Your Workplace Strategy defines what you need to do to create a beautiful environment for your staff to work in. So where do you start?
Whilst the Change Manager or Property Manager may be asked to develop a Workplace Strategy, in more cases than none, the Design Team (Workplace Strategist) undertakes this body of work and the Change Manager will participate in and learn about the outcomes of the engagement with the business when the Aspirational and Strategic brief is delivered to the Leadership team.
With this in mind, it is still important for the Change Manager to know and understand what a Workplace Strategy looks like and what is engagement will be undertaken with the business, after all, they will be responsible for selling the sizzle!
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the first steps towards creating your workplace, including understand the key objectives, vision, and undertake discovery of workforce strategy, marketplace, and customer strategy.
Approximately 20 Minutes
The objective of this course is to step through the process of creating a project schedule.
The project schedule will determine the likelihood the project will be completed within a certain time period and will identify the resources required to complete the project within the required time.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the high level process that the Project Manager will undergo when creating a project schedule to monitor and control project activities.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Students will gain an understanding of what steps to take, what to consider when a commercial lease is coming to an end, and what alternatives may be available if the tenant wishes to end a lease early.
Understanding terminology used in the project provides confidence, coherence, improved clarity and clear communication.
There are many special words that are used in design and that the project team will hear in meetings or read in papers. It makes for a more engaged meeting if you understand the words that the Workplace Strategist/Design Team will use to describe and talk to the engagement process and the decisions you need to consider when designing your workplace.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the terminology used in a Workplace Project.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Communicating to staff about how their new workplace will deliver on the In Focus topics, can be as complex as designing spaces to support them! The Change Manager needs to understand why the "In Focus" topics have been chosen.
The 'In Focus' topics provide the backbone of a well structured change campaign and as such, should be told in the right order so that staff can experience each piece and have time to absorb the messages and learnings before the next is introduced.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the exploration activities that go into identifying staff needs resulting in the "In Focus" topics the Change Manager will build their Change and Communication program around.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Students will gain an understanding of viability, cost analysis and comparison and why this is such an important part of the property procurement process.