As companies experience times of rapid growth, they often need to scale up their business faster than they can onboard new team members. This results in employees wearing many hats, stretching themselves beyond their job descriptions to meet growing demands. Managers and executives need to juggle the competing priorities of scaling daily operations and ensuring their employees are happy and aren’t feeling burnt out in these busy times – all without burning out themselves!
When the time comes to accommodate more employees, what will one day be a relief is at first a flurry of change that requires careful attention to ensure success. There’s training and onboarding that needs to occur and managers should consider the company culture and when inviting new team members to shape and strengthen it. Of course, there is also a need to create physical space for them to settle in and feel comfortable and productive.
More often than not, these fast-growing teams don’t have the internal expertise nor the resources necessary to create office space to accommodate growing teams. One reason that teams lose talent during growth periods is because their employees feel overworked, underappreciated, and they get overwhelmed and feel distant from the company’s mission and values because they’re being pulled in so many directions. The best way to take care of employees during busy times of change is simply to outsource what is beyond their capacity.
Whether they’re adapting current space or moving into a bigger facility, there are a lot of tasks that need to be done. Something to be mindful of is that even when outsourcing, onboarding, communication, and coordination still needs to take place for each vendor that you bring on. Rather than hiring several contractors to take care of each element of the change, bringing on one trusted partner can make all the difference.
Apex takes a consultative approach to understanding your unique needs and goals, and then handles everything for you from workplace strategy to workspace design, to selecting the right furniture at the right price. Apex guides you through the whole process and takes cares of the logistics, so your team can focus on doing what they do best, without the burn out.
Contact Apex to learn more about change and growth management.
