Many organizations are experimenting with new physical space designs. Management structures need to be redesigned to go along with these new office spaces, but this often gets overlooked. Why is this necessary? When organizations are originally designed, they reflect how managers actually manage. Thinking about a traditional cubical environment, employees and managers are used to private working time, and not a lot of open collaboration during the work day. If this environment was redesigned to be an open space, then management and employees will struggle keeping the same work habits in the new space.
Managers will need training and guidance on how to lead teams and foster the new values reflected in new working spaces. If you are currently in the process of redesigning your physical space, be encouraged to think of new management and leadership styles that will reflect that space. You can’t design one without the other. A new environment means new ways to lead. Coaching, education, mentoring, and training programs may be necessary to guide your company leaders to manage to the best of their ability and encourage a positive employee experience.
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