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Below is a list of available Kimball Office seminars. Click on any title to get more information about that particular topic. All courses are IDCEC-approved and IIDA-accredited for professional Continuing Education Units (CEU) and delivered by Kimball Office experts.

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.1 CEU credit - 1 hour
IDCEC Course: #8316
Subject Code: 2.12
Designation: Health/Safety
Classification: Basic


Description:
The purpose of the BIFMA e3 2008 - Furniture Sustainability Standard is to provide measurable market-based definitions of progressively more sustainable furniture supply. This course offers a high level summary of the BIFMA e3 Sustainability Standard and the level^™ certification program. The course includes an overview of the content which includes Scope, Structure, Elements, Prerequisites, etc. as well as information on the third party level^™ certification process.

.1 CEU credit - 1 hour
IDCEC Course: #40260
Subject Code: 8.2
Designation: Business and Professional Practice (Design Practice Management - Client Relations)
Classification: Basic

Learning Objectives:

• Effectively research your clients to prepare for building rapport and credibility
• Engage with your client in a manner that resonates with them using their language
• Develop key questions demonstrating preparation and understanding for engagements
• Establish your uniqueness and differentiation
• Position you and your firm where design truly matters to their business

Gaining and retaining clients is critical to the ongoing success of a firm...however, many designers and architects do not consider the impact of how they engage with their clients to establish a trust relationship. By using a different scope of research to aid in the understanding of your client's business and developing insightful questions, you will become a more valuable and trusted resource to your client base. Repeatedly operating in this manner will greatly aid in acceptance of your Design solutions and build your base of business as you gain and retain clients.

This course is approved through IDCEC for credit with IIDA, ASID and IDC

While some AIA members can self-report this course for credit, this is not always effective, as some state licensing boards may not accept the credit for licensure.

.1 CEU credit - 1 hour
#5955

This course reviews past BOSTI studies showing how physical characteristics affect the bottom line of organizations. The top ten design elements of concern will be illustrated as well as how to resolve conflict between the need to collaborate and the need to concentrate. The course will review LEED building results…what works… and what doesn't.


Learning Objectives:

• Explain importance of interior design regarding business outcomes
• Illustrate financial benefits of doing interior design correctly
• Show the top ten design issues that affect job performance & satisfaction
• Illustrate how to solve the conflict between collaboration and need for acoustical privacy

Course Outline:

• Why design can have a major effect on the bottom line
• Data results of 30,000 interviews
• How to resolve conflict of collaboration and quiet
• LEED Building Post Occupancy…who was interviewed
• Survey results
• What works, what doesn't, questions and answers

This course is approved through IDCEC for credit with IIDA, ASID, IDC and IDEC.

While some AIA members can self-report this course for credit, this is not always effective, as some state licensing boards may not accept the credit for licensure.

.1 CEU credit - 1 hour
#40129

Leadership is something that many companies seek, many people think they have, and many definitions have been created to describe it. Why is it so popular, why is it so elusive, and why should we try to develop it within ourselves? The answer is really easy. Leadership is about influencing people to achieve an outcome without having direct control over them.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify leadership characteristics in others as well as themselves.
• Illustrate the differences between management and leadership.
• Explain the key differences between managers and leaders.
• Begin compiling a leadership diary that chronicles leadership transactions that the learner observes or has been involved with.

This course is approved through IDCEC for credit with IIDA, ASID, IDC and IDEC.

While some AIA members can self-report this course for credit, this is not always effective, as some state licensing boards may not accept the credit for licensure.

.1 CEU credit - 1 hour
#40130

Companies that understand the benefits of and engage the talents of design have found that they easily differentiate themselves from their competitors and achieve superior profitability. Further, the understanding and satisfaction of customers is much richer when design is fully engaged with all functions within business. Why don’t more companies understand this? It is not because design is not trying to spread this understanding but instead design’s lack of engagement with the overall organization and its leadership to make the necessary connections recognized and understood.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and be able to distinguish between key business and design terminology.
• Explain how to discuss the benefit of design using business terminology.
• Explain the various inputs and outputs of design.
• Identify how the various inputs and outputs of design can be used to either differentiate or lower costs within a typical organization.
• Identify and discuss the challenges of measuring design’s contribution to an organization.

This course is approved through IDCEC for credit with IIDA, ASID, IDC and IDEC.

While some AIA members can self-report this course for credit, this is not always effective, as some state licensing boards may not accept the credit for licensure.

.1 CEU credit - 1 hour
#40103
Subject Code: 8.8
Designation: General Knowledge
Classification: Basic

While the popularity of social media is still increasing through undiscovered frontiers your claim can still be staked by building influence and drive sales through building YOUR personal brand. Creating the profile is easy given cost however the trade off, time, requires using the fullest extent of your networking capabilities to share information with and learn from others while creating your influence. Strategies for joining the conversation are revealed in adding value, tactic and expertise to your professional image. Make new contacts; enhance existing relationships while using similar face-to-face techniques that are on your own time, in your home office, on your schedule.

Learning Objectives:

• Create personal brand to extend professional expertise
• Develop and expand your circle of influence with different core groups
• Share with and learn from others

This course is approved through IDCEC for credit with IIDA, ASID, IDC and IDEC.

While some AIA members can self-report this course for credit, this is not always effective, as some state licensing boards may not accept the credit for licensure.