Reorganizing Your Leadership Team

Beverly Flaxington is a practice management consultant. She answers questions from advisors facing human resource issues. To submit yours, email us here.

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Dear Bev,

Our long-time head of operations quit unexpectedly last month. The absence gives us a chance to consider what this role should be for our firm. Should we automatically hire a new head of ops or bring in a chief operating officer to look at our technology and systems more broadly? The person we lost filled a typical operations role – excellent at getting the work done but not a big thinker about how to improve and become more efficient in general. What do you see firms doing today – is the bigger role the best step we should take or should we stick with what we know? Would a COO rock the boat too much (we are a 26-person firm)? How do we think about this?

A.B.