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Welcome to the Facilities & Services Training Calendar. The training provided here represents a broad spectrum of topics that have been vetted and determined to be relevant to professionals in F&S. 

Training Requests

We're committed to supporting your growth and success, and we're looking for your input on learning opportunities. If you or your team have a training need, please submit a Facilities & Services Training Request.

Monthly Safety Training

Required monthly safety training sessions are sent to staff directly through the Grainger Learning Management System (GLMS). The GLMS platform allows employees to see their specific training dashboard as well as gives supervisory staff an enhanced way to track and record engagement and completion.

Staff will see emails from alerts_graingerlms@icertainty.com when new trainings are available. You can access GLMS and assigned training at fands.icertainty.com using your netID and password.

For questions regarding monthly safety training, please contact Safety & Compliance at oshs@illinois.edu.

Using AI to Enhance Workforce Performance (including yours!)

Event Type
Professional Development
Sponsor
APPA
Date
Nov 18, 2025   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Speaker
Sid Thatham-Energy Engineer, University of Cincinnati’s Department of Utilities
Registration
Click here to register.
Contact
Joseph Meeker
E-Mail
jlmeeke2@uillinois.edu
Phone
217-300-6568
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The pace of change at work is accelerating—and AI literacy is quickly becoming a must‑have skill. In this APPA webinar, University of Cincinnati engineer and educator Sid Thatham shows practical, low‑risk ways facility leaders and campus teams can use today’s tools to boost productivity, sharpen decisions, and upskill for what’s next. Expect live examples, clear guardrails for privacy and ethics, and a concrete action plan you can start the same day.

What you’ll learn

  • Fast wins with today’s tools: Triage documents with AI PDF readers; draft presentations with tools like Gamma; extract data and create predictive views to support maintenance and capital planning.
  • Designing “assistant” workflows: Where agentic AI fits (and where it doesn’t) in facilities, energy management, and administrative processes.
  • AI literacy for every role: How to find transferable use cases, build prompt habits, and upskill teams—without needing to code.
  • Risk, ethics, and privacy 101: What to share (and not), handling proprietary data, understanding tool limitations and hallucinations.
  • The workforce lens: Why as many as 300M full‑time jobs worth of tasks could be exposed to automation—and what leaders can do to reskill now.  

Who should attend
Campus facilities leaders, supervisors, analysts, and anyone curious about using AI to reduce backlog, accelerate planning, and elevate service

                        
                




External Training Offerings

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Additional Training Resources

GRAINGER LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (GLMS)

LINKEDIN LEARNING ONLINE LEARNING LIBRARY®

APPA - ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL PLANT ADMINISTRATORS

ILLINOIS TRAINING CALENDAR

FAST-3 TRAINING

HRDQ-U

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