Creating Your Ideal Workspace
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www.careerignitionclub.com www.positionignition.com Position Ignition Ltd All Rights Reserved Creating Your Ideal Workspace When we work in a fantastic physical environment we understand clearly just how important it is to us. It has an impact not just on our working life, but in other aspects of our life as well. Great physical environments provide us with the essentials for a healthy working life. These elements can include the right temperature to work at, excellent lighting (a combination of natural light with artificially produced light), good and healthy food and drink, ergonomically sensitive working spaces and comfortable desks and chairs to work at. In This Worksheet… We encourage you to think harder about your physical environment and to change it if necessary. By completing this worksheet, you will have a clearer idea of the type of physical environment you should seek in your next stage of your career; whether you stay where you are or move organisation. We spend such a lot of time at work. We also spend a lot of our life at home. Just think about how much time, effort, love and attention goes into making our home just as we wish it to be. Why is that? It is where we want to live and how we want to live to the best that we can be. Do we think like that when we are at work ‐ even when we spend such an enormous amount of time? Perhaps we do not feel we have enough power and influence to affect our workplace as we do our home. Perhaps we abdicate that to other people and do not believe in it. We do not feel that we have any right to make an input to all physical environments at work. Follow this four-step process… To explore, understand and ensure that your physical environment has a positive impact on you at work. Until we consider just how important the physical environment is, we do not always understand the impact (often the negative impact) that it is having upon us. The 4 steps in this worksheet are: 1) Describing your optimum physical environment through each of your senses 2) Exploring what would your physical environment look like 3) Identifying how to improve your physical environment 4) Understanding why your physical environment is important to you
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Creating Your Ideal Workspace
When we work in a fantastic physical environment we understand clearly just howimportantitistous.Ithasanimpactnotjustonourworkinglife,butinotheraspectsofourlifeaswell.
Greatphysicalenvironmentsprovideuswiththeessentialsforahealthyworkinglife.Theseelementscanincludetherighttemperaturetoworkat,excellentlighting(acombinationofnaturallightwithartificiallyproducedlight),goodandhealthyfoodanddrink,ergonomicallysensitiveworkingspacesandcomfortabledesksandchairstoworkat.
In This Worksheet…
We encourage you to think harder about your physical environment and to change it ifnecessary.Bycompletingthisworksheet,youwillhaveaclearerideaofthetypeofphysicalenvironmentyoushouldseekinyournextstageofyourcareer;whetheryoustaywhereyouareormoveorganisation.Wespendsuchalotoftimeatwork.Wealsospendalotofourlifeathome.Justthinkabouthowmuchtime,effort, loveandattentiongoes intomakingourhomejustaswewishittobe.Whyisthat?Itiswherewewanttoliveandhowwewanttolivetothebestthatwecanbe.
Do we think like that when we are at work ‐ even when we spend such an enormousamountoftime?Perhapswedonotfeelwehaveenoughpowerandinfluencetoaffectourworkplaceaswedoourhome.Perhapsweabdicatethattootherpeopleanddonotbelieveinit.Wedonotfeelthatwehaveanyrighttomakeaninputtoallphysicalenvironmentsatwork.
Follow this four-step process…
Toexplore,understandandensurethatyourphysicalenvironmenthasapositiveimpactonyouatwork.Untilweconsiderjusthowimportantthephysicalenvironmentis,wedonotalwaysunderstandtheimpact(oftenthenegativeimpact)thatitishavinguponus.
The4stepsinthisworksheetare:
1) Describing your optimum physical environment through each of your senses
2) Exploring what would your physical environment look like
3) Identifying how to improve your physical environment
4) Understanding why your physical environment is important to you
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Step one: Describe your optimum physical environment through each of your 5 senses
Writedownwhatyoufeelwhenyoucomeintoyourworkplace(thiscanbewalkingintothebuildingand/orwalkingtoyourworkstation/office),followedbywhatyousee,think,smellandthentaste.
1. What do you FEEL when you come into your workplace?
2. What do you SEE when you come into your workplace?
3. What do you THINK when you come into your workplace?
4. What do you SMELL when you come into your workplace?
5. What do you TASTE when you come into your workplace?
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Step two: If you were to wave a magic wand, what would your physical environment look like?
Writedownwhat youwould like it to look like, feel like, smell like and taste like to you.Based on your responses to step one, you can start imagining how an ideal physicalenvironmentforyoumightlook
1. What do you want your workplace to LOOK like?
2. What do you want your workplace to FEEL like?
3. What do you want your workplace to SMELL like?
4. What do you want your workplace to TASTE like?
1. What do you want your workplace to LOOK like?
2. What do you want your workplace to FEEL like?
3. What do you want your workplace to SMELL like?
4. What do you want your workplace to TASTE like?
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Someofyourthoughtsmaybeunrealistic(perhapstoocreative!).Someofthemareideasthat you could put into practice ‐ either immediately or in consultation with your workcolleagues.Youcanmovefurniture,things inyourworkspace,hangapictureorposteronthewallorchangeyourwallpaperonyourcomputer….
Step three: What one thing could you do now to improve your physical environment?
It might be something very close to our physical working environment‐like putting freshflowersonourdesk.Itcouldbethatwestartusingthefridgeinthekitchentobringbetter,fresherandhealthierfoodforlunch.
Whilsttheseareacoupleofguidingideas,whatcouldyoudo?Writeyourideasinthespacebelow…
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Step four: Why is the physical environment so important to us?
Thinkof five reasonswhyyourphysicalenvironment is important toyou.Whenyouhavewritteneachreason,writenexttoitthebenefitthatitcanbringyou:
Wehopeyouhavefoundthisworksheethelpfulanduseful.
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