Choosing the right team to help you to plan your office move is essential. While there are many people you could pick, you want to make sure that you choose the people who will get the job done. You already know that you need people to cover all aspects of the business, such as IT and sales, and make sure that your moving committee has the right qualities.
Ask yourself which members of your team have good organizational skills. They need to be able to plan not only their own time but also the time of other members of their team. Will they be able to stick to the timetable that has been set out?
You then need to consider their interpersonal skills. A commercial relocation is going to require a great deal of tact and diplomacy, particularly if there are people who are going to be left out of work or with other problems as a direct result of your office move. The people you choose need to be able to handle some situations with a great deal of delicacy.
You also need to ask yourself whether each member of the team can be fairly ruthless. An office move is a great time to get rid of a lot of clutter and unnecessary paperwork and other stored items that will not be needed at the new offices – how easy are they going to find it to let these things go and encourage other members of the team to do the same?
