We understand that workplace change is about changing behaviours and developing new ways of working, creating a new employee experience. Workplace change has often been the remit of real estate, property or facilities management teams. At Inclusive Cultures we bring a holistic approach, that differs from the traditional approach.
Whether you are relocating offices, looking to grow or shrink your office space we combine our focus on people change with our knowledge of workspaces. We do this by understanding the type of work people perform and ensuring you have the different types of space they need to perform it in. Creating the workplace that meets your needs.
How we can help you
- Create a workplace strategy that align your people, technology and property goals to your organisation purpose
- Change how your people use their workplace
- Align hybrid working strategy across different workplaces to provide colleagues with a consistent experience
- Develop workplace experiences and technology that enable you to attract and retain the people you need
- Provide workplaces that enable your people to be more effective and achieve your organisation’s goals
- Measure and benchmark your workplace experience using tools such as Leesman Index
We help organisations overcome the inequality in experience between home, office and other locations. We do this by bringing together HR, Technology, Real Estate and Facilities with leadership teams to identify the gaps and create long terms solutions.
Workplace (noun) – a building or room where people perform their job
[Cambridge Dictionary]
Those buildings or rooms can be anywhere. Some may be owned or leased by the organisation, typically offices, branches, shops or co-working spaces. Others belong to the employees. Dedicated or shared spaces in peoples’ homes. The home office, kitchen table, sofa or bedroom. Then there are the workplaces we can all use such as coffee shops, libraries, hotel lobbies and stations.
It’s relatively easy to create new workplaces. Ensuring it supports the work people need to do, getting them to use the space effectively, and adopt new ways of working can be a different matter.
There are a few different types of work activity and these activities require specific physical and technology support to do well. For instance, in order to do focused work and concentrate, a desk with a monitor, fully adjustable chair, good lighting and a quiet environment is all that is needed.
Helping people to change cannot be achieved through a project plan or series of emails. It starts with helping leaders create their outcome and strategy. Understanding what people need from their workplaces, the work they perform, how often they use each workplace and for what purpose. We can then build a series of change initiatives targeted first at senior managers, to build understanding and create the emotional buy-in.
We’ll then work with managers and teams, often through a network of change agents to create the conversations needed for behaviour change to start. Building ways of reinforcing and rewarding the new behaviours is key to embedding the change. We’ll help identify these with you to ensure your change is sustained when our involvement ends.
Our experience across organisation change, communications, coaching, technology, facilities management and real estate enables us to deliver increased employee engagement with new workspaces and ways of working.
