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Workplace GeeksLong live the survey? | with Kursty Groves (& Neil Usher)In this final episode of series 3, Chris and Ian are joined by first ever guest Kursty Groves to talk about her new book 'Workspace made easy' co-authored with Neil Usher. Kursty is an author, workplace innovation consultant, founder of Shape, and adjunct professor at IE University. Neil is also an author, currently the VP for Places at SAGE, formerly Workplace Director of the award-winning Sky campus in West London, and for over a decade author of the now defunct Work Essence blog (still available with a little Wayback...2024-11-1453 min
Design and BuildDesigning workplace from the outside in with strategist Kursty GrovesIn this episode, I'm joined by Kursty Groves. The founder and CEO of Shape Work Life, a consultancy that helps workplace leaders reimagine the future of work and create spaces that nurture connected cultures.
With over 25 years of experience in innovation consulting, design, and capability development, Kursty has collaborated with global brands such as Google, LEGO, IKEA, and McLaren. She is the author of three books, including Workspace Made Easy, and has taught postgraduate courses on workplace strategy at IE University in Madrid since 2014.
In our conversation, we discussed Kursty's approach to workplace strategy, understanding c...2024-11-1357 min
Workplace Innovator Podcast | Enhancing Your Employee Experience | Facility Management | CRE | Digital Workplace TechnologyEp. 313: “Workspace Made Easy” – Demystifying the Workplace and Creating Fantastic Work Environments with Kursty Groves Knight of Shape Work LifeKursty Groves Knight is an Author, Speaker and Workplace Innovation Consultant at Shape Work Life where she is passionate about inspiring people to make inspiring spaces for inspiring work. Recorded in London, Mike Petrusky asks Kursty about her new book, co-authored by past guest Neil Usher, called “Workspace Made Easy – A Clear and Practical Guide on How to Create a Fantastic Work Environment”. They explore the importance of flexibility in workplace strategies and the need for a balance between top-down leadership and individual responsibility in creating a successful work culture. Mike and Kursty agree that work is essential for human...2024-07-1624 min
Beauties and BeastiesKursty & Holly , Defender Bird SpikesKursty & Holly from Defender Bird Spikes, based in
Devon, joins Lex and Sean to discuss the journey they have taken from a small
company to a Major supplier of Bird Control Products.
#birdcontrol #bird #pigeon #spikes #pestcontrol #defender #seagull
2024-03-091h 46
What's Online Podcast184 Kursty Return-steesThat title sucks. She came back, and we recorded the whole time. hehehahas and then we get into her writing career and her new book. Wing Bang POW!2023-09-181h 11What's Online Podcast176 Th Kursty Krab PizzaIts the 30 minute mishap marathon! whoops2023-07-0928 min
The Office ChroniclesWhy IKEA’s employees love coming to the office, with Momo PavlovicWhat’s a better life? What’s a better office? Those two questions are inherently connected. Your workspace’s biggest challenge is to stay relevant, and it’s impossible to do so without obsessively making being in the physical workspace an incredible life experience. This is IKEA’s workspace development philosophy and in this episode, Momo Pavlovic shares how IKEA brings it to life through an infinitely iterative process. Developing an incredible workspace is work that is never finished. Tune in to discover how IKEA does it. Support the showWhat we discussed2022-12-2346 minThe Office ChroniclesWhat it’s like inside the Netflix office with Nasreen PotterWhat’s it like to design, build and operationalize a Workplace project during 2020 a Netflix office? What’s the workplace culture like? How does Netflix stay genuine? Nasreen Potter from Netflix tells all about what it’s like to work there. She shares the Netflix workplace philosophy, how they justify their office space investments, how they engage employees with relevant communication and the secrets behind their vibrant work environment. Nasreen Potter is a Workplace Director at Netflix. Previously she was Workplace Director at LinkedIn and Regional Workplace Lead at Microsoft. “There isn't a limi...2022-11-1644 minThe Office ChroniclesHow to create a ‘destination office’? with Tom Kegode, Lloyds Banking GroupWhat if you could have a ‘destination office’ rather than a bland office that people dread coming into? How do you create spaces at work that energize people? How do you make people look forward