Maxwell Stephens

Facilities Management

8th, May 2019
networking for introverts

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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1st, May 2019
workplace bullying

Don’t suffer in silence! How to deal with workplace bullying.

Posted in Candidate, Facilities Management, Recruitment

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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17th, April 2019
UK building restoration

Rebuilding Notre Dame: Examples of successful restorations in the UK

Posted in Facilities Management, Uncategorized

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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29th, March 2019
zombie facilities manager

Why a Facilities Manager would be good in a zombie holocaust!

Posted in Facilities Management

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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20th, March 2019
Interserve

Interserve in administration: Workforce lessons to be learnt from large service providers

Posted in Candidate, Comments, Facilities Management, Facilities News, News & PR, Recruitment

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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14th, March 2019
wellness in facilities management

What next for FM? FM Insights from Elliott Chase

Posted in Facilities Management, Facilities News

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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