Professional Development Columnist

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Authored by a different industry member each month, this column provides insight into how facility managers can keep on top of what they need to know in order to sustain their careers.

Professional Development: Protecting Historic Structures

What can be done to prevent or mitigate the destruction of culturally significant facilities from fire events?

Professional Development: Strategizing Outsourcing

Implementing third-party services is more successful when applied with change management principles.
Workplace workforce of the future.

Professional Development: Finding Future Facility Managers

With a talent shortage on the horizon, the IFMA Foundation has introduced the Global Workplace Workforce Initiative.
Sutton

Professional Development: Equipment Financing

Finding the right strategy benefits more than the budget. A highly competitive marketplace makes this a favorable time for facility managers to finance productive equipment.
tfmprodev

Professional Development: Cooperative Purchasing

Facility managers at eligible organizations can leverage the power of this procurement method.
Banther

Professional Development: Follow The Leader

Embracing five central qualities will help facility managers motivate their employees.

Professional Development: Effective Tech Infrastructure

Avoid these mistakes when creating and updating network corporate standards.

Professional Development: What The People Want

With the demand for wireless connectivity in large facilities, DAS technology is an option. From the October 2013 issue.

Professional Development: Open Dialogue

By tackling inefficiencies in construction communication practices, facility managers improve project outcomes. From the September 2013 issue.

Professional Development: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

As facilities staff increasingly use mobile tools to work, policies should follow suit. From the August 2013 issue.

Professional Development: Not Your Father’s Metal Building

Advancements in construction and performance have expanded the reach of this material. From the July 2013 issue.

Professional Development: Equipment Leasing

Finding the best financing option begins with asking the right questions. From the June 2013 issue.

Professional Development: The Energy Future

Here are 10 concepts to watch now and in the coming years. From the May 2013 issue.

Professional Development: Where The Rubber Meets The Road

Technology is only as good as what it can deliver. From the April 2013 issue.
Cholakis

Professional Development: Construction Disruption

As they pass the emergent stage, BIM and cloud computing will continue to impact project delivery. From the March 2013 issue of Today's Facility Manager.

Professional Development: Avoid Construction Rework

Facility managers can minimize delays and unexpected costs by being proactive.
Lord

Professional Development: A Step Above The Rest

Facility professionals with strong leadership skills are increasingly in demand at healthcare and higher education institutions.

Professional Development: Changing Face Of Facility Management

As the profession evolves, more higher education institutions offer formalized instruction.

Professional Development: Reactive, Preventive, Or Predictive

When maintenance “strategies” are unplanned, organizations can experience premature equipment failure, reduction in occupant satisfaction, and higher prices for repairs and equipment replacements.

Professional Development: Navigating Job Order Contracting

A tried and true procurement method gets a fresh look. This procurement method enables facility managers to complete numerous projects with one contract.
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