to their days in the office? It’s not just hitting KPIs that creates value at work. Connection, community, and collaboration create immeasurable value. Tom Kegode and Kursty discuss how to use office spaces to grow social capital and why social capital is a necessary form of productivity.Tom Kegode is the Work:Lab Lead at Lloyd’s Banking Gro...2022-10-0443 minThe Office ChroniclesMyths About Resilience and How It Actually Works With Bruce DaisleyResilience - why doesn’t it work? Most people get resilience wrong. In this episode, we’ll reframe what resilience really is and how to tap into it for yourself and your organization. Bruce Daisley and Kursty discuss the 3 pillars of resilience that people don’t usually take into account, the connection between childhood trauma and resilience, how your sense of identity can predict your well-being, and why many resilience training programs are ineffective.Bruce Daisley is the author of Fortitude. He is a writer and podcaster. Previously, he was a VP at Twitter amongst other r...2022-09-0742 minThe Office ChroniclesHow Does Your Office Space Manifest Your Culture? With David McKay, Innocent DrinksHow Does Your Office Space Manifest Your Culture? With David McKayHow do spaces change the way we talk to each other? The way we feel about work? And the way we behave at work? David McKay from Innocent Drinks joins Kursty to discuss how their spaces manifest their company culture. They explore how spaces can bring people in, why they invested in a sustainable factory that’s filled with plants, how they experimented space configurations that work best for their teams, and why you’d want to be copyable. David Mckay is the H...2022-08-1144 minThe Office ChroniclesHybrid Work Office Space Challenges Worth Solving With Emma Morley, Trifle*Solving hybrid work challenges requires us to talk less about desks and more about how we work. Emma Morley and Kursty discuss what it’s like to solve hybrid work, all the things that get in the way, and how to be more intentional in solving for it. Different stakeholders around the office often have conflicting and ever-changing requirements for what the office should be like and what it should be for. Tune in for insights about how to decide what problems are worth figuring out and what problems are unnecessary distractions. Support the showT...2022-07-2738 minThe Office ChroniclesWhy Bringing Nature Inside Boosts Creativity, Productivity, and Wellness (Space Matters, ep.7)Plants can change your mood, so should offices have more of them around? Kali and Katie from The Glasshouse project join Kursty to discuss how plants can boost mental wellness, productivity, and creativity. They also chat about how having plants in the office can encourage staff to want to work from there rather than from home. Rediscover why you need more plants in your life throughout this episode. The Glasshouse Project is a social enterprise in the UK that helps female inmates fin housing and employment by bringing nature into urbanized environments. They provide corporate gifting packages, p...2022-07-1337 minThe Office ChroniclesHow Your Brand and Experiential Design Can Impact Your Office Design - with Sonya Simmonds, SpotifySonya Simmonds joins Kursty to discuss how to meaningfully bring out your brand through workplace and office design. They explore how office design impacts employee morale, productivity, and work ethic, why the ‘wow factor’ of designing office spaces shouldn’t stop at gimmicks and fragmented Instagramable spots, and Spotify’s Work From Anywhere program that allows staff to choose between a ‘home mix’ and an ‘office mix’ work experience.Sonya Simmonds is an interior architect with 20 years of experience and the Head of Workplace Innovation & Design at Spotify. “It’s also really strange to me that people say 'I do...2022-06-2946 minThe Office ChroniclesSpecial Episode: LEGO Workplace Symposium 2022 (Part 3) - Breaking Behavioural Norms Through Purposeful Meetings and Office DesignIn the final part of this series, listen in to the last two hot topic discussions from the LEGO workplace symposium on (1) designing spaces and (2) orchestrating purposeful meetings. During the discussion on designing office spaces, we discuss how to create spaces that break traditional norms and influence positive behaviours. You’ll discover insights on whether activity-based office space design is effective, why one size fits no one when it comes to space design, how to interrupt traditional views of what the office should be like, and how to ask the right questions before redesigning your office space, an...2022-06-2243 