Room to concentrate at work
A hard task needs a stretch of time with nothing else in it. This is the third part of employee capacity.
What gets in the way: back-to-back meetings, messages that expect a quick answer, competing priorities, and tasks that arrive faster than they can be finished.
What a team can change: protect one hour before anything else, set times when messages wait, and cut what is competing for the same hour.
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Meeting load auditLog one week of meetings and see the share of the week they take, which could be a message, and how many fall outside working hours.
Focus week plannerPlan the week around 2 to 3 blocks of uninterrupted work, breaks and a finish time.
Team agreement on meetings and messagesA one-page agreement on focus time, meeting length and reply times that a team fills in together.