Earlier this week, I successfully delivered my 'Managing Risk in Facilities Management' training course in partnership with Quadrilect (www.quadrilect.com). I would like to thank all the attendees for their valuable contributions and positive feedback. This course is ideally suited for professionals seeking career advancement, IWFM accreditation, or enhanced risk management capabilities. This interactive course addressed critical areas essential for safeguarding you, your organisation, and its people, including the following: - Risk Management Key Principles - Developing a Risk Assessment - Business Continuity - Disaster Recovery These interactive sessions helped participants clarify their risks and priorities and understand their implications. All attendees left better prepared to face future challenges with greater confidence. If you're interested in minimising risk in FM or would like to learn more about my training courses and industry insights, please don't hesitate to get in touc

This week, I had the pleasure of delivering the first session of my new 'Innovation and Future Trends in Facilities Management' course in partnership with Quadrilect (www.quadrilect.com)

My main job is as a management consultant specialising in property, facilities, procurement and change but I do other things as well including coaching, training and assessment even though I often spend more time on it than I should. However, there is a really good reason for this, I love it! I get a real buzz out of helping people progress in their careers whether marking an assessment or giving the benefits of my knowledge at a training course. It is especially good when someone makes me think and expands my own knowledge as the more you learn, the more you realise you still have to learn! One of the big challenges of training is to make the courses interesting and fun, which can be a stretch in some of my topics such as risk management, but by using innovative techniques and pushing interactivity, you can get people interested in the driest of topics. I mean, how many trainers actually ask you to get your phones out in a training course! If you want to discuss training or coaching w

Good to have delivered another successful training course with my friends at Quadrilect. This one was on "Understanding FM Support Services Operations" The course gave an insight in what needs to happen to allow people to manage facilities in a way that delivers a great service, great value and, of course, a safe and legally compliant environment. It also helps people gain facilities management qualifications and helps me to understand what matters to a wide range of people From a personal perspective I get a real buzz from helping people progress in their careers. If anyone wants to discuss training, coaching, consulting or knowledge sharing, please get in touch

It was really rewarding yesterday to deliver some training for Quadrilect (www.quadrilect.com) yesterday where my particular area of focus was on risk and minimising it for building occupiers and their facilities managers. It is always enjoyable to meet with a range of people from different organisations and backgrounds as I often feel that I learn as much from them as they do from me - well almost! For those who have never been to one of my training sessions I always try to make them interesting, no matter how dry the subject, by using interactive tools and techniques with this particular course ending with a quiz that always gets very competitive! Sharing knowledge is great fun and positive for our industry