Walk out
Standing still, the ground is so sticky. It clags, clings, stops you before you’ve started. Adds weight. Makes you look down. Worry that you’ll never get…
Did you ever say, My door is always open?
The idea – if anyone has anything to say or ask or talk about, ever … you’re a willing listener. You can’t promise resolution, but you’ll make the time available and do what you can. That, whether that door’s there or not, you’re all on the same team, working together, shoulder to shoulder, trusted colleagues. You know … we’re in this together, for one another.
Thing is – it doesn’t work.
The whole my door is always open thing emphasises the door, that it’s yours and that it can close. What’s more, you’re asking them to break with business as usual and make the first move. You are passive.
The correct use of your door is for you to walk OUT through it.
You take the active part. You go to them. You ask how you can help.
Skippy strategy: Leadership happens in the open.
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Skippiness
You send it to them, they do their bit, it comes back completed and you all get on with next thing. That’s the plan, that’s how…