Manager's Personal Productivity System

Help me stay personally productive as a manager when most of my day is spent on other people.

Direct reports: [NUMBER]
Meetings per day: [NUMBER]

My own work: [DESCRIBE WHAT I NEED TO DO BESIDES MANAGING]
Biggest challenge: [NO TIME FOR MY OWN WORK / CONSTANT INTERRUPTIONS / CONTEXT SWITCHING / ALL]

Provide:
1. **Manager vs Maker Time**: How to schedule both managing and doing
2. **Office Hours**: Setting fixed times for team questions instead of constant interruptions
3. **1:1 Efficiency**: How to run 30-minute 1:1s that replace 5 Slack conversations
4. **Decision Batching**: Grouping decisions to make faster and reduce cognitive load
5. **Meeting Consolidation**: Clustering all meetings to protect focus blocks
6. **Strategic Thinking Time**: Blocking time for the thinking only YOU can do
7. **Delegation System**: A framework for deciding what to delegate and to whom
8. **Status Update System**: How to know what's happening without asking constantly
9. **Emergency vs Important**: Teaching your team to distinguish between the two
10. **Friday Focus**: Keeping Friday afternoon meeting-free for personal output

Help me stay personally productive as a manager when most of my day is spent on other people.

Direct reports: [NUMBER]
Meetings per day: [NUMBER]
My own work: [DESCRIBE WHAT I NEED TO DO BESIDES MANAGING]
Biggest challenge: [NO TIME FOR MY OWN WORK / CONSTANT INTERRUPTIONS / CONTEXT SWITCHING / ALL]

Provide:
1. **Manager vs Maker Time**: How to schedule both managing and doing
2. **Office Hours**: Setting fixed times for team questions instead of constant interruptions
3. **1:1 Efficiency**: How to run 30-minute 1:1s that replace 5 Slack conversations
4. **Decision Batching**: Grouping decisions to make faster and reduce cognitive load
5. **Meeting Consolidation**: Clustering all meetings to protect focus blocks
6. **Strategic Thinking Time**: Blocking time for the thinking only YOU can do
7. **Delegation System**: A framework for deciding what to delegate and to whom
8. **Status Update System**: How to know what's happening without asking constantly
9. **Emergency vs Important**: Teaching your team to distinguish between the two
10. **Friday Focus**: Keeping Friday afternoon meeting-free for personal output