A new upskilling support programme is being offered to front line FM employees to help enhance their learning pathways and broaden their career options FutureFit is an initiative delivered by charity, East London Business Alliance (ELBA) which aims to help ...

Wellbeing in the workplace has rightly become a central focal point within recent years. Employee health matters. A happy, healthy team is a productive one and vital to the success of most (if not all) organisations. The built environment plays ...

According to a recent report from leading skills organisation City & Guilds, the UK is falling behind in the global skills race. Here John Yates, Group Director at City & Guilds Group offers some essential insights on training gleaned from ...

Eastwood Park’s new training calendar for April 2020-March 2021 has been published this month, with details of its specialist engineering and estates and facilities management courses. Following a busy 2019 celebrating 50 years of training delivery, 2020 looks to be ...

Engineering is crucial to the UK economy, but the skills gap is growing. FMJ asked building services provider JCA how it finds, trains and motivates its staff Engineering is a critical part of the UK economy, employing around 20 per ...

First class FM training delivers First Class people says Chris Ash, Managing Director of ISS Healthcare, and a partnership with the Fulham Road Collaborative (FRC) is providing top level facilities management training in the healthcare sector All organisations – whether ...

Kim Leahy, HR Director, Corporate Services, Sodexo UK & Ireland explains the importance for services businesses such as FM providers to give people the right skills and attributes to deliver against their clients’ needs now and into the future Customer ...

E-learning is still regarded as an easy way to deliver uninspiring training courses to a mass audience at low cost. That’s no longer the case, argues IWFM Awards judge, David Sharp, MD of International Workplace Vocational training is essential to ...

Interactive online courses are an efficient and cost-effective way to deliver essential health and safety training, argues Alex Wilkins, Head of Business Development at iHASCO Every workplace setting presents its own unique health and safety risks. From heavy lifting to ...

Nick Howes, Managing Director at Leadership Management International UK, argues that developing the skills of existing workers could be the solution to closing the UK productivity gap UK businesses continue to struggle to match, let alone exceed, the productivity levels ...