Throughout your working day you need to understand that you are in control of the process for monitoring, controlling, and delivering your work.
Making judgements during your workday on how close or how far you are away from achieving your work objectives is all about using critical thinking.
Critical thinking controls are conducted in parallel to executing the work and making judgements on how close or how far you are from the work completion is essential to control your work performance.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how important it is to apply critical thinking in making judgement in your daily work execution, how you monitor and control your work, and how when this is done well or badly, how it impacts the team and organization.
Approximately 20 Minutes
In addition to the phases and terminologies of the commercial property lifecycle that a Client and Real Estate professionals will become familiar with when undertaking a commercial property project, there are other terms that are standard in the industry, and which form the conversations of Lessor and Lessee (also known as Landlord and Tenant). and the service providers and subject matter experts that assist in the procurement process such as Certifiers, Surveyors and Solicitors.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of many of the more common terminologies used when undergoing any number of phases through the commercial property lifecycle of workplace strategy development through to occupation of premises, including Property Acquisition Project Planning, Needs Analysis and Strategy Development, Market Search and Shortlist, Evaluation and Analysis, Negotiations and Heads of Agreement, Exit Obligations, and New Space Preparation & Relocation.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Workplace strategy report needs to have structure and be engaging to read, but not everything can be shown in drawings and not everything can be written in words.
If the Workplace Strategy team is part of a Design/Architectural firm then they may include in their Report the next steps in travelling through the Design Process. If the Workplace Strategist is from a non design background, for example, is a Change Manager, HR Manager, Project Manager, then there would be a natural end at the beginning of the Flight Plan stopping at Discovery and Defining whereas the Design team would take the Flight Plan the total way across to Seeking Direction to test fit the preferred site, Explore Design, and Implement and Deliver the Design.
The last step in the Flight Plan is the Workplace Activation which the Change Manager would pick up perhaps up to 12 months or more later than this initial work that forms the Workplace Strategy Report.
As you can see, this can be an extensive and detailed process when working with your client to achieve the workplace transformation they require, whereas most perspectives are that it all happens when the organization relocates!
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the challenges for the Workplace Strategist to deliver an engaging Workplace Strategy Report.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Mobilization refers to the activities carried out after the client has appointed the trade contractors, but before the trade contractors commence work onsite. It is a preparatory stage during which the majority of activities are managed by the construction manager.
Sometimes, the project manager and construction manager roles overlap with each other. At the start of the project, each role must be defined very well to avoid conflict on decision making when actual construction begins.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the key deliverables and milestones during the fit out construction works.
Approximately 20 Minutes
In the 21st Century many of us spend more time in the office than in our homes. This has become possible only due to the evolution of office environments which are more like our second homes now.
The existing designs of our workplaces mainly focus on providing all the necessary tools and infrastructure for employees to work in an efficient and healthy environment.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the evolution of office designs, the benefits for the people, and how to identify key characteristics and challenges in upgrading office designs.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Scope management is one of the key knowledge areas of the PMBOK Project Management methodology. It is introduced when the project is initiated and is used throughout the lifecycle of the project in conjunction with the other knowledge areas.
Scope Management is concerned with defining all the work of the project and only the work needed to successfully produce the project goals.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of Project Scope Management and the tools and techniques used to perform the processes in this knowledge area.
Approximately 20 Minutes