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.
A Workplace Strategy is the process of defining who the client organization is and what it does in order to develop a clear brief around their organizations' unique operational needs, physical requirements, and all the associated metrics, such as optimal space needs, workflows and floor plates.
In practice, a Workplace Strategy is a systematic approach for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of how workspace is used by changing the way workspace is configured.
Generally, to produce an effective Workplace Strategy Plan, a thorough investigation of workplace environments and analysis of the work patterns and its environment for dynamic alignment are essential.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how the Workplace Strategist can help organizations to align how they plan, design and manage their workplaces to meet their business goals and objectives.
Approximately 20 Minutes
A Workplace Strategy can be developed by a Workplace Strategy team, who may be a Change Manager, a Designer, or another person engaged by the client. To enlist a Workplace Strategy team, clients may go to market to see who’s available and the services that they can offer.
This is no different in process to tendering for any other service. A Workplace Strategy follows the same process as any other tender where an invitation is sent out to suitably shortlisted suppliers from public or private sector organizations, asking for their best offer on the specific skills required for the client project, and any other goods and services which can be delivered on a one off or ongoing basis.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the benefits of tendering and how to develop a successful tender in response to a Workplace Strategy Project Brief.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Students will gain an understanding of how the workplace themes are determined and transferred into service. This course provides a specific focus on the processes in socialising and delivering the workplace themes in terms of people, process and places.
The client brief and client discovery process will land on some of the subtler themes that the Change Program may adopt during the Implementation phase of the Workplace Transformation Project.
There is quite a bit of time between the Workplace Strategy piece being developed and endorsed, and the change program kicking off. So it is important to know how the Change Manager will pick up on the workplace changes endorsed and weaves them into their Change Program.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the work the Change Manager will undertake to understand the heartbeat of the organization and how they will use the quantitative evidence provided by the Workplace Strategy Report as the baseline.
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