Continuing Education

Affordances are the characteristics of a space that encourage certain behaviors. This course presents the physical, emotional and cognitive affordances that every worker must have to do their work and the role of the workplace in providing them.

To best navigate the roads of communication and meetings in an ever-diversifying workplace, this course aims to help learners understand their personal leadership brand. This leadership brand is defined by each individuals’ strengths and the value that they add to a team and organization.

Learn how this change management and communication approach focuses on helping employees embrace, adopt, and utilize a change management plan to transition day-to-day work and improve the financial success of the program.

Learn how to design for the new workplace by abandoning old building models, understanding current company culture and removing barriers that prevent the desired culture from emerging.

This course reveals the importance of understanding how mental models, our right/left brain tendencies and our culturally tainted upbringing affect our perceptions and perspectives.

While people are the number one asset of organizations directly contributing to the bottom line, their performance is often hindered by poorly designed workplaces where distractions abound, and collaboration is emphasized over focus work. We will embark on a journey to briefly explore the “anatomy” of focus work with interesting factoids regarding attention, distraction, “flow” and situational awareness, also addressing the myth of multitasking. We will discuss why focus work is important, even for collaboration, and how designers should take a holistic approach with five key design elements to address both, creating high-performance workplaces where people can thrive.

Employers need open and interactive space to encourage collaboration, and such spaces can introduce distractions. Distractions, however, sabotage focus, and focus work is a necessary part of collaborative efforts. How can we solve this conflict? Approach workplace design so that it encourages both collaboration and focus work within a variety of options for optimal worker performance.

Learn more about the Healthy Hospital Initiative (HHI), an invitation for healthcare organizations across the country to join the shift to a more sustainable business model, and a challenge for them to address the health and environmental impacts of their industry

Two very different behaviors optimize the creative thinking for innovation to occur: high-focus work and restorative activities. We need to experience these on our own as well as with others. Explore the growing evidence that supports this, and how space design can cultivate the creativity needed to innovate.

Engage in activity that defines 4 culture types, helps determine your own culture and how the knowledge of these culture types can assist in communication and design.

This course will review the principles of acoustics as a science, how to use key design tools for office interiors, and will describe the key factors which define the user experience of speech privacy.

Learn to support the diversity of how people work and how your facility can support workers’ needs.

Wood is a natural product that combines unique variations and characteristics.

This course will focus on the changing role of work and its effects on the workplace.

This presentation explores the design and business benefits of modular interior construction.

The goal of this course is to introduce the seven pillars of the new WELL Building Standard and help gain an understanding of incorporating these standards into the workplace.