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Upcoming Book - Managing Facilities & Real Estate PDF Print Email
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Managing Facilities and Real Estate has become increasingly complex. Facility and Property Management is a profession that requires technical knowledge, managerial skills and leadership qualities to deliver service.

While many Property and Facility Management professionals have technical skills or can easily access training and resources for technical issues, effective leadership, management and strategic skills and tools are increasingly important for Facility professionals in all roles to get results, get attention and get ahead while serving your organization's core business needs.

Whether you manage a single building or a portfolio and whether you manage a corporate facility, government office, institution, retail, manufacturing or a commercial building, you have similar challenges and will improve your results with the techniques from this book.

You get over 47 strategies, techniques and approaches you can use to improve results and build on your technical knowledge. They are all self contained and easy to read and reference, yet are assembled in specific areas. You don't need to read it back-to-back. Use your limited time to focus on specific initiatives and benefit from the leading practices and ideas you need to get results.

The main areas include the following, with the full table of contents listed further bleow:

  • Management & Leadership
  • Strategic Management
  • Communicating to Influence
  • FM Systems
  • Procuring Services / Outsourcing
  • Managing Performance
  • Customer Service
  • Cost and Productivity
  • Reference Information

Since networking and learning from others is so important to the profession, a section with a long list of industry magazines, associations and conferences around the world is also included.

This book delivers ideas and concepts you need and can use right away to improve efficiency, enhance services and reduce costs. It includes checklists and sample forms and other tools you can use in your day-to-day job to improve results. Once you buy the book, you get access to MS Word versions of the tools for use in their own organization.

ISBN: 978-0-9813374-1-8
Publisher: WoodStone Press

Paperback, 7" x 10" , Approximately 400 Pages

Publication Date: Planned Late 2010

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We have split our Blogs from our main site and now have a dedicated Blog page called "The Built Environment" that you can visit. It is a more traditional format and enables you to link to the blog through an RSS feed to automatically receive new posts.

The Blob postings are by Michel Theriaul, Principal, Strategic Advisor on a wide variety of topics, including useful information, thoughts and references for the improvement of management and operations.

Access the blog from our menu, see the latest blogs on our front page or click The Built Environment to open a new page and read our blogs.

Thanks for looking.

Sincerely,

Michel Theriault

 
Upcoming Dubai Workshop PDF Print Email
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Experience our upcoming Workshop in the Middle East - Strategic Facilities Management & KPI's - a 3 day workshop on leveraging results from suppliers, staff, information, systems and more.

The November 2008 session is over. Another session being planned. Email or sign-up to the newsletter to be notified of the exact date when available.

 
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New Quick Guides for Facility Managers have been released.

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New White Papers PDF Print Email
A new White Paper on FM System is now availalbe. Strategic Advisor has produced White Papers on several topics, with more to to be made available later this year. We are making them available to StrategicAdvisor.ca readers.

They answer key questions and provide insight on key topics you can use in your own operations to make changes and improvements.

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New - FM Education PDF Print Email
Strategic Advisor has expanded our services to include workshops and seminars, through FM Insight, and affiliated company.

Many of the seminars and workshops are delivered by Strategic Advisor, which gives you Facility and Property Managemetn focussed education by an experienced hands-on Facility Management Professional. Why get your training from a company who doesn't understand your business?

These workshops and seminars are currently delivered only to corporate groups, which makes the per-student cost very reasonable. We do also deliver short seminars to associations and conferences.

Please read about the workshops and seminars at our affiliated website FMeducation.ca or Contact Us for more information. You can download select Workshop brochures here.
 


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