How good is your Real Estate and Facilities function? How good is your FM partner? What do you need to do to tightly align your function with the needs of your business and what do you need to do to develop your processes, people and skills to meet the challenging needs of the future ‘Advanced Workplace’?
We’ve taken all the knowledge of our senior team, blended it with our library of best practices, added in leading thinking on workplace management and embedded all of that in a computer based tool that enables a rapid assessment of the Real Estate and Facilities function against our vision for Workplace Management. The tool probes 10 capabilities and 244 practices that are needed to successfully manage the Advanced Workplace.
Using a highly interactive and intense process, the senior leaders of Real Estate and Facilities Management team work together to assess the effectiveness of the organisation and determine an action plan for the development of their capabilities and practices.
When to use Rapid WMD
AWA’s WMD process has a number of uses:
- By an incoming Real Estate and Facilities Leader to gain a rapid understanding of the status of the organisation and to set programmes for development
- As part of the annual strategic development cycle and as a team development mechanism.
- As a means of auditing the capabilities of supply partners
AWA's Workplace Management Model
Workplace Management is the next evolution from Facilities Management and it places emphasis on the maintenance and management of all resources to provide an effective experience for building users whilst maximising the utilisation of workplace assets.
It recognises an increasingly chaotic world in which staff need to be at maximum effectiveness, cross functional team working is key, product cycles are shrinking and organisations need to be able to turn on a sixpence. The 10 capabilities in our model provide an aiming point for forward looking leaders of Real Estate and Facilities Management functions.
The Rapid WMD Process
Our process enables a rapid assessment of the Real Estate and Facilities function against AWA’s Workplace management Model.
Day 1: Workplace Management Development Workshop, weighting and self assessment
Day 2: Self Assessment by the team
Day 3: AWA validation
Day 4: Results presented and discussed and work on actions needed
Day 5: Action planning and programme development
Benefits
- The assessment can be done in a short period enabling the team to focus for a short period
- The 10 capabilities can be weighted to reflect their strategic importance in the context of the clients business.
- Because the team is totally immersed in the process, their understanding of, and commitment to the Action plans and programme is increased
- The assessment can involve the in-house team and supply partners and can be used as a team building event.
- The Action plans and programmes can be used for objective setting and for reviewing strategic progress.
- An annual review using the assessment can take place to assess progress in moving towards AWA’s Workplace Management model
For more information email Andrew Mawson amawson@advanced-workplace.com or Graham Jervis gjervis@advanced-workplace.com
+44 (0)20 7743 7110