minThe Office ChroniclesSpecial Episode: LEGO Workplace Symposium 2022 (Part 2) - Finding a Strong Purpose to Return to The Office, No It’s Not “Culture”Be a fly on the wall in two hot topic discussions that took place in the LEGO Workplace Symposium: What is the purpose of the workplace? Hybrid headaches over the past year You’ll listen in on groups of executives from many large companies like Microsoft, Netflix, Unilever, Spotify, Ikea, and Booking.com discuss a range of topics about finding a compelling purpose for returning to the office and how to minimize the speedbumps that come with hybrid work. A recurrent theme within the discussions is that hybrid work and returning to the office is forcin...2022-06-1644 min
The Workplace LeaderSpecial #1 on the LEGO workplace symposiumKursty Groves and Sabine recap on what happened during the LEGO workplace symposium where the LEGO Ways of Working team welcomed colleagues from adidas, Booking.com, Ericsson, EY, Google, IKEA, L'Oréal, Mars, Microsoft, Netflix, Nordea, Spotify, and Unilever to their newly opened Campus in Billund, Denmark to talk about the future of the workplace through a post-Covid19 lens.2022-06-0924 minThe Office ChroniclesSpecial Episode: Recap of the LEGO Workplace Symposium 2022 (Part 1) - How Do Work and Play Merge In A Conference?In the first part of this three-part special, Kursty and Sabine recap their experience at the LEGO Workplace Symposium in Billund, Denmark. The symposium focused on key issues in workplace design and experience. It was organized by the Ways of Working team and was attended by several corporate giants including Microsoft, Netflix, Unilever, Spotify, Ikea, and Booking.com.Kursty and Sabine share what it was like to visit LEGO’s brand new campus for the first time, how the symposium was structured, and the different topics that were brought up for discussion. They even share unusual informal ev...2022-06-0923 minThe Office ChroniclesHow Remote Work Creates Richer In-Person Interactions with Scott Witthoft (Space Matters, ep.6)Scott Witthoft joins Kursty to discuss how we are becoming more intentional with how we use and divide physical and digital spaces. They explore many thought-provoking questions like: why do some things work in some places and not work in others? Are in-person meetings and activities catalysts for progress? And why are some office spaces abandoned?Scott and Kursty explore how the pandemic helped us refine our improvisational skills; we've effectively become designers who create experiences between physical and digital spaces and now have to be more intentional about how we show up digitally versus physically and...2022-05-2552 minThe Office ChroniclesThe Mindset Companies Need to Make Remote Work, Work with Jason Fried (Space Matters, ep. 5)Jason Fried joins Kursty to share wisdom on how he runs a fully remote company by simplifying things and focusing on what matters. They explore where deep work happens, how to create space for it, why rigid workplace rules can kill passion and create distractions, and why companies that want to run remotely need to adopt a new mindset. Jason Fried is the co-founder of Basecamp and has been running the company for 23 years. He is a monthly columnist at Inc. Magazine and has authored several books, including Rework and Remote: Office Not Required.“A lot...2022-05-1148 minThe Office ChroniclesSpotting Trends That Will Shape The Way We Live and Work with Li Edelkoort (Space Matters, ep.4)Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort joins Kursty to discuss the anatomy of trends, the ecology of fashion, and the post-pandemic workplace. Reflecting on the state of the world, Li discusses how to redesign the modern workplace to respond to new and upcoming trends. She explores how the pandemic has made us more in tune with nature and the good things that have come of it. Throughout the discussion, Li shares nuggets of wisdom, showing us how trends that haven’t yet reached the main stage are currently being formed.Li Edelkoort is a globally renowned trend forecaster and ac...2022-04-2744 minThe Office ChroniclesKursty featured on Workplace Geeks podcastInterview with Ian Ellison and Chris Moriarty, two brilliant workplace thinkers 'on a mission to find and celebrate the most exciting and inspiring workplace research in the world'. A fascinating geek-out into Kursty's second book, Spaces for Innovation, which dives into the science and design of inspiring environments that support creativity and collaboration.Some of the topics covered include:📖 How the book itself is designed with the user in mind💡 The core