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
Flexible working… this is a term that has many meanings and all of which seem to be used simultaneously within …
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Put simply, space planning is the process of designing how occupants will use a given space. For workspace design, this …
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) are proud advocates for agile working and activity based working (ABW). As we’ve highlighted in other …
Let’s start off by first stating that “Activity based working” and “Agile working” are terms that tend to be used …
The professional services industry has grown and diversified as knowledge workers continue to advance and learn. The business management and …
This is National Conversation Week 2018 – when we’re encouraged to talk to friends, family, even strangers because conversation is …
In our previous blogs we described the first three steps to ensuring Performance measures are aligned with Strategy. Step 1 …
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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 …
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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 …
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“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.
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