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Employee Experience Strategy & Workplace Experience Design Training Course

Shows how to map employee journeys and design experiences across the lifecycle, culture, leadership and technology to raise engagement and productivity.

EEX · Employee Engagement & Employee ExperienceAll Levels#2170ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Course Overview

This comprehensive training course provides a strategic and practical framework for designing exceptional employee experiences and creating workplaces that support engagement, productivity, collaboration, and organizational performance. It explores how employee experience can be intentionally designed across the employee lifecycle, workplace environment, organizational culture, leadership practices, technology, and everyday employee interactions. Participants will examine the key drivers of employee experience and learn how to assess current workplace experiences, identify critical pain points, understand employee expectations, and translate employee insights into meaningful experience improvements. The course connects employee experience strategy with organizational objectives, workforce needs, culture, and business performance. The programme also focuses on workplace experience design, including physical, digital, cultural, and operational dimensions of the workplace. Participants will learn how to design integrated workplace experiences that enable employees to work effectively, collaborate successfully, access the right resources, and remain connected to organizational purpose. Through practical exercises, experience-mapping activities, case studies, and workplace design workshops, participants will develop practical approaches for building an employee experience strategy, prioritizing improvement initiatives, measuring outcomes, and establishing a sustainable culture of continuous experience improvement.

Learning Objectives

  • By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
  • Analyze the strategic importance of employee experience and its relationship with organizational performance.
  • Assess the key drivers influencing employee satisfaction, engagement, productivity, and retention.
  • Map employee journeys across critical stages of the employee lifecycle.
  • Identify workplace experience gaps, friction points, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Develop an integrated employee experience strategy aligned with organizational objectives.
  • Apply employee listening and feedback techniques to generate actionable experience insights.
  • Design workplace experiences that integrate physical, digital, cultural, and operational dimensions.
  • Evaluate the role of leadership, culture, technology, and workplace policies in shaping employee experience.
  • Develop employee experience improvement initiatives based on employee needs and organizational priorities.
  • Establish appropriate metrics and KPIs to monitor employee and workplace experience performance.
  • Apply experience design principles to improve key employee touchpoints and workplace interactions.
  • Develop a practical roadmap for implementing and continuously improving employee experience initiatives.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for HR professionals, employee experience specialists, organizational development professionals, talent management teams, people and culture leaders, and workplace experience professionals responsible for improving the employee journey and workplace environment. It is also highly relevant to HR managers, department heads, business leaders, facilities and workplace managers, internal communications professionals, digital workplace teams, transformation specialists, and professionals involved in organizational culture and employee engagement. The programme is particularly suitable for executives, managers, and decision makers seeking to align employee experience with organizational strategy, workforce expectations, operational effectiveness, and long-term organizational performance.

Learning Outcomes

  • Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
  • Explain the core principles and strategic dimensions of employee experience.
  • Evaluate the current state of employee experience within an organization.
  • Develop employee journey maps covering key workforce touchpoints.
  • Identify critical moments that influence employee perceptions and behaviors.
  • Analyze employee feedback and workforce insights to identify improvement priorities.
  • Design integrated workplace experiences across physical, digital, cultural, and operational environments.
  • Align employee experience initiatives with organizational culture and strategic objectives.
  • Develop initiatives that improve collaboration, productivity, engagement, and employee satisfaction.
  • Establish employee experience governance, ownership, and implementation mechanisms.
  • Develop meaningful employee experience KPIs, measurement frameworks, and reporting approaches.
  • Prioritize experience improvement initiatives according to organizational value and employee impact.
  • Prepare an actionable employee experience and workplace improvement roadmap.

Course Outline

Course Outline

Day 1

Employee Experience Strategy & Organizational Context

  • Fundamentals and evolution of employee experience
  • Employee experience versus employee engagement and workplace culture
  • Strategic drivers of employee experience
  • Employee expectations and changing workforce needs
  • The employee lifecycle and critical experience touchpoints
  • Relationship between employee experience, productivity, retention, and organizational performance
  • Leadership and organizational culture as experience drivers
  • Practical Application: Employee experience maturity assessment and current-state analysis
Day 2

Employee Journey Mapping & Experience Insights

  • Principles of employee journey mapping
  • Mapping key employee lifecycle stages
  • Identifying moments that matter
  • Employee personas and experience needs
  • Employee listening and feedback mechanisms
  • Surveys, interviews, focus groups, and qualitative insights
  • Identifying pain points, friction, and experience gaps
  • Prioritizing employee experience opportunities
  • Workshop: Develop an employee journey map and identify critical improvement opportunities
Day 3

