Change Management Series – Chapter 3 Implementing workplace change is rarely straightforward and takes a lot of effort – but …
Read moreWhat does an Organisational Change Management Team look like?
You’ve probably guessed by now that I’m a fan of the open plan office design. (Not apologizing, just sayin’ – …
When Advanced Workplace Associates invited New York Real Estate executives to weigh in on the May 2018 Harvard Business Review …
Change Management Series – Chapter 2 There are many things said about change – that it is hard, that “everyone …
Don’t let the Cart drive the Horse The chief criticism of the Harvard Business Review study on the open plan …
Change Management Series – Chapter 1 We live in a world that is constantly changing – the pace of change …
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) hosted a dinner/discussion at Fonda del Sol in New York on October 4th to continue the …
To conclude our series of blogs on Managing the Agile Workforce, it seems appropriate to summarise the skills, attributes and …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 12: Characteristics of Agile Teams
To conclude our series of blogs on Managing the Agile Workforce, it seems appropriate to summarise the skills, attributes and …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 11: Characteristics of Agile Leaders
Over the past few months, we have shared the findings from our research into the Management of the Agile Workforce. …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 10: Ten Things To Do Differently
Over the last few months, we have shared a number of aspects that our research showed were important to the …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 9: Task Coordination
It is interesting how ideas can spread. Some happen rapidly when something new goes viral on social networks. Other ideas …
Some years ago, we undertook some research about the productivity of knowledge workers – and how it could be measured. …
When a new piece of research hits the workplace community, you know pretty quickly as everyone starts talking about it, …
When undertaking our research about the agile workforce, most of the factors that emerged as important were not a huge …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 7: Communication Richness
If you are following this blog series on Managing the Agile Workforce, hopefully you’ll be actively considering the issues raised, …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 6: Cognitive Bias
It was no surprise to find from our research on Managing the Agile Workforce that relationships are of key importance …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 5: Building and Sustaining Relationships
When undertaking our research about managing the agile workforce, it became clear (not surprisingly) that there is a clear relationship …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 4: The Role of Personality
In identifying aspects that are important to the success of the agile workforce (teams that aren’t co-located or spend some …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 3: Leadership / Workership
Change is happening all around us at an exponential rate – this is not news. All we have to do …
When starting our research into the agile workforce, it was important to be clear about terminology. What counts as an …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 2: Synchronicity
In recent years, Advanced Workplace Associates have supported the professional development of ‘workplace’ leaders through our Workplace Performance Innovation Network …
Read moreManaging the Agile Workforce – Chapter 1: Why We Still Need Help
This is National Conversation Week 2018 – when we’re encouraged to talk to friends, family, even strangers because conversation is …
Flexible working… this is a term that has many meanings and all of which seem to be used simultaneously within …
Read moreWhat Flexible Working means for Human Resources & Recruitment
In our previous blogs we described the first three steps to ensuring Performance measures are aligned with workplace strategy. Step …
Read moreHow to Map Performance Measurements to Strategy – Step 4
The Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) team have investigated what is required to achieve maximum workplace productivity. Our leading research in …
In our last blog we explored the importance of trust at work. This time we look at 4 ways to …
The Difficulties of Workplace Performance Measures The Christmas break offers the opportunity to read children’s stories to grandchildren and this …
Read moreWorkplace Performance Management and the Troublesome Trucks
I was talking to a colleague the other day and we were discussing the need and drive of generating social …
A few years ago, Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) were involved in a research project that looked at the productivity of …
Read moreEstablishing and Maintaining Trust in the Workplace
“We already have loads of measures that take lots of effort to gather data on and which result in very …
Read moreHow to Map Workplace Performance Measures to Strategy – Step 3.
Put simply, space planning is the process of designing how occupants will use a given space. For workspace design, this …
How to Identify Positive Workplace Performances That Will Impact Strategy In the last Blog we described the need to weed …
Read moreHow to Map Workplace Performance Measures to Strategy – Step 2.
In an earlier Blog we discussed the need to establish workplace performance measures that mapped upon the strategic outcomes that …
Read moreHow to Map Workplace Performance Measures to Strategy – Step 1
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) are proud advocates for agile working and activity based working (ABW). As we’ve highlighted in other …
It’s come to that time of year where the northern hemisphere starts to freeze over. That’s right, winter is upon …
If we are to believe the Facilities Management (FM) media, the Internet of Things and Big Data are about to …
What is activity based working you ask? Let’s start off by first stating that “Activity based working” and “Agile working” …
The Benefits of Agile Working Practices Without naming names, it is clear from the projects we work on here at …
The professional services industry has grown and diversified as knowledge workers continue to advance and learn. The business management and …
In this modern time of 2017, workplace management continues to advance and develop as time progresses. Here at Advanced Workplace …
Read more67% of Full Time Employees Wish to Utilise Flexible Working!
