Facilities Management Fundamental Management Objectives are guidelines employees are encouraged to use in their relationships with co-workers and the campus community.
- Be fair but firm
- Foster a trusting relationship
- Encourage
- Speak frankly and directly
- Be consistent
- Cooperate
- Be confident and self assured
- Act calmly under stress
- Employees are our most valuable resource
- Recognize individual employee strengths and weaknesses
- Capitalize on strengths
- Support/improve upon weaknesses
- Treat others as you expect to be treated
- Expect and respond constructively to mistakes
- Never shoot the messenger
- Explain more than defend
- Ask a lot of questions and elicit alternatives in order to make informed decisions
- Expect and respond constructively to change
- Question and evaluate processes, even those that appear to be working
- There is always room for improvement
- Recognize, thank and reward people