People issues & end-of-year review

28th February 2013

Aimed at Senior Managers - Cost: £300 (per delegate) - Free for Network members

Event 7: Thursday  28 February 2013 - The Source, Meadowhall, Sheffield

 

People issues & end-of-year review
Staff morale, redundancies, TUPE issues and flexible working are only some of the concerns that keep FMs on their toes. In the FM industry, training and development are high priority – is the public sector keeping up?

 

Agenda

   

9.30-9.55

Coffee and registration

10.00-10.05

Welcome and introduction to the day

Fides Matzdorf, CFMD

10.05-10.15

Feedback from mini survey on aging workforce

Fides Matzdorf, CFMD

10.15-11.00

Health and wellbeing – the workforce challenge

Are staff workloads, unpaid overtime work and stress increasing due to staff cuts? Have health and wellbeing issues chanegd over the past few years? What solutions are there around to help combat these issues? Is there a direct relationship between a healthy workplace and increased productivity/efficiency?

Robert Quick, Associate Director, People and Organisational Develeopment,
Workplace Health and Wellbeing Centre, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

11.00-11.30

Refreshments and networking

11.30-12.15

The benefits of workplace transformation

What is agile working – a buzzword or a real change in the way we work? Can it be implemented in all organisations? How to ensure that agile transformational programmes are successful (both on tangible and intangible factors)? Specific examples from local government, the NHS and other organisations, discussing people, HR and leadership issues.

Adrian Rathbone, Associate Director – Workplace Transformation, Telereal Trillium

12.15-13.00

From basement to boardroom, is training always the answer?

Ways of raising staff morale. Training and development in the FM industry within the current economic climate. Succession planning, mentoring, learning on the job and and learning from experience.

Liz Kentish, Director, FM Coaching

13.00-13.45

Lunch and networking

13.45-14.30

Upskilling the workforce – problems and solutions

Organisational issues around an aging workforce (both at managerial and frontline level). How can we get the best of both worlds – retain the knowledge and keep people ‘learning on the job’, but also ensure flexibility and a ‘can do’ attitude to change? Recruitment strategies, training and more… some practical solutions.

John Priestley, Training and Development Manager,
Facilities Management Directorate, University of Sheffield

14.30-14.50

CFMD/i-FM/Interserve FM Market Survey 2012

Benefits of different procurement models. Innovation in FM. How do FMs spend their time? Relationships and communication and how to improve them. Outsourcing – the benefits and where it is not delivering. Outlook on the future – how opinions change between the public and private sectors.

Tim Davidson-Hague and Liz Clark, CFMD

14.50-15.10

Panel Discussion with speakers

15.10-15.20

FM Network programme 2013/14

Tim Davidson-Hague, Director CFMD

15.20-15.30

Key action points, next steps and summing up of the day

Tim Davidson-Hague, Director CFMD

15.30

Close

 

Members of the Network can attend the workshop using their 20 delegates places. For further information about becoming a Network Member click here. If you want to attend a workshop but your organisation is not a Member of the Network, please contact us on fm.net@shu.ac.uk

 

Agenda: Download the full Agenda here.

Booking Form: To make a booking, please complete the Booking Form or click here to email the Network team.

Direction: The workshop venue will be The Source, Meadowhall, Sheffield (300 Meadowhall Way, Sheffield. S9 1EA)

 

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