Work Life by Design

Claudette is the Head of Property Strategy & Performance at Australia Post where she is responsible for managing their corporate property portfolio and the continual evolution of their workplace to support the highly dynamic and changing organisation.

Claudette has worked in the property industry for 25 years, graduating from RMIT with a degree in Interior Design. Claudette's focus quickly centred on workplace design and strategy where she spent 20 years delivering workplace projects for a broad range of clients and industries.

In today's chat, Claudette and I discuss:

• What Australia Post's property portfolio looks like, across the entire organisation and in more detail at a corporate office level,
• How COVID has impacted the workplace operations differently in each of the states with the varying extents of time out of the office,
• How they have managed the organisational needs to date
• As people, our ability to adapt and our resourcefulness to change when we need to; and
• Her perspective on the death of "hotdesking".

Claudette provides an insightful and considered approach to workplace management and how the pandemic has shifted mindsets and the opportunities that we are now presented to reimagine our future of work.

Claudette Leeming | LinkedIn

The pandemic has changed the way we work forever.

In Season 2 of Work Life by Design, we will be exploring what the future of work looks like and impact that COVID has had on how, where and why we work.

We will be looking at how workplace design has evolved, the expectations of employees and employers, the health & wellbeing agenda and our need to belong.

I'll be bringing you guests from a wide range of expertise surrounding our world of work, including one of Australia's largest employers, wellbeing and performance experts, futurists and workplace strategists from the other side of the globe.

I'll also be peppering in my research and musings on the future of work and how it has forever changed in light of the pandemic.

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A question I am asked A. LOT! But I can also tell you that many companies don't allow enough time! 😖

The answer is not that straight forward.... it depends 🤷‍♀️

Today I talk you through the variables that impact how long it takes to design and build the workplace of your dreams! So you can make sure you don't leave your run too late and need to compromise on one of your largest business investments. 🤗

Doors are closing TOMORROW to the Your Workplace Future Ready program. Join the program to build your own internal capability and save your organisation $$$ managing the transformation of your organisation from the inside out.

DOOR CLOSE Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below

Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, 2nd March

Read more about who you need on your team;

https://www.melissamarsden.com.au/blog/whotohireandwhen

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To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I'll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work! If you'd like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below.

While many organisations have the best of intentions in supporting their employee's wellbeing, we need to be looking beyond offering a fruit box or introducing a step challenge.

The health and wellbeing of our employees is an employers responsibility, as Gallup say;

"People with thriving wellbeing simply do better in life. And companies with thriving employees do better business."

We need to be looking at the three elements of wellbeing and how our workplace environments are supporting them.

I'm going live at 10am every day to celebrate the doors to the Your Workplace Future Ready program opening. This is my 7 week online program to build your internal capability and empower you to transform your workplace from the inside out.

The doors to the program are open, until Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below.

Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, 2nd March

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To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I'll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work! If you'd like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below.

It wasn't until we all packed up and went home during our first lockdown at the end of March 2020, that we realised the impact that having a daily routine and rituals had on structuring our day. The act of getting up, getting dressed and "going" to work, all work together to shift us mentally and physically into "work" mode.

The ability to consciously shape that energy shift and guide people through the routines and rituals that are important in your workplace, is an opportunity many organisations don't know they have.

The doors to the program are now open, but only until Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below.

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Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, 2nd March

To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I'll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work! If you'd like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below.

Purpose is the reason an organisation exists beyond making money.

Finding our purpose as an organisation can be a difficult path to navigate. Not because we don't have one, but because as an organisation we may find it difficult to articulate or communicate in a way that engages our employees.

However, when we know our purpose, we can begin to enable a clear line of sight for our people on what it means for us to be living our purpose as an organisation.

In this episode I share with your why it all starts with purpose and how it informs your brand experience. And when your brand experience is infused throughout your whole business it leads your culture.

The doors to the program are now open, but only until Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below.

I'm also hosting a FREE Masterclass on Thursday 25th Feb at 10.30AEST, "How to transform your workplace and become an Employer of Choice". You can register for that one below.

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Free Masterclass, How to Transform Your Workplace to Become an Employer of Choice | Tomorrow, 25th February

Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, 2nd March

To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I'll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work! If you'd like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below.

To kick it off today I'm talking about reimagining our future of work. What we need to be observing in our organisations, the data we need to be collecting and the trends and opportunities that we can be looking to, in order to imagine what our future of work looks like.

The doors to the program are now open, but only until Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below.

