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Reinbold Addresses GBA Leaders on the Year Ahead
Welcome to the GBA Winter Leadership Conference.
ASFE Changes Its Name to Geoprofessional Business Association
Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) is the new name of the organization formerly known as ASFE/The Geoprofessional Business Association.
New Year Resolutions for Geoprofessionals
The start of a new year offers geoprofessionals the opportunity to set goals for professional
growth and excellence. These resolutions are the waypoints on the roadmap of personal and professional growth. They will help you excel as a consultant, community member, and colleague and contribute to the elevation of geoprofessional value as a whole.
Here are some suggestions as you prepare to learn, grow, and improve in 2024:
Believe that all injuries are avoidable (there is no such thing as an accident) and act accordingly.
Be involved in community service.
Share a project story with GBA as a Case History.
Practice continual teaching (mentor/train), transfer knowledge.
Share a link to an article of interest for possible inclusion in GBA’s NEWSlog.
Attend a GBA con...
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the fifth-century BC Greek researcher and storyteller, is generally recognized as the world’s first historian. In his book The Histories, as translated by A.D. Godley in 1924, he supposedly wrote,
PREVENTING WORKER DEATHS FROM TRENCH CAVE-INS
Workers are at risk of death from cave-ins during trenching and excavation activities. NIOSH recommends engineering controls, protective equipment, and safe work practices to minimize hazards for......
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, PARTS 1-3
A highly effective three-hour, in-house ethics-training course that can be given as three-separate one-hour sessions or one half-day course. Materials include PowerPoint slides with extensive......
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY LOSS PREVENTION EDUCATION PROGRAM
Perhaps the most comprehensive professional-liability, loss-prevention program ever created, and unquestionably the most flexible, this modular series of 18 MP3s (formerly CDs) can be used to......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 01 “PERSONAL LIABILITY”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 02 “STANDARD OF CARE”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education programming designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 03 “WHAT CLIENTS REALLY WANT”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 04 “CONTRACTS AND CONTRACT FORMATION”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 05 “EXPECTATIONS MANAGEMENT”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 06 “PREVENTING BUDGET OVERRUNS”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 07 “LIMITATION OF LIABILITY”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 08 “DOCUMENTATION”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 09 “ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 10 “SUBCONTRACT MANAGEMENT”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 11 “OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal training sessions......
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS, PROGRAM 12 “ETHICS”
Part of GBA's outstanding audio education programming designed for one-on-one listening by project managers, and/or as material to spur discussion during brownbag seminars or other informal......