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10 Skills for New Facility Managers

The Skills Guide for Facility Managers details 10 must-have traits for those new to the industry

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FM Huddle, June 16: Working with the Next Generation

This peer-to-peer networking session will cover best practices for working with young facility professionals

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Encouraging the Next Generation of Women Engineers

When determining how to recruit more women into the engineering field, it is important to discover why they are joining in the first place.

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Leah Withrow Wants More Women in Groundskeeping

The head groundskeeper of the Reno Aces uses social media to recruit Gen Z into the field

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Attend NFMT Baltimore for Free as a fnPrime Member

The complimentary Elite level registration provides access to all education and networking opportunities

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How Well Do You Listen?

Successful facility managers are good listeners. Learn these seven steps of active listening to improve your skills

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Women in FM: Avoiding Feeling Stagnant In Your Career

Women are looking to develop professionally in order to feeling pigeonholed in their careers

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2023 Facility Management Predictions

Staffing, supply chain issues and workplace changes are the challenges facing FMs

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How To Provide Effective Feedback to Staff

Feedback is a manager’s most powerful tool. It helps cement bonds, strengthen staff performance, and preserve culture

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3 Strategies For Working Smarter In Facility Management

Proactive maintenance strategies will help to offset strained facility resources

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5 Essentials of a Preventive Maintenance Program

How managers can move their organization from reactive emergencies to planned activities 

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What 'Safety' Means for Women in Facilities Management

The workplace shouldn’t be a place where employees feel like their safety is compromised

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Creating the Company Culture of Her Dreams

Angela Testa, senior vice president of operations at American Campus Communities, strengthens operations without compromising a healthy work environment

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fnPrime Members Receive Free NFMT Remix Access

The complimentary Elite level registration provides access to everything at the Las Vegas trade show

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How To Create A Standout Facility Management Resume

Learn the essential techniques and tips to ensure a resume stands out in a crowd.

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Facility Manager Takes Starring Role In Keeping Theater Open

Katrina Sturtzen, facility director, Schauer Arts Center, encourages women to speak up and be heard

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Making A Case For Capital Projects

Given the dollar amounts involved in many facilities-related capital projects, facilities managers can benefit from a solid understanding of capital planning.

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Facility Management Departments Need To Change

‘That’s How We’ve Always Done It’ is not an acceptable answer

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Add Value To Your Organization With Strategic Planning

The facilities department needs to be an integral part of an organization’s strategic planning process. Unfortunately, few managers have the necessary skills.

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Road to Diversity and Inclusion: How Women Build a Community Within Facilities

Building a safe space within your organization where people feel represented is a way to retain new talent.

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Help With Recruiting and Retaining Maintenance Technicians

The Maintenance Technician Staffing Report includes data on technician turnover, recruitment strategies, starting wages and salaries, retention techniques and more

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Re-establish Your Organizational Culture

Don't let a hybrid workplace kill the department cohesion you had pre-pandemic 

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Succession Planning in a Post-Pandemic World

As facilities recover from the Great Resignation, there are steps facilities managers can follow to dust off and revamp their succession plans.

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The Cost Of Saying ‘No’ To Budget Requests

Facility managers need to track and communicate the data that shows the damage of cost-cutting measures

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Alternative Procurement Methods Needed In K-12 Schools 

The Great Resignation is pushing K-12 school districts to re-evaluate the vendor service agreement solicitation process

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Don’t Let a Hybrid Workplace Prevent Mentoring

Learn how to create a staff mentoring plan and what skills facility managers need

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2022 Facility Management Predictions

A look at some of the trends affecting FMs in 2022, including Internet of Things, COVID-19, hybrid workplaces and sustainability

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UPDATED: Facility Management Salaries and Compensation

Pay scales for 10 individual titles broken down by geography, building type, budget, facility size, experience, and much more

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Is Your Janitorial Cost Per Square Foot Priced Right?

This report shows cleaning costs for a dozen facility types. It also analyzes cleaning frequencies for 16 tasks and how they were affected by the pandemic

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Emerging Campus Builds In Resilience from the Start

Old and new challenges in ensuring Columbia University’s Manhattanville campus can withstand a crisis

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Forging Better Vendor Relationships

Tips for evaluating service providers, writing a clearer RFP, and measuring key performance indicators

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How To Deliver Bad News To Top Management

Before things get worse, build a convincing case of what needs to be done now

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6 Challenges of Hybrid Working Environments

Facility managers returning on-site need to renew their business etiquette in the workplace

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10 Tips for Justifying Projects to Management

Educating officials on the importance of getting things done involves many obstacles. Here’s how to overcome them

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Passive Design, Active Energy Savings

Passive building principles are gaining momentum. In many cases, passive commercial buildings can approach or achieve net-zero energy.

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Do You Have Future Managers On Your Staff?

How to identify standout employees and put them on the track for middle and senior management positions

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The Answers To Attracting Technicians

Solving the growing labor shortage lies in changing perceptions about maintenance work, uncovering new sources for technicians, and bringing back apprenticeships.

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The Office of the Future Will Be Flexible

As return to work gains momentum, facility managers may have some difficult decisions regarding space configuration and footprint. Here’s some advice.

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Enhanced Infection Control with Antimicrobials and Nanotechnology

These tools continually protect surfaces from COVID-19 and other microorganisms

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Re-opening: Keeping Foodservice Safe, Yet Sustainable

How the pandemic has impacted Herman Miller’s foodservice operations

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FMs Playing Important Role During COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout

School systems offer up their buildings in effort to increase the rate of vaccines

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How to Improve IAQ With Effective Air Filtration

Learn the 3 things needed for healthy indoor air, understand the difference in air filters, and upgrade filtration in 5 steps

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How to Develop an Effective Mentorship Program

Structured mentoring helps with recruitment and retention, as well as facilitates knowledge transfer.

