Design for How People
Work
Learn
Create
The nature of work is fundamentally changing. Now is our chance to experiment with ways to make work a site for learning, creativity and fulfilment.
Since 2012, the BetterWork team has coached 200+ startups, trained 1,000s of people on design and partnered with leading organisatons in Africa to make experimentation and self-directed learning the new normal at work.
Design for Behaviour Change
“We need to change the way we work”. We get it, you’ve been told change is hard but it needn’t be this way. Our partners like you are change-agents in their organisations who sense that there’s got to be a better way to work.
Embedded as thinking partners in teams we work through processes and with tools which help teams to define their strategy, live that strategy everyday, accelerate team-work or help teams to realise their investment in learning and development.
We do the work that makes work, work.
Futures Thinking: World of Work
“How will we build the creative skills and ways of working needed for the new world of work?”
The 4th industrial revolution will usher in work that is more human, productive and purposeful. There is widespread acknowledgement that we need to rethink the way people work to unlock the potential for people to be creative, to be self-directed learners and greater contributors to growth and innovation.
Hire us to run the work futures session in which we rapidly explore how your team's roles and ways of working will need to change.
Team Acceleration
“We know there’s got to be a better way to build or improve our products and services but we don’t know how to start, help!”
It can often feel like the challenge of trying to solve complex problems at work is insurmountable. More-so if you feel like your team just can’t seem to collaborate successfully.
We embed in teams and pilot new ways of working in successive evidence-led cycles of experimentation to make work, work.
With our guidance, advice and expertise your team will have the support and process they need to reimagine how they work together.
BetterWork's Approach to Change
Continuous Participatory Change Through Experimentation
Finding strategic paths, experimenting with new ideas and putting learning to work are all forms of organisational change. They require us to go from the way it’s always been done to something new — to change the way we work.
We help teams reinvent the way they work through a practice of on-going and rigorous experimentation.
You can hire us to help your team find a new path to explore, activate strategy in your work or to help you blend learning into the flow of work with our partners the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).
Purpose into Practice
“How will we move beyond profit toward purposeful and meaningful work?”
We’re exploring ways to address the ‘good work gap’ – the difference between our vision of good work and the everyday reality at work.We know that most people want work to be purposeful and productive at work and we’re helping organisations put purpose to work.
We help organisations explore and live up to their purpose every day and have developed The GoodWork lab to combine learning design and doing good together.
Not ready to start on a design challenge?
Book a Talk to explore future of work scenarios with your team.
Latest Projects
Experimenting with purposeful work for a leading financial technology firm.
We joined forces with teams to develop ways to trial purpose in everyday work. We setup experiments to surface enablers and blockers of working purposefully.
Activating Design for Human Capital Managers at Standard Bank
We worked with Standard Bank’s Human Capital team to design and test ways of working which weaved just enough design into every day work to help the team achieve their goal of becoming better business partners and more human-centred leaders.
Supporting ‘Stewards of Change’ at RMB to enable leaders to lead through change
Worked with senior managers to introduce habits which encouraged human-centricity and learning from the work to improve psychological safety and in turn responsiveness to change.
Designing New Ways to Lead for the World’s Largest Mining Company
Working with GIBS (Gordon Institute of Business Science) we have designed a process to embed ways to lead through change in the flow of everyday work in high-impact, participant led sprints.
“Very few times in business, do you get to participate in a process that can change the course of your business. That is exactly what betterwork did for us.”
““There has been a change in my mindset regarding how I can as a leader introduce something new at work in that, I now appreciate that one can start off with small changes and build these up.. I will go forward be more confident in introducing changes at work..””
Tools to Make Teams Great
Download free method card decks which will quickly help
Scale-Up
Card Deck
The better way to scale your business. Use the Scale-Up Toolkit to deliberately design your organisation and employees’ experience in support of continued and sustainable growth.
Employee Experience Design Deck
The purpose of this deck of cards is to give you the ability to redesign the ways in which you and your team experience work.
Free Tools to Make Teams Great
There are so many tasks and daily activities that happen ‘just because they have always been done this way’ and these method cards give you tools and sometimes the agency to change that, to question how you work and why, and to encourage better ways to work together.
Do Good Work
Together
Join forces with our communities to bring your considerable talent into our movement to change the way the world works, for the better and for good.
Join the Good Work
Society
The GoodWork Society (The GWS) is an N.P.O (2018/369655/08) which aims to enrich society by encouraging organisations to adopt more human ways of working and engages people in public lectures, events, research.
Learn Design by
Doing Good
The GoodWork Lab, a South African Social Impact Lab, brings people together from different organisations to collaboratively address the U.N’s Sustainability Goals.
Go beyond “how might we” in the GoodWork Lab with peers from different organisations who want to learn design while applying it to real world challenges.