The Importance of Space Management for FMs w/ Randy Olson & Manuel Medina

Shownotes(1:01) Intro(3:32) Welcoming today’s guests(10:14) What are you reading?(12:47) The importance of space management(15:35) The pandemic in Panama(20:08) Adapting to constant change(31:10) Preparing for reopening (38:58) Are FMs responsible for creating quality remote workspaces?(44:08) How can FMs prepare for unknowns?(48:57) Wrap upLinksShawn BlackRandy OlsonManuel Medina ProFM APAFAM Book RecommendationsAtomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Quotes“It may really end up changing the purpose of the office going forward.  If you think about office space, or even a retail space or a restaurant space, that purpose is changing over time.  It’s not just a place to necessarily show up and go to work.  It may end up being a completely different experience going forward, and the facility manager is on the front end of that.” (13:20)“There’s a lot of change wrapped around waiting for other authorities to release and let us do what we need to do and really kind of prep for that.” (29:16)“Looking at ProFMI and our organization and how we work, there’s so much of this going on now – so much video.  And that’s something we had done in the past, but not as much.  So as we return to that hybrid environment, how do we then appropriately accommodate that?  How do we plan for that?  How do we make that available to everybody?” (34:49)“We need to adapt our offices, our common areas, our cafeterias.  We need to give them a lot of visibility, a lot of communication on how we manage everything.  And I think that with that visibility and the way that we communicate, all our effort to help them [will make for a good return in 2021].” (38:19)“We need to communicate with our employees and be able to communicate key things out to them to support what I think is most important – and something we’re going to see here going forward – is their wellbeing.  So we’ve got to support their wellbeing no matter where they decide their workplace is going to be.” (42:43)