EVERY BRANCH/EVERY EMPLOYEE—OLYMPIA MOVING & STORAGE—IOMI®TRAINED AND CERTIFIED
In February 2024, Olympia Moving & Storage embarked on a mission to elevate Olympia’s standards of excellence. Olympia has taken a significant step by enrolling all five branches of the company in IOMI’s interactive online office moving training. By partnering with the International Office Moving Institute (IOMI), Olympia aims to ensure that every employee, including the movers who provide the service, becomes IOMI trained and Certified Office Movers.
Olympia recognizes the importance of maintaining high-quality service standards. To achieve this, Olympia plans to implement ongoing training. The best practices learned through this training will empower employees to estimate moves accurately, meet deadlines as per the quoted price, reduce the risk of employee injuries, and minimize damage to furniture, computers, and office infrastructure (doors, floors, walls, and elevators).
Olympia, already renowned for its premium residential moving services as an agent for Wheaton World Wide Moving, now aims to deliver the same level of excellence in office moves. With over 350 Wheaton World Wide Moving agents, Olympia stands out as the first Wheaton agent to undergo this specialized training, solidifying its position as a leader in the moving industry.
For Olympia, training is a top priority. Olympia recognizes that office and household moves require vastly different skills and equipment. Intense, formal training is the key to success, especially when compared to the On-the-Job Training (OJT) model used by some competitors. Olympia firmly believes that investing in comprehensive training ensures that movers learn their craft without compromising the customer’s experience.
What makes IOMI® training exceptional? According to Olympia’s founder and CEO, Michael Gilmartin, it unifies the entire organization. Imagine having customer service, sales, and operations all aligned, using the same set of best-practice methods and techniques to accurately estimate and execute moves. It’s a recipe for success!
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For more than a decade, many in the moving industry and companies planning a move have come to rely on officemoves.com as a steadfast source of best practices. We advocate, and through the International Office Moving Institute (IOMI®), teach:
• Minimizing the risk of damage to walls, floors, doors and elevators during your move. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn the best practice methods for installing extensive building protection.
• Minimizing the risk of damage to furniture and computers during your move. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn the best-practice methods for wrapping every monitor, printer, CPU, server, and copier with two layers of anti-static bubble wrap (with the bubbles facing the bubbles) instead of pad-wrapping computers with filthy furniture pads.
• Timing is of the essence on your office move. If your mover doesn’t finish the job on time, it can cost your company thousands of dollars of nonproductive downtime. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn an estimating formula that’s based upon man-hours instead of the unreliable method typically used on household moves that’s based on weight.
The IOMI® proprietary estimating formula is uncannily accurate because it factors in not only volume but the unique logistics of both the building you’re moving from and to.
Why hire an IOMI®
Certified Office Mover®?
1. On time for the price quoted
One of the biggest complaints about movers is that they often badly underestimate the cost of a move and then don’t finish on time. An International Office Moving Institute (IOMI®)-trained mover learns a formula for accurately estimating cost. By calculating the number of trucks and movers for how long, IOMI® Certified Office Movers® can base estimates on man-hours, volume, and logistics, and not weight, which household movers typically use when quoting an office move. As a result, the chances of a move completing on time for the price quoted is greatly improved.
2. Minimize risk of damage
IOMI® Certified Office Movers® learn the latest techniques to minimize risk of damage to furniture and computers, and are trained in extensive building protection to minimize risk of damage to carpet, walls, doors, and door jambs.
3. Minimize downtime
There is a better way! IOMI® Certified Office Movers® understand that their customers can’t afford to shut down operations during a move, and are trained in techniques to keep client employees working. Many IOMI® graduates offer the “boxless” move — moving the contents in the furniture instead of the contents and the furniture.
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