Chapter Seven – Forget the Coolest Office: Change Communication

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Change Management is a critical tool in every business’s arsenal. It is a systematic approach of communicating to employees not just what you’re changing about the way they work but, more importantly, why. It’s that simple.

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Chapter Six – Forget the Coolest Office: Affordances

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Can you do your best work if you are always cold or always hot? How about if you cannot tell what the weather is like outside from your workspace? Do you feel a connection to your fellow employees? A sense of belonging? Does your space help you remember things you need to do? Shouldn’t your workspace provide all of that and more?

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Chapter Five – Forget the Coolest Office: The “C” Word

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The dreaded “C” word: Collaboration.  This is possibly the most over-used buzzword of the last decade.  Embraced by forward thinking companies and feared by private office workers, no other word elicits as strong a reaction from workers.  What is it and why is it important?  How do we actually achieve it?  Let’s see if we can de-mystify this buzzword.

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Chapter Four – Forget the Coolest Office: Workstyles – One Size Does Not Fit all

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Conventional wisdom says: open plan doesn’t work.  Conventional wisdom says: private offices stifle collaboration.  Conventional wisdom says: noise in open plan is distracting.  Conventional wisdom says: silence in the workspace is the enemy of creativity.  And let’s not even get into the war between work from home vs work in office advocates.  Can all of this be true?  Can conventional wisdom contradict itself and still be considered wisdom?   The answer: it depends.

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Chapter Three – Forget the Coolest Office: Culture is the Stick That Stirs the Drink

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Organizational culture is defined as the attitudes, beliefs, and artifacts that make up the personality of your company. Author Rex Miller cleverly defines it as the “attitudes that get the job done when the boss isn’t watching”. Understanding your culture is the first step in building a truly engaging and productive space.

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Chapter Two – Forget the Coolest Office

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Many of us are working in new and different places due to Covid-19 throughout 2020.

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Chapter One – Forget the Coolest Office: The COVID 19 Prologue

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When the first of these articles was conceived and written it was January of 2020.  The stock market was hitting new highs.  Unemployment was at the lowest level ever recorded and the biggest headache we had in the US was having to endure another presidential election.

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