Change Your Space, Change Your Culture: How Engaging Workspaces Lead to Transformation and Growth

Foreword

Human capital is every organization's greatest asset in today's knowledge economy. How we inspire, encourage, and motivate our people can make the difference between success and failure in a quickly changing and forward-thinking world. As business leaders, we are increasingly asking our people to think big, to be creative and innovative. All too often we are asking them to do this in workspaces that don't support that mindset. Change Your Space sets the stage for our collective evolution in better supporting our people with the environments they need to operate, and thrive, in today's business landscape.

At Balfour Beatty, we build vital structures for our clients. To do this successfully, we must have a thorough understanding of their broader business goals. They see us as not just builders but as relentless allies for their business. As a result, our clients have often come to us to have conversations about extracting more value out of their real estate portfolios. In recent years, however, we have seen our most innovation-focused, strategic clients evolving the dialogue to focus on unlocking the capabilities of their people.

Unlocking that potential requires a new process and a new way of thinking, because creating an engaging workplace requires an engaging process where owners tap the talent working within their organizations as much as they do the talent of the project teams building their new workspaces.

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