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, …
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 …
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 …
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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 …