Why Paddock Offices is your ideal networking space

The old saying ‘no person is an island’ is also true for businesses. By working together with complementary organisations, your business, as well as your collaborator, will benefit, creating more value than if you tried to go it alone.

It’s also important to realise collaboration won’t just benefit your business externally – it will also improve how your employees work together internally and how they find solutions to thorny problems.

Collaboration will also help with innovation and provide a mechanism for you to create products and services which will surprise and delight your customers. And a customer who feels like they’re being listened to is a customer who will become more than just someone buying from you – they’ll become an advocate, telling their family and friends about how great your company is.

The question is, how can you start collaborating and working together with like-minded people?

Mindset and environment

Collaboration and networking all comes down to mindset and environment. Collaboration means establishing a way of thinking open to new ideas and new ways of doing things. If you’re in the maternity wear business, for example, it might make sense to collaborate with a company selling baby supplies. After all, you’re in a complementary market space, and working together on promotions and social media, with cross posts and competitions, makes a lot of sense to create more value than just going it alone.

Working together is also a way for businesses to innovate because it creates dialogue between organisations and employees. And being open to hearing new ideas, whether they’re from an employee or a collaborator, forges a pathway for people to think of new ways of doing things and enhancing their products and services.

Meeting Rooms designed to inspire collaboration

Environment is also a key part of collaboration. A recent study found globally, 16 per cent of companies are fully remote, and around 62 per cent of workers aged between 22 and 65 say they work remotely at least from time to time.

Closer to home, 34 per cent of workers are hybrid, according to one report, while another study found two out of three workers are prepared to forgo a pay rise just to have a hybrid working arrangement.

Working solo is great for putting your head down and concentrating, but there’s a lot to be said for coming together with colleagues and collaborators to brainstorm and even just to strengthen human connection. In fact, a recent study found one of the top reasons remote or hybrid workers leave their job is because they feel disconnected.

In addition to this finding, the study also discovered 90 per cent of executives say culture and connection is lacking in their remote team members, and 70 per cent of workers don’t feel like they can socialise enough when working remotely.

With luxurious-working spaces on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, and Edgecliff and Parramatta, in Sydney, we provide settings that foster connections and collaborations.

Paddock Offices, Melbourne offers state-of-the-art facilities, plenty of space and natural light and expansive St Kilda Road views.

Light filled collaboration space is in abundance at Paddock Offices Melbourne

From ordinary catch-ups to workshops, seminars, or networking events, our spaces are designed to cultivate an environment where relationships flourish.