themes for defining spaces that support creativity and innovation📏 Metrics, how they need to accommodate new ways of workin...2022-04-1351 minThe Office ChroniclesCreating Spaces of Trust To Enable Immersion At Work with Rachel Botsman (Space Matters, ep.3)Summary Expert author Rachel Botsman joins Kursty to discuss the relationship between trust and space. They talk about how significant it is for organisations to empower individuals to have a rhythm of work that sends them into immersion mode, why getting through to-do lists shouldn’t be the most prized priority in the workplace, and what negative capability is. Rachel Botsman is the author of Who Can You Trust and the host of the Rethink Podcast. Throughout her career, she has delivered 3 TED talks and written 2 critically acclaimed books. She has been appointed as t...2022-04-0646 minThe Office ChroniclesThe Time and Space Complications of Hybrid Work with Neil Usher (Space Matters, ep.2)Summary Workplace strategist Neil Usher joins Kursty to discuss the nuances of navigating hybrid work, brain states that trigger creativity, and the research opportunities we missed in the pre-pandemic world. In their conversation, they accentuate that what makes hybrid working complicated is not just the space aspect but the time aspect as well. They chat about self-imposing discipline, internally inspiring creativity, and managing time and space when you work from home. Neil Usher is the Chief Workplace & Change Strategist at GoSpace AI. He has 20+ years of experience managing property portfolios and large-scale organizational cha...2022-03-2345 minThe Office ChroniclesWhere is The Nowhere Office? With Julia Hobsbawm (Space Matters, ep.1)Summary Best-selling author Julia Hobsbawm joins Kursty to discuss her new book The Nowhere Office. In their discussion, they discuss how workplaces need to shift to embrace social health, how they can be a source of wellness, what managers need to do to overcome the 'Great Resignation', and the biggest powershift in the workplace. Since Covid, people have strongly insisted on genuine work-life balance. Organizations that aren’t understanding this desire are losing out to the great resignation. Those that do understand this fundamental mindset shift are now in the process of becoming fore...2022-03-0937 minThe Office ChroniclesNEW MINI-SERIES: Space Matters IntroductionAdding to the inspiring leaders in well-known organizations who share what they're doing and how they're implementing new ways of working, including hybrid, we'll look beyond physical space. We'll explore my hypothesis is that there are three further types of space that impact how we think, feel, behave and interact in order to do our best work: digital space, social space and cognitive space.Embarking on a year-long journey of exploration, Kursty will be speaking with experts from the worlds of psychology. Neuroscience, organizational development, tech, architecture, and design to understand whether and how space ma...2022-02-2403 min
Workplace GeeksEnabling creative communities | with Kursty Groves📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓Chris and Ian get their first piece of mail :D then talk to adjunct professor, author, and workplace strategy consultant Kursty Groves about her book, ‘Spaces for Innovation: The Design and Science of Inspiring Environments’ (co-authored with Oliver Marlow). The conversation explores the book’s design, motivations, then selected coworking case study, interview and workplace theory content. Sadly James is on holiday this week so no Pinder Ponder :( but there are still plenty of insights to discuss.2022-02-2357 minThe Office ChroniclesKursty featured on The Workplace Leader podcastInterview with Sabine Ehm of Locatee, and host of The Workplace Leader.We dig into what makes inspiring work environments and touch upon some of the misconceptions around creativity and collaboration:❗Collaboration does not equal everybody together all the time. ❗Creativity does not equal bright colours and post its everywhere. A thing will not make you or your people creative. So, for instance you cannot install a foosball table and then expect creativity to happen. It is much more important to understand the fundamental human elements that support creativity like ☀️ n...2022-02-1640 min
The Workplace LeaderKursty Groves on work environments that inspireKursty Groves is a Workplace Strategist, Innovation Consultant, Author and Podcaster.
We talk about her findings in “The Office Chronicles” podcast, her experiences as a space coach and go into what elements contribute to innovation and creativity.
