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The role that our workplaces play in encouraging and enabling our relationships at work, was largely taken for granted, until they were taken away from us.
A silver lining of the pandemic, we realised the impact of our workplaces and the role they play in our establishing and supporting the social & support networks in our lives.
And social connection is a foundation for building any community.
Today’s guest ARC Laureate Fellow Sharon K. Parker. I was first introduced to Sharon and her work through my friend and Colleague Dr Meg Hooper of Carousel Consulting, and her S.M.A.R.T Work Design Model, to develop meaningful and motivating work. This piece of work has been instrumental in underpinning our approach to work design and workplace design, a difference that Sharon will elaborate on in today’s podcast.
Meg has been following Sharon’s work for a very long time, and such I’ve invited her along to co-host today’s episode!
ARC Laureate Fellow Sharon K. Parker is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design at Curtain University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology.
Sharon has published more than 250 internationally refereed articles on topics such as work design, proactive behaviour, mental health, and job performance, has over 46,500 citations, and is ranked in the top .15% of global scholars in her field.
She is the founder of the S.M.A.R.T model, cofounder of the Thrive at Work Initiative, and has contributed to policy on work design in Australia and internationally.
With the breadth of research that Sharon has done, this podcast could go in any direction, but as we are focused on the role of community in the workplace this season, we’ve narrowed in on this topic and explored how the work she does overlaps with this ability to build community.
So today, we are exploring;
Her view on the relationship that exists between our workplaces and the role they play in building community Her S.M.A.R.T work design model and what the important factors are to consider in building community and where organisations could be letting themselves down The role of autonomy in buffering the effects of poor workplace design The definition of work design and the overlap to workplace design Some of the key consideration that designer, Culture Leaders and property managers/specialists should be looking at when it comes to workplace design
Sharon’s perspective on this is fascinating and Meg & I were loving this conversation - we honestly could have chatted for hours. So, I hope you love listening to this episode as much as we loved recording it!
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Using Place to connect to the Hearts, Bodies and Minds of your People
Often when we look at our workplaces, we think of them as property. As real estate. And sadly, often as a balance sheet liability. But they have the potential to be so much more than that!
Your work place is an underutilised asset in attracting and connecting to your people.
Often spoken about in the terms of “People, Place & Technology” our workplaces should not be devoid of our humanity.
They are created for our people. That means that they need to Personal. Human.
And when you take a human centred approach to creating a workplace, what you are really doing is connecting to the hearts, bodies & minds of your people.
❤️ When I say heart, I'm talking about the collective emotion of a space. Otherwise known as the culture of an organisation. The brand and story of a company and the emotional connection it creates and ripples outwards.
🧘🏽 When I say body, I'm talking about the physical environment and like a body, is it put together for agility and performance or is it slow rigid and fixed?
🧠 And when I say mind, I'm talking about the technology that makes it all possible. The ability to plug our culture into our place and connectivity to one another.
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How can we create workplaces where our people are empowered? Where they are given autonomy and choice?
It all starts with culture.
Now that might sound overly simply, but at the grassroots of this, it’s the everyday actions that leaders take that shift and create culture in their teams and organisations. And it really is the simple things that make the difference.
And today’s guest, Meredith Wilson has written the book, on how you too can you use GRASS in your workplace to shift your culture.
Meredith makes culture simple and actionable. Working with executives, CEOs and leadership teams to shape, shift, strengthen and lead cultures. Having led culture at the Executive and Board level for more than 15 years, with ASX10 and global teams, Meredith is a published Author and recognised Culture Expert. Meredith works as a Culture Strategist, Speaker, and Mentor, building cultures that work.
In today’s episode Meredith shares with us;
1. Her G.R.A.S.S model and the simple ways that we can start to rethink culture and how we can then take action everyday
2. The impact of Hope & Safety and how this is foundational in building any culture
3. The 4 things that you need to build a culture worth belonging too
4. The importance of symbols and rituals and how these show up in your workplace
Meredith and I have a shared passion for building communities and thriving cultures, with much of our work and language overlapping in various area’s of workplace design and organisational leadership and culture, so it was an absolute privilege to have the opportunity to explore our ideas of what works more deeply in this episode.
