Executive Development Programs
Asset and Facility Management Intensive
A high level program that offers pathways to a formal qualification
This program covers in detail the overall stewardship of an organisation’s infrastructure (property and facility assets, premises and services) to facilitate and accommodate its activities. A functional approach includes how to align infrastructure with organization goals and to wider social agendas, such as sustainability and climate change adaption. Case studies and interactive problem solving are used to introduce tools and techniques for the practical management and operation of built facilities.
Topics covered: Total asset management, energy management and auditing, maintenance and performance management, churn, life cycle costing, green design and sustainable FM, and more.
Duration: 2×3 day intensives leading to a post-graduate qualification in Asset and Facility Management at Bond University, Queensland, Australia
Presenter: Prof. Brian Purdey, BE, MBA
Strategic Facility Management Intensive
A high level program that offers pathways to a formal qualification
This program explores the interrelationships between the strategic plan for built facilities and that of the business operations supported by the facilities. A systems oriented approach is used to examine the multi-layered, often complex interplay of socio-technical aspects as they relate organisations that occupy built facilities, the information and work technologies they use and the multiple aspects of the built form itself. There is a strong emphasis on how to deliver conflicting performance outcomes over different time frames, performance measurement and benchmarking and the complementary leadership and softer management skills required. Particular attention is paid to the competences required and the opportunities presented by the delivery of environmentally sustainable solutions for both buildings and business.
Topics covered: Strategic facility planning, leadership, workplace strategy, performance evaluation and benchmarking, facility strategy alignment, competency assessment and more
Duration: 2×3 day intensives leading to a post-graduate qualification in Asset and Facility Management at Bond University, Queensland, Australia
Presenter: Prof. Brian Purdey, BE, MBA
Creativity Vision Leadership
A highly interactive learning program to empower individual and organisation performance
This program is specifically designed to give participants practical experience working with tools that empower individual achievement, leading to greater personal and corporate success.
A developmental leadership model enables creativity and vision building techniques to be assimilated in a highly inclusive way, whilst stretching participants beyond their current mindset and into the leadership task with the drive to take action that is most appropriate.
The learning experience builds progressively from session to session, enabling each participant to discover his or her own leadership capabilities in a non-threatening way. Individual learning is balanced against development of the group as a whole to demonstrate the power and practicality of the underlying leadership model.
Duration: 2 Days
Organisation Change Management
A program specifically for those seeking more effective management of change
This program will provide participants with a unique opportunity to understand and explore in some detail the key aspects of organisational change, it’s associated challenges and how to manage it well. Participants will learn to apply a variety of change management tools and techniques and experience their effectiveness. The practical hands-on approach will enable participants in the program to develop their own preferred style to managing change as it applies to their particular organization situation.
Duration: 2 Days
Sales and Customer Relationship Management
An essential program for mangers with customer influencing and business development responsibilities
The program will provide insights, inspiration and guidance, to underpin longer-term skills development in sales leadership, customer relationship management and business development.
Participants will be exposed to the very latest in high performance and productivity sales leadership and the practical tools needed to build their own model for effective sales leadership. Each participant will be able to establish performance improvement goals and have the knowledge to focus their investment and efforts to progressively achieve these goals.
Duration: 2 Days
HOtel Simulation Training (HOST)
Suitable for senior and mid level managers who must make critical business decisions
This program enables participants to boldly explore the marketing and management of a hotel operation in a “real-world” economy, without the usual attendant risks of monetary loss. Learning is built around a powerful computer based simulation that realistically generates a highly competitive business environment in the hotel sector – situations that require managers to make critical business decisions, in order to deliver superior financial, market, asset and operational performance.
This program is tailored to the specific needs of participants or client organization both in pre planning and as the training program unfolds, and progressively develops the leadership, team-working and individual skills essential for success in a globally competitive market.
At the completion of this program successful participants will be accorded a formal Recognition of Achievement by the Government of South Australia.
Topics covered: Hotel strategic business and asset planning, financial management and value creation, customer relations and best practice, marketing, risk management, critical business decisions and more
Duration: 4 Days
Papers
A selection of papers prepared by members of the KODO network.
Interruptions to Information Work
by Brian Purdey – request paper
Is Multitasking Counterproductive?
by Brian Purdey – request paper
Innovation: On the Horizon
by Prof James Woudhuysen
Forecasting the Frontiers of Design
by Prof James Woudhuysen – Read paper
Strategic Briefing Guide
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
Environments for Learning and Innovation
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
A Search for a Simpler Way
A management overview, aimed at identifying
the corporation’s strategic vision.
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
A Six-step Approach to Facilities Planning
A management overview.
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
Heterotopia – A management overview
In this paper, Dr George Cairns scans a territory, with ill-defined boundaries, of complexity and ambiguity in relation to the contemporary workplace.
by George Cairns – Contact
Learned Helplessness
Short notes on Learned Helplessness in the Built Environment.
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
New Lanark Essays
In this paper, Dr George Cairns scans a territory, with ill-defined boundaries, of complexity and ambiguity in relation to the contemporary workplace.
by George Cairns – Read paper
Risk in Project Management
Achieving a safe workplace on a building site is a critical measure
by Nick Birbara – Read paper
Scenario Planning
This paper contributes to critical discussion on the contribution of external agents.
by Dr George Cairns – Read paper
Stressed out in the space – time continuum
There is mounting evidence that those employed in work are spending longer hours.
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
Sustainable Spaces 2
A Case for Improved Performance Monitoring and Facility Management.
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
The Modern Executive and Sustainability
Is the modern executive lifestyle socially unsustainable?
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
Workplace wellness is a luxury
Wellness in the workplace is a luxury and has no real impact on business performance.
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
The folly of carbon swipe cards
A plan for all citizens to carry around a card that measures their use of carbon.
by James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University – Read paper
Innovation: on the horizon
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have often praised creativity.
by James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University – Read paper
Connect for Success
What’s the future net worth of your business?
by Brian Purdey – Read paper
PUBLICATIONS
A selection of published books, articles and papers by members of the KODO network.
Clients Driving Construction Innovation – Benefiting from InnovationEdited by Kerry Brown, Keith Hampson et al
CRC-CI (2008)
Click here to order or enquire
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about International Business by George Cairns and Martina Sliwa
Contact george.cairns@rmit.edu.au
Facilities Economics in Australia
by Bernard Williams, with Brian Purdey and a distinguished editorial team of Australian facility professionals. Published by IFPI Ltd.
Available in CDROM format, printable and non-printable versions available.
Aesthetics, Morality and Power
Design as espoused freedom and implicit control.
by Dr George Cairns – Read publication
Daylight – Guiding System for an Office
Daylight-guiding systems in office buildings.
by Mark B. Luther – Read publication
Flexible Working
Organisational liberation or individual straight jacket?
by Dr George Cairns and Nic Beech – Read publication
Meanings of Buildings
This paper discusses the concept of the ‘office building’ as symbolic representation.
by Dr George Cairns and Nic Beech – Read publication
Organisational Decision Making
This article will make critical comment on the role of expert consultants.
by Dr George Cairns and Nic Beech – Read publication
Teleworking
Liberation and Slavery for the 21st Century.
by G.M Cairns and P.N.H Beech – Read publication