This 3-hour interactive online course reinforces the importance of goal setting, time management and the need to find a purpose for your life.
Part 1 addresses the practical aspects of setting and achieving goals. It reviews the importance of setting goals that are specific, detailed and both long-term and short-term.
Part 2 of the course explores how we can most efficiently plan and use our time to get the greatest results with the least amount of effort and stress. It teaches how to apply an entrepreneurial time management approach, together with creative use of the 80/20 Rule.
Part 3 discusses the importance of stepping back from our busy schedules to take a deeper look into our life's purpose. It explores how to find our individual purpose and seek our passion, providing a greater level of happiness and satisfaction while making you more productive.
This course builds on the courses ABCs of Goals and ABCs of Managing Time and Effort and includes some of the same information. It is not recommended that the courses be taken together.
As a result of taking the Goals section of this course, you will learn:
Why you need goals
How to set goals
To have confidence in intelligently asking for what you want
The effective elements of goal setting
How to get into the 'flow' and enjoy peak performance
The importance of goals for your leisure time
How to set and achieve long-term and short-term goals
The importance of visualizing your goals
As a result of taking the Time section of this course, you will:
Be able to produce greater results by utilizing strategies for accomplishing your mission and goals with less time, effort, and stress.
Understand the importance of focusing your time and energy on individual abilities rather than on the myriad of work and other activities outside your natural abilities and talents.
Be able to accomplish key goals by creating and using a 'To Do' list method of planning for time and activities.
Be familiar with the 80/20 Rule and how it applies to work and every aspect of life.
Understand how to 'think 80/20' so that you can be more effective in accomplishing your goals.
As a result of taking the Purpose section of this course, you will:
Be motivated to find purpose
Have new practical tools to analyze common themes in your goals
Be able to write a purpose-mission statement to better guide you in the use of your time and talents.
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Kent Holland
J. Kent Holland is a construction lawyer located in Tysons Corner, Virginia, with a national practice (formerly with Wickwire Gavin, P.C (1986 – 2007), and now with Construction Risk Counsel, PLLC) representing design professionals, contractors and project owners. He is founder and president of a consulting firm, ConstructionRisk, LLC, providing consulting services to owners, design professionals, contractors and attorneys on construction projects – including assistance with contract drafting, review and negotiation; change order and claims analysis (preparation or defense); risk management advice concerning insurance coverage – including assistance with negotiating and drafting the terms and conditions of policies and endorsements, advice to insurance underwriters; guidance to those procuring insurance; change order and claim preparation, analysis and defense; contract preparation; contract review and contract negotiation.
From 1982 through 1986, he was an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with responsibility for assisting the Agency in deciding wastewater treatment construction grants disputes, contractor claims, bid protests, suspension and debarment matters and minority business enterprise matters.
Mr. Holland is a frequent speaker for groups such as the American Bar Association and the International Risk Management Institute on the subjects of construction, environmental and insurance law and risk management. He has written several books, including “Contract Guide for Design Professionals,” (2012); “Working on Purpose,” (2011); “Risk Management for Design Professionals in a World of Change,” (2010); Risk Management & Contract Guide for Design Professionals (2006); Construction Law & Risk Management - Case Notes and Articles, (Vol. I. 2003 and Vol. II. 2006)); Architectural/Engineering Contracts Risk Management Guide (1997); and EPA Construction Grants Disputes: Surviving the Audit (1990). He has also has written chapters in several manuals and books for publishers including, Wiley Law, Aspen Law, and International Risk Management Institute (IRMI). He is publisher of a web-based construction risk management library and legal newsletter at http://www.ConstructionRisk.com, where he can be reached at Kent@ConstructionRisk.com. His free monthly electronic newsletter by the same name, analyzing recent legal cases and risk management issues impacting design professionals and design-builders.
Mr. Holland has served as a risk management consultant for the Design Professional Liability units of Zurich North America Insurance and Arch Insurance Group, and currently provides risk management services for those and other insurance carriers and insurance brokerage firms, as well as for design professional firms. In that capacity he has reviewed thousands of contracts of design professionals to comment on risk allocation and insurability of risks. He has assisted in drafting several unique insurance policy forms, including Owner's Protective Professional Indemnity Insurance (OPPI), and Contractor's Protective Professional Indemnity and Liability Insurance (CPPI) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Professional Liability Insurance.
He is active in the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA), the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) and the Construction Forum of the American Bar Association (ABA).
Mr. Holland is a 1979 graduate of the Villanova University School of Law.
3 hrs. Online Course