Workspace Strategy Sprints
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Solve your workspace challenges in one week.
For HR Leaders, IT Managers, Facilities Managers, Workplace Leaders, and more.
Derived from the tried-and-tested Design Sprint methodology, our approach involves intensive, highly focused collaborative sessions and creative problem-solving techniques. Designed to address the unique challenges of today’s dynamic work environments, we help you activate physical spaces, optimise digital tools, and enhance social connections—whether in hybrid, remote, or traditional settings. This structured process leads to actionable insights and strategies, improving team dynamics and streamlining workflows. The sprint structure allows us to address questions and issues rapidly, moving workspace projects along in days rather than weeks or months. In this workshop-based strategy sprint, workplace consultant, author, and professor Kursty Groves combines 25 years of world-class design thinking and innovation facilitation with extensive expertise in workplace strategy projects. This unique blend ensures a holistic approach that integrates creative problem-solving with actionable strategies to deliver measurable results. By bringing the right people together at the right time, asking the right questions, and facilitating dynamic interactions, we identify and address barriers collaboratively and constructively, energising your team and driving positive outcomes. What You Get: Comprehensive Solutions - We blend design thinking, innovation, and workplace strategy to create tailored solutions. Our experience spans various sectors, including tech, healthcare, and government, providing a broad perspective. Rapid Results - Significant progress is achieved in just one week through focused, concentrated effort. Hands-on Co-creation - Work directly with your team to develop practical, relevant solutions. This approach ensures the strategies are deeply integrated with your organisational culture and goals. Strategic Alignment - Outputs are strategically relevant, aligned with organisational goals, and tailored to people and specific objectives defined at the start of the sprint. Prototyping and Testing - Develop and test prototypes of specific ideas, ensuring solutions are practical and effective. Roadmap Opportunities - Identify and roadmap opportunities for future implementation, providing a clear path forward. In-person Impact - Face-to-face collaboration enables deeper connections, immediate feedback, and dynamic problem-solving. Expert Facilitation - Draw upon Kursty's extensive experience in facilitating workshops for global brands like LEGO, IKEA, and P&G across a wide range of industries. Thought Leadership - Kursty is the author of three influential books - I Wish I Worked There!, Spaces for Innovation, and Workspace Made Easy - and is an adjunct professor, podcast host, and globally recognised voice in workplace strategy.
Sprint Overview
Who needs to be involved?
The Workspace Strategy Sprint is designed to involve the right people at the right times. Driven by a small, agile core team who act as the glue holding all activities together, the process is both efficient and impactful, calling upon key people at strategic points for information, inspiration, testing, and decision-making. Here’s how we ensure balanced and effective engagement: Core Team Members - Throughout the Sprint: Essential for ensuring continuity and cohesion, maintaining focus, and integrating insights. These are typically 3-4 people who are owning and influencing the project or challenge. Senior Leaders - When: Primarily on Day 1 and Day 5 - Role: Set the vision, objectives, and approve the final strategy. Their involvement ensures alignment with organisational goals and facilitates swift decision-making. Team Leads and Managers - When: Throughout the week, with focused involvement on Day 1 and Day 3 - Role: Provide insights on operational challenges, help map processes, and support the development of practical solutions. Their engagement ensures strategies are grounded in reality and that there is buy-in from those who will be implementing the changes. HR Representatives and employee groups: - When: Mainly on Day 2 - Role: Offer perspectives on workforce dynamics, preferences, and needs. They help in creating personas and mapping attendance patterns to ensure the strategy supports all employee groups. Their insights are critical for developing strategies that are both inclusive and effective. Subject matter experts: - When: On-call throughout the week, with specific focus on Day 3 and Day 4 - Role: Provide detailed insights into technological needs, workflows, and industry best practices. Their expertise ensures the strategy is both innovative and feasible. Having SMEs available during key stages of the sprint allows for quick resolution of complex issues and integration of best practices. Cross-functional teams: - When: Especially on Day 4 during prototyping - Role: Collaborate in developing and testing prototypes. Their diverse perspectives ensure the solutions are robust and well-rounded. Their involvement helps stress-test and refine ideas into viable plans.
The experience of working with Kursty was seamless, energising and fun!
She helped facilitate, guide and support the whole experience from vision to ideas phase, allowing us to take ownership of the process & ensuring the final result delivered on what the key internal skakeholders needed.
Project Leader,
Global Beverages Company
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A comprehensive design around key phases along with the balance of creativity techniques with a tested approach to delivering an innovative approach to new workspaces and ways of working was so valuable.
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