I'm also hosting a FREE Masterclass on Thursday 25th Feb at 10.30AEST, "How to transform your workplace and become an Employer of Choice". You can register for that one below.

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Free Masterclass, How to Transform Your Workplace to Become an Employer of Choice | Thursday, 25th February

Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, 2nd March

Doors open to Your Workplace Future Ready next week!!! Tuesday 23rd February.

What is Your Workplace Future Ready?

This is my signature 7 week online program where I guide you through the 5 pillars that underpin the workplace dynamics in every organisation.

There is an art and a science to creating high performing workplace that people actually love and want to be in everyday and over the last 20 years I have been developing the tools and methods that I share through this program.

Imagine a workplace that not only enabled productivity but enhanced wellbeing...without the need to engage with multiple consultants costing your organisation $$$

There are a number of opportunities that organisations can act on to enhance the experience of work for their people, and I want to empower you to build your own internal capability to navigate these opportunities, enhance your employee experience of work and position your organisation as an employer of choice.

HERE'S A GLIMPSE INTO YOUR FUTURE...

• Your workplace is a magnet for the industry's top talent
• Employee retention has soared and employee engagement has tripled
• Your employees are more productive than ever while reporting increased happiness, health & wellbeing

YOUR WORKPLACE FUTURE READY IS EVERYTHING YOU NEED:

• To position your workplace as an employer of choice
• To build your capability to deliver workplace change internally
• And the principles of creating a workplace for high performing teams

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Free Masterclass, How to Transform Your Workplace to Become an Employer of Choice | Thursday, 25th Feb

Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, March 2nd

Well, we didn't see that one coming, and like many I'm sure that we could all use a drink and good lie down after this year!

This episode was a challenging one to record, because honestly it has been an incredibly difficult year, but none the less, here we are.

2020 has been the year that saw us switch to working from home overnight, achieving something that years of change programs have struggled to do! It saw us embrace "top dressing" and introduced us to a raft of new skills that we didn't know we needed or possessed.

In this episode I've taken a look back over the year that was and recapped on the lessons and learnings that we've all had to learn as well as how this year has shown up for me personally and all that I set out to achieve.

We dive in to understanding

• How maintaining and establishing new boundaries become important for our own wellbeing
• The routines and rituals we didn't realise we had until we no longer had them and the new ones, we required to create to identify work from home, when they were physically the same place
• How important it is to communicate even when you don't have all the answers
• The need for time apart & alone, and how important it is for us to recharge our own batteries
• Kicking personal goals and those that I missed during #COVID
• How much smaller the world got and the opportunity to connect across borders and continents embracing technology
• How COVID broke the rules and enables us the opportunity to experiment with new ideas and business models

On Jan 12th 2021, I'll be sharing my annual planning routine in an intimate workshop in Brisbane. If you're around would love for you to join me and lay the groundwork for you to live your life by design in 2021.

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Fiona is the Founder and CEO of Naked Ambition, a design-led innovation company. She is also the host of Naked Ambition the Podcast where she interviews the people who are making an impact in leadership, Innovation and design, across the world.

As a fellow design thinking and purpose led business owner I'm really excited to have been able to interview Fiona on how she has supported the transformation of organisations through her work and the positive impacts that she has seen this bring to individuals, clients and businesses.

This episode unpacks what innovation is within our organisations and Fiona explains the three horizons that organisations can consider in creating and leading more innovative companies, the outcomes that can be achieved and how enabling these skills internally can sustain greater long term innovation within in the organisation long after the consulting team have left the building.

We also discuss the transformation that we have witnessed by great leaders and how their raw humanity has led their organisations through what has been arguably one of the toughest periods of our lifetime, and the initiatives that have been rapidly implemented to respond to the needs of their people.

We discuss;

• What is innovation and where do we start to put a focus on innovation in our business
• Which area's of business organisations are putting more focus on in order for them to become more innovative
• The self awareness and consciousness of our personal work styles that has been a positive outcome of the pandemic
• The opportunity that virtual collaboration can bring to a project and the simple tools you need to optimise the experience

We also mention a couple of books and podcasts through the episode, you can find the links to those below:

When by Dan Pink

Essentialism by Greg McKeown

Naked Ambition with Amy Childs

Naked Ambition with Lisa Gray

Matthew McConaughey with Ryan Holiday

Such an enjoyable conversation that really gets to the heart of personal awareness and reflection on why we do what we do and, our own personal work styles.

Melissa Marsden | www.melissamarsden.com.au

Naked Ambition | www.naked-ambition.com.au

Fiona Triaca | www.linkedin.com/fionatriaca/