Best Facility Management Training

Effective Facilities Management

Facility management training can make a huge difference in the value an organization will derive from its facilities. A number of techniques and processes have been developed over the years to effectively manage both office and residential facilities. This course adequately addresses these and gives persons saddled with this responsibility the requisite knowledge and skills to adequately deliver results.

Facility Management  Training Benefits

• Identify the essential strategic functions of the facility manager’s role
• Step up to the increasing expectations of facility users
• Determine best facility management practices to comply with municipal code and best practices
• Update negotiating and contracting skills for outsourcing maintenance, custodial, security, and other contractors
• Develop a maintenance strategy for premises and services
• Focus on managing expenses, cutting utility costs, and gaining bottom-line value from asset management

Overview of Concepts and Deliverables Provided

• Asset management and facility management:  What’s the difference?
• Taking charge of the relationship with the end-user – how to establish standards, determine needs, survey for success, and build the relationship for the future
• Team Exercise – Bid Specification Preparation for Custodial Outsourcing
• Four approaches to maintenance and how to use them to build the Master Schedule: Preventative, Proactive, Reactive, and Run-to-Failure
• Eyes Wide Open –  Looking around at the laws and code that can financially cripple the business and facility: ADA compliance, municipal code compliance, Indoor Air Quality, security, third party premises liability, and safety
• Technical Skills vs. Management Skills:  Why do many facility managers rely upon previous technical, engineering, and maintenance skills to solve management problems…but is it the best approach?
• Skills Update:  How and when to negotiate and contract for outsourcing services such as maintenance, custodial, security, and space design

Facility management  Course Objectives

This program is designed for Facility managers, office managers, contract administration professionals, and it gives participants the know-how to effectively manage their facilities.

Facility management  Course content

1. Introduction to Facilities Management  strategies                           

•  Challenges of maintenance management and  cultural issues
• The idea of Facility Management
• The nature of Facility Management
• What is Facility Management
• Types of Facilities
• 10 Keys of Facility Management
• Facility Management System reasoning exercise
• Tailoring your Facility          
• Understand the link between maintenance and Facility Management: Maintenance Modern Concept                                                                                      
• The actual meaning of Maintenance
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
• Planning and Scheduling objectives
• Classification of Maintenance work according to planning and Scheduling purposes
• Maintenance Management Tactics                                               

• Proactive and Predictive Maintenance
• preventive maintenance
• Reactive Maintenance
• Predictive Maintenance
• Corrective Maintenance
• Deferred Maintenance   
• Operation and Maintenance exercise    
• 90:10 Facility Maintenance development
•  Facility Stakeholders Management for effective results
• Elements of stakeholders Management
• Stakeholders Analysis
• Stakeholders Planning
• Stakeholders Priotization techniques
• Maintenance Management  strategic planning                                                                          
• Work Identification
• Planning
• Analyzing your Facility Management S.W.O.T for effective planning
• Planning Procedures
• S.W.O.T Session exercise
• Scheduling
• Asset Management Resources                                       

• Integrated Facilities Management; Life Cycle Costing; Continuous improvement philosophy
• Facility Condition Indexing
• Interpreting the FCI range in Facility Management
• Real-life situation exercises in FCI
• FCI impacts, Failures and Occupant’s Morale
• Impact of Asset Management tools on Corrective maintenance and repairs
• Depreciation technique of Facility components                                                               
• Energy Management strategies                                                        

• The increasing cost of Energy
• What is Energy Management
• Goals of an effective Energy Management Program.
• Implementing the major strategies of Energy Management
• Energy Audit for Facility Managers
• Increasing your company’s profit by 25%  using Energy Management
• JIT Facilities Management Strategies                                                       
• Disaster Planning, Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity   
• What a Disaster Recovery Plan is and why it is important
• Identifying potential Hazards
• Business Impact analysis
• Personnel Policies and Crisis Communication
• Strategic Alliance
• Case Study and Exercise
• Setting up an Action Plan
• Emergency Planning Implementation checklist