Plan well in advance, if at all possible. In our experience,
office removals that our clients have rushed through (for perhaps perfectly
legitimate reasons) are most commonly those that throw up problems on the day
itself;
Appoint a removals coordinator or project manager from
within your company. Getting your various colleagues and departments
‘co-ordinated’ in their planning for moving is a non-trivial task and it is one
that may go badly wrong if nobody’s in overall charge and control.
- Give your project manager authority. Some companies allocate someone relatively junior to this role and that can be a huge mistake. Trying to persuade (e.g.) the head of a department to allocate people to doing ‘xyz’ to prepare for the removal might be an insurmountable challenge if the person concerned doesn’t have the authority to “make it so” when needs be.
- Give your appointed person some training. Managing a seamless transition from one office location to another isn’t intuitive. It takes hard work and some specialist planning skills. We may be able to help there because as long-established Christchurch movers, we’ll have seen it all before!
- Don’t leave your personal engagement in the removals until the last moment.
