The Intentional Office
To make the office “worth the commute” customers are seeking more adaptable individual spaces, flexible collaborative spaces, social settings to create culture, shared focus spaces to think, and seamless connection experiences for remote participants. When planning a workspace with intentionality, the result is thoughtfulness and longevity with the ways the office supports a workforce.
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Get Real About How Your Organization Really Works
Blog, Planning and Design
This is the fourth in a series of six posts about social cohesion, an emerging idea about organizational success that will shape the future of workplaces.
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Life Might Not Be Fair, but Our Organizations Should Be
Blog, Planning and Design
This is the third in a series of six posts about social cohesion, an emerging idea about organizational success that will shape the future of workplaces.
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How to Know If We’re Getting Social Cohesion Right
Blog, Planning and Design
This is the second in a series of six posts about social cohesion, an emerging idea about organizational success that will shape the future of workplaces.
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Our Workplaces Will Change—Let’s Make it Count
Blog, Planning and Design
Our Workplace Advisory team recently got together with Dr. Sally Augustin to discuss the research we had commissioned her to pull together regarding environmental psychology considerations in the interim/post-COVID workplace. It was a great conversation; we all asked questions, brainstormed ideas, and challenged each other. So how might a workplace embody those positive vibes? By becoming a place where one feels safe + connected + inspired.
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Becoming Agile
Blog, Planning and Design
Agile is a term that is being used more and more relative to the workplace. The challenge is that it has different definitions to different groups – FM’s and designers use it to define a way of planning space and/or a way to work.
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Key #1 to a Successful Workplace: Alignment
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We use alignment instead of promoting some definitive one-size-fits-everyone truth because each organization needs the workplace to reflect and enable their unique organization: their current realities, their brand and values, their business strategy for the coming year or two, their culture and its unwritten rules.
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Key #2 to a Successful Workplace: Effectiveness
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Using interactive tools including interviews and focus groups, workplace strategists identify the most business-critical processes an individual or a team contributes; and within those critical processes, the most critical activities individuals and teams engage in to deliver successful outcomes.
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Key #3 to a Successful Workplace: Efficiency
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In previous posts, we advocated for alignment between an organization’s workplace strategy and its unique combination of current realities and business strategies, as well as its brand, values and culture, to ensure the workplace is truly tuned and tailored to that unique organization.
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Key #4 to a Successful Workplace: Adaptability
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The last of the four keys is Adaptability: enabling the workplace to evolve as the organization does, keeping up with the speed of the business.