The workplace is an adaptable and ever changing experience that can be sculpted around the things that matter most to …
Read moreWhat Workplace Data you Need for your Workplace Strategy
In recognition of World Mental Health Day – 10th of October 2017, one of our associates has shared her personal …
Read moreWorld Mental Health Day – 5 Tips to manage the Winter Blues
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) have created a tool that reveals the utilisation patterns of your workplace. By this, we mean …
Initially, relocating your office is regarded as one of those things that is unavoidable and necessary at the end of …
Read moreRelocating Office and Enhancing Employee Performance
There are some cases in which finding a new property seems to be the only choice. For example, your employees …
There is growing a belief that individual happiness has material causative effects on business performance and individual productivity. Harvard Business …
There comes a time when your organisation may need to pick up and move operations to a new workplace in …
Read more3 Tips You Need to Know When Moving to a New Office
No one can deny that high workplace productivity is the goal of most organisations. As a business manager or leader, …
The 21st century has brought about revolutionary and innovative workplaces. Some in which foster and improve workplace productivity and some …
Risk Management in Agile Working In my previous blog I looked at the management of risks that occur in agile …
Business leaders are majority of the time (if not always) under incredible pressure and stress. When there are deadlines to …
In this series of blogs on Agile Working we have discussed the difficulty of getting people to buy in to …
All business changes require preparation, planning, execution and maintenance if they are to be successful and persist into the future. …
Having researched the things that influence team productivity, we know that social cohesion is the most important factor. If we …
The team at Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) has been supporting organisations wanting to make a change to agile ways of …
As a business manager, it is your role to create a workplace culture that fosters workplace productivity and employee engagement. …
One of my Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) colleagues has these words as her middle name! When supporting and guiding agile …
Read moreGetting the Agile Workplace Experience “Right on Day One”
Here we are, in the middle of summer 2017. The sweat is pouring as the temperature is climbing. As a …
“How can I make my workplace more productive?” – a common question with a complex answer. If you have asked …
Most Business-As-Usual (BAU) relocating processes are designed around moving people from a fixed position to another fixed position (from “my …
The question people often ask us is how they can “sell” agile working within their organisation. Wouldn’t it be nice …
This is a question asked by a client some while ago. They were in a hurry and were a trifle …
The simple answer is that if you’re going to become more agile in the way you work and operate, people …
People have been implementing agile working for years. There are lots of good examples, but probably even more where agile …
Read more5 Common Mistakes Made When Implementing Agile Working
Bill Gates is often quoted as saying that “we overestimate the degree of change in the next 2 years and …
For years the two terms have been used in a rather arbitrary way. This had led to confusion and not …
Read moreThe Difference between Agile Working and Flexible Working
I have been thinking about agility quite a lot recently and in the last few articles I have written have …
Blogging has its risks. If people read them then they often come back with searching questions that require further consideration. …
There is no doubting the interest that various professional groups and management gurus have in the term of “Agile Working” …
Read moreWhat is Agile Working? What is an Agile Workplace? What do we really mean?
Our latest research has looked at factors that impact our cognitive performance – so both individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 15 – What’s on your Mind?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 14 – Scent – What’s that Smell?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 13 – Cognitive Stimulation – Use it or lose it!
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 12 – Workplace Lighting – Is it dim in here?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 11 – Is multi tasking a myth?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 10 – Can you concentrate when it’s hot?
A Workplace Evolutionary By Chris Hood The very fact that the globe’s largest facility management association is describing its largest …
Read morePersonal reflections on IFMA’s World Workplace: San Diego, October 5th-7th 2016
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 9 – Workplace Noise – Can You Hear Yourself Think?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 8 – Glucose – Your brain needs sugar… really?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 7 – Caffeine – Had any psychoactive drugs today?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 6 – Exercise and Physical Activity – Don’t be a couch potato!
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 5 – How did you sleep last night?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations could understand …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 4 – Hydration – Are you dehydrated?
Our latest research set out to discover the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so we could guide organisations …
Read moreCognitive Fitness Chapter 3 – Did you have breakfast today?
‘Cognition’ is just a scientific term for the functioning of the human brain. Until recently measuring the cognitive performance, cognitive …
Read moreCognitive Fitness: Chapter 2 – Cognition – what’s it all about?
AWA’s Karen Plum on Shareradio’s Morning Money to discuss how organisations can improve the workplace productivity of their knowledge workers. As …
Read moreHow Can Organisations Improve Knowledge Worker Productivity?
For some years, we at Advanced Workplace Associates have been supporting the professional development of ‘workplace’ leaders through our Workplace …
Read moreCognitive Fitness: Chapter 1 – Cognition and Cognitive Fitness Research…why bother?
Recently I was asked for my views on how Workplace Strategies were resulting in workplace transformation. It got me thinking… …
Over the course of the study and the chapters set out here, our team have realised the power of the …
So by now you’ve got a good handle on the 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity, why they are important …
So we’ve talked about how space could support the 6 factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity. In this chapter we’re going …
The 6 Factors Knowledge Worker Productivity describe a sort of ‘social infrastructure’. Fundamentally what we’re saying is that where organisations …
In the previous chapters I’ve outlined the 6 factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity and tried to give you a sense …
The 6 factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity, as outlined in the earlier chapters have been derived through a scientifically robust …
Read moreThe 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 10 – Making Sense of the 6 Factors
Here’s the 6th and final factor: Trust. I hope by now you are beginning to get an overall view of how …
Read moreThe 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 9 – Factor 6 – Trust
From their review of over 800 papers our researchers identified 6 factors that are associated with Knowledge Worker Productivity. Whilst …
From their review of over 800 papers our researchers identified 6 factors that are associated with Knowledge Worker Productivity. Most …
We’re on to the 3rd factor that our research team identified as being associated with Knowledge Worker Productivity performance through …
From their review of over 800 papers our researchers identified 6 factors that are associated with Knowledge Worker Productivity. Most …
In answering our second research question: What is known in the world’s academic research about the factors associated with Knowledge …
Read moreThe 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 4 – Factor 1 – Social Cohesion