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The FM’s Guide to Facility Credentials

Earning a credential can increase your earning power and kickstart your career. Here is how to sort through the alphabet soup of facility credentials to find what’s best for you.

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Free Money for Energy Projects?

New and extended tax incentives and rebates can help fund HVAC, lighting, renewable energy, and other projects. Here’s what you need to know to maximize your money.

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Getting Creative With Vacant Facilities

Two examples of repurposing vacant recreation and retail buildings into usable office space

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Is Office Densification Dead?

Before the pandemic, personal work areas were shrinking. What impact will social distancing and work-from-home have on office layouts?

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Is It Time To Replace Your Fire Alarm System?

This guide offers answers to commonly asked questions about ongoing maintenance and replacement of fire alarm systems

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Resilience In Action At University of Chicago

COVID-19 has tested the school’s resilience strategies. Senior Director of Facilities Brian Cowperthwaite discusses an emphasis on people, communication and preventive maintenance

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Facility Management 2021 Forecast

Experts predict trends in design, energy, construction, and more.

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Five 2021 Commercial Real Estate Trend Predictions

Market outlook for industrial, office, healthcare and retail facilities

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FM Guidebook for Fire Alarm Inspection, Testing and Maintenance

Answers to commonly asked questions regarding NFPA 72 and its requirements for inspecting and testing fire alarm systems

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Maintaining Company Culture While Working Remotely

Working from home and social distancing makes it hard for staff to interact. These strategies help employees to keep connecting.

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What Do New Facility Managers Want In A Job?

Recent graduates share the key attributes that organizations can use to attract employees.

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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Four Coronavirus Mitigation Measures

Some coronavirus strategies are proven by science to work. Others are merely theater.

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Are Your Fire Notification Systems Up To Code?

Answers to commonly asked questions about notification appliances in the fire alarm system

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Data Center Facility Management Salaries

Compensation for data center facility managers, engineers and technicians broken out nationally, by market, redundancy, critical load and more

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Facility Manager's Guide To Fire Alarm System Code Mandates

Answers to commonly asked questions regarding fire codes, NFPA 72 and interconnections between the alarm system and the rest of the facility

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Six Climate And Resilience Strategies You Can Do Right Now

Learn how facility managers can help mitigate the worst effects of climate change while also improving the resilience of their facilities

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Managing The Generational Gap

Facility management staff could include four generations of employees. Learn insights for a thriving age-diverse workforce

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When Switching To LEDs, Plan Long-term

Retrofits and new luminaires will last a decade or two. Although expensive, it’s an opportunity to invest in new lighting capabilities for the future

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COVID-19: Maintenance On The Frontlines

Engineering and maintenance at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center help the organization respond to the coronavirus pandemic

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LED Relamping: An Inexpensive Way To Cut Energy Bills

One-for-one relamping using existing ballasts and type A TLEDs is the easiest and cheapest option, but it’s not without its drawbacks

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Cybersecurity: How To Avoid Ransomware Attacks

Developing operational technology policies can protect facilities from external threats and self-inflicted wounds

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Five Ways To Retain Middle Managers

Failure to acknowledge these employees leads to a decrease in commitment and higher turnover

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Healthy Buildings: Understanding Fitwel Certification

COVID-19 escalated occupants' desire for healthy workspaces. Fitwel gives facility managers a blueprint to follow.

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8 Ways To Bring Down Data Centers

Avoid power failures in your critical facilities by watching out for these eight problems

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Improving Employee Engagement And Team Morale

This overlooked, but critical, aspect of the facility manager’s role can reap long-lasting benefits

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Gap Analysis: Teach Your Employees The Skills They Lack

Train staff on the skills they need. These programs help facility managers identify what's missing

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How COVID-19 Will Affect Future Office Design

Learn about the permanent changes facilities may implement to keep occupants healthy and avoid future shutdowns

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Preparing Higher Education Facilities For Reopening

Short- and long-term facility solutions that allow students and staff to return to campus safely

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Successful Onboarding Starts Here

Follow this onboarding checklist to integrate new hires into the organization. Assign a mentor to help employees feel connected even faster.

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WELL Certification Provides Financial And Occupant Benefits

Building occupants are beginning to demand that their indoor environment contribute to their own health and well-being. The WELL rating system can help

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Know Before You Buy: Boilers

This guide can help facility managers save thousands of dollars by making educated purchases with practical advice about the features worth paying for, key questions to ask, and pitfalls to avoid.

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Resilience: The Facility Manager’s Role

Managers play a central role in building a resilience team, setting priorities and protecting an organization’s in-place assets

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Attracting Millennials To Facility Management

Making the industry appealing to Millennials requires new strategies and a different mindset

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Preparing For A Hurricane

Facility managers need to safeguard their roofs, windows and equipment against damage from strong winds and water

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6 Ways To Boost Building Envelope Performance

Improve performance and reduce costs with a range of technologies in use

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Facility Management Salaries and Compensation

Pay scales broken out by geography, individual titles, market type, facility size and more.

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Budgets And Staffing Report

Analysis of 2019 capital budgets, operating budgets and staff sizes, as well as projections for 2020

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11 ADA Problem Areas In Open Offices

Compliance still matters, even without walls

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17 Steps To Lower Your Electric Rates

Most facility managers know how to trim electricity costs by upgrading lighting, HVAC, and controls. But if the goal is to reduce power costs, facility managers also need to know how to reduce their average electric rate

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Energy Star Score Action Plan

In late August 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency made significant changes in its Energy Star Portfolio Manager tool. Realign with refreshed metrics