A Workplace Strategy Project Plan is a set of documents that shows and instructs how the workplace project will be executed and managed during its execution.
Depending on the project scope and company size, a workplace transformation project can be very challenging and complicated.
Having a Workplace Strategy Plan in place enables the team to track their progress toward the project goals, and each team member can understand their roles and recognize their impacts on a successful project completion.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the process of developing and organizing a Workplace Strategy Plan and the phases in creating such a plan.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Part of the Briefing Process is to understand what the Leadership want and how they see the new workplace.
The purpose of the Leadership Interviews and Workshop is to identify the key issues and challenges in selecting the right premises, putting more meat on the bone in terms of identifying what issues are important and what attributes the new workplace premises will need to provide.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how the determinations from the workshops will support the design intent, form the blueprint for the workplace and provide the narrative of who the organization is.
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
Project team onboarding is the process of enrolling human resources to a workplace project. The goal is to make sure that everyone involved in the project understands the objectives and requirements, knows their roles and the expected outcome of the project.
A proper onboarding process should discuss the context before the specifics. It is important to note that the process should always be macro to micro when introducing a workplace project.
In addition, prepare good documentation of what has transpired so far before onboarding to greatly help and ease the process and enabling the project team to hit the ground running
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how to organize the planning team, how to provide essential forms of communication with team members, and how to effectively collaborate with the clients' team in order to facilitate decision-making and approval processes.
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
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.
Approximately 20 Minutes