If you’re like most leaders, you spend your days rushing around dealing with emergencies, challenges, meetings and emails. Your days seem like a blur, and you struggle to articulate what you accomplished in your 10+ hours at the office. This may be the norm for most leaders, but it doesn’t have to be. One of the biggest challenges leaders face at work are interruptions. Whether it’s phone calls and texts, emails pinging all day, or…
I was recently facilitating a leadership program, and one of the participants voiced a challenge she was having with her organization’s open door policy. The organizational leaders felt it was important to always be available for staff and that meant always having their doors open, ready for an employee who needed them at a moment’s notice. This manager was sharing that she was interrupted so much, that she couldn’t get anything done! I bet this…
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