Guidelines to MBIFM PPR

PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL REVIEW MBIFM

Instructions for completion

The Personal Professional Review (PPR) has been designed for you to demonstrate that you have achieved a proven level of attainment in the Institute’s requirements for professional competence and a commitment to the facilities management profession. Applicants will generally have responsibilities for resources (both financial and manpower) and for the development and implementation of facilities management operations and strategies. They will also have wide understanding of commercial, regulatory, financial and legal issues within facilities management.

You are required to demonstrate your own experience, involvement and responsibility by giving examples of projects, tasks and activities undertaken matched against the BIFM Competences.

You must complete all of the narrative boxes for the three competences and elements which are included to prove your knowledge and skills at the required level. The narrative in each competences section should be in the region of not less than 500 words and with a maximum of 1000 words (between 1500 words to 3000 words maximum in total). The narratives may be in report or essay format and the BIFM template must be used.

Successful applicants will be able to fully demonstrate to an independent assessor their use of a combination of general and specialist facilities management knowledge and understanding.  Competence in all areas is required – if you fail to evidence competency in any one area, your application will not reach the required standard to be offered membership.  You will however have an opportunity to re-apply.

The narrative boxes should describe in detail examples of projects, tasks and activities which have contributed to professional development and knowledge gained including where applicable:

• Nature of the activity,
• Technical content and application
• Resources involved
• Personal involvement and level of responsibility
• Specific knowledge, understanding and skills gained.

Please also see the general guidance on completion of the PPR.

You can download the template for the PPR and work on it on your own computer until you are completely satisfied with it.  You then return your completed PPR in 2 ways:
 
• Print the document as a .pdf file, save it and upload it to the application area of the website

• Print the document as a .pdf file, save it and email it to the membership team via membership@bifm.org.uk

Experience

Use the Experience section in each competence you are completing to clearly demonstrate, with examples of specific projects and areas of responsibility, your managerial experience, skills and professional judgment involving the application of knowledge in a broad range of complex technical or professional work activities performed in a wide range of contexts relating to the elements of this competence listed below.

The narrative should emphasize the level of personal responsibility and autonomy enjoyed and detail the precise nature and duration of tasks performed in relation to each of the headings within that competence.

Reflection

Then in The Reflection and Evaluation section critically reflect on the success and learning points of the projects and tasks described, analysing, reconsidering and questioning experiences within a broad context of issues within facilities management. In this section you can explore the interaction between ideas received from books, lectures, training courses, experiences, etc. and your own internal understanding and interpretation of those ideas in the working environment.

1. Competence: Customer Service

Understanding the service culture
This competency element is about responsibilities to customers and the ways in which internal and external customer relationships are managed, evaluated and improved.


2. Competence: Personal Leadership

Building and leading teams and managing team performance
This competency element is about ensuring that analytical and innovative thinking and learning takes place in a team.

Managing time and deadlines effectively
This competency element is about improving personal and team performance in managing time and deadlines effectively.

3. Competence: The Business Organisation

Continuous improvement
This competency element is about the principles, tools and techniques of continuous improvement and the benefits these can bring, both to the facilities services being managed and to the core business.