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Institute for Facilities Management

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Institute for Facilities Management
General Administration & Management Courses

101 Understanding Management Skills Through the MBTI
Explore the context of management skills within the model facilities department. Examine the different styles of management and visualize yourself in the roles of mentor, coach, and team builder. Learn the skills necessary for these roles and develop an understanding of how to best leverage your assets as management skills.
Instructor: Lander Medlin

103 Managing Facilities Resources
Managing and leading in facility resources is the key role facility managers have in completing the stewardship assigned.  This session will focus on the roles played to assure needed resources are being managed.  In addition to reviewing roles you will be taught TCO – Total Cost of Ownership and the role it will play in the future.  Key resources that need to be managed and examples of how all of these resources work together will be presented.  Examples of using TCO and the business case for the implementation of TCO in the workplace will be shared.  How to reduce M&O to its lowest level using the TCO “Squeeze Play” will be presented.
Instructor: Doug Christensen

104 Managing Staff Relationships
Participate in discussions of methods of developing positive employee relations, in union and non-union environments. Explore effective management processes addressing cultural diversity and sexual harassment issues. Develop a good understanding of the basics principles of human resources management. Topics include recruiting and selecting employees, promotion and advancement, employee evaluation, and grievance procedures.
Instructor: Lynne Finn

106 Communication Skills for Managers
This course enables participants to use their knowledge of basic influencing skills to improve their communication based on a new understanding of their personality type. Using information from The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, each participant will learn techniques to improve their communication with co-workers and their supervisor. Each participant will develop a plan for improving their working relationship with their immediate supervisor. The course also involves interaction with other participants to facilitate management of work groups, leading meetings, communicating with groups, and working with delivery of both good and bad news.
Instructor: Wally Glasscock

110 Managing Ethically
Examine ethical issues facing facilities professionals. You will learn a framework of foundational principles and questions to use as a guide in the decision-making process, and strategies for improving the ethical climate of an organization.
Instructor: Lander Medlin

111 Financing Facilities in Higher Education
This session will introduce facility professionals to understand the fundamentals and techniques for capital finance. This introduction provides the broad overview and background information that relates to all levels of facilities management. The session begins with learning the basics of the financial enterprise related to higher education, community colleges, public and private colleges and universities including historically black colleges (HBC’s). The presentation illustrates the different “color of money” at institutions and some alternative finance strategies for financing projects at your institution of higher learning. The discussion develops the typical expenditures and revenues measures, general data for higher education and looks at current trends in capital finance. The presentation is summarized with the top five finance strategies to becoming successful and comfortable to be at the decision table at your institution. Finally the session concludes with everything you wanted to know about system revenue bonds (SRB’s) but were afraid to ask topic. This knowledge equips the facilities profession with the tools necessary to be included in the finance discussions with your
Instructor: Dave Button

113 Fundamentals of Strategic Management
Strategic Management is an essential instrument for organizations seeking peak performance. A properly crafted strategy enhances collaboration and productivity by providing a purpose and plan of action for the organization. In this course, we will discuss the fundamental components of effective strategic plans and methods for successful implementation of the plan.
Instructor: Jeff Zumwalt

115 Emerging Technologies and the 21st Century Campus
This course is an overview of emerging information and communications technologies: networks, personal computers, information appliances, digital video, audio, and graphics, virtual reality and skills simulation and the role they will play on the campus of the 21st century.
Instructor: Mark Valenti

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