How Does a Change Management Process Help a Company?
Change Management Series – Chapter 6 The very simple answer to this question lies in knowing why so many change …
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Launching Workplace House in London
On the 12th February 2019, along with five other organisations, we launched a new centre for workplace excellence in the …
Activity Based Working Benefits
A few years ago, I wrote about change management saying, “change management is like anchovies: everyone says they hate them, …
Resistance to Change
Change Management Series – Chapter 5 A theme through this series of blogs about workplace change management is resistance. For …
Office Relocations are an Opportunity!
Relocation and Innovation Series – Chapter 1 For many years, decisions about office relocations were made purely based on location, …
Why is Change Management Important?
Change Management Series – Chapter 4. If you’ve been following this series about change, then hopefully you appreciate that workplace …
What does an Organisational Change Management Team look like?
Change Management Series – Chapter 3 Implementing workplace change is rarely straightforward and takes a lot of effort – but …
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Space can only do so much!
You’ve probably guessed by now that I’m a fan of the open plan office design. (Not apologizing, just sayin’ – …
What’s So Good About Activity Based Planning?
When Advanced Workplace Associates invited New York Real Estate executives to weigh in on the May 2018 Harvard Business Review …
Change Management Principles
Change Management Series – Chapter 2 There are many things said about change – that it is hard, that “everyone …
Workplace Data and Design
Don’t let the Cart drive the Horse The chief criticism of the Harvard Business Review study on the open plan …
What is Change Management?
Change Management Series – Chapter 1 We live in a world that is constantly changing – the pace of change …
Workplace Planning and the Human Factor
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) hosted a dinner/discussion at Fonda del Sol in New York on October 4th to continue the …
Managing 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 …
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Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 11: Characteristics of Agile Leaders
To conclude our series of blogs on Managing the Agile Workforce, it seems appropriate to summarise the skills, attributes and …
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Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 10: Ten Things To Do Differently
Over the past few months, we have shared the findings from our research into the Management of the Agile Workforce. …
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Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 9: Task Coordination
Over the last few months, we have shared a number of aspects that our research showed were important to the …
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The Long Road To Workplace Management
It is interesting how ideas can spread. Some happen rapidly when something new goes viral on social networks. Other ideas …
Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 8: Trust
Some years ago, we undertook some research about the productivity of knowledge workers – and how it could be measured. …
Advancing the Debate on the Open Plan Office
When a new piece of research hits the workplace community, you know pretty quickly as everyone starts talking about it, …
Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 7: Communication Richness
When undertaking our research about the agile workforce, most of the factors that emerged as important were not a huge …
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Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 6: Cognitive Bias
If you are following this blog series on Managing the Agile Workforce, hopefully you’ll be actively considering the issues raised, …
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Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 5: Building and Sustaining Relationships
It was no surprise to find from our research on Managing the Agile Workforce that relationships are of key importance …
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Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 4: The Role of Personality
When undertaking our research about managing the agile workforce, it became clear (not surprisingly) that there is a clear relationship …
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Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 3: Leadership / Workership
In identifying aspects that are important to the success of the agile workforce (teams that aren’t co-located or spend some …
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Change Management: May the Culture Be With You
Change is happening all around us at an exponential rate – this is not news. All we have to do …
Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 2: Synchronicity
When starting our research into the agile workforce, it was important to be clear about terminology. What counts as an …
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Managing the Agile Workforce – Chapter 1: Why We Still Need Help
In recent years, Advanced Workplace Associates have supported the professional development of ‘workplace’ leaders through our Workplace Performance Innovation Network …
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Is Talking a Forgotten Art in the Workplace?
This is National Conversation Week 2018 – when we’re encouraged to talk to friends, family, even strangers because conversation is …
What Flexible Working means for Human Resources & Recruitment
Flexible working… this is a term that has many meanings and all of which seem to be used simultaneously within …
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How to Map Performance Measurements to Strategy – Step 4
In our previous blogs we described the first three steps to ensuring Performance measures are aligned with workplace strategy. Step …
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3 Ways To Align Goals
The Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) team have investigated what is required to achieve maximum workplace productivity. Our leading research in …
4 Ways to Encourage Trust and Increase Performance
In our last blog we explored the importance of trust at work. This time we look at 4 ways to …
Workplace Performance Management and the Troublesome Trucks
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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Talking Up, Phones Down!