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Over centuries work has evolved from a labour some, back breaking manual task to what today some of us refer to as a "cushy office job"!
And we have the invention of machines and technology, a few key players and a pandemic to thank, as the catalysts for this change.
However, some things have very much stayed the same, even though the world we are living and working in today, is very different to the world in which these things were created for.
In today's episode I'm winding back the clock just over 100 years as we start to look at;
The impact of machines and technology on how we work How and why, we work 8hrs and 5 days a week How technology drove our need for workplaces and their design The research on what our workplaces really need to do now and into the future.
This is one of my favourite conversations and I'm so excited to be sharing it with you here today!
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Curating a community is not a passive activity. It takes conscious effort, care, and a respect for the people that you are embracing in this community.
But when you bringing together a community with no traditional “place” how can you engage with a place temporarily and make it your own?
This is exactly the work that today’s guest, Imelda Miller, does in her role as the Curator of First Nations Cultures at Queensland Museum Kurilpa. A third generation Vanuatu woman, Imelda is a proud South Sea Islander and responsible for bringing together communities of origin through her work with the museum. Working with material culture an archival collections, Imelda’s collaboration, and curatorial approach, combines cultural practice, community engagement and community lead research and development into her projects.
Hosting exhibitions, running workshops and leading teams in these activities, Imelda is consciously curating places for communities to come together to share their stories and create new ones.
Today’s conversation is one of possibility and Imelda shares so many of her secrets in how she fosters this sense of community, to establish belonging, a sense of connection and storytelling that can be directly applied back to our building our own communities in our workplaces.
In today’s conversation Imelda shares with us;
How she uses place to create community, even when there is no ownership or relationship to place How objects enable people to connect, share stories and develop memory in place The fundamentals of curating a community atmosphere are The healing power that connection and community can createThroughout this conversation I hear direct correlations to how I think about fostering community in our workplaces and the role that place plays. Establishing connection, creating belonging, and sharing stories, by communicating social contracts and norms and engaging in routine and ritual.
Imelda is a warm-hearted woman with much wisdom to share on how we can take even a little bit of this approach back to our workplaces.
Mel
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Have you read Priya Parkers book, The Art of Gathering? If you haven't yet, I highly recommend you do, it's a good read!
In her book Priya shares:
"gatherings in our lives are often vague & unproductive"
And I would argue that our workplaces are in fact a place where we gather, rather than places we "go to" to "work", and if we want people to come to the workplace, we need to be offering them an experience. It needs to be a purposeful, and productive contribution to their lives.
In today's episode I'm expanding on the framework that I share with you in Eps. 139, It's not about mandates, it's about Fostering Community, to dive deeper into the final layer of the framework, Placemaking.
Because the art of placemaking is a complex task, that requires its own framework to fully optimise the creation of a plan that builds community. Plus, I share with you some tangible examples of how place has been used for centuries as a central hub, an anchos, a container for holding and creating community.
If you're ready to learn more about creating your community in your workplace, you can either;
Grab a copy of my book "The Next Workplace" Join me in the "Workplace Dynamics Blueprint | The Program" Waitlist now OPEN! Or book a complimentary discovery call with me to chat more!Until next time,
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Are your ready to learn the Art & Science of creating your next Workplace?!?!Creating your next workplace is a complex task! It requires the input of multiple players within your organisation and the expert guidance of specialist consultants.
BUT it also presents an incredible opportunity for your organisation! Typically, businesses only refresh their space every 10 years. That's a long time in today's fast paced world. So many changes, from technology, to operational delivery, organisational structures, ways of working and more.
Optimising this unique opportunity requires a plan. In this self-paced program, you will learn about the five pillars that underpin the dynamics in your organisation, how to leverage them against your organisations strategic objectives and gain the confidence you need to embark on this journey armed with the knowledge and know how to optimise your next workplace.
Enabling you to inspire the human potential in your organisation.
Join the waitlist and be the first to know when doors open!
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"When work starts to work again, it becomes a place where people want to be"
Creating a thriving workplace where people want to be, voluntarily, requires us to take a different perspective to the "productivity" approach that our workplaces once swore by.
