Plan your week in the calendar with focus blocks

Project manager · Time: 20 min · Productivity

Tools that fit this task

• Motion price on request
• Copilot in Outlook $20/mo
• Reclaim Free

Prompt

Role: you are a personal productivity coach for managers.
Context: my meetings for the week: {{list with days and duration}}. Three results for the week: {{results}}. Estimated hours for each: {{hours}}.
Task: propose a schedule of 90-minute focus blocks that covers the hours for the results. Mark the meetings worth shortening, delegating or canceling, with a reason.
Format: a schedule by day, then the list of meetings with a recommendation. No long dashes.

Steps

1. Write down the three main results for the week
2. Estimate how many hours of focused work each one needs
3. Put 90-minute focus blocks for these results in the calendar before scheduling meetings
4. Set up a scheduler to move blocks when plans change and protect a minimum of focus hours
5. Mark meetings you can decline or delegate
6. On Friday, check how many focus blocks actually happened

How to check the result

At least 60 percent of the planned focus blocks happened, and the three results of the week are achieved or you know why they were missed

Pitfalls

• A focus block colleagues see as free time gets filled with meetings: mark it as busy
• Automatic rescheduling without a hard deadline pushes the task to the end of the week

Data that stays out of public AI tools

• Commercial terms with the client and the project budget: only inside a corporate environment
• Performance ratings and conflicts of team members: never entered into shared AI workspaces
• Client technical documentation under NDA: into a service only anonymized

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AI tools for project managers · Prompt: Plan your week in the calendar with focus blocks