“Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford
Belongingness is a great motivator for human beings in all spheres of life. For full-time working professionals, offices may be akin to second homes where they interact, ideate, collaborate, and grow with each other. An office space must encourage employees to connect and work in tandem with one another, take up challenges, and deliver their true potential. Sense of belonging in a workplace is thus crucial to employee engagement and contribution to a company’s success.
However, engagement cannot be achieved by merely shuffling seating arrangements or mandating team huddles. An organization’s workplace must enable a comfortable environment for social exchange — both formal and informal. At the same time, leaders must aim to increase productive interactions and decrease ineffective ones.
At Max Estates, we understand that successful collaborations are led by strong employee bonds, and we provide our clients with an array of facilities, amenities, and activities to boost these relationships. Our iconic development Max Towers is a stalwart supporter of employee exchanges that businesses seek for their growth. Read on to know how Max Towers can help you boost collaboration:
(Networking event at Max Towers)
A place to learn and grow
In the competitive business landscape, where new processes, technologies, ideas, and innovations emerge frequently, it is of utmost importance that organizations aid their employees to remain conversant. When meaningful learning, training, and upskilling becomes a continuous process in organizations, the benefits are not limited to attaining short term goals alone. New-age professionals prefer companies that offer a robust learning environment. In fact, the latest SHRM research found that 76% employees were likely to stay with an organization that offers continuous training.
(Pulse event at Max Towers)
At Max Towers, we empower our tenants with spaces that facilitate training and development so their employees can gain indispensable knowledge in a familiar space. The development houses a state-of-the-art auditorium with 24×7 power backup, integrated stage lighting, acoustic facilities, and an embedded video wall. An adjacent pre-function area called The Cube serves as an additional venue for a multitude of independent uses. Tenants and external users can book both venues for training programs, exhibitions, speaker sessions, seminars, presentations, and workshops.
Spaces to increase focus — individually and collectively
Collaboration is a spark plug for innovation, creativity, and productivity. However, creating collaborative spaces doesn’t imply that areas for individual work must wither as people seek solitude to contemplate and process information. The Gensler’s U.S. Workplace Survey 2022 found that high-performing workplaces can improve the organizational outcomes two-folds as compared to those working out of a low-performing workspace. The office space can accelerate decision-making, quality of work, and team productivity. Through their office spaces, leaders can facilitate the individual and collective productivity of their employees and as a whole expedite the organization’s performance
Max Towers offers an array of multifunctional areas that enable both collaborative and private work. From the food court to multi-cuisine dining areas, and from fitness centers to sports arenas, the common spaces inspire interactions and help tenants develop personal bonds through an array of shared interests. The in-house sports league across various sports also promotes competition, enjoyment and community. All the common workspaces are accessible to all our tenants to pick and choose from.
(Food Court at Max Towers)
The Pulse of work and life
Off-sites and corporate retreats have become a staple for team building in the corporate environment. They are a great alternative to the formal conference room setups, as they offer an opportunity for employees to gain new perspectives beyond the four walls of their offices. For collaborations to be effective, team members must form cohesive bonds, trust each other’s skills and capabilities, and help each other perform better. Team building workshops and events outside the formal environment help facilitate that and act as a welcome change from day-to-day routine.
(Team building event at Max Towers)
However, leaders often end up investing a lot of time and effort while narrowing down appropriate venues and planning such activities and events. Max Towers is furnished with several community areas so that organizations can easily organize team-building events within the premises. Occupants of Max Towers not only have spaces to host off-site reminiscent experiences on-site, but they also get to interact with a larger community of like-minded people.
With Pulse ,Max Towers deploys a monthly calendar of activities planned by a dedicated, in-house culture manager with the intention to blend thoughtful community experiences, conveniences, technology, and design elements with superior hospitality to create an environment that integrates work and life. Working on the theme of balancing work and life, Pulse organizes a range of events and activities across various genres, including art and lifestyle events, hobby workshops, wellness programs, and light-hearted interactive sessions and conversations. Scheduled for both weekdays and weekends, Pulse also offers an outlet for professionals to invite their friends and family to their workspace and engage and interact with one another. Spaces like The Hub and The Cube at Max Towers are thoughtfully created to complement Pulse and encourage shared moments of fun while being at the workplace. MT app, a tenant engagement application, acts as a portal for all events & amenities at Max Towers.
(Rabbi Shergill performing at Max Towers)
Organizations must encourage their people to create productive relationships at work that enable them to push one another, perform better, and achieve higher. A survey by Wildgoose concluded that 57% of respondents said having a good friend in the office makes work more enjoyable.
Studies and research over the years have found that collaborative efforts yield the best results when employees are in the right physical and mental space. The amenities at Max Towers are handpicked to help tenants engage effectively in work and non-work environments.
Learn more about how Max Towers helps tenants WorkWell here
