Mid-Year Check – Step 3: Create Capacity

In your mid-year review, it’s crucial to re-evaluate your priorities to create more capacity in your schedule. After reviewing and recommitting to your goals and crafting a clear action plan, it’s time to ensure you have the bandwidth to execute those plans effectively.

Sharpen your focus on what truly matters by creating margin in your schedule and capacity in your day. This isn’t just about finding more time — it’s about making time for what truly drives your business forward.

Here’s how you can do it:

1. Meetings: Take a hard look at your recurring meetings. Are they still serving a strategic purpose? If not, eliminate update meetings, switch weekly meetings to bi-weekly, shorten long meetings, or delegate attendance to someone who can handle it. A study from the Harvard Business Review found that reducing unnecessary meetings can free up to 18% of an executive’s time, allowing for a sharper focus on high-impact activities.
2. Projects: Evaluate your current projects and pause or stop those that don’t align directly with your strategic goals. This ensures that your time and resources are dedicated to initiatives that truly move the needle.
3. Processes: Identify time-consuming processes that can be automated or streamlined. By removing bottlenecks, you not only save time but also increase efficiency across your team, creating more capacity to tackle new opportunities.

Remember, creating capacity is not just about doing less; it’s about doing more of what matters.

If you’d like a copy of my Strategic Plan Review template, contact me and I’ll send it your way.

Here’s to your progress,

Adriana McLane

I help privately held distributors build strategy that holds up through growth, leadership transition, and what comes next. Fifteen years running Fulfilling Strategy — the last six spent deep inside distribution, working alongside the leadership of privately held distribution companies to build strategy that holds when a competitor moves in on your territory, when a President steps back, and when the next generation takes the lead. More about Adriana →