In your mid-year review, it’s crucial to re-evaluate your priorities to create more capacity in your schedule. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve discussed the importance of reviewing and recommitting to your goals, as well as crafting a clear action plan to achieve them. Now, 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:
- 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. Unlock your business potential by downloading my Strategic Plan Review Template—your step-by-step guide to staying focused and achieving your goals.
If you need help with creating capacity or your mid-year check-in, comment below or reach out. Together, we can ensure that the second half of your year is as productive and impactful as possible.
Strategic Plan Review Template
Here’s to your progress,
