Small changes for better focus, energy and effectiveness at work. 

What is a Workplace Experiment Sprint? 

A Workplace Experiment Sprint is a short, action-focused development experience in which participants identify one aspect of how they work, make one intentional change, test it in their actual workplace for seven days, and return to reflect on what happened.
The purpose is not to learn more and then hope that something changes.

It is to:
Learn → Try → Return → Adjust

Participants leave the launch with one small experiment, test it during a normal working week, and use what they learn to decide what they should keep, adapt, stop or address differently.

About this Workplace Experiment Sprint

Digital tools make professional work faster, more connected and more flexible.

They can also create:

• constant interruptions,
• fragmented attention,
• unnecessary task-switching,
• multiple communication channels,
• unclear response expectations, and
• habits that make focused work increasingly difficult.

Digital Job Crafting invites trainees to examine an important question:

How can I intentionally shape the way I work digitally so that I can focus, learn and function well?

Rather than prescribing one “correct” digital routine, participants will identify a digital-work friction point relevant to their own working life and design one realistic change to test for seven days.

The detailed experiment prompts, reflection tools and facilitation process are introduced during the live Sprint and are not disclosed in advance.

Why this matters

Digital effectiveness is increasingly part of professional effectiveness.

CA2025's Self-management guidance specifically addresses prioritisation, managing work expectations, interruptions and the influx of emails, calls and notifications.

Its Adaptive Mindset and Agility outcomes also expect trainees to respond constructively to changing technologies, practices and work contexts.

The issue is therefore not simply:
“Am I productive?”

but increasingly:

“Is the way I am using technology helping me do quality work, learn effectively and manage my attention well?”
The foundation

This Sprint is grounded primarily in positive psychology, workplace well-being, job crafting and behavioural experimentation.
Key ideas include:

• Job crafting: People can sometimes make small intentional adjustments to how they perform, organise or interact with their work in ways that improve fit and functioning.
• Attention as a professional resource: Focus and cognitive capacity are finite resources. How digital work is structured can either support or fragment them.
• Agency: Participants identify areas within their reasonable influence rather than attempting to redesign everything at once.
• Self-regulation: The Sprint encourages greater awareness of digital habits, interruptions and patterns of reactive working.
• Learning through experimentation: A small test can generate useful information about what actually works in a participant's real environment.
• Sustainable performance: The aim is not to squeeze more work into every hour. It is to consider how digital work practices may better support quality, focus, energy and functioning.

The professional context is informed by CA2025 themes including Self-management, Adaptive Mindset and Agility, Lifelong Learning and Digital Acumen, as well as related themes in the proposed revised IRBA framework around learning agility and work prioritisation