Today's guest is Sharon Darmody. With a background in Occupational Therapy, Sharon is an Organisational Consultant, Mediator and the Founding Director of Strive Occupational Rehabilitation.
With over 25 years consulting to organisations, she identified a recurring theme, leading her to develop her M.A.G.I.C model to help businesses, teams and individuals rediscover what makes work, work for them.
In today's conversation Sharon and I delve into;
The foundations of what she's observed to foster community within organisations We explore her M.A.G.I.C model and how you can explore aspects of this within your business The challenges and opportunities that organisations have to fostering community How simple Ground Rules, can support individuals, teams and organisations to thrive Plus, Sharon shares a personal story of how humanising a workplace and building an authentic community puts people first and the ripple effect of this on individuals, families and their surrounding communities, changing lives.If you're looking for ways to re-engage and ignite your teams, you're going to enjoy this episode!
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If we’re still talking about getting people back to the office, we’re having the wrong conversation”.
I don’t know about you but I’m getting frustrated with all this RTO talk! I think those that are stuck in this vortex, are completely missing the point!
What we should be talking about, is what makes a workplace a COMMUNITY.
In the work that I do, creating a workplace where people WANT to be is key, BUT while the physical environment plays a large part, it’s not the whole story.
“For centuries our communities have centred around sharing an imagined reality crafted out of words, which has enabled large numbers of strangers to come together to coordinate effectively”
Yuval Harari, Author of Sapiens.
At COMUNiTI, we use our Workplace Dynamics Blueprintä to dive deep with our clients to understand the purpose of place and the fundamentals that needs of a place. By using our five pillars we can identify the opportunities and the gaps across the organisation to co-create a space that lays the foundations to building a community.
In today’s episode, I’m sharing with you the framework that I’ve developed to building community in organisations, from the foundations up!
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🎉🎉🎉 Welcome back for SEASON 6!!! 🎉🎉🎉
As I hit record for this episode, #138, I had a nostalgic moment as I reflected on how much the world has changed since I first started the podcast back in July 2020.
We were all living in limbo, as we were very much still in the midst of adjusting to the impacts of the pandemic, in and out of lockdowns.
Four years on and SOOOOO much has changed;
· The way we THINK about work has changed
· HOW we work has changed
· WHERE we work has changed
· And as such WORKPLACES have changed!
And one of the greatest revelations that I believe that come for us all from the pandemic, was the way our mindsets shifted to thinking about our workplaces as COMMUNITIES.
This is a way of thinking that we here at COMUNiTI have acknowledged for some time. It’s our namesake! As a team of workplace dynamic strategists, design advisors and change leaders, we support organisations to get clear on the strategic goals, understand their people and align their workplace to enable them to achieve and thrive.
At the heart of this sits our purpose; to foster the creation of communities where people feel connected.
So in this season of the Work Life by Design podcast, you can expect to hear more about how you can celebrate community within your organisation. What it takes to create community, with guests from Thought leaders, Academics and Curators of community to share their experiences.
I’m excited to share this season with you, it’s going to be a good one!
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Well, that’s it for another season!
After kicking off season 5 back in November last year, I think it’s well and truly time to switch off the mic for a while!
This season has definitely taken on a life of its own and it really snuck up on me that we’ve been going straight for 48 episodes, almost a whole year! I’ve had the pleasure of engaging some incredibly intelligent, wise, and generous guests in conversation over this time which has what has kept me wanting to do “just one more!” episode.
But here at COMUNiTI we are heading into our busiest season of the year in the final sprint to Christmas so it’s time to take a breath and make the space needed to ensure we finish the year strong.
So, in this episode I’m sharing with you the highlights of 48 episodes, marking some incredible milestones including;
📕🥂 The release of my book “The Next Workplace” and the conversations from the book launch 🎉 Hitting a 100 episodes of the podcast 🥳 Celebrating COMUNiTI’s 10th Birthday Plus a recap on some of the impactful conversations that I’ve had over the course of the season that have influenced my own thinking on work and the workplaceSo, while I take a break there are 136 other episodes for you to dive back into. Thank you for joining me here each and every week and I look forward to being back in your ears with some fresh content very soon!
