As a Workplace Strategist, you may need to go through a series of formal (or informal) procedures, starting from recognizing a new opportunity to successfully scoring the project, before being able to fully invest yourself into this new workplace project.
There are different methods used when kicking of your project and approaching the project engagement exercises. Generally, there are 12 important steps to take when transforming a workspace, and the Workplace Project engagement exercises can be broken down into 3 main phases.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the best engagement methods through phase 1, the initial engagement phase.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Students will gain an understanding how the strategic aspirations of the new workplace are shaped to explore opportunities that the Workplace Strategist and Change Manager will work through to understand the improvements, aspirations and needs of the wider business community.
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
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
Understanding terminology used in the project provides confidence, coherence, improved clarity and clear communication.
There are many special words that are used in design and that the project team will hear in meetings or read in papers. It makes for a more engaged meeting if you understand the words that the Workplace Strategist/Design Team will use to describe and talk to the engagement process and the decisions you need to consider when designing your workplace.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the terminology used in a Workplace Project.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Students will gain an understanding of their role of the Change Manager. This role is often introduced during the Workplace Strategy phase in the project. The Workplace Strategist role and Change Manager role can be one and the same person, or can be two separate stakeholders.