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Workplace Strategy

CREATING YOUR WORKPLACE

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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.

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE

How the Workplace Strategy requirement is defined
The Engagement Process
What can the Workplace Strategy work uncover?
What can the Workplace Strategy brief support?
Next Steps

COURSE DURATION

Approximately 20 Minutes

Workplace Strategy

SPATIAL PRINCIPLES - An Essential Part of your Occupancy Strategy

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Before you set off on selecting your new premises you need to start this process the same way as every other good strategy, with planning.

Your Corporate Real Estate Manager, who could also be your CFO or Facilities Manager will start doing their research on what workplace planning must occur to get your new space right. And a good place to start would be learning what people mean when they refer to Spatial Principles in the workplace.

Spatial Principles is typically discussed at the time of working through your occupancy model for the business. Spatial Principles in design is related to occupying or having the character of space.

In this course, you will gain an understanding of the importance of Spatial Principles and how they support the organizations future and sets the framework for how the business will occupy and use the workplace.

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE

Spatial Principles
Physically and visually connected spaces
Stacking Principles
Block and Stack
Hierarchy of Zones
Stair and Void Strategy
Spatial Typologies
Spatial Zoning and Layouts

COURSE DURATION

Approximately 20 Minutes

Workplace Strategy

MAKING USE OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

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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.

Workplace Strategy

THEMES - PART 1 - CASE STUDY - Strategy Development Process and Landing on the Client Themes

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The Workplace Strategy team will uncover key organizational themes. It will be done by discovery of systemic knowledge; through strategic engagement with key stakeholders; networking (both with external and internal stakeholders/including vendors in some situations); discovery and observation of cultural context process and structural context.

These organizational themes, in addition to any findings, will be translated into a design.

It is not unusual for some themes to be overlooked due to the client project team not focusing on the implementation yet, and therefore the larger and more costly or time consuming themes may get the attention, ie. agility in the workplace that dictates the design elements and cost elements of the project.

It is the job of the Change Manager later on in the project to do a full review of the findings from the Workplace Strategy discovery and find out what the major themes are that they will socialize and hold carriage of through the implementation period.

In this course, you will gain an understanding of how workplace themes are endorsed for the Change Program.

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE

Getting to Know Your Client - Develop a Client Profile
Identifying the Stakeholders
Assessing Available Resources and Analyze Present Conditions
Making Discovery and Conducting Analysis
Conduct a Situational Analysis
Establishing Strategies and Deciding Themes

COURSE DURATION

Approximately 20 Minutes

Workplace Strategy

WINNING THE WORK - Tendering and Fee Structures

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Students will gain an understanding of tendering and fee structures when bidding for the next workplace project.

Workplace Strategy

TECHNOLOGY AND THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

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Students will gain an understanding how the Workplace Strategy will support and reflect the new and best in practice change initiatives to support the client organisation.

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CREATING YOUR WORKPLACE

SPATIAL PRINCIPLES - An Essential Part of your Occupancy Strategy

MAKING USE OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

THEMES - PART 1 - CASE STUDY - Strategy Development Process and Landing on the Client Themes

WINNING THE WORK - Tendering and Fee Structures

TECHNOLOGY AND THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

Discover a strategic methodology on how to go about the pre-design process.

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