About: robyn.baxter
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Robyn is a Vice President with HOK Strategic Accounts + Consulting group in Canada. She helps clients through workplace change, with a strong conviction that engagement is the solution for most of the worlds problems. Robyn's work has taken her across Europe, Africa, South America..and of course the home continent - which suits her just fine, as experiencing different people and cultures is a personal passion. Robyn is a frequent speaker at industry events, and rarely turns down an opportunity to meet new people and hear what they have to say.
Robyn resides in Calgary with her 3 teenagers, who already share her passion for travel.
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Change. Transformation. Evolution. Integration. Adaptation. Performance.
The sands are shifting. Every client we work with has something going on in their organization that will change their future landscape/workscape. New IT systems, tools, changing processes, organizational structures and performance measures are all constantly in play – sometimes a symphony…sometimes more jazz free style.
Strangely, when you add workplace change to that ensemble, things can get really messy. The physical, visible manifestations of the past/present – that often represent personal and individual sense of stability in the chaos – can send otherwise sensible and professional people into panic.
A dear friend of mine (Dave Lathrop at Steelcase) can be quoted as saying “workplace change boils every dysfunction of the organization to the surface” (I’ve attached an article from him). I believe he is right. With everything else in flux, it would seem that the sacred cow is workplace.
I think that there is a huge opportunity to make workplace the thing that ties everything together…rather than the final straw the breaks things apart. The challenge is approaching workplace change as an integrator, which means approaching the entire design process in a new way. Developing workplace strategies that anticipate an uncertain future requires a unique thought process.
“Insanity is doing things the same way and expecting a different outcome”
Let’s stop the insanity. Let’s really look at workplace as the powerful change integrator it has the potential to be. Can we make it an enabler of new process…and more importantly new attitudes and behavior? Can we make it be [...]
