Rethinking Workspace
Rethinking Workspace
Facilitating the design and development of creative and collaborative workplaces
Think about your workplace for a minute:
- Does it reflect and model the culture and aspirations of your organisation ?
- Is it an inspiring, exciting and creative place to meet, interact and work ?
- Does it help people work more effectively and efficiently ?
In too many cases, the answer is probably no. Offices and workspaces are rarely given more than a cursory thought – more often than not workplace planning is a logistical exercise in fitting people into a space, with consideration of health and safety requirements if you’re lucky. Workplace planning is too often based on a ‘default’ model suited to office work patterns of 30 or 40 years ago – highly structured, repetitive, and routine work practices and processes with fixed hours, little autonomy and little need for interaction and collaboration with others. This model is rarely suited to the current workplace, where the emphasis is on teamwork, creativity, flexibility, interaction and communication.
We can help you to think about how your workplace can be configured and designed to reflect your aspirations and vision, and encourage and facilitate more creative and collaborative working. This can apply to rethinking how you use your existing space, or to developing the brief and conceptual ideas for a new building.
We offer a highly participative and collaborative process involving all your staff, exploring:
- Your vision and values and how these can be reflected and nurtured in your workplace
- Creating the workplace most suited to the ways you need and want to work
- The organisation of teams, effective communication and interaction
- Understanding and meeting the diversity of needs of individuals
- Developing vitality and inspiration in the workplace
Through this process we develop the understanding of your needs and aspirations to help us advise on developing practical solutions to your workplace organisation, at the same time as:
- Building consensus around vision and aspirations and how these apply to how staff and teams work together
- Developing better relationships and communication between staff, teams and individuals in the organisation
- Identifying, understanding and starting to resolve other issues or problems within the organisation
- Contributing to staff development and training