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Implement a closed door, open calendar policy

Implement a closed door, open calendar policy

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Implement a closed door, open calendar policy

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- Are you or someone that you work with using the open door policy? The idea behind this is to make yourself available at anytime to anyone who has any question. You want to show that you value other people and that your time is not more important than theirs. Unfortunately, the open door policy has the opposite effect. It actually devalues your time and the time of others and it creates more interruptions for everyone, especially if you get a backup of many people waiting to ask you a question. So what do we do instead? How do we validate other people, make them feel important, but maintain productivity? I would suggest that we use a closed door, open calendar policy instead. This is the idea that anyone can schedule themselves into an available time slot to talk with you and then during that time, you're 100% focused on them. So how do we set this up to make it work? First of all, create a pattern. Create a schedule of…

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