The Workplace Experience

This episode focus on the importance of your change management investment to successful return your workforce back to the office.

It is about making employees feel and know they are safe about returning to the office.  There can never be to much communication. The communication should start yesterday.

Employees need to understand what new regimes have been implemented, such as disinfectant procedures, sanitisation stations, day cleaners.

Plus employers need to understand how commuting patterns may have changed and how that may impact hours that employees may wish to attend the office.

Then we will touch on the impacts of new social distancing requirements.

This is part 1 of a two part series on this topic.

This is the second part of our Change Management series. 

This episode has a real focus on the live project examples of why a "a day in the life" of some of your clients is so important and can lead to true success of your workplace project.

We also look closely at the difference between a workplace "need" and a "want".

This episode also looks at the dynamics that may influence the way employees communicate with your change team throughout the project. Its more about building trust, being seen as reliable and putting fears at rest. For a minority who may wish to "grandstand" and create fear it is how you can best return the project back to calm seas after these strong headwinds are served up.

Lastly a brief introduction into why change management investment is now so critical to have employees return to the workplace, with them feeling safe and confident that the risks of viral infection has been minimised or close to elimination. 

This is the first part of a two part episode that will be focusing on the importance of the change management investment for your workplace project.

The investment is now even more critical if your organisation is looking to get their employees to return to the office.

We have discussions about why a workplace change manager should be engaged over a change generalist along with why it is so important that they communicate with your people in every way possible. 

The change manager is also key to being the conduit between the business and the project team. They should coordinate the bump in and bump out of the pilot space to create workplace envy and limit the destructive nature of the water cooler talk.

We also start to cover off why exploring a day in the life of an employee is critical particularly the employees living in fear of the new work.

Episode 2 of the Workplace Experience Podcast looks at the value of the Workplace Strategy to understand how your employees are using their workspace today and how it may need to look in the future.
We discuss the importance of the ethnographic utilisation studies, needs analysis, engagement with employees by all staff surveys and focus groups, postcode analysis of staff and clients, which when all pulled together will create a robust and sustainable brief on the size of format of your new workplace.

Episode 1 is an overview of how to provide a leading Workplace Experience, including the challenges that providing a COVID19 compliant workplaces brings with it.

The workplace as we know it is evolutionary not revolutionary and this first episode identifies the various stakeholders, expertise and skills that are required to deliver a leading workplace experience.