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 change. He is the author of the two books The Elemental Workplace: The 12 Elements for Creating a Fantastic Workplace for Everyone and Elemental Change: Making stuff happen when nothing stands still.
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Timestamps
[00:41] Who is Neil Usher from Go Space AI? (and highlights from the conversation with Neil)
[05:36] Why Neil wrote his two books Elemental Workplace and Elemental Change.
[08:54] Why coordinating time is more challenging than coordinating space in the hybrid working world.
[15:45] Is there more value to working alone or working together?
[25:00] How has the pandemic changed the 12 elements of the workplace?
[28:52] The value of your unpublished work (don’t throw it away)
[32:32] How to leverage your two brain states (beta state and theta state)
[39:18] Self imposing discipline when you work from home
[43:24] How to connect with Neil Usher.
3 Key Takeaways
Links
The Elemental Workplace: 12 Elements for Creating a Fantastic Workplace for All
Elemental Change: Making stuff happen when nothing stands still
Connect with Neil Usher: LinkedIn | Twitter
Connect with Kursty Groves: LinkedIn | Twitter | Ask a question or pitch an idea: kursty@shapeworklife.com
Follow The Office Chronicles Linkedin page for more information, to share an idea for an episode or start a conversation around any f the topics covered in the show.
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 change. He is the author of the two books The Elemental Workplace: The 12 Elements for Creating a Fantastic Workplace for Everyone and Elemental Change: Making stuff happen when nothing stands still.
Support the show
Timestamps
[00:41] Who is Neil Usher from Go Space AI? (and highlights from the conversation with Neil)
[05:36] Why Neil wrote his two books Elemental Workplace and Elemental Change.
[08:54] Why coordinating time is more challenging than coordinating space in the hybrid working world.
[15:45] Is there more value to working alone or working together?
[25:00] How has the pandemic changed the 12 elements of the workplace?
[28:52] The value of your unpublished work (don’t throw it away)
[32:32] How to leverage your two brain states (beta state and theta state)
[39:18] Self imposing discipline when you work from home
[43:24] How to connect with Neil Usher.
3 Key Takeaways
Links
The Elemental Workplace: 12 Elements for Creating a Fantastic Workplace for All
Elemental Change: Making stuff happen when nothing stands still
Connect with Neil Usher: LinkedIn | Twitter
Connect with Kursty Groves: LinkedIn | Twitter | Ask a question or pitch an idea: kursty@shapeworklife.com
Follow The Office Chronicles Linkedin page for more information, to share an idea for an episode or start a conversation around any f the topics covered in the show.