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Held on Wednesday 9th November, the Workplace Week Convention was the keystone of Advanced Workplace Associates ‘Workplace Week’ event, a 5 day exhibition of workplaces of the present and the future aiming to educate workplace professionals while raising money for Children in Need.
Our two Children in Need fundraisers were both launched this week and have got off to a flying start. Continue reading
With 3 weeks to go until the BBC’s Children in Need event, we’re getting involved and doing our bit to support what could be described as the charity event of the year, but we need your help to do it!
Another week, another success story – congratulations go this week to Kevin Brady of the University of Sussex, who yesterday became the first of our students to complete the Level 3 diploma via our distance learning package. Continue reading
Hello all,
I wanted to write a quick post to plug the upcoming ‘Workplace Week’, organised byAdvanced Workplace Associates and in association with BIFM, BCO, CORENET Global and BCS. The official website of this event probably describes it best so I’ve done a copy and paste job below – Continue reading
We’re delighted to announce that the first 3 learners to complete the full diplomas at BIFM Levels 4, 5 and 6 have all been confirmed as having passed the course. Congratulations to Darren Shiels and Naomi Crossan, both from Ernst & Young, who recently passed their Level 6 and Level 5 diplomas respectively, as well as Dawn Marshall of Sodexo who passed her Level 4 in the latter stages of 2010. Continue reading
It is widely accepted that staff are an organisation’s most expensive resource and as such should be valued as a very expensive asset. Physical assets, particularly expensive machinery, are valued highly as they are viewed by an organisation as being vital to the continued operation of the business. If a machine breaks down, production ceases and profits are lost. So, to ensure that assets continue to perform at their optimum they are regularly maintained, ideally proactively, not waiting until they break down but providing a service to keep them constantly operating at full strength. Continue reading
Thanks to a close business relationship with Richard Steel, Security Services Manager at British American Tobacco (BAT), who recently came to the Xenon Group to undertake facilities management training and ultimately completed his BIFM Level 4 Diploma with us, I’ve been granted the opportunity to spend a few days on-site at Globe House, the BAT Global HQ in London. As well as giving me the opportunity to see a well-oiled facilities management machine in action, the experience has also demonstrated a number of ideas and initiatives that are in place at Globe House that I think would be a worthwhile addition to any FM’s toolbox. Continue reading
This week, Xenon Group Managing Director David Morris gives his thoughts on the BIFMs Th!nkFM 2011 conference.
So the Th!nkFM conference event dawned. How was it for me? Well, to be honest, I was never expecting it to be a huge success. Apart from the negativity emanating from various LinkedIn forums, I had also posed a LinkedIn question as to who was attending and received an almost deafening silence. On arrival at the conference, however, I was pleasantly surprised. Continue reading
Following last week’s comment on the dangers facing facilities management companies who load all their eggs into one basket and focus only on one or two major client contracts, this week we wanted to look at another reason why so many companies fall into this trap – ‘Misguided Marketing’. Continue reading
