Focus blocks that never survive lunch
Many teams book focus blocks and still lose them. A Focus-Time Pattern Review looks at whether those blocks stay free, how often meetings land inside them, and whether messaging bursts arrive in the same hour.
The goal is not to police individuals. It is to show managers the structural pressure that turns a two-hour block into forty minutes of interrupted work.
When the pattern is clear, small experiments help: quieter notification defaults for certain roles, meeting-free mornings on two weekdays, or a shared rule that focus blocks need forty-eight hours’ notice to move.