Workplace language is discussed in meeting rooms everywhere.
Before you start your next project get up to date with the workplace terms that your Project Team, Interior Design and Lead Design Consultant will use at meetings and in project documentation.
The terms you start using from the beginning of the project will be used all the way through the change project also. Be consistent and get on the same page as the rest of your team.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the workplace language used everyday in project team meetings.
Approximately 20 Minutes
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
The organization looks to its employees to help shape the new ways of working and influence behaviors to ensure the benefits of the new workplace are realized. This will commence with several engagement pieces that the Workplace Strategist/Design Team will facilitate.
The purpose of these staff workshops is to derive an Aspirational Brief of the organizations workplace requirements.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the challenges that the organization will have in translating the sentiments that are shared and how they translate to workplace enablers.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Workplace Strategists can have their specialty! It is important to get the right person onboard for the role as Workplace Strategist.
Knowing ‘Workplace’ is one of the top requirements when choosing a Workplace Strategist, as these people know how to quickly get to the bottom of identifying what’s required of the workplace project, and how to facilitate the process of strategy formulation amongst other things to ultimately deliver the right work at the right time to help transform the client workplace into an ideal environment.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the things the client may need to consider when choosing the right person or team for the Workplace Strategist Role and that you as the Workplace Strategist may need to deliver.
Approximately 20 Minutes
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.
Approximately 20 Minutes
After the organization has the Workplace Strategy Briefing Activities complete, they will have the findings of the Engagement Process that included: Leadership Workshops, Functional Interviews, Employee Surveys, Visioning Workshops, and Site Visits and Workplace Tours.
The Workplace Strategist/Design Team will be able to integrate known Workforce Forecasting in with the Spatial Principles developed from this 6-8 week period and have now the first stage of the Design Process complete. This will enable them to provide a great deal of information on workforce forecasting, meeting project objectives, a neighborhood Growth Strategy, Space Budget Baselines, and Spatial Principles. In short, a Workplace and Occupation Strategy that can now be endorsed and socialized.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of what the outcomes of the Workplace Strategy may be and how the Property Lead or Project Director should communicate to the PCG.
Approximately 20 Minutes