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The art of focus in our modern worlds has become just that. An art.
With books like Johan Hari’s Stolen Focus and past guest Dr Kristy Goodwin's, Dear Digital we need to talk, the constant disruption, distraction mulit-tasking and task switching that we are all succumbing to is impacting our ability to truly focus.
Add to this all the pressures and competing demands of daily life and we are quickly looking at fatigue, exhaustion and burnout.
And whilst the rise of flexible working has given us more freedom to design our days and work lives, it’s a bit of a double edged sword. As many of us have relied on the routine, ritual and structure that our daily to commute has given to us to support our cognitive function and the daily need to “do our job”.
We now need to develop a new skill. The ability to distinguish what is worth our attention, to do this intentionally and then to be able to focus.
And that’s what today’s guest is here to share with us.
Angela Lockwood is on a mission.
To empower individuals to thrive amidst the distraction of modern life.As an Occupational Therapist with a wealth of real-world experience working alongside both children and adults, she has developed a unique approach to unlocking the power of our thinking and actions in ever-changing environments.
After sustaining a life-changing head injury she became obsessed with learning how we can use our time and energy to thrive and has focused her career on helping others do the same.
She is the author of two business self-help books, "The Power of Conscious Choice" and “Switch Off and Find Calm” and the engaging host of "A Kid's Life" Podcast.
She’s been featured on Channel 9 Today EXTRA, The Australian Financial Review, Good Health magazine, Huffington Post, Mamamia, Radio 2UE and numerous parenting and lifestyle publications. She also has a regular segment on The Luke and Susie Show which is syndicated across Australia.
Angela has an infectious energy and she’s highly relatable.
So in today’s episode Ange and I are going to look at;
Why the conversation about focus has become such a prevalent one Intentional Focus – what it means and how to manage it The importance of switching off The difference between time management and energy management Plus she’s also sharing with us some tools to get us startedA great conversation on how to focus your attention on the things that really matter so that you have more energy for life!
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One of the biggest misconceptions about “a new office” is that it is simply that. A new place for us to conduct our business from. A design and construction project.
This could not be further from the truth. “A new office” is a whole of business opportunity and at its core it is actually a “cultural transformation project”.
Everything about the way the new office looks, feels, operates is all new. It’s in a new location, with a new commute and with that comes a whole new set of routines and rituals.
Now while some of your team might be excited by the change, there are going to be a lot of your team who will not be. And regardless of where they sit on the continuum of change experience, they are going to bring their own perceptions to the process, until they are guided, communicated to, informed, and educated about what the new workplace will entail.
Because, in the absence of information it is human nature to Make. It. Up!
So, in today’s episode I’m sharing with you why it's important to support your people through change, and what you can do to prepare you and your business to make the most of this unique opportunity.
Remember, creating a new workplace for your business is typically a once in 10 year event, and just think about the ripple effect that doing an outstanding job of supporting your people through this change will have on the next 10 years of your business.
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Is the workplace really just a ‘task’ place?
This is one of the thought-provoking questions that today’s guest poses, for us to ponder about our reality of work and the workplace.
Dr Agustin Chevez is the author of The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace. It was after reading a book on the diversity of Iguana’s in the Galapagos Islands, that Gus set off on a pilgrimage from Melbourne to Sydney, to explore the impact that isolation has on the diversity of our idea’s.
Fast forward a few years and Gus is sharing his insights as 34 signposts from this exploration in his book, inviting us to reimagine our workplaces.
As an Architect and researcher, Gus has dedicated his career to understanding the notion of work and uncovering environments that best support our working lives. His interest in the relationship between people, space and technology saw him pursue a PhD on the evolution of workplace architecture as a consequence of technology development.
His work has been presented at various international forums and publications. As a sought-after speaker, Agustin has delivered international keynotes and is a TEDx speaker. He has also contributed to workplace strategies in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
Gus is the Workplace Futures Lead at the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University and an Honorary Fellow at the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne.
