Work Life by Design

How do you know what size tenancy is going to be right for you?  Current space +10%? Industry average?  In this episode we'll be exploring some of the common mistakes that are made in determining how much space you need.  I'll then share with you three steps that you can take to analyse how your organisation is using your workplace in order to put some data and science behind determining the floor...

Sarah Skeats is a Partner of BoB Group, or otherwise known as Business of Brand, where she is also the Managing Director of BoB Australia.  BoB are a purpose driven business supporting organisations to make an impact and "shift the world into a new era". Sarah has delivered record-breaking acquisition, retention and brand campaigns with leading global and national brands including Microsoft, Telst...

Creating a new workplace can be a really exciting but also daunting time.  There are a lot of big decisions that need to be made and these decisions are ones that we are going to be needing to live with for a long time. In this episode we discuss all the factors that influence the cost of your workplace from floor area and workplace style through to how your brand influences the level of finish th...

Dealing with the tough stuff is not new to any of us, but actually doing this and doing it well can be a challenge for many us.  Thankfully this is at the heart of what Ali Hill loves to support leaders and organisations to do daily. Ali is a registered psychologist and CEO of three-time AFR 100 company Pragmatic Thinking.  Using her expertise across leadership, culture and psychology, she and the...

Workplace styles - What are our options? What are the various types of environments that exist for us to consider when moving into our new workplace? Now is a really exciting time for us to reimagine our workplace in the future. We've been presented with so many possibilities that lie before us. We're going to be looking at everything from the traditional right through to running a remote workforc...

Coworking is a concept that has fascinated me for years.  In this episode, Jonathon and I unpack how these spaces operate and what the financial metrics & community engagement needs are to make this model work for both the operator and the resident. But perhaps even more importantly we discuss how the design of our physical environment influences our behaviour and organisational performance, and h...

The global pandemic has shifted how we work.  While we can't predict the long term impact that the pandemic will have on our workplaces, what we have seen is an acceleration of the future of work and the role that technology is going to have in keeping us safe and enabling our productivity. In this episode we explore what some of the technology's that our buildings may look to incorporate into the...

Why does your organisation need a wellness strategy? As we are navigating our way through one of the most challenging times in our history, never has there been a more important time to develop and implement a wellness strategy that responds to the needs of your organisation. Many organisations roll out fruit boxes, flu shots and engage their people in step count challenges. While done with the ve...

What is the True Purpose of our Workplace?  This episode explores why we go to work, how we came to be at this place we call work and how our workplaces fill a social need and connection in each of us.  We also look at how our workplaces connect our personal purpose to that of the organisation and how we can achieve significant productivity and performance gains when we socialise at work.  

"If in doubt, do it!" Putting off starting a family in exchange for your career, is a conversation that I have had many times with my female friends and colleagues.  In this episode of Work Life by Design I'm chatting with Nadia Taylor from Mapien on her experience of shifting from thinking she didn't want children to integrating her new son Atlas not only into her career but also into her workpla...

"I believe the most powerful thing on the planet is the human mind, and we all have one. So why not take the best version of it with us everywhere we go."  Brett Robinson In this episode I had the pleasure of chatting with Amber Hawken and Brett Robinson.  These two individuals have an infectious passion for enabling people to achieve their biggest potential and for each of us to be the most optim...

Your brand is so much more than a logo.  It's your story, what you stand for and how you want to be seen.  In this episode I'm pleased to be introducing you to Dugald Warby. Duge is one of the partners at Hall Chadwick Qld, a firm that was founded 40 years ago with deep roots back to Western Queensland. In this episode, Duge and I discuss their pride for their history, how they have managed to mai...

Designing a workplace that yields results is in fact a science.  Dr Libby Sander is Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Bond University, where she researches the impact that our workplaces have on our lives across, neuroscience, architecture, psychology, entrepreneurship and urban design.    As a follower of Libby's work, I was intrigued to understand the link between a well designe...

In this very first episode of Work Life by Design, I am pleased to be introducing you to Nadia Taylor.  Nadia is not only an Executive Director at Mapien Workplace Strategists, she is also an amazing woman!  Mapien have been on an transformational journey over the past 2years that has seen them evolve from a traditional, slow moving organisation to one that has rapidly adopted change, achieved a s...

Hello, I'm Mel Marsden and welcome to Work Life by Design. In a time when we can work from anywhere, why is it that we actually need to "go" to "work" to "work"? 

 

You're about to hear how organisations have optimised their business by shifting employee and business mindsets from slow, stagnant operations, to agile and flexible environments, established premium levels of employee experience and...