First published on COMUNiTI, August 2024

How workplace strategy helps teams 'live the values'

Is your workplace helping or hindering company culture?

When I engage with new clients, I am quickly curious about their company values. Whether they are written in a strategy document, printed and hung on the walls, or just shared as a general feeling of what's important - it's crucial to for us understand whether the physical workspace drives values-aligned behaviours. 

So often we find that the office layout and design is really misaligned.

What do I mean?

When creating a new workplace we can influence people to act in a way that aligns with the organisation’s desired outcomes. I do this by introducing different types of work spaces and zoning areas to consolidate similar types of activities and environmental cues like texture and colour. This thinking is based on nudge theory, which is a behavioural science  concept that proposes we can...