Workplace Experience Design

  • Principles of workplace experience design
  • Physical workplace experience and employee needs
  • Digital workplace experience and technology enablement
  • Organizational culture and social experience
  • Workplace accessibility, flexibility, and collaboration
  • Designing employee touchpoints and service interactions
  • Integrating HR, facilities, technology, communications, and leadership
  • Creating consistent experiences across different work environments
  • Practical Application: Design an integrated workplace experience for a selected employee persona
Day 4

Employee Experience Implementation, Leadership & Measurement

  • Translating employee insights into experience initiatives
  • Building employee experience improvement programmes
  • Leadership's role in creating positive workplace experiences
  • Communication and change management
  • Employee experience governance and cross-functional collaboration
  • Experience standards and service principles
  • Employee experience KPIs and measurement frameworks
  • Feedback loops and continuous improvement
  • Workshop: Develop an employee experience measurement framework and improvement initiative
Day 5

Employee Experience Strategy & Continuous Improvement

  • Building an integrated employee experience strategy
  • Prioritizing initiatives and allocating resources
  • Developing employee experience business cases
  • Managing implementation risks and organizational resistance
  • Connecting employee experience with business performance
  • Experience governance and accountability
  • Monitoring results and sustaining improvements
  • Building a culture of continuous employee experience improvement
  • Final Workshop: Develop a practical Employee Experience Strategy and Workplace Experience Roadmap

Upcoming Dates

Selected date

Madinah · 9 – 13 Nov 2026 · Classroom

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CityDatesPrice per ParticipantEarly Bird
LondonScheduled
2 – 6 Nov 2026€5,600—
MadinahScheduled
9 – 13 Nov 2026€4,200—
MadridScheduled
16 – 20 Nov 2026€5,400—
MakkahScheduled
23 – 27 Nov 2026€4,200€3,780until 2 Nov
ManamaScheduled
23 – 27 Nov 2026€4,700€4,230until 2 Nov
MarrakeshScheduled
30 Nov – 4 Dec 2026€4,300€3,870until 9 Nov
MilanScheduled
7 – 11 Dec 2026€6,000€5,400until 16 Nov
MunichScheduled
14 – 18 Dec 2026€5,400€4,860until 23 Nov
MuscatScheduled
21 – 25 Dec 2026€5,300€4,770until 30 Nov
OnlineScheduled
27 – 31 Dec 2026€1,700€1,530until 7 Dec
RabatScheduled
4 – 8 Jan 2027€4,300€3,870until 14 Dec
ParisScheduled
4 – 8 Jan 2027€5,700€5,130until 14 Dec
RiyadhScheduled
11 – 15 Jan 2027€4,200€3,780until 21 Dec
RomeScheduled
18 – 22 Jan 2027€5,800€5,220until 28 Dec
ViennaScheduled
25 – 29 Jan 2027€5,700€5,130until 4 Jan
AmmanScheduled
31 Jan – 4 Feb 2027€3,100€2,790until 11 Jan
AmsterdamScheduled
8 – 12 Feb 2027€5,400€4,860until 18 Jan
BakuScheduled
15 – 19 Feb 2027€4,800€4,320until 25 Jan
BarcelonaScheduled
22 – 26 Feb 2027€5,400€4,860until 1 Feb
BerlinScheduled
22 – 26 Feb 2027€5,800€5,220until 1 Feb
CairoScheduled
1 – 5 Mar 2027€3,300€2,970until 8 Feb
CasablancaScheduled
8 – 12 Mar 2027€4,300€3,870until 15 Feb
DammamScheduled
15 – 19 Mar 2027€4,200€3,780until 22 Feb
DohaScheduled
22 – 26 Mar 2027€4,400€3,960until 1 Mar
DubaiScheduled
28 Mar – 1 Apr 2027€4,400€3,960until 8 Mar
FrankfurtScheduled
5 – 9 Apr 2027€5,800€5,220until 15 Mar
GenevaScheduled
12 – 16 Apr 2027€6,300€5,670until 22 Mar
IstanbulScheduled
12 – 16 Apr 2027€4,700€4,230until 22 Mar
Kuala LumpurScheduled
19 – 23 Apr 2027€4,400€3,960until 29 Mar
LisbonScheduled
26 – 30 Apr 2027€5,400€4,860until 5 Apr

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