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 ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION
As "Avoiding Allegations of Corruption" points out...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: CONFRONTING WORKPLACE BULLYING
GBA's Business Practices Committee developed this ...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: DO’s and DON’Ts for FACTS WITNESSES
Georprofessionals are ofteen called to act as fact...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: DOCUMENTATION-MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS
In Documentation-Management Fundamentals, GBA's Bu...
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: 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...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: PROFESSIONAL-LIABILITY INSURANCE BASICS
Why do geoprofessionals need professional-liabilit...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: STRATEGIC ASSOCIATION INVOLVEMENT
Many associations and societies are worthy of supp...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CLIENT REPRESENTATIVES
"80% of your business is likely to come from 20% o...
GBA BEST PRACTICES: VOICE-MAIL GREETINGS
Callers may use a geoprofessional's voice-mail gre...