Negotiate - What you do every day

 "Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more people or parties" (Wikipedia)Just as all of us who work are part of a sales organization, ALL of us who interact with others are involved in negotiation. However, negotiation has gotten a bad reputation, based upon the 'win at all costs' that exist in today's hype-competitive business environment. There seems to be a notion that negotiation is about getting the other side to surrender, as expressed...

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eLearning – Upcoming Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 12.16.13::Civil 3D 101: Civil 3D for Beginners12.18.13::Revit 201: Getting Started with PresentationsEach class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets...

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Classroom Training – Open Revit Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.12.3-5::SacramentoRevit Architecture Fundamentals12.3-5::San JoseCivil 3D Fundamentals12.9-11::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals12.17-19::SeattleCivil 3D Fundamentals Know your software. Sign up n...

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The Benefit of Failure

One fails toward success - Charles F KetteringWhenever you say the world 'failure', people hold their breath. Who wants to admit failure?  What I hear about failure most often is.... Failure is why people get fired - right? Competency by definition does not allow for failure?If I admit failure, people will think I am stupid?Why do a blog about failure. Here are some of my thoughts that I have tried to express when I am mentoring team...

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Ideate, Inc. Features Lionakis in Its First Ideate Explorer for Revit Study in Success

SAN FRANCISCO, California – 11/19/2013 - Ideate, Inc., a leading Autodesk Authorized Developer and Autodesk solutions provider offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting services to the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry with a special focus on Building Information Modeling (BIM), today announced the publication of its first Ideate Explorer for Revit-focused Study in Success, “One Secret Ingredient in Lionakis’ Quality Control—Ideate Explorer for Revit.” California-based Lionakis has played a significant...

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What's in a Multi-Category Schedule?

Ever wondered what’s in a Autodesk Revit Multi-Category schedule? Here’s the skinny…while a regular Revit Schedule reports on a single category of data such as Doors, Plumbing Fixtures, or Structural Foundations, a Multi-category schedule can report on many of the Revit model categories at once, which can be useful for quantity takeoffs. Sounds straightforward, but the catch is that some of the model categories are being excluded. What’s missing...

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Commitment to Change

We all believe that we are good at 'change'. We are 'champions of change'. But is that really true? Why are people, in general, so resistant to change?What does it take to implement change (personally or professionally)What is the one key attribute?RESISTANCE TO CHANGEThere are multiple phases people go through during change:These phases are inevitable, it is only our external response we have control over. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO IMPLEMENT CHANGEIn...

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