I've just heard grumblings that we don't create families fast enough in our office.
How does your firm handle requests?
We've tried several approaches over the years, and non have been very successful.
We've tried having one person responsible - that worked OK but he became a bottleneck (overloaded), and when layoffs hit in 2009, that person was looked on as not being "profitable"
We've tried doling out specific categories to different people. That varied with the interest of the person, and also always came in second in priority to "getting the job out the door"
We've tried having a "Family Request Form" on our intranet. If that form got filled out at all, it was things like "I need a bench" - no detail.
We're just trying to find the happy medium between being responsive and not getting overwhelmed.
At the same time, this has to come out of a budget somewhere, but Project Managers pushed back when we tried to change the Family Creation time to their budgets.
Any have a successful process out there?
How does your firm handle requests?
We've tried several approaches over the years, and non have been very successful.
We've tried having one person responsible - that worked OK but he became a bottleneck (overloaded), and when layoffs hit in 2009, that person was looked on as not being "profitable"
We've tried doling out specific categories to different people. That varied with the interest of the person, and also always came in second in priority to "getting the job out the door"
We've tried having a "Family Request Form" on our intranet. If that form got filled out at all, it was things like "I need a bench" - no detail.
We're just trying to find the happy medium between being responsive and not getting overwhelmed.
At the same time, this has to come out of a budget somewhere, but Project Managers pushed back when we tried to change the Family Creation time to their budgets.
Any have a successful process out there?
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