Healthcare Facilities Network Career moves, from hammer to head honcho
High Reliability, The Healthcare FM Podcast is brought to you by Gosselin/Martin Associates. Our show discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities within the Facilities Management (FM) function.
In this episode of High Reliability, we are joined by Mike Canales. Mike is a Healthcare Engineering Professional, including 21 years spent as a hospital facility director. In 2013 he transitioned out of a hospital career into what has become for him a natural extension and enhancement of his career. He is currently the Healthcare Engineering Program Director at Owensboro Community & Technical College in Owensboro, KY. Mike established the program at OCTC in 2013 (https://owensboro.kctcs.edu).
Mike always brings an engaging, passionate, talkative style, and in this episode of High Reliability, that's on display, including his thoughts on the Porta Potty effect in employment. Other topics include:
- Owensboro Community & Technical College, what the program offers, and how it can help fill the pipeline in an industry where people are leaving;
- The importance and necessity of soft skills in facility management;
- Has the role become too large for a single person to manage?
- Mike's thoughts on the Abraham Lincoln podcast series;
- How the corporatization of healthcare facility management has created a two-tier candidate universe;
- Living in the grey, and why it is a critical skill for all.
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