Don’t Hire Another Employee Until You Do This

Hiring can be exciting — it signals growth, momentum, and the promise of new energy on your team. But before you post that job or schedule your next interview, let me ask:

Do you have clarity on what this new hire is actually solving?

If you're like many small to mid-sized businesses, you may be throwing headcount at what is actually a structure problem — not a staffing problem.

🚨 The Real Risk: Adding Without Aligning

When you scale without examining your organizational design, you risk:

• Role overlap and wasted payroll

• Bottlenecks where decision-making isn't clear

• Burnout from unbalanced workloads

• Frustration from employees unsure of their lane

In other words, you risk adding cost without adding capacity.

✅ Do This First

Before making your next hire, ask:

1. Is our current team structured for clarity and accountability?

2. Are roles and responsibilities clearly defined and documented?

3. Do our workflows support our goals — or are we building around broken processes?

4. What outcome are we actually hiring for — and can it be achieved through better design first?

   
   

💡 Don’t Just Grow — Grow Intentionally

At Knick Strategy Group, we help businesses step back and assess their org structure before they add to it. The result? Smarter growth. Leaner teams. Stronger performance.

Need a gut check on your org chart?Let’s talk before you hire.

🔎 At Knick Strategy Group, we specialize in diagnosing and redesigning organizational structure — with excellence.

Let’s chat BEFORE your next hire: https://www.knickstrategygroup.com/

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Why Your Org Chart is Lying to you

Most companies think their org chart is their organizational structure.

But here’s the truth: Your real structure is the one that actually gets things done , and it’s rarely the one that’s on paper.

•    The “official” chart shows who reports to whom.

•     The unofficial structure shows who holds influence, who people go to for answers, and how work actually flows.

When those two don’t match?

You get duplication, confusion, wasted time, and frustrated teams.

I’ve worked with leaders across software, telecom, finance, and roofing (yes, roofing!) and the pattern is the same:

Outdated org charts silently slow down growth.

That’s where org design comes in. It’s not just about boxes and titles it’s about aligning structure, strategy, and culture to drive performance and clarity.

If your team has grown fast… if roles are fuzzy… if decisions feel slow…It might be time to look under the hood.

🔎 At Knick Strategy Group, we specialize in diagnosing and redesigning organizational structure — with excellence.

Let’s chat: https://www.knickstrategygroup.com/

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You Built the Business. Now Build the Organization!

Why Small & Mid-Sized Businesses Need Org Consulting (and Why They Don’t Use It)

Most privately owned businesses are built on hustle. That hustle gets you off the ground—but it won’t get you to the next level.

If you're a business owner or leader running lean and growing fast, you might feel stuck in a strange middle ground: too big to keep winging it, too small to have a full-time HR or strategy team. That’s exactly where an organizational consultant steps in—and why Knick Strategy Group exists.

Why Most Businesses Need an Org Consultant

• Roles are fuzzy. Who owns what? Who’s accountable? Without clarity, you lose speed.

• Growth has outpaced your structure. What worked with 5 people won’t work with 25.

• Everything still runs through you. You’re the bottleneck, even if you don’t want to be.

• You’re losing good people. And replacing them is draining your time, money, and culture.

• The team feels disconnected. You need alignment, but not at the expense of autonomy.

  
  

At Knick Strategy Group, we bring Strategy with Excellence to help you align people, priorities, and performance. We help you scale sustainably, empower leaders, and build a structure that works for the business—not just the owner.

So Why Don’t More Businesses Call for Help?

• They think they can “fix it later.”

• They’re not sure what org design even is

• They’re afraid of being exposed

• They don’t see the ROI… yet

  
  

But here’s the truth: not fixing it is already costing you.

If any of this hits home—or you know a leader in your network who’s wrestling with these challenges—let’s talk. Help them "Build the Organization" and send them my way.

 www.knickstrategygroup.com