Focus & deep work team session

Before the session

Read Days 31, 33 and 34 (about five minutes each), or Module 4 on the cheat sheet.

The 30 minutes

1. 0–5 minOpen

   Quick round: when did you last get two hours without an interruption?

2. 5–15 minDiscuss three days
   • Day 31: Every switch has a toll.How many things does each of us have on the go right now, and what is all that switching costing us?
   • Day 33: Same time. Whole team. Defended.When could the whole team focus at the same time, and what usually breaks those blocks?
   • Day 34: Make urgent rare and loud.What actually counts as urgent for us, and how should it reach someone who's in focus time?
3. 15–25 minExercise: Draft the focus block

   Look at everyone's calendars and find a two-hour window, twice a week, the whole team could protect. Write down what may interrupt it and how, then agree who books it in.

4. 25–30 minAction for the week

   The team runs the agreed focus blocks this week, and each person notes every time a block was broken and why.

   Agree the team rule: “Make urgent rare and loud.”