Creating inspired work spaces with people, performance and purpose in mind.
Sam Buckby
Author Hannah Trotter
Sam Buckby is a tradie who has been in the construction industry over 20 years. In the last few years, he developed a design and consultancy firm. Passionate about space, Sam is adamant that we can make our work spaces better.
Sam’s podcast ‘Spaces’ interviews humans who have successfully designed beautiful spaces and below he shares a few snippets he has learned from his guests.
Design Areas For Performance, Not To Produce.
“Time invested does not equal output achieved. Forget productivity, think performance. Time away from the desk is not a bad thing”.
We want work spaces that inspire creativity and high performance.
Thinking outside the box is more than just a metaphor. It’s not about speaking outside the box, we need to get ourselves out of the box. Square rooms, white walls encourage institutionalised thinking.
Sam went on to say that if you think your office is about impressing your clients, you’ve missed the point. The most important asset in our businesses’ are our people – our staff. We need to set up our environments base don our people and what we stand for. This way, we can inspire our staff and that will bring the clients in.
Creating Healthier Homes & Work Spaces
“One third of illness comes from our environment. In many cases, we have control of this. If we don’t have our health, what do we have?”
We need to be aware of the environments we are creating. Consider air flow, natural light, our spaces should encourage health and our staff should feel well being there.
“Work spaces that harm your health are unacceptable. Something as simple as bad lighting can damage your sleep patterns at night” and decrease your ability to work well the next day.
Wellness Standards and Creating Environments to Thrive
“Social connection is proved to help with creativity, innovation and collaboration.”
Sam’s guest Heidi encouraged us to have collaborative spaces central to our office and to push the quiet spaces out.
Create break out spaces that your staff enjoy and want to be in then create a culture around it.
Scent, Sound, Colour and Light in the Work Place
When setting up her Family Law firm, Clarissa Rayward deliberately set up in a house to make people feel warm and welcome. This has the wonderful by product of people walking in and knowing whether her firm was for them or not.
Clarissa modeled a space to create energy through scent and sound. “Busy energy creates meaningless chaos, whereas calm energy is high performance”.
Small changes make huge differences. The space we create determines the how well we provide our service and attitude in providing it.
Smart Design Living Buildings and Taking Influence From Nature
“Describe a flower, it’s grounded, it’s 100% naturally fueled, it has no waste or toxicity, it’s beautiful. A building can be all of these things.”
Guest Stephen Choi encourages us to be inspired by nature and the world around us. We can do this through foliage, architecture, and colours.
It’s not something we can necessarily achieve over night but as Stephen says “everything in the world that is good takes time. Doesn’t ever expect perfection on inception”.
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Hi there! I’m Hannah and I am a law student currently in my third year at Queensland University of Technology. I graduated high-school in 2014 completely clueless about who I was, what I wanted and how I intended to get there. To many people’s surprise (including my own) I moved from my family farm on the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane to start my law degree in 2016.
Following my first year I commenced work as the Receptionist at Brisbane Family Law Centre. Having worked with this amazing team for nearly 4 years, I have been given a learning opportunity that goes beyond lectures and tutorials by providing a practical experience of the world of Law. My experience as part of the BFLC team has taught me that a Law career does not have to fit into a traditional box which has ignited a new passion for my studies as well as my future career in the legal profession.
In the meantime, I’ll stick to writing musicals, drinking coffee and playing board games.