Ways of Working

Your operating system that enables work to get done

Does getting work done feel harder than it should do? Culture design helps you to rethink how colleagues work together to delight customers. What are your common behaviours that enable teams to do their best work and drive value?

Whilst working away from the office provides many benefits, it also makes it more challenging to communicate and collaborate with colleagues. Technology provides new ways to work but we can stay stuck in old habits that slow us down.

From ‘going back’ to ‘moving forwards together’.

As we experiment and learn in the post-pandemic transition, it’s a perfect opportunity to provide greater flexibility for your team and re-imagine how we can make work even better.

Focus areas include:

1. Your hero processes

To deliver a great product and service, colleagues need real clarity on frameworks and workflows, including how to prioritise, coordinate, and review work. Typically, colleagues use sticking plasters and workarounds to try and stay on track. We help you to identify this friction, remove bottlenecks and ruthlessly simplify.

2. Meeting system

Is your series of meeting types and frequency needed to deliver company goals. Applying the Goldilocks principle, we’ll help you to see with fresh eyes how you can rejuvenate your company’s approach to meetings.

3. Workspace

Is where you work to manage your workflows and communicate effectively so that everyone has the right context for their role. Which platforms are best for your business, and how do you get the best out of them?

4. Roles and decisions

Making decisions quickly is one of the primary challenges people face when collaborating. How do you empower people to act, when and how do you decide as a group?

5. Minimising Digital Overload

Your team may be spending too much time in back-to-back meetings whilst also having to manage a large increase in chat alongside their inboxes. Working across different time zones is an additional energy tax. We advise on healthy habits to take back control.

How does your team perform?

Better teamwork is an incredibly effective way to drive revenue, deliver stronger project success, anticipate customer needs, adapt to challenges and to innovate. It also strengthens engagement. If you want to boost these outcomes, then let’s start a conversation.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

When meetings are the norm—the first resort; the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem—they no longer work. Meetings should be like salt—a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.

Jason Fried

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