Make sure your employees understand the "open door" policy
Posted by Jason Butler at 8:13 AM

Here is an excellent blog posting about managers letting employees know that it's ok to interrupt you.

Even though most managers have an "open door policy", most people they manage either don't believe it or feel that they are "bothering" their managers with issues that they aren't really sure are important to those managers. And, I know that there are managers that don't make the time, and do feel bothered. I will admit that in the past I used to be a little more that way. But I quickly realized that I was being a very poor manager. I was forgetting my primary job - to help their people succeed. If their people succeed, everyone wins - customers, management, shareholders, owners, and employees. Once I knew that, I MADE THE TIME!

So many HR issues we see can be avoided with some early intervention.