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Change Management

How often have you been somewhere and instantly felt good about being there?  Somewhere you remember with a fondness that takes you back there?  Is there a particular coffee shop that you’re drawn too? Is it the smell of the brewing coffee, the friendly smile that welcomes you and asks “the usual?”, the gentle hum of the surrounding conversations, ambient lighting and interior detailing?

Get a Test Fit

Preparing test fits on your shortlisted tenancy options gives you a multitude of benefits before making a critical decision in your property acquisition process.  It provides you with the opportunity to visualise how your requirements fit into each unique building footprint and to sanity check your requirements, before you sign that lease; do we really need 6 meeting rooms?

[Guest Blog  |  Dave Jones, Talent Managers]

A vision statement is sometimes called a picture of your business in the future but it’s so much more than that. Your vision statement is your inspiration, the framework for all your strategic planning.

A vision statement answers the question, “Where do we want to go?”

You now know how much space you need and your brand position, now where is that ideal space located? This is the perfect opportunity to set your business up for greatness and that means you have the opportunity to consider where your business would be most productive.

You’re busting at the seams, and you need to look for a new office space to house your growing business. As you’ve grown, you may have found your business model has evolved and your strategy is more focused.   The location you’ve been calling home just doesn’t fulfill all the needs of your vision, you not only need to move offices, you need a change of scenery.

How often do you walk through your office and see empty desks? Is their stuff there? a bag? the screens on but no one to be seen? Where are they...?  In the building? Grabbing a coffee, in a meeting, picking up their printing?  Or out of the office... Dropped in and left their stuff, and gone out to a meeting, on site, in a clients office, travelling, sick on holidays?
Technology has enabled workplaces to redesign how they accommodate their workforce and in many cases this has begun to evolve into concepts that have been given a range of terms; activity based working, real time working, free range working, agile working… essentially meaning that some of us no longer have our own desk that we show up to and sit at every day; that there is a range of options available to us dependent on the tasks at hand, and we choose where we want to sit based on how we need to work.
An interesting conversation with a client over coffee left me with a thought that I have been mulling over ever since. Their lease was expiring and they are looking to secure new premises and of course the question about the style of office arose. The view that the organisation had taken in developing their next office space was that;

“in this market staff retention is not as important”.