by Lindsey Brackett | Sep 18, 2018 | Empowerment, Leadership, Operations & Maintenance
Train O&M During Cx While developing and implementing technical training programs for operations and maintenance (O&M) staff, I’m often asked if it’s possible to combine training typically performed during the commissioning (cx) process with a larger...
by Lindsey Brackett | Aug 29, 2018 | Empowerment, Leadership, Soft Skills
Public Speaking: My Favorite Addiction and Why Is this excitement or fear in my eyes?? It’s definitely both. You see, I have a love/hate relationship with public speaking. On the one hand, being under the spotlight for 20 to 60 minutes is uncomfortable to say the...
by Lindsey Brackett | Aug 23, 2018 | Empowerment, Leadership, Operations & Maintenance
Empower Your FM Team by Building a Training Program Just for Them Effective and efficient operations and maintenance (O&M) is a critical component of a healthy building environment, especially for institutions like hospitals and universities. Few avenues exist...
by Lindsey Brackett | Aug 14, 2018 | Empowerment, Leadership
Benchmarking is Part Science and Part Art Form Operations and maintenance benchmarking can be an arduous and complicated exercise. It’s part science and part art form. Here are answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) I’ve encountered when working with facility...
by Lindsey Brackett | Jul 31, 2018 | Empowerment, Featured, Healthcare Facility Management Administration, Leadership
Facility Managers: Defend Your Staffing Levels In facilities management, labor costs are one of the largest expenses in an operating budget (typically 25 percent); consequently, facility managers are often faced with hard questions concerning their staffing levels. In...
by Lindsey Brackett | Jul 25, 2018 | Empowerment, Leadership
Invest in O&M Training? Who has seen this comic or heard this quote before? My guess is that if you clicked on this article, then you believe, at least on some level, that training is important. Turnover is going to happen. But, your team isn’t going to leave you...
