If it isn’t broken, then don’t fix it, right? What if your business has some cracks, maybe even holes – and you just haven’t noticed that you’re leaking money. The thing is, the construction industry isn’t what it was five years ago. Customers’ needs are changing. The workforce is changing. Technology is changing. Sustainability goals will require new legislation. But it can be scary leaving your comfort zone. It takes a certain amount of self-confidence to adapt and even pivot. But if you stay as you are, your income will start reducing, your competition will steal a march on you, and you might not be a viable employer. But it doesn’t have to stay like this. And we’ve got lots of ideas on how you could adapt to change.

Open mindedness! You need to open yourself up to a plan. Identify the goal you want to set yourself or the issue you want to rectify. Recognise the need to move with the times. Accept that there’ll be temporary disruption. Go with the learning curve you’ll be on. Embrace technology. Acknowledge the need for improved processes. Remember why you started your business in the first place. Stretch yourself mentally, and make sure you have a support network close to hand. Change might be coming through choice or by necessity. Pivoting might be the only way forward. Just remember what American entrepreneur Jim Rohn said, “Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.”