Moving Your Office Smoothly Part 1 of 2
It’s time to move your office. It’s a giant step in the growth of your company. Your employees are excited at the idea of better space to work. So, how do you do it without so much stress and chaos? These planning and organizing steps will reduce chaos and make moving your office go much more smoothly.
1. Meetings and Updates
Just as you would normally have project progress meetings, you will need to have office relocation meetings. In the run up to the relocation it is important to have regular meetings to make sure that everything is on schedule and moving in the right direction. Glitches in the process will undoubtedly occur but these meetings should raise any snags before they become a real problem.
- Communication is the key here, these meetings will keep everybody feeling ‘in the loop’ and that will create a successful move.
2. Tour of the New Office
Before you move out of your old office it is important that you can get an idea of the new office and how the space will work.
- At least take your key staff to your new office so they can start to see how work will flow. They can also give you their ideas about the space. This creates team work for the move, and we all know the power of synergy.
3. Notifications
It is vital that you begin notifying customers and associates about the move well in advance. All outgoing mail should include a note about the effective change of address for at least a month before you actually move. This is very important because you will almost certainly have a new phone system as well as a new postal address after the move.
- Doing this one thing will dramatically reduce your customers disruption after the move. Keeping your customers in the know creates trust. Don’t leave them hanging trying to figure out what is going on.
Ideas 4, 5 and 6 are in Part 2 of Moving Your Office Smoothly.
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