It’s easy to underestimate the impact a new workplace can have on how people function in a space.
Property projects mean changes for your employees, particularly when it comes to:
A co-location’s success depends on making sure the right processes and policies are in place. These will help people embrace the idea of sharing and working with other agencies to create a collective culture.
A change management toolkit is available on the Public Sector Intranet (PSI) to help you develop a change programme for a workplace or co-location project. It focuses on how to engage your employees to increase their investment in the final outcome, and help people make meaningful changes to how they work. It provides a framework for creating your workplace programme and defining your change and communication plan, as well as useful templates and tools to help you along the way.
Project activities should be set up to support people working together to address the challenges and opportunities that co-location may present to the way they and their teams will work. During the project initiation phase, the project team will scope the level of change management and supporting communications the project team will provide and what each agency is expected to manage.
We recommend that the project team take responsibility for developing and coordinating:
We also recommend that each co-locating agency take responsibility for:
Co-location projects share similar change characteristics to single agency workplace projects. Both focus on:
Specific concerns that will impact people who are co-locating centre around sharing space and resources with other agencies, and how that impacts:
As with any workplace project, it’s important to define the objectives of the co-location for the participating agencies.
PREPARING | MANAGING | EMBEDDING |
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Define the change | Create change strategy | Build awareness and desire | Develop knowledge and ability | Reinforce and sustain |
1. What NWoW means in a government context and why its beneficial | 1. Understand change impact | 1. Communicate vision | 1. Detailed solution | 1. Exploration |
2. Develop your agency NWoW plan | 2. Establish stakeholder engagement structure | 2. Communicate benefits | 2. New behaviour experiences | 2. Evaluation |
3. Develop change plan | 3. Introduce the solution | 3. Protocols and working arrangements | 3. Transition to BAU |
PRE-MOVE Workplace selection and Business Case and project established |
PRE-MOVE Concept + Design Development Frozen Layouts |
PRE-MOVE Soft Fitout Detailed design Team adjacencies |
PRE-MOVE Relocation + settling in |
The change management for a co-location project will follow a similar structure to that of a standard workplace project. Roles and responsibilities for the various groups involved can be found in the change management toolkit on the Public Sector Intranet (PSI).