Building trust – a one minute reminder
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You were 530 days late, Francis Rossi
You were 530 days late, Francis Rossi. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely. I had booked VIP Meet and Greet tickets for my husband and I to see Francis Rossi at the Corn Exchange in Stamford, last March. Yesterday, the event happened. The Meet and Greet started early. It was…
Global FM Trust index 2021
Welcome to the Global FM Trust Index 2021. This builds on the UK Trust Index we carried out in 2019 and explores the levels of trust across the world, giving us a unique opportunity to really understand how important trust is in this vital sector. Please find below the results…
If you work in facilities management and / or procurement, why do you change your facilities provider(s) every 3 years or so?”
Why do 38% of respondents feel the need to test the market so frequently? It implies that something is missing from the existing facilities provider relationship, that they don’t fully trust them to bring the best ‘of the market’ to the table. Perhaps an honest conversation about what the client…
A salutary lesson – why it’s best to outsource to the experts
They say that every day is a school day, learn something new or remind yourself of something you already know. This thought popped into my head as I lay on my side by the overturned mini-digger I was driving, checking that all my limbs were still there and intact. So…
Letters
When I was about 13 years old, I put an advert in the back of a music newspaper called Superpop, which was the ‘poor relative’ of NME and Melody Maker, I guess. I’m not sure if anybody even remembers it. Anyway, I wanted some pen pals. And I had quite…
‘Succeedy’ time! a spoof motivation session
Neil Mullarkey is an international speaker and performer (virtual for now!) and author. He co-founded London’s ‘Comedy Store Players’ and still performs with them. He has acted on TV, radio and in two Austin Powers films with his former comedy partner, Mike Myers. He also has an alter ego, the global enigma…
finding ‘magic moments’
I really like Tony Blackburn’s radio show ‘Sounds of the 60s’ (the music era that shaped me) which I listen to every Saturday morning. On the two-hour show he has a couple of ‘Magic Moments’ where someone writes in and shares something that happened in the 60s which was really…
virtual walking tour of mumbai
On a recent Kentish and Co team call, we ‘travelled’ to Mumbai for a virtual tour, guided by Pranav. Liz and Dave had met Pranav and taken a walking tour with him several years ago, whilst visiting Mumbai on business. The virtual tour was fabulous – Pranav played short video…
Sabbaticals today
Sabbaticals have risen in popularity recent years, fuelled in part by tech companies searching for new perks to attract and retain staff. We were curious – how many companies actually offer Sabbaticals? So, we recently asked our LinkedIn and Twitter followers “Does your organisation formally offer the chance for people to…