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.
Click each of the workplace strategy offerings below for more details
Hybrid Health Assessment & Optimization
We know there is no one-size-fits-all in terms of strategies around where and when people work. Regardless of the path you have chosen, we can help you evaluate and optimize how it is working. We start with 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 will focus 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
e-Learning for Hybrid, Remote & Distributed Work
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 you make your hybrid, remote, and even in-office work, work better.
Click here for more about our customizable e-learning courses for hybrid, remote, and distributed work.
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.
Workplace Strategy & Portfolio Planning
Here are some of the ways we can help optimize your Workplace Strategy and Portfolio Plan
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Demand and supply analysis
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Scenario planning
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Workplace strategy visioning workshops
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Workplace data gathering and analysis
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Building and utilization data analyses
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Gap analysis and recommendations
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Portfolio and workplace benchmarking
Space Optimization & Portfolio Right-Sizing
Hybrid and remote work strategies 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
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
- Manage the move/relocation process
- Conduct post-occupancy analyses
Leadership Coaching & Alignment
Leadership alignment is fundamental to the success of your change initiatives. We can help you galvanize your leadership team around a shared vision. work with the organizations to help gain leadership alignment for a shared vision of the transformed culture. We help leaders articulate their fears, aspiration, vision and most importantly build consensus on what future vision of success and then help achieve it and measure it.
- Leadership interviews
- Visioning sessions
- Overcoming obstacles
- Individual coaching
Capital Planning & Programming
Regardless of whether your project involves a single office or a global portfolio, we help you evaluate project delivery strategies, define your evaluation criteria, help pull together the required internal and external resources, and manage the process. Here are some of the areas where we can help.
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Master planning
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Governance structure & strategy
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Delivery model & execution strategy
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Process and procedures development
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RFP/RFQ development
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Portfolio scenario planning
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Adjacency analysis
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High-Level cost estimates
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High level timeline and phasing plan
Making the Business for Change
If you are looking for executive buy-in for a change, you need to deliver a strong business case. We can help you do that. We speak C-Suite and can help you craft a winning plan based on quantitative and qualitative research, evidence, and hard facts.
Technology Assessment
We will help evaluate workplace technology needs and provide introductions to trusted providers (i.e. occupancy sensors, utilization studies, facilities management systems, meeting and desk reservation systems, etc.) where appropriate.
These are some of the public and private sector organizations we have helped transform their workplace strategies to make work, work better.
