About Coretex Facility
Learning Ltd (CFL)
What do you mean by Facilities Management (FM)?
Who are Coretex Facility Learning (CFL) – what
do you do?
What is CFL’s
Vision?
What is
Competence in relation to FM?
How does
CFL’s approach benefit me as an individual?
How does
CFL’s approach benefit my organization?
How does
CFL’s approach benefit my organizations customers?
What courses
do you run?
Who
goes on your
courses?
What do
people think of the courses?
What
do we mean by FM?
The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) describe FM as;
"Facility Management
is the practice of coordinating the physical workplace with the people
and work
of the organization. It integrates the principles of business
administration,
architecture and the behavioral and engineering sciences."
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Who are
CFL – What do you do?
Coretex Facility Learning (CFL) is an
operating division of
Coretex International Ltd , a company
registered in
the UK
that has been working with large organizations across EMEA delivering
management skills training in the main European languages since 1991. The Coretex International website is at www.coretex-int.com.
The managers, consultants and trainers that work for CFL have considerable experience in the Facilities Management field.
We have been undertaking international consulting, training and coaching in FM since the 1980's with some of the worlds most well known organisations.
CFL will continue to build on this heritage.
CFL’s
Vision
Our Mission
CFL provide organizations and
individuals with a single
connection to develop organizational and personal competence that;
- Reduces Language and
Location barriers to learning
- Uses consistent and
professional global standard that is performance referenced
- Provides learning
opportunities that are flexible and modular
- Enables globally
recognized Professional Qualifications to be achieved
- Links into a global,
regional and local support network
- Has support from a global
professional FM professional membership association
- Operates a quality
controlled system to ensure continual learning improvement
- Enables sharing of
experiences between learners and organizations
- Focuses on organizational
and personal learning, not just examination
- Supports the view that
performance proves competence
Enabling learners to
demonstrate achievement is very
important to the way that CFL operates. IFMA’s
Facility Management Proffesional (FMP) and Certified Facility Manager (CFM) qualifications are FM centric,
genuinely competence
focused and International. CFL training services align with
IFMA’s initiatives to support the FM industry and their own membership in
the European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
regions.
Global training services
We collaborate with IFMA to provide accredited
development opportunities to managers and organizations globally and self deliver those services in the regions we operate.
Details
of specific programmes planned to date can
be seen on the 'Courses' pages
of this web site.
All training programmes are facilitated by
experienced
multilingual Trainers who have expertise in the content area of each
course. The venue of each course reCFLcts the
nature of the learning content and serves as good practice case
studies.
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Developing competent, Professional Facilities Managers and FM organizations
What is Competence in relation to FM?
Definition
Competence is an ability to do
something (to perform) to
an acceptable level. It is possible to reference the standard of the
performance against criteria that are defined. Boyatsis,
in talking of managerial competencies
defines a competency
as: 'an
underlying characteristic of a person
which results in effective and/or superior performance in a job'
(Boyatsis
l982, p. 21)
Competence
can be referenced and measured in its component
parts;
- Experience
- Skills/ Knowledge
- Attitude
Inadequate
performance or inability to do something is
called ‘incompetence’ and is a result of low
competence in
one or more of the three areas.
Competence Frameworks
organizations define the
competencies they need to achieve their Vision and Objectives. Management skills, sales, operations and product development are typically the focus for competence development.
Often the specific competencies needed to carry out internal function roles are not built into the framework. It is assumed that management skills will cover a broad range of development needs. Faclities Management is typically in that category.
Even organizations that have FM service delivery
as a core business may not clearly define the competencies required to
undertake the roles of their staff and rely on the skills they bring when recruited into the role.
If you would like to develop a
competence framework that is related to FM please contact us and we
would be delighted to offer our advice.
IFMA Competencies
IFMA has defined its view on
competencies. A copy
of this document can be downloaded from the IFMA Website.Click here to go to the IFMA web site
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Benefits
How does CFL’s approach benefit me as a Manager?
If you are in the first 10 years of your career as a Facilities Manager,
learning the knowledge covered in the IFMA competence framework and obtaining an internationally recognized professional qualification in FM will benefit you, your customers and your team. The FMP and CFM
qualification will support you in demonstrating your commitment to being
knowledgeable, productive and effective in your work to your employer.
The IFMA FMP and CFM enable you to
clearly see and be able
to demonstrate FM professional competence as different from the generic
competencies of your organization. This
helps your organization understand that your professional development
is
important and different from that required for organization operations, IT,
marketing and other staff. Without
appropriate structured competence development there will be areas of
your job
that you don’t know what you do not know – and the investment your
organization
makes in employing you will not be fully utilized.
You commitment to developing
professional competence can be
enacted through CFL. You can use this
web site to explain the benefits of being competent and the risks to
the
organization of not investing in you.
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How
does CFL’s approach
benefit my organization?
Organizations, particularly
those with an international presence can find developing, maintaining and
demonstrating a
competent workforce is challenging.
Organizations whose main role is to deliver
FM services to customers have a particular challenge.
CFL enables your organization
to have a consistent approach to the more complex aspects of developing
competence against professional FM standards across languages,
globally. We can help your organization
develop and achieve proactive, professional,
consistent FM competence.
As an organization you can purchase
Course Credits in
numbers that will enable you to progress the achievement of consistent
professional competence more economically that simply asking each of
your staff
to book independently using credit cards. Please contact us for further
information.
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How
does CFL’s
approach benefit my organizations customers?
CFL can help you
to demonstrate your
personal and organizational commitment to developing a consistent
profession
competence to your customers. The
consistent development inherent in both the FMP and CFM programmes mean
that
your people can increase their value and effectiveness over time. Combined with a management approach that
supports staff performance you can demonstrate market leading practices
and a
structured approach to Quality improvement through competence
development.
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The
courses
What courses do you run
The details of our courses can be seen
by visiting the 'Courses' page.
Who goes on your courses?
Since 2002 when the courses were
started, the FMP has been
typically attended by staff in the first 10 years of their FM career. Once the required knowledge required for the FMP has been obtained the
progression to the highly valued CFM qualification can be achieved with experience within a few years. CFL’s
Our vision is to enable our customers to explore and maximise their capabilities.
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What
do people think of
the courses?
The courses have been running since
2003 and personal references on the courses can be seen on the Learning area of the IFMA website. In addition, each course has a pre-assessment and post assessment that enables the learning to be measured.
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More
information
If you wish to ask any specific questions we suggest that you first
look at pages on this site that explain 'Courses' and 'Professional FM Training'.
If you cannot find the information you seek
please contact us through the 'Contact' page.
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