Understanding distractions and where they are coming from is a very important part of leadership. The reality is that your best people get exposure to multiple parts of the company and once peopel realize how helpful they are, they just start going directly to them. It’s important to know how to block your team from those distractions.
The funny part of this thought experiment…sometimes you are the biggest distraction your best people have. Whether it’s a slack message, email, got a minute meeting or an unneccesary meeting…you are distracting them. It doesn’t matter how small, those small distractions add up over time and depending on how deep the work they are doing is…can derail for 30-45 mins before they are able to get back into flow.
It’s important to let them know that they can create chunks of unreachable time and you have to lean into them on that…because that isn’t in a high ownership person’s comfort zone. Make sure they know that they can redirect all requests to you when they are online AND if they need deep work chunk time to put everything on silent and get into the flow of the deep work.
If you can eliminate distractions and coach your best people to do work in deep chunks, the more work your team will complete and the more quality you will see across the board.
I hope this is helpful, thanks for being here! Reach out for questions or comments!
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