In this episode we are going to find out
How Gus took this idea that he had to explore diversity of thinking to actually, walking from Melbourne to Sydney What the distinction is between a Pilgrimage and a Walk and how this applies to the workplace How the introduction of absurdity to the workplace enables us to bring more human traits to our experience of work Why removing friction from our environments can impact our ability to be innovative and its impact on our personal resilience as we overcome adversity How the conversation and questions we’re asking when approaching the design of workplaces need to change in order to create an enhanced environment for workA fascinating conversation with someone who has incredible mind to explore ideas in a new way to challenge biases and see new opportunity.
You are going to love this conversation with Dr Gus Chevez.
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One of the reasons that I first started exploring this idea of Workplace Strategy was because I am fascinated by how businesses tick.
What makes one business a roaring success and another flounder?
And one thing that continues to fascinate me is the gap that I see emerge in almost every engagement. And it’s a gap that I feel like I automatically step into fill without a second thought.
But this gap is one that differentiates what we do at COMUNiTI apart.
When clients approach us, they are likely to be seeking a Design Solution. They don’t go to the design team looking for a business solution.
And that is the difference. Often as the opportunity is misunderstood, or it wasn’t even on the radar to begin with.
So many times, I have been told by clients, “We didn’t even know that what you do is a thing!”.
So today we’re diving into the opportunity to transform your business that you likely didn’t even know what a possibility, as I’ve been reminded that what I thought everyone knew, they likely don’t, and that is a huge, missed opportunity for every business.
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With more of us embracing the opportunity to work from home, it’s leaving our workplaces underutilised as occupancy levels in the workplace drop. The impacts of this vary from workplace ot workplace depending on the design style and approach ranging from limited variety in the spaces available for employees to perform their work through to a lack of energy and “buzz’ that comes from bringing people together in the space.
As someone who engages with organisations daily in this delicate dance of who gets to own their desk and who doesn’t, weighing up the commercial realities of leasing costs vs underutilised floor area and the opportunity to provide variety and choice to employees in where and how they work within the workplace, this is a topic of conversation that I am keen to explore.So, when today’s guest Dr Jenna Mikus shared an article written by BBC on LinkedIn, questioning if the hybrid office will ever feel like home, with her view of the impact of this approach I was keen to engage her in a friendly debate on the pros and cons of the “to own a desk or not to own a desk”.
Jenna shared;
While this sounds ideal in theory, this Choose Your Adventure approach to daily working could backfire, as it introduces the risk of proving exhausting and therefore off-putting to workers often already overwhelmed with work obligations. Not everyone embraces change, let alone adventure...especially on a daily basis.As an advocate of creating workplaces that respond to the unique and individual needs of organisations, their teams and their people, my view is that by relinquishing individual ownership of our workpoints, we can inturn optimise our work environments to cater to a greater variety of work styles and activities, further enhancing our experience of work.
Dr Jenna Mikus is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Eudae Group, which advises clients on organizational and spatial (both physical and digital) transformational change relating to built environments curated for health and wellbeing. Her clients have included commercial office owners, operators, and tenants as well as military, government, healthcare, higher education, aged care, and more on a global scale, with particular emphasis on the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
As an advocate for bridging industry practice with academic theory/research, Jenna is also a Visiting Fellow with QUT's Centre for Decent Work & Industry, an Honorary Fellow with the Centre for Conscious Design, a former Health Equity and current Research Advisor for the International WELL Building Institute, and a contributor to Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program's Flourishing at Work Interest Group.
Jenna leverages her education across engineering, architecture, and design with her depth and breadth of work experience relating to strategy, change management, and design thinking to encourage multidisciplinary cross-pollination in theory and practice and to guide the creation/curation of intelligent, sustainable, and flourishing environments for all.
Jenna is well versed in supporting organisations to create environments that support us all in flourishing at work, having worked in organsiational change and recently completing her PhD focused on flourishing health and wellbeing, so I was pleased when she agreed to engage in this conversation, so that we could explore it from a few angles and see where we land.
This is an interesting conversation exploring the role of workplace design on the individuals that occupy them.
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The end of financial year is a great time to check in and see how we are tracking against our goals. As someone who loves to set myself up at the beginning of each year with a number of intentions and an overarching word to keep me on track, it’s a great opportunity for me to check and readjust for the next 6 months.
