How does Working Spaces consistently lead the way in innovative office furniture and design? The power is in our people!
In this Working Spaces blog, we’ll reveal how creating a positive employee experience is our secret to success as the office design innovation leader. Working Spaces employees share how being part of a positive and supportive corporate culture translates into groundbreaking innovations for our clients.
How Working Spaces Creates a Positive Employee Experience
We start with our culture, which embodies what we do and who we are—from junior employees to our executive leadership team.
“We create, we inspire, we listen,” says Sydney Schroth, Project Manager. “And the culture is the exact same. It’s embodied in our leadership and that trickles down from the top to everyone else. My leader Vicki is such a supportive manager, and I don’t think I’ve ever worked in a place that I have felt so supported and valued as a team member.”
Vicki is Vicki McGuire, Vice President of Client Experience, who considers herself “so fortunate to lead the team of project managers and project coordinators.” From her VP perspective, she can see “culture truly being cultivated in a positive manner” across all of Working Spaces, “from the top down.”
Positive employee experiences and culture don’t just magically come together. Our employees share their key ingredients that make the Working Spaces culture:
Trust and Honesty: “I think the positivity of Working Spaces really stems from one of our core values, which is having integrity and trust with one another. I have a positive attitude at Working Spaces because I know that I can be honest with anybody I work with. And there’s no reservation on that. So, knowing that I can be honest with my own team causes me to be honest with the client.” – David Votaw, Project Manager
Family Focused: “It’s very much a family-style environment. Working at a company like that energizes you, gets you out of bed a little easier. You’re excited to get to work, to work with your colleagues…I know about my team’s family, their vacations, birthdays. It’s a family style because we talk about personal things too.” – Travis Harter, Market Leader Nashville
Mentorship: “As new employees start, we’re able to pair them up with someone who has been at the company for a long time. And they immediately have that mentor, that person who is going to help guide them through the beginning stages of their time at Working Spaces, really setting them up for success and making them feel like they are a part of Working Spaces from the beginning.” – Vicki McGuire, Vice President of Client Experience
Teamwork: “The culture for me is very much a team mindset and a team effort. It’s one of the only places I’ve worked that if someone’s got a lot on their plate, people are willing to reach out and say, ‘Hey, how can I help? How can we make this more manageable or how can we work together to get the project done on time and on budget for the client?’ And I think that’s what makes us so successful.” – Rachel Molnar, Senior Designer
Building a Culture of Innovation
A positive culture in which employees are trusted, mentored, treated like family, and supported by their teams creates a space where innovation can thrive.
Here’s how Working Spaces is building a culture of innovation, as seen through the eyes of our employees:
High-Performing Teams and Processes: “We have tools in place for our employees to perform at the highest level. They can have resources available with autonomy to get the job done in the way that they best see fit for the client experience. All of our decisions are made for that, and that allows each team member to use their strengths to work in their own way and to build relationships with our clients that truly are rewarding for them and the client.” – Vicki McGuire, Vice President of Client Experience
Constant Improvement: “We’re always adapting, always bettering our process, always incorporating new things to make our experience that much better for our client. Last year [we] introduced a furniture budgeting tool, which I think is revolutionary in our industry and what we can provide to our clients, so that they can actually get hard budgets whenever they’re just flirting with the idea of getting new furniture.” – Sydney Schroth, Project Manager
Embracing the Future: “We always want to stay on the cutting edge of technology, of anything that we can do to improve. What’s exciting about the future is that we’ve embraced the fact that change is inevitable. We embrace it full throttle and that’s just really exciting to know that because while other people might get left in the past and left in the dark, we’re not going to get passed up. We’re gonna be right on the front and on the cusp of anything coming our way.” – David Votaw, Project Manager
Collaboration: “What makes us so successful is that everyone is giving all of their opinions and all of those different ideas and opinions are what is coming together to create the best solution…We’re all doing our best and all putting in our best ideas and our best effort to make our client spaces the best they can be.” – Rachel Molnar, Senior Designer
The Impact of Happy Employees
From our positive and passionate employees come the innovative spaces that go above even the highest of client expectations. In short, happy employees make happy clients!
At Working Spaces, that passion and positive energy goes into every space we create—and you’ll feel it as soon as you walk into your reimagined space.
Contact us today to see how we can transform your workspace into a positive and inspiring environment for your employees.