREEMENTS AND JOINT VENTURES
This GBA Best Practices document discusses the mos...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: GIVING CREDIT WHEN CREDIT IS DUE
Initiating a lawsuit to collect a fee may be the m...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: INVESTING IN RISK MANAGEMENT AND LOSS PREVENTION
"Friends don't sue friends." That mantra, initiate...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: PREPARING FOR RAPID RESPONSE: ASSEMBLING A PROJECT-INTERVENTION TEAM (PIT) CREW
Construction-risks can quickly take on mountainous...