From focus change.... straight into realignment.

Just a tad over a month ago, I was here talking about the possible need for a change in focus and reevaluation for my business, something all small to midsize companies should periodically do. Well here I am now talking about what has become the next step in the evolutionary cycle for my company.

It’s kind of like doing a deep spring cleaning every year. You know you clean the house all year long, and feel pretty good about yourself that it is clean. But then every spring, you decide to look under the stove or the couch, and realize that although at quick glance the house looked clean, but in the hard to reach areas, the house wasn’t as “in order” as you thought.

Ok maybe not the best analogy out there, but bear with me.

So I have started the change, started to put that next step for CH Consulting into operation, and that’s when it happens, the proverbial boat starts to rock. I realize that not only do I have to have a focus change (change = sales), but also with this change comes the need for internal realignment, in regards to staff, as well as maybe even myself on priorities (sell / be billable). We are a midsize company, but with less than 10 employees, so when you have a shift in the way business is done, the boat is definitely going to feel like it’s rocking by all that are part of the company.

And so here we are, company is changing focus, the boat’s a rockin, and I have to determine the best way to manage my internal resources. I have to realign within the company not only the processes that are used to do the job from day to day, but also employee responsibilities that are paired up with experience, and by skills.

Sometimes it is very hard to look internally at the employees who have gotten you to where you are today, but the need to look internally is fueled by not only business but also individual needs and goals. This is nothing new to this company or me, having been in business for over 5 ½ years, and in that span of time we have gone through multiple evolution cycles, and have changed focus and realigned. We know we have to do it now, and expect that we will have to do it again in the future.

The skill of being able to adapt to the cycle of evolution in a business is a skill than not everyone possesses, or you simply find employees who are at that point in their professional careers that they see the change as a good exit strategy for them to move on to bigger and brighter things. We miss them when they go, because in some way big or small they have all left a mark on this company.