[Possibility Tips] What To Do When Your Open Door Policy Comes with a "Got a Minute?" Clause

 

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Dear Visitor, Are you giving yourself away? To everyone?  I just posted a new article about this on my blog.  Here's how it starts: At one point in my career, I became the leader of a department of 150 people, many of whom I had known prior to my appointment to the position.  I like to be accessible, so I had an open door policy: you could come to my office and talk to me when you needed to. Having at least eight direct reports who managed everyone else, I was somewhat surprised when staff members began to show up at my door asking, "Got a minute, Kim?" And not just one or two staff members, but lots of them.  Regularly. Because I knew many of them personally, at first I said, "Sure!" and invited them in, but I realized pretty quickly that I needed to get a handle on this, or my days would be filled with the priorities of my visitors and my nights would be filled with what I was supposed to be getting done during the day. But also, the fact that these employees were coming to me for solutions instead of their direct supervisors gave me a bad feeling...>>Keep Reading  You may have a great secret for solving this problem.  I would love to know what it is!  Please leave me a comment?  Thanks, and wishing you a fabulous weekend!

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