Students will gain an understanding of business strategy and how to ensure alignment during property selection.
Students will gain an understanding of the process of developing a project team, and how improving internal and external interactions of team members, developing competencies and skills, and optimising the overall team environment will enhance project performance.
As a member of the project team, you are expected to understand the many stages of a project and how deliverables and activities will be undertaken and in what order throughout the project lifecycle.
The Accommodation timeline is the high level roadmap that indicates the project junctures and where you and your team will be involved in the project in order to deliver all the essential support and services needed by the client. Understanding the Accommodation Timeline and how the projects starts and the junctures where the different project team members work is essential to all team members.
It is important that each project team member become familiar with your projects accommodation project timeline and understand who is doing what role in each of these project phases.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of where you fit in, in any project, when you are undertaking the role of Workplace Strategist or Change Manager, and learn about each phase of a typical commercial accommodation project.
Approximately 20 Minutes
An organization will likely have a dedicated procurement team, who employ multi-faceted strategies to ensure cost-effective quality purchasing as part of their procurement management.
Procurement management can be defined as the acquisition of goods, services, or works from an outside external source. It is favorable that the goods, services, or works are appropriate and that they are procured at the best possible cost to meet the needs of the project in terms of quality and quantity, time, and location.
They will follow a procurement plan that will vary depending on the goods and service being purchased, finding a coffee supplier may not involve all the same steps as purchasing a new fire suppression unit.
The aims of the procurement plan are to identify which vendor can best meet the organization's needs whilst remaining cost effective.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of key elements or procurement from ordering, stores management, hazards, and risks to vendor performance monitoring, as well as the importance of co-operating and facilitating the procurement team and vendors to ensure optimal stock and service delivery.
Approximately 20 Minutes
It is important that business maximizes the opportunity that exists in the market now.
A Needs Analysis will put you in control of your property acquisition journey and provide you with the best timing for approach to the market.
The organizations vision and mission statements will be considered in order to land on what the future workplace will look and feel like. This consideration will result in the future workplace objectives.
The Mission and Vision may be to empower staff to create value for the organizations customers, and to engage with customers more freely.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how to undertake a Needs Analysis and what considerations and thinking on location, space layout and optimization is necessary before your business leases.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Students will gain an understanding of the mission and vision of the organisation they are working with. This course explores the strategic drivers of the key business leaders and what information the Workplace Strategist or Change Manager will seek from them, or deliver to them throughout the Change Programme.