A Workplace Strategy is the process of defining who the client organization is and what it does in order to develop a clear brief around their organizations' unique operational needs, physical requirements, and all the associated metrics, such as optimal space needs, workflows and floor plates.
In practice, a Workplace Strategy is a systematic approach for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of how workspace is used by changing the way workspace is configured.
Generally, to produce an effective Workplace Strategy Plan, a thorough investigation of workplace environments and analysis of the work patterns and its environment for dynamic alignment are essential.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how the Workplace Strategist can help organizations to align how they plan, design and manage their workplaces to meet their business goals and objectives.
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
Generally, fee structuring is the process of estimating project costs for a project plan. It is good practice to start the fee structuring weeks before submitting the tender submission to the client.
Producing accurate yet economic estimating is a must for the Workplace Strategy team if they are going to compete in the market. Both over and under estimating can be dangerous. Over-estimating a tender submission can knock the tendering party out of the running as the client may be suspicious of why the tender submission is so much higher than the other proponents, whereas under-estimating can be just as dangerous to the Workplace Strategy business as they will suffer financial losses, but this can be dangerous to the client business also as the service provided to them may be watered down to mitigate against financial loss to the supplier.
In this course, you will gain an understanding that the Workplace Strategy team will need to understand the full scope of works required of the client before getting onto fee structuring.
Approximately 20 Minutes
The client brief and client discovery process will land on some of the subtler themes that the Change Program may adopt during the Implementation phase of the Workplace Transformation Project.
There is quite a bit of time between the Workplace Strategy piece being developed and endorsed, and the change program kicking off. So it is important to know how the Change Manager will pick up on the workplace changes endorsed and weaves them into their Change Program.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the work the Change Manager will undertake to understand the heartbeat of the organization and how they will use the quantitative evidence provided by the Workplace Strategy Report as the baseline.
Approximately 20 Minutes
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
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