FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:Carol O'Hanley
Co-owner/Office Manager
EXIT Realty PEI
9028927653
carol@exitrealtypei.com
Thinking outside the box
Brokerage implements new office concept
Charlottetown, PE (Grassroots Newswire) November 17, 2015 -- No-one has an office – yet everyone has an office! That’s the forward thinking, “outside the box” concept created by Steve Yoston and Carol O’Hanley, new owners of EXIT Realty PEI here in Charlottetown, PEI.When Yoston and O’Hanley took ownership of the brokerage, it didn’t take them long to realize they would soon run out of office space as new salespeople joined their company. “EXIT focuses on growth and in order to build our team, we knew we needed to make some changes,” says Yoston.
It was Yoston who came up with the idea to take away assigned offices. Knowing this bold move may cause some upset, he decided to provide top of the line furniture and professional décor in each office to make them attractive to his team. The building was completely emptied of all furniture and brand new furniture was brought in to replace the old.
The building is now made up of 12 offices, two meeting rooms, a training room which replaces the board room (training sessions are held every Tuesday and Thursday mornings), an office manager’s office and administrator’s office. The hallway is lined with filing cabinets with a drawer assigned to each salesperson. Now on a typical day, a salesperson comes in to the office, goes to his filing drawer, retrieves the files he needs and then chooses an empty office to work from.
This concept allows a better use of the space and will house many more salespeople than it did originally. “Since the job of a REALTOR involves being out and about a lot, many of the assigned offices were only being used 1/3 of the time,” says O’Hanley. “The rest of the time, those offices would sit empty while some of our other salespeople would be without office space.”
That problem won’t occur now. It’s not often there will be 12 offices utilized and all salespeople, whether they are brand new or veteran agents, will have a clean, professional, tastefully decorated office to work from. This also reinforces the team environment EXIT fosters as each person is on the same level. Even Yoston himself follows this model and can be found in any one of the offices in the building as he is not assigned an office either.
The brokerage invites the public to visit their new office space and see the concept in action. They are opening their doors on Friday, November 27th from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm. You can stop in at any time that day to have the co-owners or a salesperson show you around.
For more information about EXIT Realty PEI, please call 9028927653. EXIT Realty PEI is located at 42 St. Peters Road, Charlottetown, PE.
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