Facilities Management
Breaking out of the comfort zone – Networking for Introverts
Posted in Candidate, Facilities Management, Recruitment
Breaking out of the comfort zone – Networking for introverts. For the introverts of the world, networking events bring with them a whole heap of neurosis. Anxiety, fear, stress, shyness. These are just a few of the psychological barriers that many introverts have to overcome to push themselves out of their comfort zone and network […]
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Don’t suffer in silence! How to deal with workplace bullying.
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Don’t suffer in silence! How to deal with workplace bullying. You may think that bullying is something that is restricted to the school playground, however a large proportion have either been witness to, or victim of, workplace bullying at some point in their adult life. The workplace can be stressful at the best of times, […]
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Rebuilding Notre Dame: Examples of successful restorations in the UK
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Rebuilding Notre Dame: Examples of successful restorations in the UK. As will most likely already know, a devastating blaze ripped through the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday, destroying much of the roof and causing its steeple to collapse. Thankfully the fire was tackled in time to save this 850-year-old building, with officials […]
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Why a Facilities Manager would be good in a zombie holocaust!
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Why a Facilities Manager would be good in a zombie holocaust! With zombies making an appearance in pretty much every corner of modern pop culture, chances are you’ve meticulously planned your survival strategy for when the inevitable nuclear fallout or advanced weaponised nanotechnology creates a pandemic of shuffling brain-chompers. You may think being a soldier, […]
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Interserve in administration: Workforce lessons to be learnt from large service providers
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Interserve in administration: Workforce lessons to be learnt from Following the heavily-publicised liquidation of FM giant Carillion last year, serious questions were raised about the outsourcing industry, and particularly the government’s reliance on the outsourcing of important public services. It seems these fundamental questions may be asked again with the recent news that the support […]
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What next for FM? FM Insights from Elliott Chase
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What next for FM? FM Insights from Elliott Chase. If there is one thing that FM knows a lot about, it’s change. Change has been the story of facilities management since its earliest days. That’s especially true in the UK – widely regarded as the most mature market in the world: the whole concept of […]
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