Workplace Futures

Course

With the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations began to question the value of traditional offices. Indeed traditional offices were often unfair, uncomfortable, uncreative, and unproductive. With the other shocks, such as climate change, social inequality, and even war, some leaders saw an urgent opportunity to change behaviours regarding where, when and how work got done.

The Executive Course “– Concepts for designing a new office and life balance” explores how to seize this great opportunity to transform the workplace. By thinking futureback, the course aims to innovate work with more purpose, prosperity, and productivity, while increasing belonging and reducing our climate impact. For example, learners will explore how to build a world with more sense of purpose or to build a world with positive climate impacts and the importance of circular design.

Based on the new book “Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living”, the course will introduce the seven spectrums of choice for creating better futures for working and living.  Each spectrum has polarities – positions leaders need to slide between in order to make the right choices at the right time in different situations. The course will conclude with recommendations to guide you, your organization, your communities to make smart choices in a very uncertain future.

Workplace Futures – Concepts for designing a new office and life balance, a Executive Course, offers bold leaders an opportunity to update the professional skills with tools to create the future of work for today’s social, economic and environmental challenges on both a small and large scale.

Didactics

Attendance

Course attendance is compulsory for the 80% of the course.

The course lasts 8 hours, a total of 4 days and 4 lectures and it will be held online.

Training objectives

Understand that “where” we work is much broader than just the physical environment – it is also our cognitive and social worlds. Learn about the method and mindset to step up to lead toward better futures for yourself, your customers, your team members, and even your community.

Learn how offices and officing can help organizations achieve a sense of purpose and more prosperity for customers, communities and the planet. You will also be more inspired to consider the transition towards more meaningful business models with more shared value, and more sustainable practices.

Understand how offices can amplify the uniqueness of everyone, and while also augmenting everyone`s intelligence. Learn how to cultivate more belonging, including using technology and flexible structures, toward more inclusive and intelligent offices and officing. Understand the archipelago of platforms for distributed work, and the shape-shifting organizational forms in the emerging officeverse, can cultivate meaning.

Understand how to lead oneself and others through “office shock” towards more meaningful offices and officing. Learn how to think about when, where, and how work should get done to build a better future?

Didactic Modules

Welcome to Workplace Futures: the great opportunity to create better futures for working and living

We will review IFTF`s new book, “Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living”, and explore why even after the pandemic, thinking futureback about the workplaces essential to lead successfully through the ongoing economic, geopolitical, social and technological shocks we all face. We will also address the false dichotomy of hybrid working – in the office or at home – by exploring the “officeverse” as a new model for making the choices of place and time.

Why do we office: The spectrums of purpose, outcomes & climate

The book Office Shock begs the question – Why have offices at all? If you aren’t asking that question, then the next generation certainly is. To engage them, and build a better legacy for ourselves, we will explore the Spectrums of purpose, outcomes & climate.

Who is in the workplace: Spectrums of belonging, augmentation (AI) and agility.

With whom – humans and machines – do you want to work with toward building more shared understanding and belonging in the future? In this class we will explore the neuroscience of belonging and how emergent technologies influence the ways we organize ourselves.

What Now? Critical Success Factors for transitioning to better futures of working and living

In this class we will deep dive into Part 3 of Office Shock, exploring the Critical Success Factors individuals, organizations and communities should consider in their transition to building better futures for working and living.

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At the end of the Course participants will receive the open badge for the “Workplace Futures – Concepts for designing a new office and life balance” from POLI.design.

Admission

Requirements

Applicants should send their selection documents to the following LINK:

• copy of Fiscal Code and ID document
• Curriculum Vitae

Price

The total cost of the Course is €800 + VAT 22 % for each student. This sum will be paid in a single payment at the time the private contract is signed.

Discounts for joint purchase of multiple courses in the Cluster: Future of work.

The following discounts are provided against enrollment in multiple courses by the same participant:

• Buying 2 courses: 15% to be applied on the participation fee of the least expensive course
• Buying 3 courses: 20% to be applied on the participation fee of the least expensive course

Valid discount only for concurrent non-subsequent purchase.

Faculty