I suggest two hours of uninterrupted time, each day. The pushback from the class is strong.
The discussion is about time management. I am encouraging the use of uninterrupted time.

I start by suggesting one hour of uninterrupted time per week. The group softens up. I suggest two hours uninterrupted time per week. The class is still with me, but there are raised eyebrows. I know the next suggestion of uninterrupted time each and every day will be hard to swallow. I say it anyway. I can tell Juan, sitting in the back of the class, thinks I am nuts, totally out of touch with reality.

“How many of you, in school, had a final exam to take, you remember, report to the cafeteria at 7:00am with two number 2 sharpened pencils?” Everyone raises their hand. “How many of you began studying for this exam the Monday before?” There are snickers in the classroom. I smile, because I know that nobody studied for that exam until about 8:00pm Thursday, the night before.

But then, that very night, you engaged in tactics you can employ today to get uninterrupted time at work. You unplugged the phone, turned off the tv, closed your door, went to the library, communicated with those around you to take the beer keg down to the other end of the hallway, because you had to study.

At work, you can close your door, put your phone on DND, communicate with those around you that you are in a meeting (with yourself), reposition to another office (where no one would think to look). What kind of impact could you have on your Key Result Areas if you could get just one hour of uninterrupted time every week? Two hours? Two hours a day? -TF