This year my word was Flow.
And its been interesting to see how this word has shown up, the shape its taken and the way in which it has realigned my thoughts and actions throughout the year to date.
To mark this EOFY I took myself off to a fancy “lunch for one” and what ensued was something that I have since reflected on as quite magical.
This simple act of creating time and space, allowed my mind the capacity to truly get into flow. Creating a stream of consciousness that resulted in a manifesto for COMUNiTI and for me.
But whilst I didn’t intentionally design this, it certainly didn’t happen by accident.
So, in today’s episode I’m sharing with you the ingredients that enabled this magic to happen plus some serendipitous learnings that I’ve had of late and the culmination of these in forming my philosophy on why mindwander, flow and spaciousness, are the key to innovation and creativity.
Take this as a friendly reminder that creating time and space to smell the roses can have a profound impact on the trajectory of your career and your business.
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Establishing a strong and purposeful employee experience in your organisation can take an incredible amount of time, dedication, and invested energy.
So, if you could find all the People tools and resources that you needed packaged up in one platform, backed by science and data, how much easier would that make your life as a leader and give you the confidence to know that you were giving your organisation the best possible advantage?
Well, today’s guest is here to tell us that this is possible. Damon Klotz, who has what could be described as one of the coolest titles, is a Work Culture Evangelist at Culture Amp, a market-leading employee experience platform.
I first discovered Damon and his podcast Culture First, in the midst of the pandemic tuning into his episode with Jen Sauer-Klein, an experience designer in the States. This singular episode gave me a new perspective on the role of our environments in how we influence experiences consciously through design, adding another tool to my tool kit.
Jen is among a number of incredible guests that Damon has had the opportunity to engage in conversation on his podcast, so I was incredibly happy when he agreed to join me here to learn more on what have been some of the most impactful conversations that he has had.
What I also learnt through this episode is the diverse career that Damon has had that led him to his current role as Work Culture Evangelist. As you’ll hear Damon is quite the overachiever, prior to Culture Amp he was leading community HR groups, through to being the Global Manager of Digital Strategy for Ramsay Health Care, a keynote speaker on the future of work, and the Co-Founder of Spur Projects, a social enterprise dedicated to reducing the suicide rate of men in Australia.
And he shares how a desire to be a sports manager and leverage the community of teams has found its way through to the work he and the team at Culture Amp do.
You’ll also learn more about
Culture Amp and the wealth of data that they have accumulated from supporting the employee experience across numerous countries since launching in 2009, How the platform supports organisations to leverage this “data lake” to continue to enhance the employee, manager and team experience And how taking a community focused approach to building Culture Amp has been a key foundation in its success, growing the company from 100 to 6500 customers, and the role that Damon played in establishing it Plus what Damon has learned about communication, transparency and trust from his conversations about People & Culture throughout the pandemicSo many interesting highlights in this episode, along with some great additional listening recommendations over on the Culture First podcast.
Damon also leaves us with some insights into how he has consciously continued to grow with the organisation from start up to now and its various iterations, all great self-reflection points for us to consider in our own growth mindset and experience of comfort.
LINKS
Get your copy of Mel’s new Book “The Next Workplace; Designing Dynamic Environments that Inspire Human Potential”Connect with Damon;
LinkedIn | Culture Amp
Connect with Mel;
Email | Insta | LinkedIn | Website | Website | Whitepaper - The Road Map to Employee Experience
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Imagine having the ability to curate the entire experience that your employees take when they come to your workplace.
To influence each touchpoint of their journey.
The things that they see, hear, do... the things they feel.
In episode 127, I shared how you can use an Empathy Map to consciously design the sensory experience of your people at work, a tool that can be used both to support cultural design and physical design.
In today's episode we're going to take that a step further and see how you can take that sensory experience and apply it to every touchpoint in your employees' journey to and from the workplace.
With just three questions at each of the touchpoints you can curate your employee journey and enhance their overall experience.
Whether you have an existing workplace that could be infused with some conscious changes, or you have the open possibility to start from scratch with a new workplace, today's episode will provide you with a foundation from which you can take more informed decisions about the employee journey you wish to create for your people.
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