2022-01-1442 minThe Office ChroniclesHow COVID-19 Launched a Constantly Changing Future of Work with Sudhir Saseedharan, Tetra PakSummary Workplace experience expert Sudhir Saseedharan joins Kursty to discuss the opportunities the pandemic has presented in terms of reshaping work and the workplace. They talk about the four main pillars of the Tetra Pak workplace experience framework, why policies and frameworks should never be set in stone, and the realities of rolling out a framework globally. While you might not have heard of Tetra Pak, you might have used it. Tetra Pak is a packaging company servicing 170 countries. It employs over 25,000 people. Sudhir Saseedharan is the Director of Workplace Experience and Fu...2021-11-3030 minThe Office ChroniclesWhat Hybrid Work Looks Like In Real Life - The LEGO Workplace ExperienceSummary Timothy Ahrensbach and Anne Sofie Fedders from LEGO join Kursty to share insights from the hybrid work model they are currently implementing. Since the pandemic, the future of work has been one big experiment. The perspective we’ve held about work from home and hybrid work life has changed month by month since the beginning of COVID-19 lockdowns. Tune in to listen to Tim and Anne Sofie’s insights about how they created principles and guidelines to facilitate an effective and happy hybrid working environment. They discuss what it’s like to build co...2021-11-0941 minThe Office ChroniclesHow reducing office space can improve collaboration with Sue Glew (BT)Summary Sue Glew joins Kursty to discuss how she’s changing the work environment affecting 52,000 people with a 200 person team after realizing that BT has too many offices. They talk about how the physical workplace environment can influence productivity, why there shouldn’t be a standard way to implement hybrid working, and how BT adapted to COVID-19. Sue Glew is the head of the Better Workplace program at BT. She specializes in change management and HR transformations. “Someone once said to me: do any kind of change ever, but don’t mess with...2021-10-1432 minThe Office ChroniclesHow This Company Doubled Their Staff In The Pandemic with Tom Box, Blue Zoo Animation StudioSummary Managing Director of Blue Zoo Animation Studio Tom Box joins Kursty to discuss how they almost doubled their staff during the pandemic. They talk about how to successfully set up a hybrid working environment, how to ensure you are actually true to your corporate values, and what doesn’t work well when going fully remote. Tom Box is the co-founder of Blue Zoo Animation Studio as well as AnimDojo. Blue Zoo animation started when a few friends at university decided to start an animation studio from their bedrooms. Today, Blue Zoo has been...2021-09-2450 minThe Office ChroniclesWhy the One-Size-Fits-All Workplace is Dead with Rob Fretwell, AirbusAfter almost two years of working from home, companies are unsure about what to do with their office space - but Airbus has a plan. Rob Fretwell, Head of Space Management UK for Airbus, joins Kursty to discuss the Airbus Workplace of the Future initiative to tell-all on what they are doing to transform the office space by incorporating agile and tailored ways of working. The workplace tries to be one-size-fits-all, but Airbus knows this will no longer fly. The pandemic has made that all too clear. Tune in to learn how Airbus is using wh...2021-08-1833 min
Talent Management conversations for future HR Leaders by Let‘s Talk TalentNavigating hybrid working and how we can reinvent the world of work - Let’s Talk Talent Podcast Episode 6Jo (MD of Let's Talk Talent) welcomes Kursty Groves to discuss the impact of hybrid working.
We discuss in this episode:
Everyone has had a different experience of lockdown - how can you deal with it?
How can teams work with some people in the office, and some at home without creating a two tier culture?
2021-06-1128 min
Work Life by DesignShaping Work Lives with Kursty GrovesAs Australians we have been relatively insulated from the impact of COVID unlike the rest of the world, so as part of this season and understand the future of work, I was keen to understand what “work life” looks like on the other side of the globe. In today’s episode I chat with Kursty Groves a workplace strategist and innovation consultant based in the UK. Kursty helps workplace leaders reinvent the future of work and spaces that support connected cultures. With a background in innovation consulting, capability development and design, Kursty’s approach to workplace is grounded i...2021-05-1145 minThe Office ChroniclesWhy There Should Be More Play In The Workplace with Tim Ahrensbach, LEGOHead of Workplace Experience at LEGO Tim Ahrensbach joins Kursty to discuss how play can revolutionise the workplace. It is his job to make sure LEGO’s offices are as fun and as awesome as their LEGO sets and throughout the episode, he talks about how he does that. Tune in to learn: The six layers of workplace experience; What it means to play at work;Why being a fully remote workplace might stifle creativity.“The aha moment for us was realising what our colleagues were missing was play” - Tim Ahr...2021-03-1742 minThe Office ChroniclesShould You Trust Your Staff At Work? With Graham Marshall, ShellGraham Marshall, Head of Organization Development at Shell, joins Kursty to discuss autonomy in the workplace. Tune in to learn: How employment can be a force of good in the world (not just financially); The worst thing about working from home during the pandemic;Why the demise of the office is completely untrue. Graham also describes how they developed leaders as role-models during a big HQ refurbishment and how they used the move to leverage engagement and introduce new behaviours.Recording took place towards the end of 2020. Apologies - the sound qualit...2021-01-1237 min