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!
Workplace strategy is about pulling all the big data and workplace analytics, then outputting the information into a strategic approach …
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
Many researchers around the world have been in search of a ‘Holy Grail’ measurement of Knowledge Worker Productivity for many years. Whilst the measurement of work in manufacturing and service organisations is relatively straightforward using measures of output per unit of resource like ‘calls per agent per hour’ or ‘units per week’ or ‘cost per unit’, these are increasingly in appropriate for Knowledge based businesses and in fact have a potential to destroy corporate value.
As we continue into Knowledge Worker Productivity, it is appropriate to define what a knowledge worker is. The term ‘Knowledge …
Whilst the world has focused heavily on the asset productivity of offices over the last 30 years, reducing the cost of offices per head, often using agile working as a tool for achieving this, it’s becoming clear that the mobility afforded by the latest technology products can be used to aid Knowledge Worker Productivity.
Read moreThe 6 Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity: Chapter 1 – Beyond Agile Working