Generally, fee structuring is the process of estimating project costs for a project plan. It is good practice to start the fee structuring weeks before submitting the tender submission to the client.
Producing accurate yet economic estimating is a must for the Workplace Strategy team if they are going to compete in the market. Both over and under estimating can be dangerous. Over-estimating a tender submission can knock the tendering party out of the running as the client may be suspicious of why the tender submission is so much higher than the other proponents, whereas under-estimating can be just as dangerous to the Workplace Strategy business as they will suffer financial losses, but this can be dangerous to the client business also as the service provided to them may be watered down to mitigate against financial loss to the supplier.
In this course, you will gain an understanding that the Workplace Strategy team will need to understand the full scope of works required of the client before getting onto fee structuring.
Approximately 20 Minutes
When gathering information from client, the Workplace Strategy team should prepare a repository of the client information being discovered.
The information to be captured starts from Day 1 of the engagement when talking with the Leadership team through to the subsequent engagement exercises with strategic leads, subject matter experts, and the wider staff and supplier network. With this repository in place and constantly up-to-date, the Workplace Strategy team will easily identify what is important to the project and what is required during the project.
There are many processes that may be deployed to gather quantitative evidence from clients, and regardless of the methods applied, a good understanding of what the methods are, and how to achieve what you need is important.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the activities or processes that may be undertaken by a Workplace Strategy project team to collect quantitative evidence from their clients across the different project phases.
Approximately 20 Minutes
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
Workplace strategy report needs to have structure and be engaging to read, but not everything can be shown in drawings and not everything can be written in words.
If the Workplace Strategy team is part of a Design/Architectural firm then they may include in their Report the next steps in travelling through the Design Process. If the Workplace Strategist is from a non design background, for example, is a Change Manager, HR Manager, Project Manager, then there would be a natural end at the beginning of the Flight Plan stopping at Discovery and Defining whereas the Design team would take the Flight Plan the total way across to Seeking Direction to test fit the preferred site, Explore Design, and Implement and Deliver the Design.
The last step in the Flight Plan is the Workplace Activation which the Change Manager would pick up perhaps up to 12 months or more later than this initial work that forms the Workplace Strategy Report.
As you can see, this can be an extensive and detailed process when working with your client to achieve the workplace transformation they require, whereas most perspectives are that it all happens when the organization relocates!
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the challenges for the Workplace Strategist to deliver an engaging Workplace Strategy Report.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Students will gain an understanding to the programmes related to the accommodation decision that the project team are now underway in managing, and that there may even be many of the same stakeholders involved across multiple programmes.
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