Who Designed The Facility You’re
In Charge Of?
If you’re lucky, it was someone
who understood that people and buildings don’t
automatically work well together.
Shopping centers … corporate
headquarters … factories … apartment complexes. All
depend on facilities managers — like you — to make
them user-friendly.
If you earned a degree in
facilities management, you have a head start on how
to successfully mix people and property. If you’ve
inherited the position through a series of
promotions or have taken on the duties of facilities
management in addition to your regular
responsibilities, you’ve probably learned what to do
through on-the-job experience.
However, the facility became “your
baby,” now you have your hands full. You’re in
charge of a facility worth hundreds of thousands of
dollars — maybe
even millions. And it’s up to you to ensure your
facility is run efficiently … is cost-effective …
and works for — not against — its users.
How can you be sure you don’t make
a costly mistake? Attend this seminar and learn
practical techniques for safeguarding the care and
maintenance of your facility.
The very next day on the job, you’ll feel more
confident about your decisions, more in tune with
what users need and more aware of exactly how to
better manage the huge responsibility you have.
Command The Respect You Need
Isn’t it great when everybody goes
home? Your facility looks and feels different — it’s
almost serene.
At times like this, you can really
appreciate its beauty. The hallways look expansive …
the lighting soft and caressing … everything’s clean
and tidy.
Come tomorrow when “the bodies”
return, it’s another story. You have to ride herd
over people who don’t see — or don’t care about —
your facility like you do.
Most people aren’t intentionally
disrespectful. They’re usually just too busy going
about their business to pay attention to how they
close the doors … where they throw their cigarette
butts … what equipment they leave running.
How can you hope to successfully
integrate people with your facility? Come to this
seminar and find out. You’ll learn proven strategies
for better communicating with users, solving the
problems that contribute to user-abuse and coping
with architectural features you wish you could
change — but can’t.
You won’t be able to magically
solve all your headaches, but you will return to
work knowing how to conquer dozens of “what if”
scenarios that all facilities managers encounter, at
one time or another.
We Guarantee It
If you want to hear technical
theories expounded by some stuffy expert who talks
in scientific lingo, this seminar is not for you.
But if you want to learn practical
techniques that have proven indispensable for
facilities managers across the country, enroll
today. We guarantee you will discover skills you can
use to better manage your facility’s operations, or
we’ll return your entire registration fee. You have
our promise in writing.
Expertly Direct General
Operations
- Where most facilities
managers fall short — are you guilty?
- The #1 reason why more signs
aren’t obeyed
- 5 questions you should ask
yourself before creating any form
- Practical strategies to
combat user abuse of your facility
- What must take priority when
you are developing policies, procedures and
restrictions
- Making budgeting easier with
more effective expense-tracking techniques
- Optimum levels of heat and
humidity for user comfort
- BONUS! Understanding the
psychological effect of color, lighting, plants
and carpeting
Extend Your Facility’s Life
- What you have to inspect
every day — what you can let go until later
- Playing the facility
detective: Identifying and fixing hazards in the
workplace
- Improving the performance of
your janitorial service
- Uncover hidden hazards that
primarily affect your custodial workforce
- What to do when contracted
work is substandard, sloppy or just plain wrong
- Techniques to ensure top
performance out of outside contractors
- Assembling the single most
useful checklist you can have
- The only known way to put an
end to graffiti
Run a Tighter Ship
- Whose insurance company pays
the claim when contractors have accidents?
- The most important steps to
take to keep operating costs in line
- What to do before, during and
after an official inspection
- A great way to protect your
budget from hidden costs
- What accountants wish more
facilities managers knew about depreciation
- The most common cause of
friction between facilities managers and users
- “Unofficial” inspections that
could save you a lot of headaches down the road
- Curing “sick building”
syndrome
- The #1 time-saver when
designing work space layouts
- The secret to stopping
unwanted solicitors once and for all
Better Protect Physical
Property
- What every facility manager
needs to know about building inspections
- Strengthening communication
between you and your facility’s users
- The potential dangers of
allowing unsupervised use of your facility
after-hours
- How to diplomatically handle
emotional tenants and defuse explosive
situations
- Are “things” mysteriously
disappearing? When to call in an official — when
to investigate for yourself
- Protecting your facility from
criminal liability
- How to control the movement
of visitors
- BONUS! A keep-by-the-phone
script to follow if you receive a bomb threat
- Facility managers
- Building owners
- Anyone interested in building management
Class
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM; Check-in begins at 8:30 AM
Padgett-Thompson Seminars