CONTENT EXPIRES: December 31, 2022 2020 Design-Build Conference & Expo

CONTENT EXPIRES: December 31, 2022 We have all experienced unprecedented times this year, and DBIA is no different. Hear insight from the DBIA National Board as it relates to the impact of COVID-19 on the organization and industry, and our path forward.

No Credit (CEU) for this complimentary resource As one of DBIA’s most popular presenters, DeWayne Ables, brings decades of industry and management experience to organizations looking to maximize their productivity, develop leaders and build their business. DeWayne’s work at Pioneer IQ has evolved a unique growth process for design and construction firms that uncovers their unique purpose, empowers leaders and teams to deliver it, and explores the market to find owners who need and desire it. Today, more than ever, strong leadership is needed to help our industry navigate difficult times. This is part one of a two-part webinar focused on how to prioritize and lead teams through uncertainty.

Whether trying to influence the marketplace and your clients or impact the culture of your organization, storytelling is actually one of the most effective tools to drive change. Great leaders are able to tell great stories. Getting people on board with your ideas and solutions doesn’t happen by chance. Having great ideas isn’t enough if all you can convey about them are the facts, figures and good logic that support them. In this session, we will discuss how to frame your intentions and ideas in such a way that they educate, inform, motivate and inspire to achieve the results that you are seeking.

Before you can move minds, you have to be able to move hearts. This is quite counter to the traditional “command and control” style of leadership that our industry is known for. But “command and control” hasn’t worked for quite some time. Instead, what is called for, but often missing in leadership, is the ability to inspire, motivate, and energize people every day. It is inspiration and motivation that can moves hearts, and ultimately, move minds, to achieve your organizational goals. In this session, we will focus on how you can intentionally improve the inspirational effect that you have on people and the difference that makes in their performance and commitment. We will explore how inspiration and leadership are interconnected and consider how genuine conversations galvanize people to achieve more than they thought possible.

Leadership is essentially a linguistic phenomenon. Therefore, communication is the single most powerful tool that you have at your disposal when it comes to leading effectively. In this session, we will explore the various distinctions of communication from three perspectives: - The human perspective or what gets in the way of people communicating in the first place - The technical perspective which deals with the fundamental skills of talking and listening - The spiritual perspective which considers the purposeful and authentic intentions behind our communications

In the design and construction industry, we have primarily focused on management as the predominant skill set needed for success. However, the old model of simply “planning the work and working the plan” is no longer all that is needed to succeed in our business. As an industry we need to shift from being order takers to being value generators, and that requires far more than management skills. What is missing and needed is a new kind of leadership, capable of influencing and inspiring real change to impact the cultural traditions and behaviors that have hindered our industry and stifled real innovation for far too long.