Well, that’s it for another season!   After kicking off season 5 back in November last year, I think it’s well and truly time to switch off the mic for a while!   This season has definitely taken on a life of its own and it really snuck up on me that we’ve been going straight for 48 episodes, almost a whole year! I’ve had the pleasure of engaging some incredibly intelligent, wise, and generous guests in conversation over this time which has what has kept me wanting to do “just one more!” episode.   But here at COMUNiTI we are heading into our busiest season of the year in the fi ..read more

The art of focus in our modern worlds has become just that. An art.   With books like Johan Hari’s Stolen Focus and past guest Dr Kristy Goodwin's, Dear Digital we need to talk, the constant disruption, distraction mulit-tasking and task switching that we are all succumbing to is impacting our ability to truly focus.   Add to this all the pressures and competing demands of daily life and we are quickly looking at fatigue, exhaustion and burnout.   And whilst the rise of flexible working has given us more freedom to design our days and work lives, it’s a bit of a double edged swo ..read more

One of the biggest misconceptions about “a new office” is that it is simply that.  A new place for us to conduct our business from.  A design and construction project. This could not be further from the truth.  “A new office” is a whole of business opportunity and at its core it is actually a “cultural transformation project”. Everything about the way the new office looks, feels, operates is all new.  It’s in a new location, with a new commute and with that comes a whole new set of routines and rituals. Now while some of your team might be excited by the change, there are g ..read more

Is the workplace really just a ‘task’ place?   This is one of the thought-provoking questions that today’s guest poses, for us to ponder about our reality of work and the workplace.   Dr Agustin Chevez is the author of The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace. It was after reading a book on the diversity of Iguana’s in the Galapagos Islands, that Gus set off on a pilgrimage from Melbourne to Sydney, to explore the impact that isolation has on the diversity of our idea’s.   Fast forward a few years and Gus is sharing his insights as 34 signposts from this exploration in his book ..read more

One of the reasons that I first started exploring this idea of Workplace Strategy was because I am fascinated by how businesses tick.   What makes one business a roaring success and another flounder?   And one thing that continues to fascinate me is the gap that I see emerge in almost every engagement.  And it’s a gap that I feel like I automatically step into fill without a second thought. But this gap is one that differentiates what we do at COMUNiTI apart. When clients approach us, they are likely to be seeking a Design Solution.  They don’t go to the design team looking ..read more

With more of us embracing the opportunity to work from home, it’s leaving our workplaces underutilised as occupancy levels in the workplace drop. The impacts of this vary from workplace ot workplace depending on the design style and approach ranging from limited variety in the spaces available for employees to perform their work through to a lack of energy and “buzz’ that comes from bringing people together in the space. As someone who engages with organisations daily in this delicate dance of who gets to own their desk and who doesn’t, weighing up the commercial realities of leasing costs vs ..read more

The end of financial year is a great time to check in and see how we are tracking against our goals. As someone who loves to set myself up at the beginning of each year with a number of intentions and an overarching word to keep me on track, it’s a great opportunity for me to check and readjust for the next 6 months.   This year my word was Flow.   And its been interesting to see how this word has shown up, the shape its taken and the way in which it has realigned my thoughts and actions throughout the year to date.   To mark this EOFY I took myself off to a fancy “lunch for one ..read more

Establishing a strong and purposeful employee experience in your organisation can take an incredible amount of time, dedication, and invested energy.   So, if you could find all the People tools and resources that you needed packaged up in one platform, backed by science and data, how much easier would that make your life as a leader and give you the confidence to know that you were giving your organisation the best possible advantage?   Well, today’s guest is here to tell us that this is possible. Damon Klotz, who has what could be described as one of the coolest titles, is a Work C ..read more

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No doubt throughout the course of your career, you’ve experienced moments where you’ve questioned yourself and your ability to lead not only your team through the next transition, but also leading yourself.   Stepping up into a new role, guiding your team through a new project or perhaps you’ve just been swallowed up by the overwhelming wave of pressure of work.   I can empathise with you at each of these points, because I’ve been there too.   I also know, from the work that we’ve been doing at COMUNiTI across organisations, that many managers and leaders are also facing similar ..read more