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Programme Agenda

Five days that follow the facilities management cycle: overview, planning and budgeting, risk-based maintenance, outsourcing and contracting, and performance monitoring.

5Training days
5Practical themes
1Practical auditing exercise

Day 1 – An Overview of Facilities Management. The facilities management process as a whole, and where your own organisation stands today.

Topics

Topics covered

  • The facilities management process in general
  • Facilities management as a business within a business
  • Facilities phases, planning and realisation
  • The relationship between facilities management and asset management
  • Facilities roles and the current state of your FM processes

Day 2 – The Basic Elements of Facilities Management. The planning, budgeting and control that keep facilities running and affordable.

Topics

Topics covered

  • Types of planning
  • Strategic and annual planning, life-cycle cost principles
  • Budgeting principles
  • Disaster recovery plans
  • Maintenance concepts
  • Work planning and control, and performance management of the workflow

Day 3 – Preventive Maintenance & Maintenance Strategy. Use risk to decide what to maintain, how and how often.

Topics

Topics covered

  • Understanding risk
  • Risk-based maintenance: the methodology
  • Steps in developing an effective, risk-based maintenance strategy
  • Typical inspection and maintenance tasks for utilities

Day 4 – Outsourcing & Contracting. Decide what to outsource, choose the right contractor and manage the contract.

Topics

Topics covered

  • What to outsource and what not
  • Choosing the right contractor
  • How to manage outsourced services
  • Contract types
  • The contracting cycle
  • Service level agreements

Day 5 – Performance Monitoring & Benchmarking. Set targets, measure performance and keep improving.

Topics

Topics covered

  • Continuous improvement
  • Target setting as a starting point
  • Monitoring performance: developing and using key performance indicators
  • The Facilities Management Balanced Scorecard (FMBSC)
  • Assessments, audits and benchmarking
  • Course review and wrap-up
Practical activityPractical exercise in auditing

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Certification

ICL Certificate of Completion

Delegates who attend the full programme receive the Institute of Corporate Learning Certificate of Completion on the final day.

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Run your facilities like a business – and prove the value.

Classroom in Pretoria or Live Online · 15 – 19 March 2027. Seats are limited to keep the sessions interactive.

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