How much is Your Workspace Affecting Your Performance?
Most people can improve their effectiveness and job satisfaction by at least 20% through making simple changes in their intimate working environment. In this fast moving, interactive presentation, using props, moving furniture and slides, we demonstrate how their choices are influencing their performance, and how some simple decisions can help them create the person they want to be. To contact us about a presentioncall: 707-235-2648 office or email us. You can also use the form below.We primarily do presentations in the San Francisco Bay area and the West Coast.
Work place arrangements support who we were, not who we want to be.
The Quiz
1)Where are your family photos in your workspace? 2) What kind of lighting do you use? 3) How are you positioned in relation to the door? 4) How physically comfortable is your desk? 5) How do you see & interact with your Team? 6) Does what you see inspire your work? 7) What cardinal direction do you face?
The audience follows along by filling out their multiple choice Quiz, which evaluates their choices, and then recommends action steps, and a description of their projected benefits. Experience has shown that if a person can implement at least three of these simple changes within thirty days they will quickly perform at a substantially better level.
This approach is based on research in Ergonomics, Kinesiology, Color Theory, Bau Biology and Business Practices. It is a fun, action packed, interactive, multi-media workshop that engages the audience on several levels and leaves them with tools in their hands to apply this knowledge in their current and future work places.
Drs. Ralph & Lahni de Amicis are designers, consultants and Naturopathic Physicians. They’ve lectured internationally on environmental design and its influence on performance and well being since 1995. They are the authors of over twenty books including four books on environmental design, including the very entertaining and insightful, upcoming new The Amicis Ergonomic Work Space Quiz, Leadership through Furniture Moving.
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Today's Design Blog
The Importance of Signs
Before the advent of the free address, anonymous office whenever you arrived in a work space there were signs on the doors and desks that said things like, ‘Director of Something or Other’.When you walked inside an executive’s office the person’s name plaque was on their desk. The ‘director’ sign stayed with the room while the personal sign traveled with the worker from post to post.
Signs are important, a sign on your work room door makes you stand a little straighter and think in a business-like way every time you see it, even if you work in a home office with no co-workers around. In the home office it stakes out your working territory and sends the message that behind that sign you are at work; when they disturb you it’s costing somebody money. Signs remind everyone, including you of your place in the organization and your responsibilities.
This system of signs was developed way before lap tops, thumb drives and web-based back up information storage, so you might think they are obsolete, but that’s your head talking. Even if you communicate with your team via group emails your body wants clearly marked signs to navigate your work space because it helps you feel secure within the team hierarchy. When people feel they belong and are supported by their group they perform better; signs do that and having a biography and photo on the company website doesn’t carry that kind of emotional oomph.
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There is power in the way we shape our workplace when we do that with a clear purpose. It is a tool that every leader needs to use. The old office design rules that were developed when workers were tied to a location for an entire career have been blown apart by dramatic changes in office technology. Today's information management systems allow people to change workplaces with greater frequency; it's a lot easier to move a laptop than a half ton of filing cabinets. Workers need to create or adapt new work environments often, and few know how to do that in a way that maximizes their talents.
This skill gap results in increased stress, wasted time, fuzzy focus, indifferent cooperation, poor skill development, lack of commitment, insipid morale, employee fraud, increased sick time and the inability to retain quality personnel! How many of these problems have crept into the corners of today's organizations? We do a high energy, multi-media presentation that unfolds across the stage in a series of practical demonstrations.
Using desk and chairs, door and windows, and an array of common office tools, we cover the ABC's for making offices function at a higher level of effectiveness. The presentation is filled with movement, interaction, props and slides that engage the audience and hold their attention. They come away with a check list ready to make personal improvements.
Questions that the presentation answers:
What helps the team get up to speed faster? What creates a smoothly functioning organization? Which desk positions enhance communication and cooperation? How do you get people to listen to you? How to reduce debilitating stress while increasing personal performance? How imbue the team with the company mission? How to make these changes easily? How does positioning affect ethical behavior?
Highly Motivated Design in the Officesmoothes out the work process by using the environment as a motivational tool. Call us to schedule your presentation and let us show your team how easy it is to reap the benefits that these techniques offer your organization. Philosophy: This approach is based on a unique and eclectic mix of ergonomics, anatomy, physiology and kinesiology. It has been refined through studies, testing and experience in thousands of work places. Ralph and Lahni de Amicis are professional speakers who, since the early 1990's, have presented thousands of speeches on the variety of subjects covered by their numerous published books on design, health, business and travel. To book a presentation please call then at 707-235-2648or email (keeping in mind the iffy nature of email) today.When you book your presentation ask us about our wonderful tours of the Napa and Sonoma Wine Country through Amicis Winery Tours for your executive staff and as incentive programs. Speakers Bio: Drs. Ralph & Lahni de Amicis are authors, professional speakers and consultants who specialize in environmental design and health. Besides conducting hundreds of public seminars, they have lectured extensively at international conferences. They are authors of thousands of articles, ten plus books and many successful audio programs.
They were the directors for seven years of one of America's most innovative Environmental design programs based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their current offices are in SonomaCalifornia. Their area of focus has always been on the art and science of improving the well being and effectiveness of individuals and teams through home and workplace design, nutrition and business skills. They appear frequently on television and radio. Call us at 707-235-2648 or email us. www.SpaceAndTime.com
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