I was talking to a colleague the other day and we were discussing the need and drive of generating social …
Establishing and Maintaining Trust in the Workplace
A few years ago, Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) were involved in a research project that looked at the productivity of …
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How to Map Workplace Performance Measures to Strategy – Step 3.
“We already have loads of measures that take lots of effort to gather data on and which result in very …
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What is Space Planning?
Put simply, space planning is the process of designing how occupants will use a given space. For workspace design, this …
How to Map Workplace Performance Measures to Strategy – Step 2.
How to Identify Positive Workplace Performances That Will Impact Strategy In the last Blog we described the need to weed …
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How to Map Workplace Performance Measures to Strategy – Step 1
In an earlier Blog we discussed the need to establish workplace performance measures that mapped upon the strategic outcomes that …
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3 Tips For Flexible Working
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) are proud advocates for agile working and activity based working (ABW). As we’ve highlighted in other …
Winter and Cognitive Performance
It’s come to that time of year where the northern hemisphere starts to freeze over. That’s right, winter is upon …
Big Data in Facilities Management
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?
What is activity based working you ask? Let’s start off by first stating that “Activity based working” and “Agile working” …
Benefits of Agile Working
The Benefits of Agile Working Practices Without naming names, it is clear from the projects we work on here at …
What is a Workplace Consultant?
The professional services industry has grown and diversified as knowledge workers continue to advance and learn. The business management and …
67% of Full Time Employees Wish to Utilise Flexible Working!
In this modern time of 2017, workplace management continues to advance and develop as time progresses. Here at Advanced Workplace …
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What Workplace Data you Need for your Workplace Strategy
The workplace is an adaptable and ever changing experience that can be sculpted around the things that matter most to …
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World Mental Health Day – 5 Tips to manage the Winter Blues
In recognition of World Mental Health Day – 10th of October 2017, one of our associates has shared her personal …
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Workspace Strategy to Halve your Workspace!
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) have created a tool that reveals the utilisation patterns of your workplace. By this, we mean …
Relocating Office and Enhancing Employee Performance
Initially, relocating your office is regarded as one of those things that is unavoidable and necessary at the end of …
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Do You Actually Need to Move Office?
There are some cases in which finding a new property seems to be the only choice. For example, your employees …
Can happiness at work survive uncertainty?
There is growing a belief that individual happiness has material causative effects on business performance and individual productivity. Harvard Business …
3 Tips You Need to Know When Moving to a New Office
There comes a time when your organisation may need to pick up and move operations to a new workplace in …
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The Under-Productive Workplace
No one can deny that high workplace productivity is the goal of most organisations. As a business manager or leader, …
Employees of the Future and Workplace Productivity
The 21st century has brought about revolutionary and innovative workplaces. Some in which foster and improve workplace productivity and some …
Mitigating Risks to Agile Working Projects
Risk Management in Agile Working In my previous blog I looked at the management of risks that occur in agile …
3 Healthy Workplace Tips for Leaders
Business leaders are majority of the time (if not always) under incredible pressure and stress. When there are deadlines to …
Risk Management – Transitioning to Agile Workplace
In this series of blogs on Agile Working we have discussed the difficulty of getting people to buy in to …
Transition to Agile Working Gone off Track?
All business changes require preparation, planning, execution and maintenance if they are to be successful and persist into the future. …
Knowledge Sharing in the Workplace
Having researched the things that influence team productivity, we know that social cohesion is the most important factor. If we …
Want to Know How to Implement Agile Working?
