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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Key #1 to a Successful Workplace: Alignment
Blog, Planning and Design
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
Blog, Planning and Design
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
Blog, Planning and Design
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
Blog, Planning and Design
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.
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Managing Workplace Change: Does it Have to Be So Difficult?
Blog, Intentional Office
People resist change, even when the reason for ‘the new’ is compelling. We prefer what is familiar and stable.
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Measuring What Matters
Blog, Planning and Design
We’ve all been using the same supply management metrics – SF/person, cost/SF, cost/person – to measure the relative effectiveness of the workplace; these metrics are still very relevant and important.
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Well-Being Considerations for Working from Home
Blog, Wellness
Staying healthy is on everyone's mind today. Our focus at the moment has (rightfully) been on disease prevention, however, it is important that we do not lose sight of promoting holistic wellness.
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The Four Keys to a Successful Workplace
Blog, Planning and Design
Following the popular trends and doing what everyone else is doing may feel like the best option. But benchmarking other organizations can only tell us what’s commonplace—it doesn’t tell us what’s right for our particular organization with our unique set of circumstances.
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Creating an Easier Transition Out of Private Offices
Blog, Planning and Design
Moving out of enclosed offices into workstations is one of the more difficult workplace changes to make, since it almost always has emotional and political issues tied to it.
