The better the preparation and design, the better the outcomeįees. Another delicate high-strung wire to tread. We don’t do this every year, checking what’s hot and what’s not, we’re investing our organisation’s money and reputation in being both relevant and bold. The rejection of even the idea of ‘corporate’ is wholesale, so everything must be its antithesis.īut it has to last. Our workplace has to chime with their expectation of an organisation on a mission. We’re looking for the emerging talent, those in-tune with the zeitgeist, the innovators of today and leaders of tomorrow. ![]() We don’t want to be left behind, left out. While they don’t set the pulse racing, they exude confidence. Here resides everything we consider to be classic, the aesthetic, features and elements that never tire. Then there’s the slow wave beneath reassuring, easy, reliable and assured. Workshop chic with its crumbling plaster, exposed brick, eye-straining filament lightbulbs and sagging felt. Pushing up our jacket sleeves, turning over our collar. The occasional re-emergence and rapid disappearance of bell-bottoms. In this channel live the forms and tastes of the moment. There’s the frenetic day-to-day we can barely keep up with, our packed schedules, projects, initiatives, ideas, all battling with the demands of our personal lives. We want our fit-out to last (longer than flares) DON’T let fad and fashion dictate the outcome The things in the present that are working that we can do more of, together with a crafted vision of the future incorporating the changes we want to prompt and enable.īalance doesn’t come easy. It’s easy to fall into either trap, but it’s about balance. But if we create a space for what we have today, what changes? We want to make sure we reflect their needs in the new workplace, and we want them on board with the outcome. But how much? We’ve studied and modelled how we work, with different groups and teams doing different things in different ways. Like our pre-lockdown favourite jeans, the present just doesn’t fit anymore. ![]() We want some of that, to be a leader, out there, shaping the future. ![]() We’ve studied the trends, looked at what our competitors are doing, marvelled at what the seriously cool companies are doing. DON’T consider the present at the expense of the future – and the future at the expense of the present From brief to delivery, each week we will share with you his Top 10 Tips. We asked Neil Usher – Chief workplace & Change Strategist at GoSpace AI and author of The Elemental Workplace and Elemental Change – what he considered to be the 10 key things not to do in creating a new workplace. For many of us, we don’t do these projects very often, so we need some helpful guidance. The decisions we take, the things we do and the things we miss. While we like to think that problems we may encounter will all be the result of forces beyond our control, we’re just as likely to be the reason. You’ve secured the funds and know you can create your new workspace in time.
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