The team at Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) has been supporting organisations wanting to make a change to agile ways of …
The Importance of Social Cohesion
As a business manager, it is your role to create a workplace culture that fosters workplace productivity and employee engagement. …
Getting the Agile Workplace Experience “Right on Day One”
One of my Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) colleagues has these words as her middle name! When supporting and guiding agile …
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How Summer Effects Workplace Performance
Here we are, in the middle of summer 2017. The sweat is pouring as the temperature is climbing. As a …
Workplace Productivity: An Introduction
“How can I make my workplace more productive?” – a common question with a complex answer. If you have asked …
Why your BAU Process Won’t Work
Most Business-As-Usual (BAU) relocating processes are designed around moving people from a fixed position to another fixed position (from “my …
How to Sell the Change to Agile Working
The question people often ask us is how they can “sell” agile working within their organisation. Wouldn’t it be nice …
How Much Data do we Need for Agile Working?
This is a question asked by a client some while ago. They were in a hurry and were a trifle …
Why can Implementing Agile Working be so Hard?
The simple answer is that if you’re going to become more agile in the way you work and operate, people …
5 Common Mistakes Made When Implementing Agile Working
People have been implementing agile working for years. There are lots of good examples, but probably even more where agile …
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Agility and the Rate of Change
Bill Gates is often quoted as saying that “we overestimate the degree of change in the next 2 years and …
The Difference between Agile Working and Flexible Working
For years the two terms have been used in a rather arbitrary way. This had led to confusion and not …
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Is Agile a Buzzword?
I have been thinking about agility quite a lot recently and in the last few articles I have written have …
Agile Office Environments
Blogging has its risks. If people read them then they often come back with searching questions that require further consideration. …
What is Agile Working? What is an Agile Workplace? What do we really mean?
There is no doubting the interest that various professional groups and management gurus have in the term of “Agile Working” …
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Cognitive Fitness Chapter 15 – What’s on your Mind?
Our latest research has looked at factors that impact our cognitive performance – so both individuals and organisations can understand …
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Cognitive 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 …
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Cognitive 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 …
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Cognitive 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 …
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Cognitive 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 …
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Cognitive Fitness Chapter 10 – Can you concentrate when it’s hot?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations can understand …
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Personal reflections on IFMA’s World Workplace: San Diego, October 5th-7th 2016
A Workplace Evolutionary By Chris Hood The very fact that the globe’s largest facility management association is describing its largest …
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Cognitive 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 …
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Cognitive 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 …
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Cognitive 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 …
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Cognitive 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 …
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Cognitive 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 can understand …
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Cognitive Fitness Chapter 4 – Hydration – Are you dehydrated?
Our latest research looks at the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so individuals and organisations could understand …
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Cognitive Fitness Chapter 3 – Did you have breakfast today?
Our latest research set out to discover the factors that most impact our cognitive performance – so we could guide organisations …
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Cognitive Fitness: Chapter 2 – Cognition – what’s it all about?
‘Cognition’ is just a scientific term for the functioning of the human brain. Until recently measuring the cognitive performance, cognitive …
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How Can Organisations Improve Knowledge Worker Productivity?
AWA’s Karen Plum on Shareradio’s Morning Money to discuss how organisations can improve the workplace productivity of their knowledge workers. [soundcloud …
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Cognitive Fitness: Chapter 1 – Cognition and Cognitive Fitness Research…why bother?
For some years, we at Advanced Workplace Associates have been supporting the professional development of ‘workplace’ leaders through our Workplace …
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Describing Workplace Transformation
Recently I was asked for my views on how Workplace Strategies were resulting in workplace transformation. It got me thinking… …
The 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 15 – The 6 Factors and Traditional Organisational Models
Over the course of the study and the chapters set out here, our team have realised the power of the …
The 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 14 – Using the 6 Factors to Make a Difference in Workplace Productivity
So by now you’ve got a good handle on the 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity, why they are important …
The 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 13 – The 6 Factors and Workplace Technology
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 of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 12 – The 6 Factors and Workplace Design
The 6 Factors Knowledge Worker Productivity describe a sort of ‘social infrastructure’. Fundamentally what we’re saying is that where organisations …
The 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 11 – The 6 Factors and Leaders & Culture
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: Chapter 10 – Making Sense of the 6 Factors
The 6 factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity, as outlined in the earlier chapters have been derived through a scientifically robust …
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