We Meet You Where You Are
Our process begins with understanding the results you are trying to achieve and where you are in the journey. We are happy to help with a full-blown change initiative and/or work beside your internal and external advisors on a specific workplace and workforce priorities. Below are some of specific services we offer.
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e-Learning for WorkPLACE & Work PRACTICE Change
Global Workplace Analytics has been at the forefront of helping employers transition to new ways of working, new places of work, and new work practices for over two decades. Our e-learning courses have over 100,000 global users and 95%+ positive ratings. We are confident we can help make work, work better.
Click here for information about our customizable e-learning courses for Work PRACTICE change:
- Managing for Team and Organizational Success
- Essential Skills for High Performing Teams
- Continuous Micro-Learning for Future Success
- The Case for Change
Click here for more about our customizable e-learning courses for WorkPLACE change:
- Welcome to Your New Workplace
- Welcome to Your New Building
- Making the Move
Workplace Planning, Strategy & Transformation
Global Workplace Analytics’ helps organizations reimagine how, where, and when work happens so it directly supports business goals, culture, and employee experience. Drawing on decades of research and a proprietary evidence base, they partner with leaders to envision the future of work for their organization, align executives around a clear workplace vision, and translate that vision into actionable workplace, workforce, and work practice strategies.
Once the strategy is has been agreed upon, the GWA team guides clients through the transformation itself using workplace assessments and analytics, surveys, town halls, focus groups, workplace design and optimization tools, and more. They support change management and leadership alignment; help establish team, communication, and meeting norms; and design measurement frameworks so organizations can pilot, measure, adjust, and optimize over time. The result is a fact?based roadmap that modernizes the workplace and work practices while improving employee engagement, well?being, and organizational performance.
Organizational Design + Workplace Strategy
Global Workplace Analytics works at the intersection of organizational design and workplace strategy by treating the workplace as a lever for how the organization actually operates, not just where people sit. We help clients clarify their operating model, decision rights, and ways of working, then work with architectural and design firms to ensure the physical and digital workplace directly supports the organization’s culture, performance, and employee experience.
Our work typically includes mapping key workflows and team interdependencies, defining collaboration and focus needs, and translating those into workplace, scheduling, and other policies that are coherent with the organization’s design. We partner with HR, IT, real estate, and other business leaders to create integrated playbooks that link organizational structure, leadership behaviors, and space standards so the “designed organization” shows up in day?to?day work. The result is a practical, evidence?informed roadmap where organizational design, workplace strategy, and change management move in lockstep to enable a more agile, high?performing, and human?centered enterprise.
Leadership Coaching & Alignment
Leadership alignment is at the heart of how we help organizations turn workplace and future?of?work strategies into reality. Our leadership alignment services bring senior stakeholders together around a clear vision for how, where, and when work will get done, and what that means for culture, talent, and organizational performance. Through structured interviews, working sessions, and evidence?based briefings, we surface differing assumptions, clarify priorities, and translate high?level aspirations into a set of shared principles that can guide decisions about a future state.
From there, we work with leaders to define their visible role in the change: the mindsets they model, the messages they share, and the behaviors they reinforce in their own teams. We co?create practical leadership playbooks and decision frameworks so that executives, people leaders, and functional heads are making consistent, aligned choices about space, flexibility, and ways of working. The outcome is a unified leadership voice, fewer mixed messages to employees, and a stronger foundation for successful workplace transformation.
Change Management
Most of us are change-averse. We don’t like to be forced to do something in a new way. That’s why the change management process, or lack of one, can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. We can help you:
- Conduct readiness assessment for all stakeholders
- Understand and anticipate resistance
- Identify change champions
- Develop a change communication plan
- Develop roadmaps and engagement tools
- Design and conduct focus groups, workshops, town halls, and more
- Manage the move/relocation process
- Conduct post-occupancy analyses
Space Optimization & Portfolio Right-Sizing
Workplace, workforce, and societal trends have changed not just how much your people use the office, but how they use it. We can help you understand how and what that means to your overall portfolio. Some of the services we offer this type of project include:
- Understand your unique mix of personas in terms of hybrid readiness and their workplace needs
- Evaluate your current space mix vis a vis the work people are doing in it
- Compare your space needs across various scenarios
- Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies for managing spaces and enhancing the employee experience
- Conduct pilots
- Evaluate non-traditional space alternatives
- Build agility into your space design
- Evaluate existing leases and develop a phased plan for change
Distributed Work Assessment & Optimization
Our Remote, Hybrid, and Return to Office Optimization services focus on making where people work as effective and intentional as what they work on. We help organizations define the right mix of remote, hybrid, and in?office work based on role, work patterns, and business goals—not one?size?fits?all policies. That includes clarifying the “why” behind being together, turning office time into high?value collaboration and connection, and ensuring remote time supports focus, flexibility, and well?being.
From there, we translate strategy into practical models, guidelines, and rituals that teams can actually use. We design team?level agreements, scheduling patterns, and space use norms, and pair them with measurement frameworks so you can monitor outcomes and refine over time. The result is a flexible, evidence?informed approach that improves performance and engagement while making your real estate, technology, and management practices work together instead of at cross?purposes.
We also offer a Hybrid Health Audit ™ to ensure your program has been optimized for success. It includes an assessment of your practices, processes, and policies compared to ‘best practices.’
Our evaluation focuses on:
- Leadership, manager, and employee attitudes
- Managers’ ability to manage a distributed team
- Team collaboration and communication practices and norms
- Meeting norms
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
- Equitable processes and practices
- Success measures
- Technology
- Space usage
- Written policies
Our recommendations will address the need for:
- Leadership alignment
- Leadership coaching
- Manager and/or employee training
- Changes in practices and processes
- Design changes
- Improved communications
- Cultural integration
- Policy improvements
- Success measures
- New technologies
- And more
Cultural Assessment, Visioning & Transformation
What is your culture? Does everyone agree? What do you want it to be? We engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand your existing culture—both perceived and real, help you define what you want it to be, use a gap analysis to create a transformation plan. Our tools include digital and in-person interviews, focus groups, workshops, profile assessments, technology solutions, and more.
