Greetings Chapter Members, As we enter the holiday season, it’s important to reflect on the year, celebrate our accomplishments, learn from our mistakes, renew, re-calibrate and set new goals for the future. Time is short and it is critical that we take time to do what we enjoy most, brings us a sense of satisfaction [...]
Greetings Chapter Members, I call this month ‘Youmember’. That’s right, this month is all about ‘YOU’! This is the month when we take time to plan for the free Chapter Appreciation gala event to celebrate ALL of the Greater Triangle Chapter of IFMA’s members. This is the month we take time to say thank you [...]
Presidents Message Happy Fall IFMA Family, This is a great time of year as temperatures drop, leaves change color and HVAC systems get some respite! This month we celebrate several great things in the chapter. First Every-Ruby Level Sponsor! I am happy to announce that we have our first ever Ruby Level Sponsor. A [...]
Presidents Message Better, Faster, Stronger. The Chapters board and Committees have been pulling together the past few months working on finalizing the chapters Balanced Score Card (BSC). The BSC will be utilized as a tool to identify and measures the Chapter's targets for the year. We have a great team of Chapter volunteers who are working to implement the BSC [...]
Greetings IFMA Family, Summer is upon us and these are the months filled with vacations, family trips and time off from work and… This is also the time when the temperatures rise to sometimes absurd heights and our HVAC systems are tested. We think of ways to cool the roofs of our buildings (white roofs [...]
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.” - Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson Greetings IFMA Family, It is with great pleasure, pride and humility I write my first note to you as the President of the Greater Triangle [...]
As we roll into the month of June, I am in disbelief in how quickly the year has gone by. I started off my term as President by refocusing on our mission and vision to make sure that, as we grow, we do not lose sight of what our Chapter is all about. I also [...]
So What’s Up with the New IFMA Golf Shirts? For those of you who attended our 11th annual golf tournament, you may have noticed that members of the Golf Committee and our Chapter Committee Chairs and Board Members were wearing new Triangle Chapter of IFMA golf shirts. Besides making us look nice, these shirts [...]
The Value of IFMA Through our celebrating the Facility Management Professional (CFMP) Campaign, we have been refocusing on our mission and vision of our Chapter. This has the added benefit of making us revisit the “value of IFMA” for our membership. The value of IFMA is something we are always looking to improve and [...]
The Value of IFMA Through our celebrating the Facility Management Professional (CFMP) Campaign, we have been refocusing on our mission and vision of our Chapter. This has the added benefit of making us revisit the “value of IFMA” for our membership. The value of IFMA is something we are always looking to improve and now [...]
What is IFMA? - IFMA 101 Sometimes when you belong to a professional organization for a period of time, you may become so entrenched in a committee and the relationships you have built that one can lose focus on what the organization stands for. For those new to the organization, there are so many terms, [...]
An Evening to Remember – Happy Holidays! Every year we always wonder how we could possibly top our previous Member Appreciation event. Thanks to the incredible efforts of our volunteers we did it! Our fourth annual Member Appreciation event was the best one yet with 176 registered attendees. Our Community Outreach Committee did an [...]
Time to Celebrate! November 8th at the Angus Barn for our Member Appreciation event is almost upon us. This is an opportunity to celebrate our vibrant Chapter and recognize the volunteers who are making a significant contribution. During the event, we will be celebrating our troops through our Community Outreach Committee’s Care Packages campaign [...]
What Happened to the Summer? For those of you who attended our monthly meeting, you realized that this is a building year. Instead of maintaining and tweaking the processes we have in place, we are rebuilding to manage our Chapters growth with a refocus on our mission, vision and strategic objectives. This is taking [...]