Sitting and retaining focus for an hour is hard! Attention is like custard: if it sits too long a skin forms over it trapping the delicious stuff. I mean a trigger in the meeting for you to physically stand and stretch your legs. This reminder gives you a pause point to see how progress is, and say “this is great, let’s keep going” or “we’re halfway through, and I’m not confident with this yet.”Īdditionally, this pause point gives you a standing opportunity. But if you’re keeping an eye on the clock, are you giving it your all during the session? A Pomodoro cycle app will tell you when 25-minutes have passed. The first links back to the previous lesson, it timeboxes the meeting. I’ve found that the Pomodoro break technique can keep collaborative sessions focussed in a couple of ways. There’s an appreciation that this isn’t great, especially if a day has multiple meetings. I’m a journaler, so I draw tomatoes in my notebook next to the task, and after each cycle, I score one out. I divide this estimate into 30-minute chunks, which gives me my timeboxed activity split into tomatoes. Starting with the highest priority item ( prioritising is out of scope for this article, see future unwritten post) I’ll do a rough estimation of time to spend on it today, i.e. I’ve also got some professional development I want to do so it’s a chunky day.
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