Office Managers: How do you maintain order in a chaotic office? What's your lifesaver?

Answer 1

Immediate response:
- Structured allocation of "hoards" of lower cost staff to non-complex issues. If junior management prescribes 3 staff. Compensate accordingly. Sometimes 15 staff are required.

Rationale: Blow the budget? Definitely. Blow the Overall budget? Hardly. The job is completed On time or Ahead of time.
Often overlooked intangibles of staff not being overstressed. A happy workforce is better than a lone "best achiever" in the organization in the long run.

- High cost staff assigned to highly technical and diplomatic work;
Awareness, experience, adeptness over skill and knowledge. Error reduction game.

- Assignment of technical work to specialists supporting primary position. At anyone time, there is at least a dozen co-chairs to address “emergencies” and “urgencies”.

- Complete contractual deadlines. Now;
- Lip service to placate "emergencies" and "urgent" cases;
- Execution in this order, inferred standard office practice, Standard Operating procedures, senior managers' directive;

Medium term (weekly/fortnightly/monthly/ad hoc)
- honest assessment of team as opposed to group structure
- open constructive criticism
- monitoring existing (the system), proposed (controlled instances), poor response (error correction), good response (positive deviation replication)

Error reduction execution in the following order
- processes and operations;
- management, directorial and guidance. Culling of junior and middle managers not suited to leadership roles to limit further damage; sheer competence is never a substitute for leadership. Competence make for good specialists and supervisors. See Goldman Sachs. Lay off of staff at other levels least likely, subject to head directive to outsource all operations.

Answer 2

i look at what the problems are and then devise a better plan, have a office meeting and explain it to all employees, and let them know that this is the new plan and expect all to respect it and make it work....i am also open to ideas and options my staff suggest and will attempt it..i used to be a worker and understand people like to feel they are appreciated..i also do not assign projects and then go hide in my office...i work right along with my staff, and if one worker is overworked i take some of their work and do it so everything is smooth and they like that and they all work well with me.....

Answer 3

Hangout with the staff afterwork in the parking lot and pound fortys, by the way what you got on my forty homie?

Answer 4

Make it clear that you want jobs done and if they are not then fire them. The rest will get the picture.

Answer 5

Drugs and lots of them!

Answer 6

dont make friends at work with your employees keep it professional.